This legendary figure was conceived by trickery on the part of his father and a magical friend.
Who is King Arthur?
100
This writer’s stories often had twist endings, as in “The Gift of the Magi.”
Who is O. Henry?
100
This Inkling member’s autobiography takes its title from a Wordsworth poem in which the speaker is both “impatient as the wind” and “surprised by joy.”
Who is C.S. Lewis?
100
This W.E.B. Du Bois book describes the African-American man as possessing double-consciousness.
What is The Souls of Black Folk?
100
This Fyodor Dostoevsky novel contains the famous quote "Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
What is Crime and Punishment?
200
This monster in Beowulf was descended from Cain.
Who is Grendel?
200
This author’s first collection of stories was entitled “In a German Pension.”
Who is Katherine Mansfield?
200
This Inkling member’s works were described as “Supernatural thrillers” by T.S. Eliot in his introduction to All Hallow’s Eve.
Who is Charles Williams?
200
This author of Invisible Man also shares a name with the organist/keyboardist of British rock band “Pink Floyd.”
Who is Richard Wright?
200
Drake popularized this modern interpretation of the phrase “carpe diem.”
What is YOLO?
300
This strange woman lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government, according to a peasant in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
Who is the Lady of the Lake?
300
This author’s real name was Samuel Clemens.
Who is Mark Twain?
300
This pub is most famously known as the meeting place of the Inklings.
What is the Eagle and Child?
300
In this 1962 Caldecott Award-winning book, a small boy named Peter experiences the joy of a snowy day.
What is The Snow Day?
300
This father of existentialism was quoted in Wayne’s World as having said “Once you label me, you negate me.”
Who is Soren Kierkegaard?
400
This historical figure inspired one of the earliest and best known vampire novels.
Who is Vlad the Impaler, or Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia?
400
This postmodern author closely links himself to his character “Kilgore Trout.”
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
400
This dragon in Tolkien’s Middle Earth narrative is most recently portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Who is Smaug?
400
This poet informs us that “We Wear the Mask.”
Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
400
Despite having died before Allen Ginsberg’s birth, Ginsberg claims to have been in the supermarket with this poet.
Who is Walt Whitman?
500
This God of Thunder carries a hammer.
Who is Thor?
500
This author wrote under many pseudonyms such as: William Elliott, Leonard Spalding, and Brett Sterling.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
500
This novel, much in the style of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress was C.S. Lewis’s first after his conversion to Christianity.
What is The Pilgrim's Regress?
500
This Lorraine Hansberry play debuted on Broadway in 1959.
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
500
This Kerouac friend is mentioned by Allen Ginsberg as “NC, secret hero of this poem.”