1. When did Giosue Carducci get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1911
b) 1906
c) 1905
d) 1908
2. When was Giosue Carducci born?
a) 9 March 1831
b) 21 April 1836
c) 27 July 1835
d) 27 December 1843
3. Where was Giosue Carducci born?
a) Verona
b) Turin
c) Brescia
d) Val di Castello
1. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
a) 9 February 1864
b) 17 May 1862
c) 21 July 1899
d) 30 December 1865
2. Where was Ernest Hemingway born?
a) Cicero
b) Boston
c) Anchorage
d) San Francisco
3. What was Ernest Hemingway’s role in World War I?
a) Corporal
b) Marine
c) Flight Lieutenant
d) Ambulance driver
1. What was Pearl Buck’s original name?
a) Gina Harrison
b) Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
c) Jane Seymour
d) Victoria Crawford
2. When was Pearl Buck born?
a) 10 February 1889
b) 26 June 1892
c) 11 July 1894
d) 17 November 1896
3. Where was Pearl Buck born?
a) Peking
b) Hillsboro
c) Canton
d) Tokyo
1. When did Gabriela Mistral win Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1945
b) 1941
c) 1935
d) 1968
2. What was Gabriela Mistral’s original name?
a) Mary Ann Evans
b) Amandine Dudevant
c) Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
d) Josephine O’Brien
3. When was Gabriela Mistral born?
a) 16 March 1879
b) 7 April 1889
c) 12 July 1884
d) 30 December 1890
1. When did William Golding get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1971
b) 1979
c) 1975
d) 1983
2. When was William Golding born?
a) 17 March 1904
b) 17 May 1902
c) 19 September 1911
d) 30 December 1905
3. Where was William Golding born?
a) St. Columba Minor
b) Bristol
c) York
d) Liverpool
1. Which play won Eugene O’Neill his first Pulitzer Prize?
a) Beyond the Horizon
b) The Emperor Jones
c) The Long Voyage Home
d) In the Zone
2. When was Eugene O’Neill born?
a) 29 February 1904
b) 21 June 1896
c) 15 July 1892
d) 16 October 1888
3. Where was Eugene O’Neill born?
a) Copenhagen
b) New York
c) Sacrament
d) Los Angeles
1. When was Thomas Stearns Eliot born?
a) 9 March 1881
b) 21 April 1896
c) 26 September1888
d) 30 November 1885
2. Where was Thomas Stearns Eliot born?
a) Reno
b) St. Louis
c) Halifax
d) Boston
3. Where did Thomas Stearns Eliot study Sanskrit?
a) Calcutta
b) Bangalore
c) Trivandrum
d) Harvard
1. Which novel won John Steinbeck Pulitzer Prize in 1940?
a) East of Eden
b) The Winter of Our Discontent
c) Of Mice and Men
d) The Grapes of Wrath
2. When was John Steinbeck born?
a) 27 February 1902
b) 24 June 1898
c) 12 July 1900
d) 18 October 1904
3. Where was John Steinbeck born?
a) Peking
b) Salinas
c) Canton
d) Tokyo
1. When was Rudyard Kipling born?
a) 9 February 1864
b) 17 May 1862
c) 3 August 1861
d) 30 December 1865
2. Where was Rudyard Kipling born?
a) Calcutta
b) Madras
c) Delhi
d) Bombay
3. Which story by Rudyard Kipling describes the horrors of a foster home?
a) Mandalay
b) Baa Baa, Black Sheep
c) Gunga Din
d) Danny Deever
1. When did Pablo Neruda get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1969
b) 1971
c) 1975
d) 1978
2. What was Pablo Neruda’s original name?
a) Jorge Videla
b) Agostino Pinochet
c) Raul Alfonsin
d) Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
3. When was Pablo Neruda born?
a) 5 March 1901
b) 24 April 1899
c) 12 July 1904
d) 2 December 1905