- Which famous literary character was based on an Augustinian monk named Alonso Quizado?
- How many punctuation marks exist in English?
- While most fans pronounce his last name rhyming with the word “juice,” how did Dr. Seuss pronounce his own name?
- Which author, made famous by his rags to riches tales, died completely broke despite his books’ wild success?
- Who is the only person ever to decline a Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
Last Week's Answers
- Tristan and Isolde (Any set of even-older-than-King-Arthur tales)
- Lancelot and Guinevere (Any set of King Arthur tales)
- Philip Pirrip and Estella Havisham (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations)
- James Gatz and Daisy Fay (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)
- Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida)
- Jude Fawley and Susanna Bridehead (Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure)
- Robert Lebrun and Edna Pontellier (Kate Chopin, The Awakening)
- Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder (E. M. Forster, Maurice)
- Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles (Graham Green, The End of the Affair)
- George and Ellen Weatherall (Katherine Ann Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall)
- Tea Cake and Janie Crawford (Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God)
- Narcissus and Echo
- Pedro Muzquiz and Josefita De La Garza (Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate)
- Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl (Aztec Myth)
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