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What is the title of the film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird released in 1962?
1Silence and shadows
2When the nightingale dies
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The 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel is To Kill a Mockingbird.
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The 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel is To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Which philosophical doctrine is represented by Leibniz?
2Rationalism
1Empiricism
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and scientist. Along with René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, he is one of the leading exponents of rationalism.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German philosopher and scientist. Along with René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, he is one of the leading exponents of rationalism.
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Which novel by Boris Vian was published in 1947?
1Froth on the Daydream
2Heartsnatcher
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In 1947, Boris Vian published Froth on the Daydream, a novel combining love, poetry and surrealism, where the absurd rubs shoulders with tenderness in a dreamlike universe.
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In 1947, Boris Vian published Froth on the Daydream, a novel combining love, poetry and surrealism, where the absurd rubs shoulders with tenderness in a dreamlike universe.
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What is the latest work of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig?
1The Royal Game
2Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
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The Royal Game is a short story by Stefan Zweig, published posthumously in 1943. It is Stefan Zweig's last work, which he wrote in Brazil during the last months of his life, until his suicide on February 22, 1942.
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The Royal Game is a short story by Stefan Zweig, published posthumously in 1943. It is Stefan Zweig's last work, which he wrote in Brazil during the last months of his life, until his suicide on February 22, 1942.
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Under which pseudonym did Emily Brontë publish the novel Wuthering Heights?
2Ellis Bell
1Aurore Dupin
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Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell in 1847, to escape the gender prejudices of authors of the time.
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Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under the male pseudonym Ellis Bell in 1847, to escape the gender prejudices of authors of the time.
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What is the first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
1The Fellowship of the Ring
2The Two Towers
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The first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is The Fellowship of the Ring, published in 1954 by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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The first volume of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is The Fellowship of the Ring, published in 1954 by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Under which king's reign did the story of the Three Musketeers take place?
1Louis XIII
2Louis XIV
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Received by Louis XIII, d'Artagnan entered as a cadet into the guard of Mr. des Essarts.
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Received by Louis XIII, d'Artagnan entered as a cadet into the guard of Mr. des Essarts.
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What is Edmond Rostand's most famous play?
1Cyrano de Bergerac
2The Count of Monte Cristo
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Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's famous play inspired by Savinien de Cyrano, was first performed in Paris on December 28, 1897.
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Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's famous play inspired by Savinien de Cyrano, was first performed in Paris on December 28, 1897.
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How many years do the events described in The Hobbit and those of The Fellowship of the Ring separate?
160
2111
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Book I opens on the one hundred and eleventh anniversary of Bilbo Bessac, sixty years after the events described in The Hobbit.
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Book I opens on the one hundred and eleventh anniversary of Bilbo Bessac, sixty years after the events described in The Hobbit.
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Under what pseudonym does Romain Gary publish the novel The Life Before Us?
1Émile Ajar
2Paul Pavlowitch
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Romain Gary publishes The Life Before Us under the pseudonym Émile Ajar, which earns him a second Prix Goncourt in 1975.
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Romain Gary publishes The Life Before Us under the pseudonym Émile Ajar, which earns him a second Prix Goncourt in 1975.
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