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This quiz is related to various non-fiction books.
What was the original 1946 title of Dr.Benjamin Spock's epoch-making book on "child care"?
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child-Care
The No-Nonsense Book of Baby-Care
How to Be a Happy Mother
Sensible Baby-Care
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Who wrote the book Parliament of Whores?
Paul Elliot
George Stephanopoulos
P. J. O''Rourke
Judith Miller
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Around when was the book In Cold Blood number one on the New York best seller list?
1964
1965
1966
1963
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What two cultures did C.P. Snow have in mind when in 1959 he published his "The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution"?
European and American way of life
Western and Eastern values and ways of life
the Sciences and the Humanities
Capitalism and Communism
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Who wrote the book "Second Sex" in 1949?
Kate Millett
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Germaine Greer
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Which of these authors, in his 1964 book, expressed critical views of capitalist society that in the 1960s greatly resonated with the concerns of the leftist student movement ?
Herbert Marcuse
Eric Hobsbawm
Christopher Hill
E.P. Thompson
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Who was the economist that strongly influenced 20th century thought by his "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" (1936)?
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Milton Friedman
John Maynard Keynes
Kenneth Galbraith
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The Communist Manifesto' was one of the principal works of the modern world. Karl Marx was the primary author; who was his co-author?
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Friedrich Engels
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Which other book has been written by the author of How to Stop Worrying and Start Living?
How to Write Reports
How to Speak How to Listen
Lincoln the Unknown
None of the above
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Who was the author of 'Das Kapital'?
Friedrich Engels
Joseph Lenin
Karl Marx
Leon Trotsky
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Who wrote the book Free to Choose?
Milton and Rose Friedman
Kenneth Clark
John Cheever
Alan Greenspan
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This scientist-philosopher was highly controversial for his theories, as expressed in books such as 'Worlds in Collision'.
Enrico Fermi
Werner Von Braun
Immanuel Velikovsky
Niels Bohr
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Who wrote the book: 'The Critique of Pure Reason'
Arthur Schopenhauer
Bertrand Russell
Rene Descartes
Immanuel Kant
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Who is NOT a 'muckraker'? [who exposed social evils]
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
James M. Cain
Jacob Riis
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His work has includes: "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "The Right Stuff." Can you name the author?
Studs Terkel
Tom Wolfe
Stephen Hawking
Richard Feynman
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This mountain-climbing writer wrote "Into Thin Air".
Alan sillitoe
Lance Armstrong
David Roberts
Jon Krakauer
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In the book by Tracy Kidder "The Soul of a New Machine.", what is the subject of this book, the "new machine"?
Computer
Coffee Vending
Typewriter
The slot machine
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This journalist was sent to Berlin to report on events just before WWII began. He wrote several books about his close-up view in the era of Nazi Germany, including "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." Can you name him?
John Keegan
Ian Kershaw
Ron Rosenbaum
William Shirer
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He has won the Pulitzer Prize twice: fiction and non-fiction. Can you name him?
Norman Mailer
Carl Sagan
Theodore White
Richard Rhodes
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Which of these books was written by a different author than the other three?
Warpaths
The Mask of Command
The History of Wardare
Hitler’s Games
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Which of these books that deals with post-WWII conflicts is about Vietnam?
Dead Men Risen
The war that never was
Chickenhawk
A Million Bullets
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Who wrote the book A Brief History of Time?
Jessica Mitford
Stephen Hawking
John Grisham
Patricia Aburdene
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