Fiction Study Guide

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answers to learn

10 Should-Know

137 Worth Knowing

Other

92 answers | 207 clues

Should-Know (3)

Tarzan 6x $333 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $100 1997 This hero "of the Apes" later hung out with ant men, lion men & leopard men

J $600 2022 From chapter 1 of this classic: "On a bright may morning in 1888, John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice sailed from Dover..."

J $100 1985 Lord Greystoke, he became a swinger at an early age

Lilliput 4x $1,000 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1986 In "Gulliver's Travels", political parties in this tiny land are known by the height of their heels

DJ $3,000 DD 2003 Mildendo, a city on this island, is surrounded by walls that are 2 1/2 feet high & 11 inches wide

J $400 2023 In the illustration seen here, the title character is tied up on business in this land

Brave New World 4x $933 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2015 This Aldous Huxley novel begins with a tour of the Fertilizing Room

J $800 2025 Lenina Crowne, an upper-caste hatchery worker, is a character in this dystopian work

DJ $1,600 2006 "Three Weeks in a Helicopter" is an interactive "feely" film in this Aldous Huxley novel

Worth Knowing (89)

Utopia 3 The Simpsons 3 Rosemary's Baby 3 Robinson Crusoe 3 Rabbit at Rest 3 Panem 3 Norman Mailer 3 George R.R. Martin 3 Daisy Miller 3 Catch-22 3 Atlas Shrugged 3 On the Road 3 Morrie 3 Maine 3 bones 3 Warsaw 2 Tom Jones 2 The Turn of the Screw 2 The Three Musketeers 2 The Postman Always Rings Twice 2 the Pequod 2 the Nautilus 2 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 The Handmaid's Tale 2 The Good Earth 2 The Exorcist 2 The Executioner's Song 2 The Eagle Has Landed 2 The Color Purple 2 Tennessee Williams 2 Springfield 2 Sophie's Choice 2 Sister Carrie 2 Simon Legree 2 Shangri-La 2 Northern Exposure 2 Noble House 2 Nat Turner 2 Napoleon 2 Molly Bloom 2 Michael Crichton 2 maladies 2 Madame Defarge 2 M*A*S*H 2 Lurch 2 Lolita 2 Lew Archer 2 Lady Chatterley's Lover 2 Lady Chatterley 2 Joseph Conrad 2 Jimmy Carter 2 James Fenimore Cooper 2 Injun Joe 2 Ian Fleming 2 Huckleberry Finn 2 How Green Was My Valley 2 Henry James 2 helix 2 Heart of Darkness 2 Harry Potter 2 Graham Greene 2 Gone with the Wind 2 Gettysburg 2 Geisha 2 Friday Night Lights 2 Friar Tuck 2 Freakonomics 2 Fear of Flying 2 Erewhon 2 Don Quixote 2 Charles Kuralt 2 Catcher in the Rye 2 Captain Nemo 2 cancer 2 Camelot 2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2 Brooklyn 2 Ben-Hur 2 Ayn Rand 2 Anna Karenina 2 Alice 2 al-Qaeda 2 (John) Irving 2 "Bulldog" 2 War and Peace 2 the Vietnam War 2 Richard Nixon 2 Quasimodo 2

Mystery / Thriller

24 answers | 71 clues

Should-Know (6)

Stephen King 6x 16.7% stumper $333 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $200 2005 "It" was No. 1 for him in '86

DJ $600 1991 Part I of his book "Christine" is called "Dennis - Teenage Car Songs"

DJ $200 1996 The title of his "The Dead Zone" refers to the damaged part of Johnny Smith's brain

Sherlock Holmes 5x $260 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1999 A Bret Harte tale parodied this detective as Hemlock Jones

J $600 2021 (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) With my co-author, Anna Waterhouse, I've written three mystery novels featuring a very smart man named Mycroft, the older brother of this great literary character

J $200 2004 The original author’s last story about this detective was “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”

Nero Wolfe 5x 20.0% stumper $780 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $300 1999 This stout Rex Stout detective was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post

DJ $600 1988 This eccentric sleuth rarely left his brownstone on New York's West 35th St.

DJ $2,000 2008 This rotund P.I.'s household includes chef Fritz Brenner & "orchid nurse" Theodore Horstmann

Agatha Christie 5x 20.0% stumper $600 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1997 She said WWI Belgian refugees influenced her characterization of Hercule Poirot

J $800 2021 "The Secret Adversary" was one of her many mysteries with detectives Tommy & Tuppence Beresford

DJ $400 1989 She may have been a "dame", but you'd never say that about her famous character Miss Jane Marple

Philip Marlowe 5x 40.0% stumper $560 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2004 In “The Big Sleep” he says, “I’m 33 years old, went to college once & can still speak English if there’s any demand for it”

DJ $600 1995 He's the hero of all 7 of Raymond Chandler's novels

J $200 1989 "The Long Goodbye", Raymond Chandler's 6th novel about this detective, was voted 1955's best mystery novel

Hercule Poirot 4x $475 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1988 No arrests were made, even though he confronted the murderers on the Orient Express

J $500 1999 The first detective created by Agatha Christie

DJ $400 1986 He found "Murder on the Orient Express" & "Death on the Nile"; maybe he shouldn't travel

Worth Knowing (18)

The Maltese Falcon 3 Nancy Drew 3 Father Brown 3 Charlie Chan 3 (James) Patterson 3 Walter Mosley 2 Travis McGee 2 Tom Sawyer 2 The Shining 2 The Day of the Jackal 2 Robin Cook 2 P.D. James 2 Miss Marple 2 Mike Hammer 2 Dashiell Hammett 2 Crime and Punishment 2 (John) Grisham 2 The Hunt for Red October 2

British Literature

14 answers | 35 clues

Should-Know (1)

The Invisible Man 4x 25.0% stumper $425 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2017 Post-mortem the title character of this H.G. Wells novel can be seen, hands & feet first

DJ $800 1989 The 1st chapter of this H.G. Wells novel is "The Strange Man's Arrival"

J $300 1998 Griffin is the name of this H.G. Wells title character

Worth Knowing (13)

The Canterbury Tales 3 Tess 3 Scarlett O'Hara 3 Moll Flanders 3 Jane Eyre 3 Tolkien 2 Thornton Wilder 2 The Old Curiosity Shop 2 Jude the Obscure 2 H.G. Wells 2 Emma 2 Dorian Gray 2 Daniel Defoe 2

Children's Literature

9 answers | 20 clues

Worth Knowing (9)

Narnia 3 China 3 Willy Wonka 2 Wendy 2 the White Rabbit 2 Peter Pan 2 Oz 2 Kansas 2 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2

American Literature

6 answers | 12 clues

Worth Knowing (6)

The Scarlet Letter 2 Of Mice and Men 2 Little Women 2 John Steinbeck 2 Beloved 2 Bartleby 2

Shakespeare

1 answers | 2 clues

Worth Knowing (1)

Faulkner 2

Poetry