trivia questions about Honoré de Balzac
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Famed sculptor Auguste Rodin created a monument to what well-known French writer?(Hint: The artwork is located in Paris, near the intersections of boulevards Montparnasse and Raspail.)
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134 times |
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71 times (37.6%) |
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difficult |
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63 times (33.3%) |
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55 times (29.1%) |
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The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt features a character named "Seraphita". After a novel by which of these writers could she possibly have been named?
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60 times |
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21 times (18.9%) |
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very difficult |
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39 times (35.1%) |
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51 times (45.9%) |
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Of which one of his many novels did Honoré de Balzac declare in 1842 that it was the masterpiece of all his studies of human society, and called it "a remarkable tour de force"?
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48 times |
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2 times (2.2%) |
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really really difficult |
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46 times (50.5%) |
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43 times (47.3%) |
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Which of the following is NOT a novel (or novella) by Guy de Maupassant?
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140 times |
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77 times (33.9%) |
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difficult |
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63 times (27.8%) |
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87 times (38.3%) |
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Apropos which 19th-century novelist does Dorothy Parker dare you:
"Who call him spurious and shoddy
Shall do it o'er my lifeless body.
I heartily invite such birds
To come outside and say those words!"
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99 times |
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48 times (35.3%) |
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difficult |
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51 times (37.5%) |
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37 times (27.2%) |
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The Da Vinci Code features a nasty monk called "Silas" -- which one of these 19th-century writers did not publish a novel with the name "Silas" in the title?
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95 times |
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25 times (18.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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70 times (51.5%) |
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41 times (30.1%) |
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Which novelist, whom he greatly admired, did Henry James describe as being "so multitudinous, so complex, so far-spreading, so suggestive, so portentous ... that the imagination, oppressed and overwhelmed, shrinks from any attempt to grasp it whole"?
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33 times |
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10 times (18.5%) |
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very difficult |
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23 times (42.6%) |
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21 times (38.9%) |
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