Q 01/05

Which Dr. Seuss book was written after his editor bet him he couldn't use only 50 different words?

A) The Cat in the Hat

B) Green Eggs and Ham

C) Fox in Socks

D) If I Ran the Circus

Answer · why

B) Green Eggs and Ham

Green Eggs and Ham won Dr. Seuss a $50 wager with his editor, Bennett Cerf. His earlier hit about a mischievous cat had needed 236 different words.

Q 02/05

Which author was unmasked in 2013 as Robert Galbraith, the supposed first-time writer of The Cuckoo's Calling?

A) Stephenie Meyer

B) Suzanne Collins

C) J.K. Rowling

D) Philip Pullman

Answer · why

C) J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling was revealed by The Sunday Times that July. The detective novel then surged from 4,709th place to the best-selling novel on Amazon.

Q 03/05

Which debut Stephen King novel was rescued from the trash by his wife Tabitha after he gave up on it?

A) Carrie

B) The Shining

C) Misery

D) Salem's Lot

Answer · why

A) Carrie

Carrie survived because Tabitha King retrieved its first three pages and persuaded her husband to keep going. The family was living in a trailer in Ma...

Q 04/05

Which author conceived Frankenstein during a ghost-story contest proposed by Lord Byron near Lake Geneva?

A) Ann Radcliffe

B) George Eliot

C) Maria Edgeworth

D) Mary Shelley

Answer · why

D) Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley grew anxious when she could not think of a story, until the idea arrived in a waking dream after midnight. She was still a teenager that ...

Q 05/05

Which crime novelist, creator of Hercule Poirot, made headlines by vanishing for 11 days in 1926?

A) Dorothy L. Sayers

B) Agatha Christie

C) Ngaio Marsh

D) P.D. James

Answer · why

B) Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie was found at a hotel in Harrogate, registered under the surname of her husband's lover. Doctors diagnosed a loss of memory, and opinio...