A Quote in the Title

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1. When John Wyndham wrote "The Kraken Wakes", his novel of a world invaded by ocean dwelling aliens, he took the title from a sonnet, and had his protagonist quote it in the book. Who originally penned these lines? "His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee" Tennyson Byron Wordsworth Newboldt

2. Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels have enjoyed great success all over the world. When he wrote the 31st one, he chose the title "Monstrous Regiment". This phrase was originally coined in an essay entitled "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women." Who wrote this essay? John Knox Pope Pius XII Martin Luther William Booth

3. Of the four titles listed here, three of them use lines originally written by William Shakespeare for their titles. Can you spot the one that was originally written by someone else? Something Wicked This Way Comes Under the Greenwood Tree Evil Under the Sun Brave New World

4. Phillip Pullman's fantasy trilogy began with "The Golden Compass" and the three books were collectively known as "His Dark Materials". Whose work was being quoted in both those titles? Chaucer Wilde Milton Aristotle

5. Both John Updike and John Steinbeck have written novels which take quotations from the same source for their titles. Where did the phrases "In the Beauty of the Lilies" and "The Grapes of Wrath" originate? The Battle Hymn of the Republic The speeches of Abraham Lincoln Gilgamesh the King The writings of Plato

6. Both "The Young in One Another's Arms" by Jane Rule, and "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy, take for their titles quotations from a poem called "Sailing to Byzantium". Who wrote this poem? Wordsworth Shelley Byron Yeats

7. Whose work was Agatha Christie quoting when she named one of her novels "The Moving Finger"? Shelley Chaucer Marlowe Omar Khayyam

8. John Ringo's science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth, is sometimes called "The Voyage of the Space Bubble" series. Three of the four books in the series take their titles from lines from the famous poem "Jabberwocky". Who wrote the poem "Jabberwocky"? Edward Lear Mark Twain H G Wells Lewis Carroll

9. The last book by Robert A. Heinlein to be published during his lifetime was "To Sail Beyond the Sunset", in 1988. Who wrote the poem that the title quotes? Keats Tennyson Cowper Blake

10. "Of Mice and Men" is possibly John Steinbeck's best known work, but do you know from whose poem Steinbeck quoted when he chose the phrase "of mice and men" for the title? Robert Louis Stevenson Robbie Burns Herman Melville Oscar Wilde