Great Books Trivia
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Crack the spine on great books trivia covering 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Odyssey, Moby-Dick, Hamlet, and Crime and Punishment. These are the classics that shaped how we think, argue, and dream, one unforgettable page at a time. Dive into the deep cuts and see if your knowledge of the classics is truly well-read.
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This author wrote the dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949.
- George Orwell
- Aldous Huxley
- Ray Bradbury
- H.G. Wells
This English author penned A Tale of Two Cities, published in 1859.
- Charles Dickens
- William Thackeray
- Thomas Hardy
- George Eliot
This Russian author penned Crime and Punishment in 1866.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anton Chekhov
- Ivan Turgenev
This obsessed sea captain commands the Pequod and hunts a legendary white whale.
- Captain Bildad
- Captain Ahab
- Captain Peleg
- Captain Boomer
This famous playwright wrote the tragedy Hamlet around 1600.
- William Shakespeare
- Christopher Marlowe
- Ben Jonson
- John Milton
This ancient Chinese military strategist authored "The Art of War," one of the most influential texts on strategy ever written.
- Sun Tzu
- Confucius
- Laozi
- Cao Cao
The color of the light at the end of Daisy's dock that Gatsby gazes at longingly across the bay.
- Red
- Green
- Blue
- White
This Greek hero is the central figure of The Iliad, known for his rage and near-invincibility in battle.
- Achilles
- Odysseus
- Ajax
- Diomedes
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