What character was called Sherrinford Hope in an 1886 story, where he had a sidekick named Ormond Hacker, but was renamed for the author's cricket buddy and an American philosopher?
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Canadian novelist David Morrell created what character as a cop-killing psychopath who dies in the end?
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What name completes the opening line of "Moby Dick", "Call me ..."?
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What L Frank Baum book is said to be a parable about turn-of-the-century populism, labor, agrarian reform and the free coinage of silver?
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Who said "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"?
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What rotten investor cultivated an eccentric image based on cigars and white suits when finances forced him to go on an international lecture tour?
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Which novel begins with the line "Early in the spring of 1750...." ?
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Based on something Proust describes in the opening chapter of Swann's Way, what is the Proust effect?
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What author, who died at the age of 84, wrote in the novel Timequake that his alter ego, Kilgore Trout, also died at the age of 84?
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Bloomsday is a commemoration that is celebrated each year in Dublin and is named after the central character in which James Joyce book?
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