An editor rejected what Marcel Proust work, noting, "I may be dead from the neck up, but rack my brains as I may I can't see why a chap should need thirty pages to describe how he turns over in bed before going to sleep"?
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What famously controversial book is about actors from India killed in a terrorist plane explosion?
Question 3 of 10
In "Flowers for Algernon", who is Algernon?
Question 4 of 10
Walter Gibson created what pulp hero, who "knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men"?
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Question 5 of 10
Who wrote 'The Mists of Avalon'?
Question 6 of 10
In "A Room with a View" and "Howards End," Ismael Merchant and James Ivory were inspired by whose novels?
Question 7 of 10
What is comic book hero Roy of the Rovers' surname?
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Question 8 of 10
The word "cantaloupe" translates in Italian to a "wolf" that does what?
Question 9 of 10
In the book "Lisey's Story", written by Stephen King, what was Scott Landon's profession?
Question 10 of 10
In the book The Last Of The Mohicans what was the name of Chingachgook's only son?
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Who Sang These Songs?
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Who Sang These Songs?
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Impossible Music Quiz
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Who Sang These Songs?
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These Songs Filled The Airwaves
but do you know who sang them?
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Can name all the artists we are looking for?
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History Quizzes
History quiz for anyone who grew up in the 1970s
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History Quiz
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10 Questions about History
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Music Quiz
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A quiz on science.
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10 questions about food and beverage, can you score at lest 5 out of 10?
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Food and Beverages
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Are you a real bookworm?
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Mixed Knowledge Quiz
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Movie Quiz
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90% can't even score a 6 out of 10
Movie Quiz
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79% knows the answer to this question:
"Whom did the Wizard of Oz call a "clinking, clanking, clattering collection of colligenous junk"?
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Movie Quiz
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Lights, Camera, Quotes!
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Movies Quiz
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Math Quiz
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Unbeatable Math Quiz
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Nobody will score higher than a 4
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