STRAIGHT FACTS
What is the name of Cecily’s tutor with the hidden past?
Miss Prism
What type of sandwiches does Lady Bracknell prefer?
Cucumber sandwiches
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
Algernon, The Importance of Being Earnest
Which title is regarded as a tribute to the author’s longtime lover?
Orlando
Which film was a French-language foreign adaptation?
The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)
What year was Gone with the Wind first published?
1936
How many children (and husbands) did Scarlett O’Hara have in Gone with the Wind?
Three children and three husbands
“Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way—or always to have it.”
Martha, The Secret Garden
What language did Burgess invent for Alex and his Droogs?
Nadsat
Which actor played Archibald Craven in the 2020 adaptation of The Secret Garden?
Colin Firth
Which character in The Seagull always wears black?
Masha
Where does Bigger hide the first dead body?
In the basement furnace
“...all human wisdom was contained in these two words — ‘wait’ and ‘hope.’”
Edmond Dantès, The Count of Monte Cristo
Which author had a son who also became a well-known author?
Alexandre Dumas
In the 2018 film adaptation of The Seagull, which actress played Irina?
Annette Bening
What was Edmond Dantès' prison number in The Count of Monte Cristo?
34
When did the Clutter family murders take place?
1959 (November/around Thanksgiving)
“...as long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
The narrator, Orlando
Which author was affiliated with the Communist Party?
Richard Wright
Which book's first film adaptation starred the author?
Native Son, Richard Wright
Which title served as the inspiration for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Who was Orlando’s first love?
The Russian princess Sasha
“I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...”
Bigger Thomas, Native Son
Which title’s themes were influenced by the author’s interest in Christian Science and the New Thought Movement?
The Secret Garden
Which film adaptation employed a stark, documentary-style visual approach?
In Cold Blood (1967)