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How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
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What did Beckett describe as "the most distasteful job I ever took on"?
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To whose painting of two men looking at the moon did Beckett ascribe the inspiration for Waiting for Godot?
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30 times (8.9%) |
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Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot are what?
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155 times (78.7%) |
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Who said "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear?"
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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot was written originally in what language?
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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is subtitled: A ______ in Two Acts
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Which character in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot says: "I too would be happy to meet him. The more people I meet the happier I become. From the meanest creature one departs wiser, richer, more conscious of one's blessings"?
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78 times (27.6%) |
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What was Samuel Beckett's middle name?
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True or false: At one point in his life, Samuel Beckett wanted to study filmmaking in Moscow.
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122 times |
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103 times (59.2%) |
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medium |
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19 times (10.9%) |
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Which Samuel wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
  
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7703 times (61.5%) |
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Which Samuel wrote En Attendant Godot?
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440 times (71.1%) |
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What are the names of the two main characters of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"?
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What is significant about the end of Samuel Beckett's "Malone Dies"?
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242 times |
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116 times (18.8%) |
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With which famous writer was Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, infatauted (though her love was not returned, which caused relations between her father and the said writer to sour)?
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122 times |
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45 times (24.6%) |
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Which writer was stabbed by a pimp while he was living in Paris in the late 1930's? (When asked why he had done it, the pimp - whose name was Prudent - said he didn't know.)
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91 times |
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32 times (24.6%) |
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59 times (45.4%) |
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Who wrote this?
"The difference between objective and subjective work is one of external form merely. It is accidental, not essential. All artistic creation is absolutely subjective. The very landscape that Corot looked at was, as he said himself, but a mood of his own mind; and those great figures of Greek or English drama that seem to us to possess an actual existence of their own, apart from the poets who shaped and fashioned them, are, in their ultimate analysis, simply the poets themselves, not as they thought they were, but as they thought they were not; and by such thinking came in strange manner, though but for a moment, really so to be. (...) Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
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32 times (25.4%) |
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One of the last works of this author was a treatise called J'accuse ou ______ côté ombre, in which he chastised the local government of a large city near which he was living at the time for its complicity with organized crime. Ostracized for the treatise's publication, the author was eventually proven right posthumously when the city's (former) mayor was found guilty of corruption three years after the author's 1991 death.
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80 times |
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27 times (25.5%) |
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The chapter headings "Du Côté de Chez Beaver" and "Du Côté de Chez Tod" in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust are literary bows to ...
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101 times |
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59 times (35.8%) |
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At the beginning of which play or novel does one character greet another with the words:
"Introibo ad altare Dei. ... Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit!"
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574 times (22.6%) |
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Who commented on the 1945 Hiroshima bomb drop with the words:
"The papers are full of the atomic bomb which is going to revolutionize everything and blow us all to buggery. Not a bad idea."
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57 times |
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32 times (39.0%) |
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Fill in the missing name in this statement of Umberto Eco:
"Though so different in style, two writers have offered us an image for the next millenium: James Joyce and ____________. The first designed with words what the second designed with ideas: the original, the one and only World Wide Web. The Real Thing. The rest will remain simply virtual."
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23 times (25.3%) |
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Which of the following is a notable writer present as a character in one of Charles Bukowski novels?
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Which of these great English-language novelists did in fact receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
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Who wrote this to a friend?
"Lately I had in my hand Moby-Dick. It struck me as a rather strained rhapsody with whaling for a subject and not a single sincere line in the 3 volumes of it."
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27 times (23.7%) |
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Which famous novelist wrote the following to a friend of his, after the latter had suggested he read William Faulkner whom he considered a great talent: "PS. I have read your Faulkner. You are pulling my leg."
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49 times |
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16 times (21.3%) |
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33 times (44.0%) |
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26 times (34.7%) |
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