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Question 1 of 10
In the Muriel Spark novel, what fascist Edinburgh schoolteacher was at his or her prime in the 1930s?
Question 2 of 10
Which writer had been an oyster pirate, seal hunter and Klondike gold miner before becoming a wealthy socialist?
Question 3 of 10
Who kills Macbeth in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth"?
Question 4 of 10
Kyogen was developed as comic interludes between more serious-minded acts of what sort of drama?
Question 5 of 10
What city was Edgar A. Poe in when he died?
Question 6 of 10
Are you there, God? It's me. Me who, per the title of the 1970 Judy Blume book?
Question 7 of 10
Many of his early books are based on his own adventures at sea, while his later books are often about political intrigue. English was his third language, after Polish and French. Who is he?
Question 8 of 10
Give us the word that has been changed in this line of poetry from WH Auden's "Funeral Blues." Stop all the clocks, cut off the penguin.
Question 9 of 10
Co-founded in 1953 by beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, what San Francisco book store shares its name with a Charlie Chaplin movie?
Question 10 of 10
It seems that everyone from generals to businesspeople to coaches to campaign managers follows my 2500-year-old advice, such as "If your enemy is angry, seek to make him angrier." Who was I?
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