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Arts and Literature trivia questions and answers.

What early American writer used the pen names Geoffrey Crayon and Jonathan Oldstyle?
A: Washington Irving.

What famous American poet wrote: "My candle burns at both ends;/ It will not last the night"?
A: Edna St. Vincent Millay. The lines are from her poem First Fig.

What was Gulliver's first name in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels?
A: Lemuel.

What famous American poet wrote the line that provided the title for the 1942 Bette Davis Film Now Voyager?
A: Walt Whitman. In his two-line poem The Untold Want, in Leaves of Grass, he wrote: "Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." The movie was based on the novel Now Voyager by Olive Higgins Prouty.

What environmentally correct gesture did publisher Harper San Francisco make in 1990 in conjunction with its publication of the book 2 Minutes a Day for a greener Planet?
A: It planted 1,000 trees to replace those used in producing the book.

What popular children's book was written by Ian Fleming, creator of British secret agent James Bond?
A: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Magical Car.

What famous entertainer wrote the best sellers The Man in Black in 1975 and Man in White in 1986?
A: Country singer Johnny Cash. Black is an autobiography; White, a novel about the apostle Saint Paul.

What is the title of the 1989 biography of cartoonist Charles Schulz?
A: Good Grief. It was written by Rheta Grimsley Johnson.

What did the letters in the magic word SHAZAM represent in the Captain Marvel comics?
A: Solomon's wisdom, Hercules' strength, Atlas's stamina, Zeus's power, Achilles' courage, and Mercury's speed.

In what famous novel did physicist Murray Gell-Mann find the word quark--which he used to name the basic building block of matter in the early 1960s?
A: In James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

What popular comic strip featured a character named Appassionata Von Climax?
A: Li'l Abner.

How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
A: 154.

What river did artist Emanuel Leutze use as a model for the Delaware when he painted his famous historical work "Washington Crossing the Delaware" in 1851?
A: The Rhine. Leutze was in his native Germany when he painted it.

Who serves as Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy?
A: The Roman poet Virgil.

The house of what famous Greek poet was the only home spared by Alexander the Great when he invaded and destroyed the city of Thebes in 335 B.C.?
A: Pindar.

How many self-portraits did Rembrandt paint?
A: Almost 100-- that are known.

The name of what Texas town came close to being changed in the late 1950s because of a controversial best-selling novel
A: Lolita. The novel was Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. After much debate, the citizens of the small southeast Texas town decided to keep the name adopted by their forefathers in honor of early settler Lolita Reese.

Who immortalized the world of American finance with a painting entitled The New Orleans Cotton Exchange?
A: French impressionist Edgar Degas. He did a painting of the exchange during an 1872-73 visit to New Orleans, where his uncle and two brothers were in the cotton business.

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