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Odd one out of Literature Trivia Quiz

Can you find the odd one out?

A multiple-choice quiz by Polygon. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Polygon

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
85,858

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
988

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Which one is the odd one out? Think in terms of nationality, but not language. Hint

Henry James

T.S. Eliot

Joseph Conrad

Ezra Pound

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Question 2 of 10

2. Can you find the odd one out? Dates are crucial here. Hint

Mrs Dalloway

The Waste Land

Ulysses

The Beautiful and the Damned

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Question 3 of 10

3. Can you find the odd one out? First names can sometimes be misleading. Hint

George Woodcock

George Orwell

George Sand

George Bernard Shaw

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Question 4 of 10

4. Can you find the odd one out? Think about when they lived and wrote. Hint

Robert Browning

Matthew Arnold

T.S. Eliot

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Question 5 of 10

5. Can you find the odd one out? Consider the genre of writing for which each is best known. Hint

Corneille

Voltaire

Racine

Moli�re

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Question 6 of 10

6. Can you find the odd one out in terms of its author? Hint

A Son of the Circus

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Midnight's Children

Shame

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Question 7 of 10

7. Can you find the odd one out? Gender is not the issue, nor is language; a prestigious award is a relevant consideration. Hint

J.D. Salinger

Toni Morrison

Isaac Bashevis Singer

John Steinbeck

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Question 8 of 10

8. Can you find the odd one out by author? Hint

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Hollow Men

The Waste Land

Lullaby

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Question 9 of 10

9. Can you find the odd one out in terms of nationality? Hint

Harry Mulisch

Louis Paul Boon

Gerard Reve

Cees Nooteboom

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Question 10 of 10

10. Can you find the odd one out by nationality? Hint

Booker Prize

Whitbread Award

Commonwealth Writers Prize

National Book Award

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which one is the odd one out? Think in terms of nationality, but not language.

Answer: Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound did not change his nationality.

2. Can you find the odd one out? Dates are crucial here.

Answer: Mrs Dalloway

"Mrs Dalloway" (Virginia Woolf) was published in 1925. "Ulysses" (James Joyce), "The Waste Land" (T.S. Eliot), and "The Beautiful and the Damned" (F.Scott Fitzgerald) were published in 1922.

3. Can you find the odd one out? First names can sometimes be misleading.

Answer: George Sand

George Sand was a woman. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, who later became Baroness Dudevant, used George Sand as her nom de plume.

4. Can you find the odd one out? Think about when they lived and wrote.

Answer: T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot was not a Victorian.

5. Can you find the odd one out? Consider the genre of writing for which each is best known.

Answer: Voltaire

Although Voltaire wrote some plays and was very ambitious about it, he is best known as a philosopher. Corneille, Racine, and Moli�re never wrote any philosophical works.

6. Can you find the odd one out in terms of its author?

Answer: A Son of the Circus

"A Son of the Circus" is not by Salman Rushdie but by John Irving. There are similarities, though.

7. Can you find the odd one out? Gender is not the issue, nor is language; a prestigious award is a relevant consideration.

Answer: J.D. Salinger

Salinger never won the Nobel prize.

8. Can you find the odd one out by author?

Answer: Lullaby

"Lullaby" is by W.H. Auden. The other poems are by T.S. Eliot.

9. Can you find the odd one out in terms of nationality?

Answer: Louis Paul Boon

Boon is a Belgian author; the others are Dutch.

10. Can you find the odd one out by nationality?

Answer: National Book Award

The National Book Award is an American literary prize; the others are UK prizes.

Source: Author Polygon

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