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Category: LITERATURE

Sample Questions

Match DayQuestionAnswerTotal%A%B%C%Def
LL41 MD4221B Baker Street, two short blocks from the Baker Street station on the Metropolitan, Jubilee, and Bakerloo lines of the London Underground, is the famous residence of what literary character?SHERLOCK HOLMES899695780.6
LL39 MD25The following are the famous last words of what novel: ...I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.ULYSSES264327111.5
LL39 MD15"Goodthink," "crimethink," and "doubleplusungood" are examples of words from the fictional language Newspeak, which appeared in what novel?1984808787620.8
LL38 MD14What is the name of the animal about which American author Laura Hillenbrand wrote an award-winning 2003 book?SEABISCUIT365936201.2
LL38 MD10The French author Charles Perrault was a pioneer in what literary genre, creating a number of works which are still extremely popular and well-known today?FAIRY TALES19311941.8
LL36 MD3Fill in the blank in the following poem by Langston Hughes:
 
What happens to a dream deferred?
 
Does it dry up
Like a _____________?
 
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
 
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
 
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
 
Or does it explode?
RAISIN IN THE SUN497146331.6