Jeopardy LIT-POURRI Questions
Collection of crowd sourced questions and answers for the Jeopardy game.
The Bayeux Tapestry's lower borders cryptically depict several of his fables including the fox & the crow
View AnswerIn The Grapes of Wrath this family takes a road trip from Oklahoma to California
View AnswerThis character took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed (Alice) in a languid sleepy voice
View AnswerHe worked at the custom house in Salem in the 1840s; The Custom House is an essay at the start of one of his novels
View AnswerIn a Stowe novel he tells Uncle Tom I'm your church now...you've got to be as I say
View AnswerIn Paradise Lost this character disguises himself as a cherub to sneak into the Garden of Eden
View AnswerNot Fog nor Cloud but this is Lolita's last name in Nabokov's lecherous classic
View AnswerThis 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was based on an ancient Greek myth recounted by Ovid
View AnswerIn Gulliver's Travels a race of talking horses called Houyhnhnms have enslaved humanlike beings called these
View AnswerSamuel Johnson said When a man is tired of this city that contains his only surviving residence he is tired of life
View AnswerIn an 1850 novel she refuses to name the father of her daughter Pearl & spends 3 hours on the pillory
View AnswerThe opera Les Troyens or The Trojans by Berlioz was based on this ancient Roman epic
View AnswerDon't make house calls is the message of A Country Doctor one of this Prague writer's eerie tales
View AnswerFred Peloux is known by the single name Cheri in a 1920 novel by this single-named Frenchwoman
View AnswerA sonnet typically has this many lines with 10 syllables in each one
View AnswerThis 18th c. novel has wordy chapter titles like Containing a Conversation which Mr. Jones Had with Himself
View AnswerHughenden is not a typical author's home; this resident was British prime minister an earl & a hugely popular writer
View AnswerThis Irish-born Nobel Prize-winning playwright earned the Croix de Guerre for helping the French Resistance
View AnswerDaniel Defoe claimed that this shipwreck classic was an allegory of his own life
View AnswerThis 1961 novel by Joseph Heller takes place on the island of Pianosa
View AnswerIf you're from Narnia you may know this author wrote some poetry under the pen name Clive Hamilton
View AnswerThis lyrical drama by Percy Shelley takes license with Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound
View AnswerThis Wilde guy gives his soul to remain young while his picture reflects his descent into debauchery
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