Question: In the US and Canada, what appropriately titled book of Dr. Seuss is a popular gift for students graduating from high school and college?
Answer: Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Question: Can you fill-in the first line of the poem whose next lines are: "................................................ Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."?
Answer: """A thing of beauty is a joy forever:"""

Question: Which 2003 bestseller and memoir set in Iran is divided into four sections called Lolita, Gatsby, James and Austen?
Answer: Reading Lolita in Teheran by Azar Nafisi

Question: Criticizing which author for her lack of passion did Charlotte Bronte write "Her business is not half so much with the human heart as with the human eyes, mouth, hands and feet."?
Answer: Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Question: The 1954 publication of the book Seduction of the Innocent which protested the harmful effects of mass media on children led to a U.S. Congressional inquiry into what genre of publishing?
Answer: Comic book industry

Question: Set in 1547, Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of the pauper Tom Canty and which other royal historical figure?
Answer: Prince Edward VI (son of Henry VIII of England)

Question: Which seminal work of 20th century literature is divided into the following five sections? 1. The Burial of the Dead 2. A Game of Chess 3. The Fire Sermon 4. Death by Water 5. What the Thunder Said
Answer: T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land

Question: In 2004, the government of Equatorial Guinea accused which popular English author of being one of the financiers of a failed 2004 coup d'état attempt against it?
Answer: Jeffrey Archer

Question: """In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of the characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring."" Literary buffs should be able to immediately say what this alludes to. Can you?"
Answer: Judgement of John M. Woolsey approving James Joyce's Ulysses

Question: In 1954, Life magazine carried an article Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading by John Hersey in which he was critical of school primers. What children's classic was written in response?
Answer: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Question: Because A. A. Milne was critical towards him for pandering to Germans during WWII, which English author created a ridiculous character named Timothy Bobbin to parody some of Milne's poetry?
Answer: P. G. Wodehouse

Question: Which 1989 Spanish novel follows the story of young Tita who longs her entire life for Pedro but is only able to express her feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels?
Answer: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Question: What trilogy of Arabic literature consists of the books Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street?
Answer: The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

Question: Which 1944 work of Friedrich Hayek is among the most influential expositions of classical liberalism and is stated as the single book that significantly shaped the political ideologies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan?
Answer: The Road to Serfdom

Question: When he was killed in a car crash in 1960, which existentialist became the shortest-lived of any literature Nobel laurate till date?
Answer: Albert Camus

Question: Which 1975 book by the Australian philosopher Peter Singer is considered to be the founding philosophical statement of the animal rights movement?
Answer: Animal Liberation

Question: Fill in the first two lines of this poem: ".............................................. ................................................ Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."?
Answer: """In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:"""

Question: Utopia by Thomas More is largely based on which influential work of philosophy and political theory?
Answer: Plato's Republic

Question: The Other Side of Me is the autobiography of which popular American author and creator of the TV series I Dream of Jeannie?
Answer: Sidney Sheldon

Question: Which notorious real-life terrorist figures prominently in Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy?
Answer: Carlos the Jackal

Question: If Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day details the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and The Last Battle tells about the Battle of Berlin, which of his books tells the story of Operation Market Garden in WWII?
Answer: A Bridge Too Far (1974)

Question: The American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux's book Sir Vidia's Shadow provides a caustic portrait of which other famous author?
Answer: V. S. Naipaul

Question: Which 1961 book by Frantz Fanon was described by Time magazine as 'this is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the windows of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto or the Mein Kampf of the anticolonial revolution ...'?
Answer: The Wretched of the Earth

Question: What genre of literature is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto?
Answer: Gothic fiction

Question: Which writer, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature created the fictional cities of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota and Zenith, Winnemac?
Answer: Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

Question: What term from the Spanish for 'rogue/rascal' describes a genre of fiction that depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society?
Answer: Picaresque

Question: Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre?
Answer: Wide Sargasso Sea

Question: Which path-breaking 1906 book uncovered the horrid working conditions in The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. or The Yards in Chicago?
Answer: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Question: A mysterious figure paid an annual tribute on Jan 19th during the period of 1949 to 2009 to which American author by visiting the author's original grave marker in Baltimore?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Which writer of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair was once called "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language" by Gabriel García Márquez?
Answer: Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

Question: What is observed annually on June 16 in Dublin to celebrate the life of James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses?
Answer: Bloomsday

Question: Which influential 19th century work on military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz is prescribed at various military academies to this day?
Answer: On War

Question: If the book The Catcher in the Rye is to Mark Chapman-John Lennon, which book is to Yigal Amir-Yitzhak Rabin?
Answer: The Day of the Jackal

Question: The title of which book comes from a dialogue within where the character Atticus warns his children that, although they can "shoot all the blue jays they want," they must remember that "it's a sin to do this"?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Question: Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India spoke with Khrushchev and was partly instrumental in preventing the expulsion of which writer from the Soviet Union after that person won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Boris Pasternak

Question: If Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence fictionalizes the life of Paul Gauguin, his novel Cakes and Ale contains characterizations of which English author who never lived in Wessex?
Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question: What 1889 comic classic that describes a boating holiday on the Thames was initially intended to be a serious travel guide until the humorous elements took over and made the book what it now is?
Answer: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome