Question: Whose autobiography is entitled The Wheel of Fortune?
Answer: The answer is not Vanna White, who was only eight years old when the book was published in 1965. Its author was French singer Edith Piaf

Question: What famous comic strip character was inspired by the 1936 Henry Fonda film Trail of the Lonesome Pine?
Answer: Al Capp's Li'l Abner

Question: What was the original name of the orphan created in 1924 by cartoonist Harold Gray in the comic strip we know as Little Orphan Annie?
Answer: Otto

Question: What Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist worked as a hod carrier, wheeling 100-pound barrows of concrete along scaffolding, during construction of New York's Madison Square Garden in the 1920s?
Answer: John Steinbeck

Question: In what play does the title character have a son named Swiss Cheese?
Answer: Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

Question: How many grandchildren did artist Grandma Moses have?
Answer: 11

Question: In the early James Bond books, Agent 007 packed a Walther PPK. What weapon replaced it in his later appearances?
Answer: A German-made, 9-millimeter, Heckler and Koch semi-automatic pistol

Question: Who said "Nothing is so much to be feared as fear?
Answer: Henry David Thoreau, in his 14-volume Journal, published posthumously in 1906

Question: What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's pet golden cocker spaniel ?
Answer: Flush

Question: What famous novel provided the basic story line for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam war film epic, Apocalypse Now?
Answer: The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, published in 1902 and set in Africa

Question: What famous British poet and playwright had an m--for "murderer"--branded on his left thumb?
Answer: Ben Jonson, for killing an actor in a duel in 1598. Jonson escaped the gallows by pleading benefit of clergy and forfeiting all his goods and chattels

Question: What famous character in literature was inspired by an Augustinian monk named Alonso Quizado.
Answer: Don Quixote

Question: The title of what poetic drama by Robert Browning was used to name a Kentucky town?
Answer: Pippa Passes

Question: What were the names of the brothers Karamozov in the novel by Feodor Dostoevsky?
Answer: Dmitri, Ivan, Alexei and Smerdyakov

Question: What exotic city was featured in National Geographic magazine's first photo story in 1905?
Answer: Lhasa, Tibet

Question: What was mystery writer Dashiell Hammett's first name?
Answer: Samuel, or Sam

Question: How many exclamation points did author Tom Wolfe use in his blockbuster bestseller The Bonfire of the Vanities?
Answer: 2,343

Question: Why was Clark Kent -- alias Superman--rejected for military service during World War II?
Answer: He failed the eye test portion of the Army physical. Because of his X-ray vision, he inadvertently read an eye chart in another room

Question: What is the native language of English playwright Tom Stoppard, author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties and The Real Thing?
Answer: Czech. He was born Thomas Straussler in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, 1937. Stoppard is the name of the British Army officer his mother married in 1946

Question: What was Captain Queeg's first name and rank in the 1951 novel--and later movie-- The Caine Mutiny?
Answer: First name, Philip; rank, lieutenant commander

Question: Under what name did Italian artist Jocopo Robusti gain world renown?
Answer: Tintorette. Robusti's nickname--Italian for little dyer--was bestowed on him because his father was a dyer, or tintore, of silk

Question: What title did Russian author Leo Tolstoy originally give to the novel we know as War and Peace?
Answer: All's Well That Ends Well

Question: What famous character in English literature made his debut in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes. His first published exploit was A Study in Scarlet, for which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was paid L25

Question: How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale?
Answer: Three days and three nights

Question: What kind of wood was used to make Noah's Ark?
Answer: Gopher wood, according to Genesis 6:14

Question: For what event in February 1964 did evangelist Billy Graham break his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday?
Answer: The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

Question: How old was Moses when he died?
Answer: He was 120 years old, according to the Bible (Deuteronomy 34:7)

Question: How tall was Goliath, the Philistine giant slain by David with a stone hurled from a sling?
Answer: Six cubits and a span,

Question: What biblical Babylonian king cast Daniel into the lion's den for praying to God in defiance of a royal decree?
Answer: Darius the Mede (Book of Daniel, Chapter6)

Question: What is the longest name in the Bible?
Answer: Mahershalalbashbaz, which is also written Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (Isaiah 8:1)

Question: In the Bible, which of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a red horse?
Answer: War (Book of Revelation)

Question: How many books of the Bible are named for women?
Answer: Two - Ruth and Esther

Question: In the Bible, for what "price" did Esau sell his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob?
Answer: Pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34)

Question: What did the lords of the philistines offer Delilah for revealing the secret of Samson's strength?
Answer: They promised the sum of 1,100 pieces of silver each, according to the Bible (Judges 16:5)

Question: In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband?
Answer: Ahab, King of Israel (I Kings 16:28-31)

Question: What bird is named for the apostle Peter?
Answer: The petrel, from a diminutive form of Petrus, or Peter, in Latin

Question: Who is the only woman whose age is mentioned in the Bible?
Answer: Sarah

Question: Why is the egg a symbol of Easter?
Answer: As an ancient symbol of new life, it's considered a fitting symbol for the Resurrection

Question: What is the most common name in the Bible--shared by 32 people in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament?
Answer: Zechariah

Question: According to the Bible, what weapons was the Philistine giant Goliath carrying when he was slain by David?
Answer: A sword and a spear, according to I Samuel 17:45

Question: What does the word Amen mean?
Answer: So be it or Let it be

Question: How wide and deep was the moat dug around the famous 21-foot-high wall that protected the biblical city of Jericho in 7000 B.C.?
Answer: It was 15 feet wide and 9 feet deep

Question: In what language was the New Testament originally written?
Answer: In Greek

Question: How many of the 150 psalms in the Bible's Book of Psalms are attributed to Moses?
Answer: One-- Psalm 90, A Prayer of Moses, the man of God

Question: According to the Bible, on what day did God divide land and water?
Answer: On the third day. (Genesis 1:9)

Question: What was the playing time of the Bible when the American Foundation for the Blind recorded the entire 774,000-word King James version in 1944?
Answer: 84-1/2 hours

Question: According to the Bible, how many pearly gates are there?
Answer: 12 (Revelations 21:12-21

Question: What was the total population of the world at the time of Christ?
Answer: About 200 million

Question: According to the Bible, in what city were the disciples of Jesus first called Christians?
Answer: In Antioch, one of the earliest centers of Christianity (Acts 11:26)

Question: What were the names of the three wise men?
Answer: Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior

Question: How high were the walls of Jericho before they came tumbling down?
Answer: Twenty one feet

Question: How many decks were there on Noah's Ark?
Answer: Three, according to Genesis 6:16

Question: Who were the parents of King Solomon?
Answer: David and Bathsheba

Question: What was the first imprisonment recorded in the Bible?
Answer: The jailing of Joseph by Potiphar, the captain of the Egyptian pharaoh's guards, after Joseph was falsely accused of trying to seduce Potiphar's wife (Genesis 39:6-20)