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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. Literature Mixture. Player chessart asks:
  Shakespeare wrote: "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, ______________, Thou canst not then be false to any man." What goes in the blank?

    as the night the day
    without a doubt
    as the river to the sea
    as the hawk after its prey

#2. Literature Mixture. Player PeggyLouisa asks:
  What is the name of the pig who becomes the main leader/dictator in George Orwell's satire "Animal Farm"?

    Napoleon
    Squealer
    Snowball
    Boxer

#3. Literature Mixture. Player empressdaze asks:
  In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", Romeo's reckless, free-spirited best friend has a name that reflects his unpredictable mood. Based on his name, how might you describe him? (Hint: ancient Roman messenger god)

    oratorical
    vulcan
    hermetic
    mercurial

#4. Literature Mixture. Player EnglishJedi asks:
  Which fictional British police detective was created by Colin Dexter?

    Detective Inspector Frost
    Inspector Morse
    Detective Chief Inspector Banks
    Detective Inspector Rebus

#5. Literature Mixture. Player Matthew_07 asks:
  American writer Dan Brown's sixth novel, published in 2013, has the same name as the title of the first part of Dante's "Divine Comedy". What is the title?

    Purgatorio
    Sfumato
    Paradiso
    Inferno

#6. Literature Mixture. Player alexis722 asks:
  Agatha Christie used the title "By The Pricking of My Thumbs" for one of her mysteries. Which author used the second part of the familiar quotation ("Something wicked this way comes") for one of his works?

    Ray Bradbury
    Harlan Ellison
    Theodore Sturgeon
    M.R James

#7. Literature Mixture. Player zorba_scank asks:
  Which author penned a fictional journey that began at Iceland's Snaefellsjokull volcano and ended at Italy's Stromboli volcano?

    Isaac Asimov
    Jules Verne
    Anton Chekov
    H G Wells

#8. Literature Mixture. Player zorlock7 asks:
  Who was it that ordered everyone to help him kill Moby-Dick in the novel "Moby-Dick"?

    Starbuck
    Queeg
    Ishmael
    Captain Ahab

#9. Literature Mixture. Player garrybl asks:
  Which pop group's name might have been (but wasn't) chosen because it was part of the rhyme scheme for a limerick?

    AHA
    ABBA
    Baba O'Reilly
    Death Cab for Cutie

#10. Literature Mixture. Player LeoDaVinci asks:
  The "Iliad", Homer's epic concerning the battle for Troy and the rescue of Helen, is centered around which nearly-invincible hero?

    Achilles
    Odysseus
    Paris
    Hector