Q 01/05

In which city was F. Scott Fitzgerald born in 1896?

A) Buffalo, New York

B) Saint Paul, Minnesota

C) Baltimore, Maryland

D) Chicago, Illinois

Answer · why

B) Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul, Minnesota is where he rewrote his first novel in 1919, in his parents' Summit Avenue row house, which became a National Historic Landmark ...

Q 02/05

Fitzgerald was named after which distant cousin?

A) Francis Scott Key, who wrote 'The Star-Spangled Banner'

B) Scott Joplin, the ragtime composer

C) Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novel Ivanhoe

D) Winfield Scott, the Civil War general

Answer · why

A) Francis Scott Key, who wrote 'The Star-Spangled Banner'

Francis Scott Key, who wrote 'The Star-Spangled Banner', was his second cousin three times removed; after his father lost his sales job, the family li...

Q 03/05

Which Brad Pitt film was adapted from a Fitzgerald story?

A) Legends of the Fall

B) Fight Club

C) Benjamin Button

D) Moneyball

Answer · why

C) Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button began as a Fitzgerald story in which the hero, aged 18 but looking about 50, is thrown out of Yale as a lunatic.

Q 04/05

Which university did Fitzgerald attend, and drop out of in 1917?

A) Georgetown

B) Dartmouth

C) Columbia

D) Princeton

Answer · why

D) Princeton

Princeton is where he spent most of his first year writing a Triangle Club operetta and flunked several subjects; on academic probation, he left to jo...

Q 05/05

Which future literary critic befriended Fitzgerald at university and edited his unfinished last novel?

A) Lionel Trilling

B) Malcolm Cowley

C) Edmund Wilson

D) H. L. Mencken

Answer · why

C) Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson's edition led reviewers to see what might have been: some critics judged the fragment would have been Fitzgerald's best novel.