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Who wrote a novel in which speech recognition technology plays a central role?
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122 times |
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26 times (12.0%) |
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very difficult |
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96 times (44.2%) |
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With which Nobel Laureate did novelist Iris Murdoch have a love affair during the 1950s?
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114 times |
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52 times (29.5%) |
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62 times (35.2%) |
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Who wrote the novel A Bend in the River which starts with this line: "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it"?
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465 times |
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313 times (43.5%) |
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medium |
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152 times (21.1%) |
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Of whom does Q.D. Leavis complain here?
"She has none of that natural piety, that richness of feeling and sense of a moral order, of experience as a process of growth, in which George Eliot's local criticisms are embedded and which give the latter her large stature."
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84 times |
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20 times (15.6%) |
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very difficult |
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64 times (50.0%) |
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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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71 times |
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7 times (6.5%) |
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64 times (59.3%) |
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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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80 times |
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15 times (11.5%) |
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very difficult |
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65 times (50.0%) |
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50 times (38.5%) |
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Who wrote the novel, August Is a Wicked Month?
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55 times |
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31 times (34.4%) |
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difficult |
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24 times (26.7%) |
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35 times (38.9%) |
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What did novelist Iris Murdoch teach for most of her life at Oxford University?
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229 times |
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123 times (34.3%) |
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difficult |
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106 times (29.5%) |
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130 times (36.2%) |
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What do the writers Iris Murdoch and John Banville have in common?
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50 times |
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31 times (44.9%) |
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medium |
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19 times (27.5%) |
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19 times (27.5%) |
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All but one of these writers published works of fiction with the phrase (NB: both words) "the sea" in the title. Who is the odd one out?
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120 times |
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38 times (25.7%) |
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difficult |
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82 times (55.4%) |
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28 times (18.9%) |
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Iris Murdoch's apprentice, Doris Lessing's terrorist, Ford Madox Ford's soldier and Damon Galgut's doctor were all what?
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34 times |
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17 times (35.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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17 times (35.4%) |
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14 times (29.2%) |
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