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Quiz about Weird Facts About Authors
Quiz about Weird Facts About Authors

Weird Facts About Authors Trivia Quiz


Following are mixed trivia questions about authors.

A multiple-choice quiz by ravenskye. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
ravenskye
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
32,323
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
5
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
3 / 5
Plays
1917
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Question 1 of 5
1. Which author was known for liking to write first drafts with a Number 2 pencil?

Answer: (Last name only - American male author)
Question 2 of 5
2. What did O. Henry, Marquis de Sade and Oscar Wilde have in common? Hint


Question 3 of 5
3. What did Jorge Luis Borges, John Milton and James Thurber have in common? Hint


Question 4 of 5
4. Which of these writers did NOT attend college -- John Steinbeck, Jack London, Mark Twain?

Answer: (Hannibal, MO)
Question 5 of 5
5. What affliction did Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling have in common? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which author was known for liking to write first drafts with a Number 2 pencil?

Answer: Hemingway

Hemingway started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of 17.
2. What did O. Henry, Marquis de Sade and Oscar Wilde have in common?

Answer: They all wrote while imprisoned.

O. Henry was imprisoned for embezzlement.
3. What did Jorge Luis Borges, John Milton and James Thurber have in common?

Answer: blind

One of Milton's best known works is "Paradise Lost".
4. Which of these writers did NOT attend college -- John Steinbeck, Jack London, Mark Twain?

Answer: Mark Twain

Jack London attended college in California for a year; John Steinbeck attended Stanford University, 1919-1925.
5. What affliction did Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling have in common?

Answer: Insomnia

Churchill was also a lover of cats.
Source: Author ravenskye

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