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A work based on this play opens with two minor characters from this play flipping a coin, which repeatedly comes up heads. One character in this play advises another character to "neither a borrower nor a lender be." The title character mourns a "fellow of infinite jest," Yorick, in this play's "graveyard scene." He also kills Laertes in a swordfight and tells Ophelia to "get thee to a nunnery." For 10 points, name this Shakespearean tragedy in which "something is rotten in the state of Denmark." |
Hamlet |
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One character in this play is called "a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy" while the protagonist talks to a gravedigger. The protagonist of this play tells another character to "get thee to a nunnery," Ophelia. The protagonist of this play meets his father's ghost and seeks to avenge that father's his murder by Claudius and his most famous scene contains the line "To be or not to be". For 10 points, identify this play about a Prince of Denmark, a tragedy by Shakespeare. |
Hamlet |
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This speech mentions "the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to," which can be ended "by a sleep." Its speaker asks what dreams may come in the "sleep of death" when "we have shuffled off this mortal coil." It notes that "conscience does make cowards of us all," and asks "whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer...or to take Arms against a sea of troubles." The opening phrase of this speech contemplates suicide after Ophelia's apparent rejection of the speaker. For 10 points, name this soliloquy by Hamlet that opens with a question about existence. |
Hamlet |
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In 2003, Paul Moravec composed a fantasy based on this work for the Trio Solisti. Meredith Oakes adapted this work into a libretto in short rhyming couplets for a 2004 Thomas Ades opera based on it. Jean Sibelius wrote the movements "The Oak Tree" and "Dance of the Naiads" for his opus 109 incidental music to this work, which was the second-to-last piece he composed. Vladimir Stasov provided the outline for Tchaikovsky's opus 18 symphonic fantasy based on this play. According to Anton Schindler, Beethoven claimed that this play was the key to his seventeenth piano sonata. Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to it includes the songs "While you do here snoring lie" and "Full fathom five thy father lies," which are respectively sung to Gonzalo and Ferdinand. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play whose main songs are sung by Ariel, the magical servant of Prospero. |
The Tempest |
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Question: W.H. Auden's long poem "The Sea and the Mirror" is subtitled "a commentary" on this work. In this play, two drunkards named Stephano and Trinculo bribe one character with clothing from a stolen suitcase. The witch Sycorax sired one character in this play, which also includes a spirit who conjures visions of gods. (*) Ariel and Caliban appear in this play, in which Miranda is the daughter of a former duke who can perform magic. For 10 points, name this play in which Prospero conjures the title storm in an attempt to regain the Duchy of Milan, written by Shakespeare. |
The Tempest |
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In one scene in this work, a drunken sailor claims to be from the moon, causing another character to swear allegiance to him and kiss his foot. In another scene of this work, a banquet vanishes when a harpy appears before "three men of sin" and angrily reprimands them for an incident that happened twelve years prior to this work. That incident led to the enslaving of a son of Sycorax and the freeing of a spirit, Ariel, who helped the protagonist of this work cause a shipwreck. For 10 points-name this work, containing Trunculo, Caliban, Ferdinand, Miranda, and Prosparo, a comedy by William Shakespeare. |
The Tempest |
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A soliloquy from this play features the main character lamenting "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player." One character in this play was born via C-section and camouflages his soldiers in tree limbs from Birnam Wood, allowing him to exact revenge while fulfilling the prophecy of the three witches. The title character's wife sleepwalks, uttering "Out, out damned spot!" For 10 points, name this Shakespeare tragedy in which the titular Thane of Cawdor murders King Duncan, often referred to as the "Scottish Play." |
Macbeth |
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Question: One character in this play is stabbed after he calls a hired assassin an egg, while this play's "Porter scene" is the subject of an essay by Thomas de Quincey. The title character, the Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, receives a prophesy from three witches that "none of woman born" can harm him. That character also orders the death of his friend Banquo and, with the help of his wife, kills King Duncan, resulting in his crowning as king. For 10 points, name this play by William Shakespeare which ends with Macduff killing the title Scottish king. |
Macbeth |
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Question: In one speech, this character claims that "all our yesterdays" have led to a "dusty death" and compares life to a "brief candle." This character's nefarious actions cause another man to lament the loss of "all my pretty ones." This character cries "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" upon the death of his wife. He dies at the hands of a man who was "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd," fulfilling the prophecy that "none of woman born" could harm this man. For 10 points, name this tragic character killed by Macduff in a Shakespeare play. |
Macbeth |
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One character in this novel causes an embarrassment with her bad singing at a ball at Netherfield. Another character says of the protagonist, "She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me." Lydia elopes with a man who spreads rumors about this novel's main male character, George Wickham. Ultimately, the protagonist of this novel marries Fitzwilliam Darcy. For 10 points, name this novel about Elizabeth Bennet by Jane Austen. |
Pride and Prejudice |
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One protagonist in this novel spends a summer with the wife of Colonel Forster, and that character's aunt and uncle have the surname Gardiner. One character in this novel initially rejects a marriage proposal by Mr. Collins, while her sister is romanced by Mr. Bingley, and another romance in this novel is initiated by the master of Pemberley, Mr. Darcy. For 10 points, name this novel about the sisters of the Bennet family, one of whom is Elizabeth, by Jane Austen. |
Pride and Prejudice |
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One character in this novel uses the deceitful governess Mrs. Younge to plan an elopement with Georgiana. One character in this work stays with the Gardiners while visiting London. This novel features the haughty Catherine de Bourgh, who supports the clergyman Mr. Collins, a man who marries the protagonist's best friend Charlotte Lucas. The protagonist's youngest sister Lydia causes a scandal by eloping with the villainous officer Mr. Wickam in this novel. The protagonist of this novel helps match up her sister Jane with Mr. Bingley, before finally accepting Fitzwilliam Darcy's second proposal. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen novel about Elizabeth Bennet. |
Pride and Prejudice |
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In this novel, a Shaker man who believes he is the angel Gabriel declares that the title character is a god. Another man offers a gold doubloon bearing a picture of three mountain peaks to the first to sight the title character. The prophesy of the shady Fedallah comes to pass in this novel when a character ignores the warnings of Starbuck and the Quaker owners of the Pequod and vows revenge on the title character. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by Ishmael in which Captain Ahab chases a white whale. |
Moby-Dick |
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A man named Elijah asks this novel's protagonist if he has sold his soul to the devil to work for "Old Thunder." Characters in this novel include a Zoroastrian with a turban made from his own beard, a man named Fedallah. Two Quakers in this novel are named Peleg and Bildad. One character in this work nails a gold piece to the mast and throws his pipe overboard the Pequod and is eventually killed by the title creature. This novel begins, "Call me Ishmael." For 10 points, name this novel about Captain Ahab's obsession with a white whale, written by Herman Melville. |
Moby-Dick |
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Question: Characters in this novel include the Zoroastrian Fedallah (feh-DAH-lah), a Native American called Tashtego, and a South Sea islander named Queequeg (KWEE-KWAIG). This novel's narrator begins by telling the reader to "call me Ishmael" and ends up clinging to a coffin when the captain of the Pequod and all but one of his crew are drowned. For 10 points, Herman Melville wrote what novel about Ahab's quest for the white whale? |
Moby-Dick |
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One character in this novel keeps a schedule in a copy of Hopalong Cassidy and knows a man who wears cufflinks made from molars. Owl-Eyes is the only guest at a funeral for an apprentice of Dan Cody in this novel. "The boarder," Klipspringer, plays piano after one character in this novel cries over a pile of shirts. The Valley of [*] Ashes is watched by the Eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckelburg in this novel which includes a green light at the end of a dock. The narrator of this novel moves back to the Midwest after dating Jordan Baker. Daisy Buchanan runs over Myrtle Wilson in, for 10 points, what novel featuring Nick Carraway and set in West Egg by F. Scott Fitzgerald? |
The Great Gatsby |
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The narrator of this work assumes one character is a dentist because his buttons are made of human molars. In it, one character is rebuked by Michaelis for seeing the eyes of God in a billboard of T.J. Eckelburg, while another character cries over a pile of [*] colorful shirts, and is a friend to the golfer Jordan Baker. Few people attend the title character's funeral after George Wilson kills him and Wilson's wife Myrtle is run over by the idealized Daisy Buchanan. For 10 points, name this book narrated by Nick Carraway, a 1925 Jazz Age novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. |
The Great Gatsby |
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In this novel, Klipspringer is a freeloader who calls the narrator about a pair of tennis shoes he may have left at the now deceased titular character's mansion. That titular character had earlier introduced the narrator to Meyer Wolfsheim, who claims that he fixed the World Series. The narrator becomes romantically involved with Jordan Baker, who is a friend of Daisy Buchanan. Daisy hits and kills Myrtle Wilson but the titular character takes the blame in, for 10 points, what novel narrated by Nick Carraway and written by F. Scott Fitzgerald? |
The Great Gatsby |
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This poem has been illustrated by Henry Fuseli and William Blake, among others. This poem notes that "no light, but rather darkness visible, served only to discover sights of woe." Characters in this poem include Chaos and Night as well as Sin and Death, and the main antagonist of this poem considers it "better to reign in (*) Hell than serve in Heaven." This poem, which aims to "justify the ways of God to men," deals with "man's first disobedience." For 10 points, name this epic poem by John Milton. |
Paradise Lost |
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The narrator of this work asks "holy Light, offspring of heaven's first-born" to let him "see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight." Two characters in this work take their solitary way "hand in hand with wandering steps and slow." Another character in this work resolves "to wage by force or guile eternal war irreconcilable to our grand Foe" despite the arguments of Belial and Mammon. In this work, Raphael warns two characters of the plans of a fallen angel who declares that it is better "to reign in hell than serve in heaven." For 10 points, name this epic poem by John Milton in which Adam and Eve are expelled from Eden. |
Paradise Lost |
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Question: In book one of this work, the word Pandemonium is first used to describe Satan's palace. Satan eventually tricks Uriel into letting him escape, and he makes his way to earth to tempt mankind. The archangel Michael leads mankind out of the (*) garden in, for 10 points, what John Milton epic poem that chronicles the fall of Adam and Eve? |
Paradise Lost |
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As an old man, this character builds his castle on land reclaimed from the sea through dykes. He is respected by villagers because his father cured many from the plague. This character wins a duel against Valentine before failing to rescue his lover from a dungeon. He becomes the lover of Helen of Troy and an advisor to the emperor in one work, and in another he attends (*) Walpurgis Night and causes the decline and death of Gretchen. For 10 points, name this scholar who is aided by Mephistopheles after selling his soul to the devil in a Wolfgang von Goethe play. |
Faust |
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In this work, the title character is entertained at Auerbach's Cellar, and is then taken to the Witch's Kitchen. The title character's frustration is expressed in this play's "Prologue in Heaven." Wagner works on creating a human being, the Homunculus, in this work. The title character drinks a potion that takes thirty years off of his life and seduces Gretchen, and he later has a son Euphorion with Helen of Troy. For 10 points each, name this play in which the title scholar gives his soul to Mephistopheles, a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. |
Faust |
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One encounter involving this character sees him followed home by a poodle which ends up in his study, and the brother of this character's love interest is Valentin. That love of this character is a woman who kills her illegitimate child by this man, Gretchen, whom this man seduces after signing a contract in blood. Offered everything he wants in exchange for eternal servitude, for 10 points, who is this character who makes a deal with the devil, notably depicted in a Goethe work? |
Faust |
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During the fourth act of this play, a recently blinded character laments "As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods / They kill us for their sport." This play's title character becomes incensed at his daughter's proposal to dismiss fifty of his retainers, declaring "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child." During the third act of this tragedy, the title character goes mad and wanders in a storm with a Fool after being ignored and dismissed by Regan and Goneril. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare tragedy about a ruler who ultimately dies in the arms of his loving daughter Cordelia. |
King Lear |
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One character in this work notes that "Truth's a dog must to kennel," in a passage that also advises "Have more than thou showest." Another character in this work claims "As flies are wanton boys we are to the gods--they kill us for their sport." A third character in this play constantly claims that he's cold after disguising himself as "Poor Tom O'Bedlam." Its subplot concerns Edmund's attempts to dupe Gloucester into bypassing his legitimate heir Edgar. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play about the title ruler's attempts to divide his kingdom between Regan, Goneril, and Cordelia. |
King Lear |
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In this play, one of the characters says that the Duke of Saxony's nephew is sober in the morning and drunk in the afternoon, that the County Palatine does nothing but frown, and that the Neapolitan prince does nothing but talk of his horse; that character also writes a note which states, "All that glisters is not gold." After the title character of this play tries to figure out why he is sad in a conversation with Salarino and Salanio, he is approached by Bassanio with a request for a loan. Bassanio eventually gets the loan from a character who asks, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" Identify this Shakespeare play in which Bassanio is able to court Portia once Antonio guarantees a loan from Shylock. |
The Merchant of Venice |
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In act 2 of this play Lancelot Gobbo leaves his master and then meets his father, asking where Lancelot lives. Old Gobbo is then convinced that Lancelot is dead. Later, Jessica confides in Lancelot that she is ashamed to be her father's daughter, and then she elopes. The title character is friends with Gratiano, Salarino, and Solario, and he agrees to lend money to (*) Bassanio, who is believed to be his homosexual lover. Bassanio then goes to Belmont to court Portia, who disguises herself in the trial of Antonio to give the "quality of mercy" speech in FTP this William Shakespeare comedy about the Jewish money lender Shylock who sues the title character for "a pound of flesh." |
The Merchant of Venice |
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In this novel, the intelligent character named Syme goes missing. After writing down the word "God," Ampleworth also goes missing in this novel. Katharine, a member of the Anti-Sex League, leaves the protagonist in this novel after the protagonist finds an antique shop ran by Mr. Charrington. The protagonist of this novel reads a book by Emmanuel Goldstein, given to him by O'Brien, with Julia. After leaving the Ministry of Love and returning to work at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith is brainwashed at the end of this novel. Focused on totalitarianism and Big Brother, for 10 points, name this English novel written by George Orwell. |
1984 |
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Charrington betrays the protagonist of this work by revealing his affair with a girl he had earlier seen wearing a red sash. The protagonist's fear of rats is exploited in Room 101 by O'Brien to get him to disavow his love for Julia. The protagonist of this work works at the Ministry of Truth, and this work features the fictional language of Newspeak. For 10 points, name this dystopian work about Winston Smith's life under Big Brother, a novel by George Orwe |
1984 |
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In this work, Ampleforth explains that the word "God" in a Kipling poem is the best of only twelve words that rhyme with "rod". Another man is revising the 11th edition of a dictionary, though his work will only see full use in 2050. The claim is made that the Middle just wants to switch with the High and that only the Low seek equal rights in a book called The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein. That book also shows the sameness of Neo-Bolshevism, Death-Worship, and Ingsoc. While reading said book, Mr. Charrington goes up to his attic and captures the protagonist and his lover Julia, after which rats are unleashed in Room 101. There, O'Brien is the torturer of Winston Smith in, For 10 points, what dystopian novel by George Orwell? |
1984 |
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One character in this novel is referred to by the governor as a demon-child and later notes on a walk that the sunshine seems to avoid her mother because of the titular object. That mother is married to Roger Chillingworth, though the daughter is the product of an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale and is named Pearl. For 10 points, name this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which Hester Prynne is branded with a red emblem. |
The Scarlet Letter |
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One character in this work goes into the woods at night to commune with the devil, and at one point attempts to get the protagonist to come with her, but is rejected. In addition to Mistress Hibbins, other characters in this work include one who was captured by Native Americans and delayed his trip to Boston, one whose chest is revealed to carry a stigmata in the shape of the title object after his death at the end of this work, and another whose daughter Pearl is rumored to be fathered by the devil. For 10 points-name this work, containing Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Hester Prynne, a work by Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
The Scarlet Letter |
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One character in this novel attempts to wash off a kiss in a brook. Governor Bellingham attempts to have the protagonist's child taken away in this novel, in which three characters stand on a scaffold as a meteor passes. The daughter of the protagonist of this novel is referred to as a "demon offspring" and is named Pearl. In this novel, Roger Chillingworth is the disguised husband of the protagonist, who bore the illegitimate child of Arthur Dimmesdale. For 10 points, Hester Prynne wears the title object of what Nathaniel Hawthorne novel? |
The Scarlet Letter |
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In this work, Katerina Ivanovna (EE-vah-NAHV-na) throws a banquet for her husband, who stumbles into a police station after drunkenly running in front of a carriage and dies in the arms of his daughter Sonia. A side plot in this work concerns the pedophile Svidrigaylov (svid-rah-GUY-lov), who, like Pyotr Luzhin, courts the main character's sister Dounia (DOON-yuh). However, Dounia ends up with (*) Razumikhin (rah-zoo-MIK-in) at the end of the novel. For 10 points, name this Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about Raskolnikov's murder of an old moneylender. |
Crime and Punishment |
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In this novel, Kolya and Leyda run away together after their mother forces them to dance in the streets singing in French. One character in this novel imagines spending eternity on "a hand's-breadth of ground." The socialist Lebezyatnikov exposes a plot to frame [*] Marmeladov's daughter in a theft, and in this novel, Peter Luhzin's fiancee Dunya eventually marries Razumikhin. The protagonist of this novel confesses to Porfiry Petrovich about his murder of the pawnbroker Alyona, whose sister Lizaveta was a friend of the prostitute Sonya. For 10 points, name this novel about Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. |
Crime and Punishment |
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One character in this novel dreams about putting a small girl to bed and announces that he is "going to America." The main character escapes from a tense situation by ducking into an apartment that some painters were working in, and offends his sister's haughty suitor (*) Luzhin. After seeing Marmeladov run over by a carriage, this novel's protagonist meets the prostitute Sonia, who follows him to Siberia after he confesses. For 10 points, name this novel in which Raskolnikov murders two pawnbroking women, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. |
Crime and Punishment |
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One character in this play rails against "calm, dishonorable, vile submission" and declares "you shall find me a grave man" as he dies. Another character in this play notes that "Parting is such sweet sorrow" and claims that "That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." This play opens with a sonnet that discusses "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona." For 10 points, name this play about "a pair of star-cross'd lovers," a tragedy by William Shakespeare. |
Romeo and Juliet |
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The prologue to this work describes how "civil blood makes civil hands unclean." One character in this play delivers the "Queen Mab" speech, and that character cries "a plague on both your houses!" before dying. One of the title characters confides in her nurse and does not wish to marry Count Paris. Tybalt kills Mercutio in this play, which ends with the Montagues' and Capulets' reconciliation. For 10 points, identify this play about two tragic lovers by Shakespeare. |
Romeo and Juliet |
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This play's first scene sees Abram get into a fight with Sampson and Gregory, resulting in a judgment from Prince Escalus. Later in this play's first act, one character describes the fairy Queen Mab on the way to a party, where the protagonist forgets his infatuation with Rosaline. One of this play's title characters drinks a potion that simulates (*) death for twenty four hours after visiting Friar Lawrence. During this play, the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio cause to tensions rise between the Capulets and the Montagues in Verona. For 10 points name this Shakespeare tragedy about two "star-cross'd lovers." |
Romeo and Juliet |
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One character in this play asks "Can one desire too much of a good thing?" A subplot in this play sees Corin trying to learn the ways of love from Silvius. An antagonist of this play is Oliver, who changes his ways after his brother saves him from a lion. Celia disguises herself as Aliena to accompany the protagonist of this play, whose exiled father hears Jaques declare that "All the world's a (*) stage, and all the men and women merely players." For 10 points, name this Shakespeare comedy which follows Orlando and Rosalind's escapades in the forest of Arden. |
As you like it |
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One character in this work runs through the forest tacking his hastily-scrawled love poems to trees, hoping that passersby will see his beloved's "virtue witnessed everywhere". One of Duke Senior's courtiers, Jaques (JAY-kwess) makes a speech which ends "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." That monologue tells of the "seven ages of man", and begins with the line "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." Featuring the marriage of Touchstone to Audrey and the love of Orlando dressing up as a boy, Ganymede, identify this play in which Rosalind marries Orlando alongside three other newlywed couples, a work by Shakespeare. |
As you like it |
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One character in this work murders a man and his servants at a crossroads in Phocis. That character had been raised by Merope in Corinth after a servant failed to kill him and learns of his lineage while attempting to end a plague. News of the death of Polybus causes the revelation that Tiresias had been correct and the title character of this play is the son of Laius. Creon returns to learn that Jocasta has hanged herself and the title ruler and father of Ismene and Antigone has gouged out his eyes with her brooches. For 10 points, name this tragedy, one of the Theban Plays of Sophocles. |
Oedipus Tyranus |
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Max Reinhardt revived interest in this play in 1910, and Jean Cocteau collaborated with Stravinsky to create an operatic version of it. Dodds argued that this work illustrates the "desperate insecurity of the human condition" instead of justifying the gods in an essay titled "on misunderstanding" this play. This play begins with people carrying tree branches wrapped in wool, and ends with the Chorus asserting that "mortal man must always look to his ending." The protagonist resolves to die on Mount Cithaeron after talking with a shepherd, and accuses Tiresias of plotting against him with Creon. In this play, the protagonist's desire to know the source of a pestilence afflicting his city eventually leads him to gouge out his eyes. FTP, name this tragedy about a ruler of Thebes who learns that he killed Laius and married his mother, written by Sophocles. |
Oedipus Tyranus |
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In a Roman version of this work, Manto sacrifices animals offstage and the chorus compares the protagonist to Daedalus and Pentheus. It ends with the assertion that no man should consider themselves fortunate until dead. In this work, the main character learns about a certain figure's childhood on Mount Kithaeron, whom the shepherd Polybus nurtured. Previously its main character had removed the gold pins that fastened together his wife's dress. The main action of this play is the interrogation of a messenger, a blind prophet that believes the protagonist will fall, and Creon. This play is the first chronologically in The Theban Cycle, and is followed up with a play set at Colonus. For 10 points, name this Sophocles play about a king of Thebes that marries Jocasta, his own mother. |
Oedipus Tyranus |
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One male character in this novel masquerades at his own home as a gypsy before revealing himself. This novel's protagonist befriends Helen Burns at Lowood School. On one occasion in this novel, the protagonist is sent to the red-room as punishment, and misdeeds caused by another character in this novel are blamed on Grace Poole. Those actions are actually the responsibility of Bertha (*) Mason, a woman who ends up burning down her husband's estate, Thornfield. For 10 points, name this novel in which the titular heroine marries Mr. Rochester, by Charlotte Bronte. |
Jane Eyre |
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This work's protagonist places a marble tombstone over the grave of a girl who died fifteen years prior. In one section, a clergyman proclaims that students at Lowood must cut their hair to "mortify in [them] the lusts of the flesh", and in another the title character has her fortune read by a gypsy who is actually her employer in disguise. Earlier, she panics after being sent to the Red Room by Mrs. Reed. The protagonist later returns to Thornfield Manor after thinking she hears the voice of a character already married to Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester. For 10 points, name this novel by Charlotte Bronte. |
Jane Eyre |
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This character has a traumatic experience when she is locked in the supposedly haunted "Red Room" where her uncle John Reed died. This character's future husband blames a torn wedding veil on the drunken Grace Poole. This character's friend Helen Burns dies in her arms due to the poor facilities provided by the stingy Mr. Brocklehurst who oversees Lowood School. After living with her cousin St. John Rivers, this character returns to Thornfield to marry Mr. Rochester. For 10 points, name this governess and title character of a Charlotte Bronte novel. |
Jane Eyre |
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One part of this work describes souls that appear like snowflake falling upward towards the Empyrean, and at the end of that section, St. Bernard provides final instructions. The composer Casella plays a song as people enter another section of this work. In another section of this work, Paolo and Francesca are buffeted by a hot wind. That part of this work includes an ice lake called Cocytus, which imprisons Lucifer. Featuring a tour of Paradise, Purgatory, and the Inferno, for 10 points, name this work by Dante Alighieri. |
The Divine Comedy |
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In one section of this work, an angel carves the letter "P" on the narrator's forehead seven times. In another section, the narrator rides Geryon to Malebolge, where flatterers walk in excrement. This poem's narrator encounters Count Ugolino, Guido de (*) Montefeltro, and Francesca de Rimini after being lost in a dark wood and passing through a gate inscribed "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." The narrator is led through Hell and Purgatory by Virgil and through Heaven by Beatrice in, for 10 points, what epic poem by Dante? |
The Divine Comedy |
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This work opens with the narrator meeting leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf. One character sits in Malebolge while he gnaws at Archbishop Ruggieri's head. In addition to encountering Ugolino, this work's protagonist meets Paolo and Francesca. The central character of this work is guided by Virgil and sees the inscription "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." For 10 points, name this first part of the Divine Comedy in which Dante travels through Hell. |
Dante's Inferno |
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In one part of this work, Nicholas and Alison deceive the old carpenter, John, while in another, a woman tells of a knight who learns that women desire power. Another part of this work sees the rooster Chanticleer escape from a fox, and in another story, Palamon and Arcite compete over Emily. The stories in this work are set at the Tabard Inn are told by the Knight, the Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath, and the Miller, among other pilgrims. For 10 points, name this work by Geoffrey Chaucer. |
The Canterbury Tales |
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In one story from this collection, Palamon and Arcite fight over the hand of Emelye [EMILY], while in another story, an old hag notes that what women want most is to be in charge of their husbands. Those stories are told by, respectively, the Knight and the Wife of Bath, two of a group of pilgrims journeying to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in the title town. For 10 points, name this collection of tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. |
The Canterbury Tales
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In this book, a doctor relates how Virginius beheads his daughter Virginia after Judge Appius rules that Virginius must give her to the court. Another section concerns a magical knight who brings gifts to the court of King Cambyuskan. A Christian child in this book is able to sing after Jews slit his throat. The opening of this work mentions how (*) April's showers pierce the drought of March. Three men seek to kill Death only to kill one another in a squabble over gold in this work's story told by a seller of indulgences. Its first tale sees Arcite and Palamon imprisoned by Duke Theseus, who then jousts for the hand of Emily. For 10 points, name this book that includes "The Knight's Tale," the masterpiece of Geoffrey Chaucer. |
The Canterbury Tales |
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Question: Act IV, scene i of this play sees its title character accuse another of crying crocodile tears after striking her, horrifying Lodovico. Early in it, the title character and his wife are accosted at the Sagittary by Roderigo and Brabantio, while later, this play's antagonist warns its protagonist against "the green-eyed monster" of jealousy. A handkerchief recovered by Emilia is used by one character to accuse Cassio of adultery in this play, set in Cyprus and Venice. For 10 points, name this play in which Iago tricks the title Moor into killing Desdemona, a work of Shakespeare. |
Othello |
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One character in this play declares that he has "lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial"; that speech about reputation is made after one character fights Montano while drunk. That character later wounds Roderigo, who in the first scene was frustrated that the title character had secretly wed Brabantio's daughter. In this play, the maid Emilia plants a handkerchief in another man's bed. The primary female character in this play sings the "willow song" before she is killed by a man who thinks she's been sleeping with Michael Cassio. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play in which the title character murders Desdemona due to the machinations of Iago. |
Othello |
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Based on part of Cinthio's Hecatommithi, a man is deserted in this work by his lover Bianca after he is found with another woman's personal effects. Another character fights off allegations of witchcraft before the Venetian senate after a spurned suitor of his wife reports her secret marriage to her father. One character suspects Emilia of infidelity with a figure who is demoted after a fight with Rodrigo, Cassio. The efforts of the title figure's wife to get him reinstated lead to her being suspected and ultimately killed for adultery in, for 10 points, this Shakespeare play featuring Iago, Desdemona, and the titular Moorish general. |
Othello |
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One character in this novel makes fake "Persian stuff" for sale in Holland, and that character helps to pay for the syphilis treatment of another character. This novel concludes by stating, "We must cultivate our garden." The title character travels to Eldorado with Cacambo and later both end up in Constantinople. The main character is in love with (*) Cunegonde and was tutored by Pangloss, who serves as a parody of Leibniz. For 10 points, name this work by Voltaire. |
Candide |
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One character in this novel is a pope's daughter who was forced to eat one of her own buttocks cheeks when taken prisoner by Muslims. Its title character is accompanied by the dour philosopher Martin, and encounters the city of El Dorado with Cacambo. It begins when the title character is thrown out of Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh's castle for kissing Cunegonde. The title character claims that we must all tend our garden at the end of this novel, which is set in the "best of all possible worlds," according to Dr. Pangloss. For 10 points, name this novel by Voltaire. |
Candide |
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Jacques the Anabaptist dies near Lisbon in this work which ends with the characters cultivating their garden. Baron Thunder-ten-tronch expels the protagonist who is later captured by the Oreillons but released because he is not a Jesuit. That protagonist lost most of his jeweled sheep after leaving Eldorado with his servant Cacambo to look for Cunegonde. His teacher Pangloss insists that theirs is the best of all possible words in for 10 points, what best known work of Voltaire? |
Candide |
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One character in this work is the orphan son of an Italian pianist, and at one point in the work, presents the Pickwick Group with a postbox after being allowed to become a member. That character, Theodore Lawrence, would later propose to two sisters after being rejected by the first sister. Another character in this work receives a piano as a gift from Mr. Lawrence, the neighbor of the protagonist of this work, but dies from illness near the end of the work. This work opens with the protagonists giving their Christmas breakfast to the Hummel family. For 10 points-name this work about Mamee, Amy, Meg, Beth, and Jo March, a novel by Louisa May Alcott. |
Little Women |
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One character in this novel contracts scarlet fever from the Hummel family's baby. Another character in this novel marries Mr. Brooke, and a third character inherits Plumfield and marries Professor Bhaer. This novel is named for the daughters of Marmee, the sisters Amy, Beth, Meg, and Jo Marsh. For 10 points, name this novel written by Louisa May Alcott. |
Little Women |
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Question: Characters in this work are described as being "English brachiocephalic blue-eyed stock." One scene features discussion of a time capsule containing the Constitution and the Sentinel newspaper. A choir in this work sings "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" as directed by the alcoholic Simon Stimson. In one scene, there is talk of a letter with an address so detailed to include "the universe" and "the mind of God." The milkman in this work, Howie Newsome, has an unseen horse and supplies. In the final act, one character dies and relives her twelfth birthday. This work featuring George Gibbs and Emily Webb traditionally features no scenery and is narrated by a Stage Manager. For 10 points, name this play set in Grover's Corners, a work by Thornton Wilder. |
Our Town |
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One character in this work is described as being fast enough to "run over ears of corn without bending them;" that character is the daughter of a king who threw her across a river, tied to a spear, while fleeing from his subjects. At the end of this work, the title character decides not to spare his rival after seeing him wearing the belt of Pallas. Camilla, along with Mezentius, is an ally of the (*) Rutulians in this work, which begins with the line "I sing of arms and the man." That protagonist kills Turnus and wastes time with the Carthaginian queen Dido after fleeing his city with his son Ascanius. For 10 points, name this epic poem written by Vergil. |
Aeneid |
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Question: One character of this novel converts to Freemasonry and frees his serfs after meeting Bazdeev in a train station. The protagonist of this novel is tricked into marrying the shallow socialite, Helene Kuragina. After the death of Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, the protagonist of this work, a count's illegitimate son, marries his love Natasha Rostova. In this novel, Pierre Bezhukov believes he is destined to kill Napoleon after seeing the Battle of Borodino. For 10 points, name this long novel by Leo Tolstoy. |
War and Peace |
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Question: While imprisoned, one character in this work develops a friendship with the peasant Platon Karataev, and another character's gambling debts nearly force him to sell his estate Otradnoe. Another character's father forbids her to marry Andrew Bolkonski, who then dies in battle. The aforementioned friend of Platon Karataev goes on to marry Helene Kuragina and develops a strange desire to kill Napoleon. Featuring characters such as Natasha Rostova and Pierre Bezhukov, for 10 points, name this novel about Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars, a work of Leo Tolstoy famous for being really long. |
War and Peace |
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Question: In this novel, Lise dies in childbirth and her sister-in-law, Mary, raises the child. When Helene's husband discovers her affair, he challenges her seducer to a duel in this novel, which opens at a party thrown by Anna Scherer. A woman in this novel agrees to a one-year engagement with Andrew, but later plans to elope with Anatole. That woman in this novel is Natasha Rostova, who eventually marries a man who believes it is his duty to kill Napoleon, Pierre Bezukov. For 10 points, name this novel by Leo Tolstoy. |
War and Peace |
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One character in this work receives two silver candlesticks from a bishop shortly before stealing a coin from a child named Petit Gervais. A woman in this novel sells her hair and front teeth to earn money for her daughter, who works for a pair of innkeepers, the Thenardiers. In this novel, Marius courts Fantine's daughter Cosette, who is adopted by a man pursued by a police inspector named Javert. For 10 points, identify this novel featuring Jean Valjean, written by Victor Hugo.
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Les Miserables |
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In this work, two young brothers stay a night in a hollow elephant statue, and punching a window in Gorbeau leads Azelma to gash her hand. This work's protagonist throws a coin into a fireplace eight years after robbing it from a Savoyard boy, Petit Gervais. In this novel, a boy sent by the Friends of the ABC to collect [*] rifle cartridges, Gavroche, is fatally shot; his parents, the Thenardiers, sneak into the wedding of Marius and Cosette after Eponine is the first to die at a June 5th revolt on the barricades. For 10 points, name this massive French novel centering on Inspector Javert and the escaped conflict Jean Valjean, by Victor Hugo.
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Les Miserables |
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One character in this novel mocks another for having no front teeth in a chapter about his "inactivity." That female character had sold her teeth after being abandoned by Felix. Another sells his books to survive, and that man, Mabeuf, subsequently joins the Friends of the ABC. Later in the novel, Enjolas leads a June 5 revolt with a man who rejects a street girl. That character, Marius, is in love with Cosette, the adopted daughter of a man initially imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread. For 10 points, name this work by Victor Hugo about former prisoner Jean Valjean.
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Les Miserables |
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This novel's third chapter concerns a turtle which is flipped over while crossing a highway. In this novel, Rose of Sharon gives her milk to a starving man and the Christ figure Jim Casy is killed while agitating for better conditions for migrant workers. The central family of this novel includes the dimwitted Noah and the ex-convict Tom. For 10 points, name this Depression era novel about the Joad family's travels from Oklahoma to California, a work of John Steinbeck. |
The Grapes of Wrath |
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One character in this work bursts into laughter upon seeing some of the fashions worn in Oklahoma City and later declares his intention to study radios before wandering off along the river. That character, Connie, is married to the sister of the protagonist of this work, and that sister gives birth to a stillborn child before using her milk to nurse a starving man back to health at the end of this work. This work opens with the protagonist getting out of prison and meeting Jim Casy. For 10 points-name this work, containing such characters as Rose of Sharon and Tom Joad, a novel of the Great Depression by John Steinbeck. |
The Grapes of Wrath |
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In this novel, a police officer kills one character by crushing his skull with a pick-handle, and that character was arrested due to the outspokenness of Floyd Knowles. Ivy and Sairy Wilson accompany the protagonist of this novel on a trip which Muley Graves refuses to attend. In that trip, (*) Connie Rivers abandons his wife Rose of Sharon. The former preacher Jim Casy is involved in a strike, and his friend Tom becomes a fugitive at the end of this novel after committing a murder. For ten points, name this work in which the Joad family travels to California from Oklahoma during the Great Depression, a novel written by John Steinbeck. |
The Grapes of Wrath |
