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Quiz about FunTrivia Literature Mix Vol 2
Quiz about FunTrivia Literature Mix Vol 2

FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 2 Quiz


A mix of 10 Literature questions, submitted by 10 different FunTrivia players! The first few questions are easy, but the last couple are tough!

A multiple-choice quiz by FTBot. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
FTBot
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
408,134
Updated
Feb 06 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
652
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Question 1 of 10
1. What is the name of the squire sidekick who accompanies Don Quixote on his misadventures through Spain in the Miguel Cervantes classic?
Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Contrary to popular belief, the monster described in Mary Shelley's masterpiece was not called Frankenstein. In fact, Frankenstein was actually the man who created the monster. But what was his profession? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature due to the imagination and spiritual nature of her work. Can you name her most famous book, known more about nothing, than about something? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The author of the children's book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car" is perhaps more commonly associated with the number '007'. Who is this author? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the dark Gothic novel "The House of the Seven Gables." What is a gable? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale, "La Belle au bois dormant", is known by what title in English? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What was printed for the first time in 1455? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Published in 1885, the novel "Germinal" is a harshly realistic account of a coal miners' strike. Which major French author, also known for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair, wrote it? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What "brave" elementary school girl was created by American children's book author Beverly Cleary? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Camilla Lackberg is a crime novelist whose stories are set in which country? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is the name of the squire sidekick who accompanies Don Quixote on his misadventures through Spain in the Miguel Cervantes classic?

Answer: Sancho Panza

Sancho Panza is a farmer who is raised to a squire by the delusional Don Quixote. After reading several romantic tales of knights wandering the countryside righting wrongs, Don Quixote determines he must do the same. While not the brightest tool in the shed, Sancho is often able to shed light on his master's folly. Sancho is able to provide comic relief as the two adventurers find themselves in trouble again and again.


Question by player BigTriviaDawg
2. Contrary to popular belief, the monster described in Mary Shelley's masterpiece was not called Frankenstein. In fact, Frankenstein was actually the man who created the monster. But what was his profession?

Answer: Scientist

Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was first published in 1818, when she was only nineteen years old. The plot of the novel revolved around a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who, upon creating his own monster, then became horrified and disgusted by it.



Question by player poshprice
3. In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature due to the imagination and spiritual nature of her work. Can you name her most famous book, known more about nothing, than about something?

Answer: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The story is about a young boy who was turned into the size of a thumb but figures out how to get a ride on the back of a white goose named Martin on his way to hopefully find his home one day and end the curse. Nils initially gets turned into a tomte - a short mythical creature who has a beard - but can only talk to animals. Ms. Lagerlöf spent three years watching and learning about birds and other animal life to help her write her masterpiece.

Question by player BullsGold
4. The author of the children's book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car" is perhaps more commonly associated with the number '007'. Who is this author?

Answer: Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming is best known for his spy thrillers featuring James Bond, with the code name '007'. Many of the novels and short stories have been turned into films.

Question by player suomy
5. In 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the dark Gothic novel "The House of the Seven Gables." What is a gable?

Answer: a triangular wall under a pitched roof

John Turner, a merchant and sailing-ship owner, built a house in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1668. Nathaniel Hawthorne set his novel there. The novel begins "Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst." A gable is a triangular section of wall located between the edges of intersecting pitches of roof.

The English word gable may derive from the Greek word kephale meaning "head." If a gable is the head of a house, the roof is its hat.

Question by player FatherSteve
6. Charles Perrault's classic fairy tale, "La Belle au bois dormant", is known by what title in English?

Answer: Sleeping Beauty

Charles Perrault published this fairy tale in 1697. It is said he was inspired to write the story after staying at the beautiful Chateau d'Usse, a castle in the Loire Valley in France. The Brothers Grimm also published a fairy tale called "Little Briar Rose", a variant of Sleeping Beauty. The original fairy tale has a different ending than the Disney version.

The prince's mother turns out to be an ogress who decides to eat Sleeping Beauty and her two children. However there is a fitting conclusion as she ends up being cast into a pit of vipers and THEN everyone lives happily ever after!

Question by player briarwoodrose
7. What was printed for the first time in 1455?

Answer: The Bible

The Bible was printed at Mainz, Germany by printer/engraver Johannes Gutenberg. Originally printed in Latin, it is the most read book of all time.


Question by player Evangeline30
8. Published in 1885, the novel "Germinal" is a harshly realistic account of a coal miners' strike. Which major French author, also known for his involvement in the Dreyfus affair, wrote it?

Answer: Émile Zola

Written between April 1884 and January 1885, Émile Zola's "Germinal" is titled after one of the months of the French Republican Calendar, which coincided with the thirty or so days following the spring equinox (from the Latin word "germen", meaning seed).

The novel's protagonist, Étienne Lantier, is an idealistic young man who arrives in a bleak mining town in northern France to work as a miner. The severe poverty and awful working conditions of the miners are described in Zola's trademark uncompromising manner, as is the violent repression of the miners' strike.

The novel ends on a note of hope: as hinted in the title, the miners' growing political awareness is compared to the sprouting of new vegetation that would soon "burst open the earth".

Besides his literary work, Zola is known to the general public as the author of the open letter "J'Accuse!..." (1898), which contributed to the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus a few years later.

Question by player LadyNym
9. What "brave" elementary school girl was created by American children's book author Beverly Cleary?

Answer: Ramona Quimby

Beverly Cleary wrote a series of children's books featuring Ramona Quimby, including "Ramona the Brave", which was published in 1975. Although most of her books featured female protagonists, she also wrote a series of books about a character named Henry Huggins.

Question by player skylarb
10. Camilla Lackberg is a crime novelist whose stories are set in which country?

Answer: Sweden

Camilla Lackberg was born in Sweden in 1974, and is a crime novelist whose novels are set in her home country. Her novels have spawned a TV series in Sweden, whilst her 2007 book "Tyskungen" has been adapted into a movie.

Question by player Dizart
Source: Author FTBot

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