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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 Snowman asks:
  Which 1954 novel by William Golding, set on a desert island in an unspecified future, takes its name from an English translation of "Beelzebub"?

    The Scorpion God
    Lord of the Flies
    To the Ends of the Earth
    Darkness Visible

#2. Literature Mixture. Player celicadriver asks:
  Fill in the blank to complete the name of the lead character in author James Swain's series of novels: Tony ___________. (Perhaps Tony is someone's "sweetheart"?)

    Stellino
    Baloney
    Angotti
    Valentine

#3. Literature Mixture. Player indranil49 asks:
  "La Belle Dame sans Merci" is a beautiful ballad by John Keats. The title is borrowed from an early 15th Century courtly love poem by Alain Chartier. Can you say its English translation?

    "The Pity of a Beautiful Lady"
    "The Beautiful Lady with Pity"
    "The Beautiful Lady without Pity"
    "The Lady with no Pity"

#4. Literature Mixture. Player andymuenz asks:
  Which of these Stephen King novels is NOT part of the Dark Tower Series?

    The Gunslinger
    Wizard and Glass
    The Waste Lands
    Christine

#5. Literature Mixture. Player LadyNym asks:
  What great French author, known for writing about a famous cathedral, wrote the novel "Toilers of the Sea" - in which the protagonist battles an octopus?

    Gustave Flaubert
    Emile Zola
    Victor Hugo
    Marcel Proust

#6. Literature Mixture. Player nautilator asks:
  Perhaps 1,000 years old, the Nowell Codex was the only reason that what epic story survived to the modern age?

    Beowulf
    Romance of the Three Kingdoms
    The Aeneid
    Oedipus Rex

#7. Literature Mixture. Player VanCoerte asks:
  Which one of these children's authors was Canadian?

    P.L. Travers
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Beatrix Potter
    Lucy Maud Montgomery

#8. Literature Mixture. Player Philip_Eno asks:
  Which 19th century British poet was born in 1799 in the City of London?

    Thomas Hood
    Thomas Snood
    Thomas Cloak
    Thomas Cape

#9. Literature Mixture. Player misdiaslocos asks:
  The brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges published a collection of short stories in 1962. What was its name? It may help you to know that one of the stories was told from the Minotaur's perspective.

    Strings
    Mazes
    Labyrinths
    Hedges

#10. Literature Mixture. Player AdamM7 asks:
  Which of these 'Z' names can be found in a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche?

    Zebedee
    Zeppelin
    Zipadee
    Zarathustra