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  What instrument did Pulitzer prize-winning writer Saul Bellow play?

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Answered: 95 times
Correct: 42 times (24.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 53 times (31.0%)
Skipped: 76 times (44.4%)
  Which of the following authors won the Nobel Prize for literature first? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1092 times
Correct: 803 times (54.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 289 times (19.7%)
Skipped: 378 times (25.7%)
  Who is the most recent US winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (as of 2008)? see if you know the answer
Answered: 191 times
Correct: 98 times (35.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 93 times (33.9%)
Skipped: 83 times (30.3%)
  Which of these authors helped to re-write the screenplay of the 1959 film Ben-Hur? see if you know the answer
Answered: 165 times
Correct: 56 times (23.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 109 times (44.9%)
Skipped: 78 times (32.1%)
  In which country was novelist Saul Bellow born? see if you know the answer
Answered: 132 times
Correct: 54 times (27.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 78 times (39.8%)
Skipped: 64 times (32.7%)
  Which American writer was rejected for the US Army but instead became a pilot in the Canadian Flying Corps? see if you know the answer
Answered: 154 times
Correct: 49 times (21.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 105 times (46.5%)
Skipped: 72 times (31.9%)
  Which novelist is the only one to have won the National Book Award three times (as of 2008)? see if you know the answer
Answered: 110 times
Correct: 24 times (16.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 86 times (60.6%)
Skipped: 32 times (22.5%)
  Finish this statement by John Updike: "Yet, as we look about, could we not say that Henry James has many academic idolaters but few imitators -- Peter Taylor and _________ in their youths are the last I can think of..." see if you know the answer
Answered: 74 times
Correct: 14 times (11.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 60 times (48.8%)
Skipped: 49 times (39.8%)
  In The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, which city was Augie March from? see if you know the answer
Answered: 475 times
Correct: 225 times (25.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 250 times (28.0%)
Skipped: 418 times (46.8%)
  Saul Bellow's Ravelstein is a fictionalized account of the author's friendship with what real-life classicist? see if you know the answer
Answered: 190 times
Correct: 68 times (12.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 122 times (21.6%)
Skipped: 374 times (66.3%)
  Who did Norman Mailer call "the most perfect writer of my generation"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 108 times
Correct: 45 times (31.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 63 times (44.1%)
Skipped: 35 times (24.5%)
  If Camus' was first, and Greene's were third and tenth, while Bellow's was dangling, DeLillo's was falling and Dick's was in a high castle - whose was Thursday? see if you know the answer
Answered: 123 times
Correct: 62 times (39.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 61 times (38.4%)
Skipped: 36 times (22.6%)
  Which fictional writer is mismatched with his novelist creator? (See 'Details' for explanation). see if you know the answer
Answered: 42 times
Correct: 22 times (36.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 20 times (32.8%)
Skipped: 19 times (31.1%)

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