"R" in Literature by HensleyB

Champion(s):

minarik15


Runner(s)-Up:

RoseM
De docta ignorantia


Quiz Description

All correct responses will begin with "R" (excluding leading articles).

Full Results:

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Money Value (% Incorrect): 36 17 94 28 38 30 69 30 19 36 46 55
1 minarik15 474 98 15
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2 RoseM 449 96 15
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3 SirolaD 401 93 15
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3 PenningtonJ 401 93 15
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5 PahkJ 399 90 15
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6 GrubbC 394 88 15
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7 JordanG 388 86 15
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8 BahnamanS 386 84 15
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9 ESB 370 81 15
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9 PruettC 370 81 15
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11 KenneyJ 369 78 15
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12 UllspergerA 365 76 15
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13 jonah 346 73 15
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14 WangA 340 71 15
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15 Goldenboy 336 69 15
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16 LaudermithM 319 67 15
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17 ShapiroA 314 65 15
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18 WoodwardA 310 61 15
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18 HatfieldS 310 61 00
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18 MatherV 310 61 00
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21 PetersonGG 309 57 00
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22 RosenbergR 302 55 15
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23 ChiltonC2 277 53 00
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24 WareD 269 51 15
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25 OlewnickB 267 48 15
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26 KreitzerJ 266 46 15
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27 randalleng 254 44 15
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32 PenroseB 215 34 15
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33 AllenJ 213 32 00
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34 SChu 205 30 15
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35 Alex 195 28 00
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36 Okrent 186 26 15
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38 ElendilPickle 177 21 00
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39 DoyleE 167 19 00
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40 jp8635 165 17 00
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41 RonningD 156 15 00
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42 WeaverL 154 12 00
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42 GoldsteinB 154 12 00
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44 AmmermanA 132 9 00
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45 MoyseyC 122 7 00
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Questions:

Written in the anuṣṭubh meter, what epic poem attributed to Valmiki is traditionally divided into seven kāndās?

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The Ramayana

The 1871 poem "The Drunken Boat" was a work of what poet who included it in a letter introducing himself to Paul Verlaine?

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Arthur Rimbaud

Part of the epic poem "Orlando Furioso" revolves around the love between the Christian knight Bradamante and what Saracen warrior who converts to Christianity in order to marry her?

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Ruggiero

"American Pastoral," a novel that tells of the collapse of Swede's American dream and the descent of his daughter Merry into political radicalism, is a work of what author?

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Philip Roth

Lucy Honeychurch is the protagonist of what novel that ends with her eloping to Florence with George Emerson?

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A Room with a View

What play memorably opens with the unlikely event of a tossed coin coming up heads over ninety times in a row, causing one of the title characters to question his reality?

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Name the character created by Tobias Smollett who goes on adventures around with world with his friend Hugh Strap and who marries Narcissa at the end of the novel in which he appears.

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Roderick Random

Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini, JP Morgan, Booker T. Washington, and Henry Ford are among the historical figures who appear in what 1975 novel set in New York City whose principal fictional characters are known simply by "Mother," "Father," "the little boy," and "Mother's Younger Brother"?

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Ragtime

Saleem Sinai, Gibreel Farishta, Saladin Chamcha, and Maximilian Ophuls are among the characters created by what novelist?

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Salman Rushdie

It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama--Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, 'during a moment of temporary mental apparition'; but we didn't find that out till later.

So begins what short story?

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The Ransom of Red Chief

The lines below have been excerpted from a poem by what poet?

“Oh,” cried Lizzie, “Laura, Laura,
You should not peep at goblin men.”
Lizzie cover’d up her eyes,
Cover’d close lest they should look;

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Christina Rossetti

The following text has been excerpted from which short story?

A small orange colored reptile, of the lizard or chameleon species, chanced to be creeping along the path, just at the feet of Beatrice. It appeared to Giovanni--but, at the distance from which he gazed, he could scarcely have seen anything so minute--it appeared to him, however, that a drop or two of moisture from the broken stem of the flower descended upon the lizard's head. For an instant, the reptile contorted itself violently, and then lay motionless in the sunshine. Beatrice observed this remarkable phenomenon, and crossed herself, sadly, but without surprise; nor did she therefore hesitate to arrange the fatal flower in her bosom. There it blushed, and almost glimmered with the dazzling effect of a precious stone, adding to her dress and aspect the one appropriate charm, which nothing else in the world could have supplied. But Giovanni, out of the shadow of his window, bent forward and shrank back, and murmured and trembled.

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Rappaccini's Daughter