Terms: |Children Literature| |Denmark| |Fairy Tales|
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
The Princess and the Pea is a well-known fairy tale in which a young woman’s royal identity is tested through her extraordinary sensitivity. Who wrote this story?
Hans Christian Andersen
Terms: |American Literature| |Stephen King|
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Stephen King’s first published novel appeared in 1974 and told the story of a young girl with terrifying psychic powers. What was this novel called?
Carrie
Terms: |Physics| |Stephen Hawking|
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Stephen William Hawking was a British theoretical physicist known for his work in cosmology, quantum gravity, and especially black holes. He also wrote popular science books explaining his ideas about the universe, including a bestseller that topped the British Sunday Times list and remained there for a record 237 weeks. What is the title of this book that mentions time?
A Brief History of Time
Terms: |Dostoevsky| |Russia| |Russian Literature|
Published: 30. 4. 2026.
In which nineteenth-century novel does the famous chapter “The Grand Inquisitor” appear, reflecting religious and philosophical ideas often linked with Vladimir Solovyov?
The Brothers Karamazov
Terms: |Umberto Eco|
Published: 30. 4. 2026.
What is the surname of the French physicist whose name appears in the title of an Umberto Eco novel?
Foucault
Terms: |Avicenna| |Noah Gordon|
Published: 29. 4. 2026.
Which “title” appears in the name of Noah Gordon’s 1986 novel about the gifted orphan Rob Cole, who travels in the 11th century to Persia and Isfahan to study under the legendary Avicenna?
Physician
Terms: |French Literature| |Novels|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
“Nothing arouses envy like another person’s laughter” was said to be her favorite sentence. Perhaps it is only natural, then, that she wrote the worldwide hit Bonjour Tristesse at the age of just eighteen. Who was the author of that novel?
Françoise Sagan
Terms: |Cult Books| |German Literature|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
What city serves as the setting of the now classic novel We Children from Bahnhof Zoo by Christiane F.?
Berlin
Terms: |American Literature| |Film Adaptations| |Horror Classics| |Horror Fiction| |Stephen King|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Here is an easier one, somewhere between film and literature. Children of the Corn is regarded as one of the classic horror films, and it was based on a literary work. Who is the author of the story from which the film was adapted?
Stephen King
Terms: |American Fiction| |J D Salinger|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
After being expelled from school, Holden Caulfield drifts through New York and reflects bitterly on the hypocrisy of the adult world in one of America’s best-known novels of adolescence. What is the title of this novel by J. D. Salinger?
The Catcher in the Rye