In the following I list some of the questions/trivia regarding the literature section. The interested reader can contact me at the52ndbook@gmail.com
Question: Which Victor Hugo novel was adopted into a Disney animated movie?
Answer: Notre Dame
Question: Which novel of Oscar Wilde has to do with immortality?
Answer: The picture of Dorian Gray
Question: "In Arthur Clark 2001: Space Odissey what's the name of the AI Supercomputer? "
Answer: Al
Question: What's the address of Sherlock Holmes
Answer: Baker Street, 221B
Question: Who is Harry Potter godfather?
Answer: Sirius Black
Question: In which city is Romeo and Juliet set?
Answer: Verona
Question: How many ghosts show up in a Christmas Carol?
Answer: 4
Question: Phileas Fogg is the main character of which book?
Answer: Around the World in Eighty Days
Question: Rudyard Kipling, youngest Literature Nobel Prize winner at the age of 41, is mostly famous for which book?
Answer: The Jungle book
Question: What’s the name of the captain of the Nautilus, the submarine of Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas?
Answer: Nemo
Question: Mowgli was raised by what animals in The Jungle Book?
Answer: Wolves
Question: In the 1991 movie _Hook_ – who played the now adult Peter Pan?
Answer: Robin Williams
Question: Everyone knows the movies of the series Pirates of the Caribbean. Captain Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp was fictional and so was the character of Will Turner. Do you know which one of the pirates in the third movie was based on a real person? Which was his nationality?
Answer: Blackbeard, in the movie he’s the dark and merciless character that plays the father of Penelope Cruz
Question: In the first movie of the Pirates of the Caribbean series , we are introduced to Hector Barbossa – he is a fictional character. His name is based on another famous pirate. Which one?
Answer: Hayreddin Barbarossa. He was a pirate in the Mediterranean sea together with his brother – later he became a grand admiral of the Ottoman Empire
Question: Who was the first Asian Nobel Prize awardee?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
Question: Do you know the reason why the prize for 2018 was given in 2019?
Answer: Sexual harassment scandal
Question: Rudyard Kipling, youngest Literature Nobel Prize winner at the age of 41, is mostly famous for which book?
Answer: The Jungle book
Question: "Many books were written about pirates: Treasure Island to this date is one of the most famous ones. Name the author. "
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Question: Another famous fictional pirate is Captain Hook from Peter Pan. Why does he hate Peter so much?
Answer: Peter cut off his hand and threw it into the sea where it was swallowed by a crocodile
Question: In Peter Pan, which hand is Captain Hook's hook on?
Answer: left
Question: What’s the nickname of Arsene Lupin?
Answer: Gentleman thief
Question: Attending Jonas Jonasson, how old was the man that climbed out of the window and disappeared?
Answer: 100
Question: How many are the girls in the book “Little Women”?
Answer: 4
Question: what's the name of the comic strip with Snoopy and Charlie Brown?
Answer: Peanuts
Question: The Little mermaid is coming from which city?
Answer: Copenhagen]
Question: What novel starts with “Call me Ishmael”?
Answer: Moby Dick
Question: According to Ray Bradbury, at which temperature does paper burn?
Answer: Fahrenheit 451
Note from the Quizmaster: While at the time of Ray Bradbury was not known, it is now common knowledge that paper ignites at around 480 F- 249 C (and not 451 F - 232 Celsius) and it gets far hotter once it's burning. The temperature at the center of a paper fire is 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, give or take a couple hundred.
Question: where can you find the sentence “All happy families are alike; each unhappy familiy is unhappy in its own way”
Answer: Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Question: How’s called the assistant of Robinson Crusoe?
Answer: Friday
Question: Jules Verne | Journey to the center of the Earth | the trip starts from an inactive volcano in which country?
Answer: suggestion: Germany, Japan, **Iceland**, Nicaragua
Question: What is the title of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Edith Wharton?
Answer: The age of Innocence