(͜ಥʖ̯ಥ) LITERATURE
"It's pronounced learned ..."
"It's pronounced learned ..."
What novel's title echoes a line in "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and describes a desperate family's struggle with economic injustice as they travel from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression of the 1930s?
The Grapes of Wrath
Author T. S. Elliot kept many cats in his day, declaring them bold characters, which he would go on to write and published many poems about, later inspiring playwright Andrew Loyd Webber to produce CATS the musical, what was the name of this collection of poetry?
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
This titular Shakespeare character was portrayed on the big screen by Laurence Olivier in 1948, Mel Gibson in 1990, Kenneth Branagh in 1996, and Ethan Hawke in 2000. Who is this melancholy fellow?
Hamlet
Where did House and Wilson first meet?
New Orleans
This book was banned in many places in the Southern United States before the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying to the author of this novel, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What novel by Ernest Hemingway, whose title echoes a poem by George Peele dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, ends with a character, grief-stricken and disillusioned with war, walking through the rain?
A Farewell to Arms
Commonly referred to as "Hemingway cats"--derived from Hemmingway's beloved four-legged friend Snow White--these kittens are born with more toes than are typically found on cats, due to a genetic mutation, what is this condition called?
Polydactylism (poly meaning many, and dactyl meaning toes/fingers). The World Record for most toes on a cat is 28!!
The 1956 science fiction classic 'Forbidden Planet' was inspired by which Shakespeare play?
The Tempest
How many fellows did House work with throughout the course of the show?
9
The publication of what poetry collection cost Walt Whitman his job when it was published in 1855?
Leaves of Grass
What novel by Ernest Hemingway follows its "Lost Generation" characters on a drunken trip from France to Spain but takes its title and epigraph from the Bible, specifically Ecclesiastes 1:4-6?
The Sun Also Rises
Who is the "Prince of Cats" in the medieval stories of Reynard the Fox?
Tybalt
In Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film 'Romeo + Juliet', starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, what costume is worn by Juliet at the Capulet's costume party?
An angel
House has two specialties. One is infectious diseases, and the other is what?
Nephrology
The adventures of two boys travelling down the Mississippi River was rejected by librarians in Concord, Massachusetts as being, "rough, coarse and inelegant" and "more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." To what novel were they referring?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What novel by Edith Wharton, which had "Old New York" as a working title, refers in its published title to a painting of an innocent little girl by Joshua Reynolds?
The Age of Innocence
What author wrote, in the 1380 dream-poem "House of Fame", about the cat that would have fish, but would not wet his claws?
Geoffrey Chaucer
What 1990's film, starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix, was loosely based on 'Henry IV, Part I' (with elements taken from 'Henry IV Part 2' and 'Henry V')?
My Own Private Idaho
What is the name of House's favorite soap opera?
Prescription: Passion
Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Slaughterhouse-Five", based on the author's own personal experiences, has been banned repeatedly for profane language and violence. What experiences did Vonnegut draw upon?
prisoner of war in WWII
A William Faulkner title refers to a line in "The Odyssey" where Agamemnon speaks of his own descent into Hades. What is this Faulkner novel, in which characters narrate from multiple points-of-view the death of Addie Bundren and their journey on foot to carry her body in its coffin to town for burial?
As I Lay Dying
Who said "I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through"?
Jules Verne
Prolific Japanese Auteur Akira Kurosawa arguably produced some of the most stunning film adaptations of Shakesperean works to date, can you name one of these masterpieces and its origin story?
*+100 for every additional right answer!
‘Throne of Blood’ (Macbeth), ‘The Bad Sleep Well’ (Hamlet), ‘Ran’ (King Lear)
House, while both the title of the show and the name of its main protagonist, is also an acronym, what does this acronym stand for?
History Of USE: this terminology is used to denote when a patient has a history of drug use or addiction.
Which book was banned under the statement that 'if there's a possibility that something might be controversial, why not remove it'?
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee