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Reflecting the opening scene of "A Confederacy of Dunces," there is a bronze statue of Ignatius J Reilly on Canal Street in what city?
Question 2 of 10
Who followed up his smash hit poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" with the less successful sequel "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade"?
Question 3 of 10
Who wrote In The Beginning I Used To Be An Animal But I'm Alright Now?
Question 4 of 10
Improv Everywhere staged a hoax at a Manhattan Barnes and Noble in which an imposter, billed as "the author of The Cherry Orchard," read from his "new" short story "In the Graveyard" ... despite having died 100 years earlier. Who?
Question 5 of 10
In the "Harry Potter" books, what is the name of Dumbledore's brother?
Question 6 of 10
John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" was continued in what sequel?
Question 7 of 10
Genesis 5:16 inspired the title of what John Steinbeck novel?
Question 8 of 10
What Bogart movie is the only movie that was based on the work of one Nobel laureate (Ernest Hemingway), using the screenplay co-written by another Nobel laureate (William Faulkner)?
Question 9 of 10
Salman Rushdie joked this man would have called Hamlet "The Elsinore Vacillation," Othello "The Kerchief Implication" and Othello "The Dunsinane Reforestation." Who is this author?
Question 10 of 10
What do you win if you're picked in the Shirley Jackson story "The Lottery"?

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