Terms: |American Literature| |Nobel Prize| |William Faulkner|
Published: 22. 5. 2026.
If a literary clue brings together titles such as Absalom, Absalom!, Sartoris, Sanctuary, Mosquitoes, and Requiem for a Nun, it points toward one of the most important American novelists of the 20th century. What was his name?
William Faulkner
Terms: |American Literature| |Great Depression| |John Steinbeck| |The Grapes of Wrath|
Published: 21. 5. 2026.
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath begins with the Joad family being driven from their land during the Dust Bowl era. Their journey to California starts in a poor farming region of Oklahoma. More precisely, from which county and state do they come?
Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Terms: |L. Frank Baum| |Oz Books|
Published: 21. 5. 2026.
In 1914, L. Frank Baum published the eighth book in his Oz series, in which he described a pocket-sized “wireless telephone” long before modern smartphones. The title of the book, and the name of this fictional device, resembles the name of which popular social media platform?
TikTok
Terms: |Douglas Adams| |Science Fiction| |The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy|
Published: 15. 5. 2026.
In Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer calculates the answer to life, the universe, and everything. What is that answer?
42
Terms: |Renaissance Literature| |Thomas More|
Published: 15. 5. 2026.
Thomas More described an ideal fictional society placed on an island in a famous work whose title later became a general term. What is that world called?
Utopia
Terms: |American Poetry|
Published: 15. 5. 2026.
Which American poet struggled with depression and mental health problems from a young age, attempted suicide several times, and left behind The Colossus, while her posthumous collection Ariel helped make her a feminist icon of the 1960s?
Sylvia Plath
Terms: |Ancient Greece| |Ancient Literature|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Although only fragments of her poetry survive, this archaic Greek poet remains one of the most important names in lyric literature. She wrote with emotional intensity about love, beauty, longing, and personal feeling. What was her name?
Sappho
Terms: |William Shakespeare|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
Which tragedy by Shakespeare takes place in Rome in 44 BC?
Julius Caesar
Terms: |American Literature| |Stephen King|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
One of Stephen King’s cult novels is centered on a dog that becomes a deadly threat to everyone around him. What is the title of this novel?
Cujo
Terms: |German Literature| |Romanticism|
Published: 12. 5. 2026.
In 1774, literature received one of its most famous love triangles. The name of the unfortunate young man will stay hidden here, but what is the title of the work in which Lotte breaks the hero’s heart?
The Sorrows of Young Werther