Literature

Terms: |English Literature| |Robinson Crusoe|

Published: 7. 5. 2026.

Robinson Crusoe eventually frees a native man from cannibals and gives him the name Friday, because that was the day of his rescue. This character came from the imagination of the writer behind Robinson Crusoe. Who wrote the novel?

Daniel Defoe

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