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  What school did beat generation icons Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs attend together? see if you know the answer
Answered: 289 times
Correct: 236 times (64.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 53 times (14.5%)
Skipped: 76 times (20.8%)
  In William S. Burroughs's "Cities of the Red Night," what is by far the most frequently used drug by the characters?

Cities of the Red Night: A Novel 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 150 times
Correct: 58 times (20.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 92 times (32.2%)
Skipped: 136 times (47.6%)
  Which author was briefly imprisoned in Mexico in 1951 for having killed his common-law wife during a game in which they shot at each other? see if you know the answer
Answered: 209 times
Correct: 111 times (42.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 98 times (37.5%)
Skipped: 52 times (19.9%)
  What writer killed his wife Joan while trying to play William Tell with a glass of water? see if you know the answer
Answered: 696 times
Correct: 350 times (31.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 346 times (30.9%)
Skipped: 425 times (37.9%)
  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.) see if you know the answer
Answered: 82 times
Correct: 29 times (24.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 53 times (44.5%)
Skipped: 37 times (31.1%)
  Which of these writers is NOT pictured on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album? see if you know the answer
Answered: 98 times
Correct: 26 times (19.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 72 times (52.9%)
Skipped: 38 times (27.9%)
  Which one of these novels was NOT written by William S. Burroughs? see if you know the answer
Answered: 49 times
Correct: 26 times (37.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 23 times (33.3%)
Skipped: 20 times (29.0%)
  During the 1980s William S. Burroughs published a trilogy of novels. They do not formally have a title but the series is sometimes called the "Cities Trilogy". Which one of these does not form part of this series? see if you know the answer
Answered: 37 times
Correct: 15 times (21.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 22 times (31.4%)
Skipped: 33 times (47.1%)
  The novels Junkie and Queer by William S. Burroughs were written under what name? see if you know the answer
Answered: 230 times
Correct: 103 times (19.2%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 127 times (23.7%)
Skipped: 306 times (57.1%)

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