Literature Facts Trivia

Question 1

Sir Walter Scott wrote his bestselling poem "The Lady of the Lake" in what unusual setting?

Accepted Answer

While on horseback training for a potential invasion during the Napoleonic era

Question 2

German romantic writer Gottlob Burmann omitted which letter in 130 poems totaling 20,000 words?

Accepted Answer

The letter "r"

Question 3

Which poet is suspected to be Jack the Ripper, based on theories linking his poems to the infamous serial killer?

Accepted Answer

Francis Thompson

Question 4

The city of Pippa Passes in Kentucky was renamed after what happened?

Accepted Answer

The Browning Society donated money

Question 5

In the dedication of his collection, E.E. Cummings listed the names of how many publishers who rejected his proposal, arranged in the shape of an urn?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 6

French surrealist poet Robert Desnos saved lives in a concentration camp by doing what?

Accepted Answer

Reading palms and giving positive readings to fellow prisoners

Question 7

After Dorothy Parker's cremation, where were her ashes kept for almost 20 years?

Accepted Answer

In an attorney's filing cabinet

Question 8

Italian physician and writer Girolamo Fracastoro coined which term in his poem?

Accepted Answer

Syphilis

Question 9

What is "twin cinema poetry," invented in Singapore?

Accepted Answer

Verses that can be read vertically downward and horizontally

Question 10

Japanese writer Nakahara Chuuya drew inspiration from which French experimental writer in particular?

Accepted Answer

Arthur Rimbaud

Question 11

Which poet introduced the concept of "suspension of belief" in fiction?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 12

Oxford earned the nickname "the city with the dreaming spires" from whose description?

Accepted Answer

Matthew Arnold

Question 13

Dante Alighieri considered which Bolognese poet his "father" in poetry?

Accepted Answer

Guido Guinizelli

Question 14

A poem by Chinese romantic writer Xu Zhimo attracted tourists to which university, leading to the poem's display in 2008?

Accepted Answer

Cambridge

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