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In Tennessee Williams's play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Brick is despondent over the suicide of his best friend . . .?
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In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, which does Blanche NOT compare Stanley to?
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What Tennessee Williams' drama centers on Big Daddy Pollitt, his wife Big Mama, and sons Brick and Gooper?
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In The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, why was Reverend Shannon originally institutionalized?
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In Tennessee Williams' play " A Streetcar Named Desire", what is the main protagonist's name?
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Which of the following authors died after choking on the cap to a bottle of eye drops?
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Marilyn Monroe was married for a time to this playwright.
    
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In The Glass Menagerie, which of Laura's figurines gets broken as she dances with her gentleman caller?
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In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, what is Big Daddy's family trying to conceal from him?
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In Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie", to what does the title refer?
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Tennessee Williams was very close to his sister throughout their lives. What was her name?
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In which city did Tennessee Williams NOT live at some point in his life?
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According to some lists of Egyptian pharaohs, there was a 6th Dynasty (Old Kingdom/2d millennium BC) female pharaoh called Nitocris, who is rumored to have avenged her brother/husband's death by tricking his enemies into a subterranean temple (or banquet hall), where she had them drowned. Allegedly, to escape their families' vengeance, she then committed suicide by running into a burning room.
This story is the subject of, inter alia ...
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What is the New Orleans street on which Tennessee Williams's play "A Streetcar Named Desire" is set?
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The name of Tennessee Williams's father was Cornelius __________ Williams.
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What connects the titles of works by Paul Auster, Simon Mawer, Hermann Hesse, Tennessee Williams, Catherine Cookson, Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl?
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Which famous American playwright had his very first story published in Weird Tales Magazine in August, 1928 (when he was only 17)?
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
What is Laura's favorite creature among her glass figurines?
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Who are the bestselling authors pictured?
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