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What did John Updike's trio of witches do to their rival in The Witches of Eastwick?
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215 times |
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72 times (21.5%) |
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143 times (42.7%) |
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Who won the 2008 Literature Nobel Prize?
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284 times |
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153 times (44.6%) |
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131 times (38.2%) |
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John Updike, John Berger and Thomas Pynchon all wrote novels with one-letter titles. What are these titles in the correct order of their authors' names above?
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85 times (31.6%) |
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John Updike's Harry Angstrom lives in which fictional Pennsylvania city?
John Updike
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47 times (23.9%) |
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Which great American novelist of the late 20th-century died on 27 January 2009 from lung cancer?
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239 times |
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190 times (70.4%) |
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49 times (18.1%) |
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31 times (11.5%) |
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Jane Smart in John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick loves playing what on her cello?
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137 times |
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52 times (24.0%) |
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difficult |
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85 times (39.2%) |
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80 times (36.9%) |
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In John Updike's novel, Memories of the Ford Administration, the protagonist, an historian, writes a biography of which 19th-century US president?
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100 times |
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49 times (27.7%) |
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difficult |
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51 times (28.8%) |
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____________ wrote A Confederacy of Dunces.
   
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208 times |
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153 times (67.7%) |
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medium |
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55 times (24.3%) |
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18 times (8.0%) |
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Which novelist is the only one to have won the National Book Award three times (as of 2008)?
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105 times |
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23 times (17.2%) |
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very difficult |
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82 times (61.2%) |
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29 times (21.6%) |
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John Updike's Seek My Face tells the story of painter Rose Chafetz's marriages to other artisits. The first of her husbands, Zach McCoy,is closely modeled on what actual painter
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103 times |
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69 times (29.9%) |
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difficult |
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34 times (14.7%) |
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128 times (55.4%) |
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In John Updike's famous Rabbit quartet of novels, what is Rabbit's real name?
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687 times |
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498 times (47.6%) |
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189 times (18.1%) |
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359 times (34.3%) |
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John Updike wrote a novel which drew parallels between the administrations of the following Presidents:
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72 times |
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29 times (24.0%) |
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difficult |
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43 times (35.5%) |
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49 times (40.5%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit Run, Harry Angstrom meets Ruth Leonard
at the following type of eatery:
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84 times |
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41 times (30.6%) |
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difficult |
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43 times (32.1%) |
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50 times (37.3%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, Rabbit Angstrom inadvertently eats:
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64 times |
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5 times (4.3%) |
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really really difficult |
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59 times (50.4%) |
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53 times (45.3%) |
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Early in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Harry and his wife watch television together, and view:
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50 times |
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20 times (27.8%) |
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30 times (41.7%) |
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22 times (30.6%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit Run, Rabbit's daughter is named:
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82 times |
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54 times (39.7%) |
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28 times (20.6%) |
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54 times (39.7%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit Run, Harry after leaving home:
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85 times |
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56 times (41.8%) |
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medium |
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29 times (21.6%) |
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49 times (36.6%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, the chapter titled "MI" refers to:
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71 times |
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39 times (32.5%) |
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32 times (26.7%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, the protagonist dies:
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71 times |
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31 times (25.6%) |
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40 times (33.1%) |
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50 times (41.3%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom's home is inhabited by:
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65 times |
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26 times (21.8%) |
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39 times (32.8%) |
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54 times (45.4%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit Redux, Harry's home:
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64 times |
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24 times (20.3%) |
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difficult |
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40 times (33.9%) |
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54 times (45.8%) |
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Adjoining towns in John Updike's series of Rabbit books are:
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64 times |
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30 times (25.2%) |
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34 times (28.6%) |
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Which movie is mentioned toward the beginning of Rabbit Redux by John Updike:
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68 times |
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21 times (16.8%) |
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47 times (37.6%) |
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In John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, Harry and Janice have a winter condo in the Florida community of:
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62 times |
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19 times (15.8%) |
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43 times (35.8%) |
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Author John Updike won the Pulitzer Prize how many times?
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60 times |
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39 times (33.9%) |
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21 times (18.3%) |
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Of which word does Rabbit Armstrong, in John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, think: "He hates that word, you see it everywhere, and he doesn't know how to pronounce it"?
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57 times |
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22 times (25.0%) |
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About whom did John Updike declare: "This writer is not merely good, she is wickedly good"?
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70 times |
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27 times (25.2%) |
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Who gave us the following appreciation of Jane Austen's work?
"Jane Austen is thus a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears upon the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there. What she offers is, apparently, a trifle, yet is composed of something that expands in the reader's mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial. Always the stress is laid upon character. ... Think away the surface animation, the likeness to life, and there remains, to provide a deeper pleasure, an exquisite discrimination of human values. Dismiss this too from the mind and one can dwell with extreme satisfaction upon the more abstract art which ... so varies the emotions and proportions the parts that it is possible to enjoy it, as one enjoys poetry, for itself, and not as a link which carries the story this way and that."
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48 times (42.1%) |
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Of whom is John Updike writing here?
"She writes thrillingly well, in lucid, balanced sentences that owe something to the scrupulous qualifications and dry moral vigilance of Henry James. She sees human beings, if one may generalize, as most active in their own behalfs, and the ruthless drive of her characters, as filtered through the rueful sensibility of one of her female observers, can shock us into laughter. She is, in the English tradition, a thoroughly social novelist, for whom there lies beyond the human spectacle nothing but death and scenery, yet she brings to the English scene an outsider's eye."
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59 times |
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4 times (4.3%) |
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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..."
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61 times |
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13 times (12.0%) |
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48 times (44.4%) |
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