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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. Literature Mixture. Player chessart asks:
  Shakespeare wrote: "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, ______________, Thou canst not then be false to any man." What goes in the blank?

    as the hawk after its prey
    as the river to the sea
    as the night the day
    without a doubt

#2. Literature Mixture. Player PeggyLouisa asks:
  What is the name of the pig who becomes the main leader/dictator in George Orwell's satire "Animal Farm"?

    Napoleon
    Squealer
    Snowball
    Boxer

#3. Literature Mixture. Player empressdaze asks:
  In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", Romeo's reckless, free-spirited best friend has a name that reflects his unpredictable mood. Based on his name, how might you describe him? (Hint: ancient Roman messenger god)

    mercurial
    hermetic
    oratorical
    vulcan

#4. Literature Mixture. Player EnglishJedi asks:
  Which fictional British police detective was created by Colin Dexter?

    Inspector Morse
    Detective Chief Inspector Banks
    Detective Inspector Frost
    Detective Inspector Rebus

#5. Literature Mixture. Player Matthew_07 asks:
  American writer Dan Brown's sixth novel, published in 2013, has the same name as the title of the first part of Dante's "Divine Comedy". What is the title?

    Inferno
    Paradiso
    Purgatorio
    Sfumato

#6. Literature Mixture. Player alexis722 asks:
  Agatha Christie used the title "By The Pricking of My Thumbs" for one of her mysteries. Which author used the second part of the familiar quotation ("Something wicked this way comes") for one of his works?

    Theodore Sturgeon
    Ray Bradbury
    Harlan Ellison
    M.R James

#7. Literature Mixture. Player zorba_scank asks:
  Which author penned a fictional journey that began at Iceland's Snaefellsjokull volcano and ended at Italy's Stromboli volcano?

    Jules Verne
    Anton Chekov
    Isaac Asimov
    H G Wells

#8. Literature Mixture. Player zorlock7 asks:
  Who was it that ordered everyone to help him kill Moby-Dick in the novel "Moby-Dick"?

    Captain Ahab
    Ishmael
    Starbuck
    Queeg

#9. Literature Mixture. Player garrybl asks:
  Which pop group's name might have been (but wasn't) chosen because it was part of the rhyme scheme for a limerick?

    ABBA
    Baba O'Reilly
    AHA
    Death Cab for Cutie

#10. Literature Mixture. Player LeoDaVinci asks:
  The "Iliad", Homer's epic concerning the battle for Troy and the rescue of Helen, is centered around which nearly-invincible hero?

    Paris
    Hector
    Odysseus
    Achilles