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1.       Who wrote, “A good education is the next best thing to a push mother”?

A: Charles Schulz, in Peanuts

2.       What famous book begins: “Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff”?

A: The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper

3.       Ernest Hemingway once wrote that a man must do four things in his life to demonstrate his manhood. What are they?

A: Plant a tree, fight a bull, write a book, and have a son 

4.       What was the title of Harpo Marx’s 1985 autobiography?

A: Harpo Speaks!

5.       Who said, “Nothing is so much to be feared as fear?

A: Henry David Thoreau

 

Previous Tidbits

1. What novel contains the longest sentence in literature?

A: Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, with 823 words


2. “The temperature hit ninety degrees the day she arrived” was the opening line of one of the best-selling novels ever. What was it?

A: The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann


3. What American novel was the first to sell over one million copies?

A: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852


4. What famous writer was the as-told-to author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X?

A: Alex Haley


5. What first name did author Margaret Mitchell originally give her Gone With The Wind heroine, Scarlett O’Hara?

A: Pansy