Literature

1. What word, extended from a more popular term, refers to a fictional book of between
20,000 and 50,000 words? Novella
2. Who wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade? Lord Alfred
Tennyson (1809-92)
3. What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson? Lewis Carroll (1832-98)
4. Who wrote the maxim 'Cogito, ergo sum' (I think, therefore I am)? Ren
Descartes(1596-1650, French philosopher and mathematician, in his work Discours
de la Mthode, 1637.)
5. Who in 1450 invented movable type, thus revolutionising printing? Johannes
Gutenberg
6. Who was the youngest of the three Bront writing sisters? Anne Bront
7. Who wrote the 1845 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin? Robert Browning
8. Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophi Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, published in 1687? Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
9. Which American poet and humanist wrote and continually revised a collection of
poems called Leaves of Grass? Walt Whitman
10. Who detailed his experiences before and during World War I in Memoirs of a
Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer? Siegfried Sassoon
11. Who wrote the 1891 book Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake
Zarathustra)? Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
12. What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name? Mark Twain
13. Cheap literature of the 16-18th centuries was known as 'what' books, based on the
old word for the travelling traders who sold them? Chapbooks
14. By what name is the writer Franois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) better
known? Voltaire
15. Which statesman won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature? Sir Winston Churchill
16. Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe? Susan

17. Which great thinker collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book Why
War?Albert Einstein
18. What is the name of the first digital library founded by Michael Hart in 1971? Project
Gutenberg
19. Japanese author and playwrite Yukio Mishima committed what extreme act in 1970
while campaigning for Japan to restore its nationalistic principles? Suicide
20. What was the original title of the book on which the film Schindler's List was based?
Schindler's Ark

General knowledge