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- Which writer was born during one of Halley's comet visits and died on the comet's next return?
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- Mark Twain.Correct answer
- Jack London.
- Herman Melville.
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- Leon Trotsky.
- Leon Tolstoy.Correct answer
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- GollumCorrect answer
- Frodo
- Sam
- Gandalf
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- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- William Blake
- Walt WhitmanCorrect answer
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- Oscar Wilde.
- Charles Dickens.Correct answer
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- Titans
- GiantsCorrect answer
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- The three-headed dog
- A mountain trollCorrect answer
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- MarkCorrect answer
- Jacob
- Simon
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- Benvolio
- Mercutio
- Paris
- Friar JohnCorrect answer
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- Zeus
- Hades
- PoseidonCorrect answer
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- Ulysses
- VirgilCorrect answer
- Ovid
- Aeneas
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- Lord Byron.
- Christopher Marlowe.Correct answer
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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- Thomas Hobbes.
- Nicholas Machiavelli.Correct answer
- Erasmus of Rotterdam.
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- Sancho PanzaCorrect answer
- Dulcinea
- Carrasco
- Cide Hamete
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- Romeo
- Mercutio
- ParisCorrect answer
- Benvolio
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- Frodo
- Gollum
- Bilbo
- SamCorrect answer
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- Juliet
- Nurse
- RosalineCorrect answer
- Lady Capulet
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- J. D. Salinger.
- John Steinbeck.Correct answer
- William Faulkner.
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- Daniel Defoe.
- Jonathan Swift.Correct answer
- Robert Louis Stevenson.
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- Cuthbert Binns
- The Fat FriarCorrect answer
- Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore
- The Grey Lady
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- Ichabod CraneCorrect answer
- David Copperfield
- Oliver Twist
- Charlie Marlow
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- Hercules
- Perseus
- TheseusCorrect answer
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- Lycaon
- Agenor
- Polydamas
- HectorCorrect answer
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- TybaltCorrect answer
- Romeo
- Paris
- Benvolio
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- A mountain troll
- Moaning MyrtleCorrect answer
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- Saruman's forces vs the EntsCorrect answer
- Saruman's forces vs King Theoden's Rohirrim
- Orcs of Dol Guldur vs the Galadhrim of Lothlorien
- The forces of the dark lord Sauron vs the forces of Gondor
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- Jesus
- PaulCorrect answer
- Peter
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- Sylvia Plath.
- Oscar Wilde.Correct answer
- Virginia Woolf.
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- Mercutio
- Paris
- Friar LaurenceCorrect answer
- Benvolio
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- Peter Pettigrew.
- Bartemius Crouch Jr.Correct answer
- Rodolphus Lestrange.
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- Sancho Panza
- Dulcinea
- The prince
- The priest and the barberCorrect answer
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- ArtemisCorrect answer
- Helena
- Athena
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- Remus Lupin
- Albus Dumbledore
- Sirius BlackCorrect answer
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- William Faulkner
- Ernest Hemingway
- John SteinbeckCorrect answer
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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- Zeus
- UranusCorrect answer
- Cronus
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- Carl Spitteler.
- Rudyard Kipling.Correct answer
- Theodor Mommsen.
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- PandoraCorrect answer
- Aphrodite
- Athena
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- Alexandre Dumas
- Honoré de Balzac
- Victor HugoCorrect answer
- Gustave Flaubert
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- Artemis
- Apollo
- AresCorrect answer
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- A British writer and doctor.
- An American volunteer poet and nurse.Correct answer
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- Lord ByronCorrect answer
- George Crabbe
- John Clare
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- HeraCorrect answer
- Demeter
- Hestia
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- Charles Dickens.Correct answer
- H.G. Wells.
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- Jane Austen.Correct answer
- George Eliot.
- Mary Shelley.
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- William Blake
- Hannah More
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCorrect answer
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Miguel de CervantesCorrect answer
- Lope de Vega
- Federico García Lorca
- Benito Pérez Galdós
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- Louisa May Alcott.
- Margaret Mitchell.Correct answer
- Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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- William ShakespeareCorrect answer
- Charles Dickens
- Jane Austen
- Mark Twain
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- Ivan Bunin
- Ivan GoncharovCorrect answer
- Andrey Bely
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
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- Mark Manson
- Chuck PalahniukCorrect answer
- Dave Eggers
- Harper Lee
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