Shakespeare Act V of Hamet Performed by Murderers and Convicts

According to ThisAmericanLife.org, "Shakespeare may seem like an odd match for a group of hardened criminals, but Jack found that they understand the Bard on a level that most of us might not. It's a play about murder and its consequences, performed by murderers, living out the consequences."

Tuesday Trivia

1. Author Eric Blair wrote under what pen name?
2. Which Aldous Huxley work was the inspiration behind Jim Morrison naming his band The Doors?
3. Which classic novel was written based on a bet between several authors vacationing together in 1818?
4. Which piece of American literature containing over 50,000 words does not once use the letter “e”?
5. Which word in the English language has the most definitions?

Last Week's Answers

Which British writer and poet had a love child with his half sister?

Lord Byron


During the French Revolution the new French Constitution was bound with what?

The tanned leather skin of a guillotined aristocrat


Which was the very first newspaper to use a perfumed page in 1937?

The Washington Daily News


Which favorite children’s book was originally titled The Sea-Cook?

Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) - "The Sea-Cook"

Tuesday Trivia

1. When was the very first book about plastic surgery written?
2. Which British writer and poet had a love child with his half sister?
3. During the French Revolution the new French Constitution was bound with what?
4. Which was the very first newspaper to use a perfumed page in 1937?
5. Which favorite children’s book was originally titled The Sea-Cook?

Last Week's Answers



Which eccentric British author was known to touch things three times for good luck?

Charles Dickens


Which author who could not speak English until she was a teenager went on to write The Scarlet Pimpernel?

Baroness Orczy


Which country once banned all of the Sherlock Holmes books because of the detective's belief in spiritualism?

Russia


Which popular book was originally titled They Don’t Build Statues to Businessmen?

Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

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Tuesday Trivia

1. Which eccentric British author was known to touch things three times for good luck?
2. Which author who could not speak English until she was a teenager went on to write The Scarlet Pimpernel?
3. Which country once banned all of the Sherlock Holmes books because of the detective's belief in spiritualism?
4. Which popular book was originally titled They Don’t Build Statues to Businessmen?
   

Last Week's Answers



What percentage of publications sold in Japan are comic books?


20 percent



At age 18, which British writer worked as a deck chair attendant at the famous Weston Super Mare seaside resort?


Lord Archer



In 1975 Indian poet Sri Chinmoy set a world record by writing how many poems in a single day?


843



What was the original title of Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice?

Bar-B-Q

Tuesday Trivia

1. What percentage of publications sold in Japan are comic books?
2. At age 18, which British writer worked as a deck chair attendant at the famous Weston Super Mare seaside resort?
3. In 1975 Indian poet Sri Chinmoy set a world record by writing how many poems in a single day?
4. What was the original title of Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice?

Last Week's Answers

Which author’s secret followers wear a green carnation to identify themselves?

Oscar Wilde


Which English author always touched things three times for luck?

Charles Dickens


What was Jane Austen's book Northanger Abbey originally called?

Susan


Which English diarist loved to play the recorder?

Samuel Pepys



What do Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Moby Dick, The Good Earth, Catch 22, and Lord of the Flies have in common?

They were all rejected by publishers before becoming bestsellers.