(e.g., What is the name for a record of a period in a person's life? Answer: Diary.)

Freshman Level

1. What novel by Charles Dickens is concerned with the French Revolution?

2. Who had an ox named Babe?

3. What was the first book in the "Harry Potter" series?

4. What was the computer's name on the "Space Odyssey" series?

Graduate Level

5. Who was Beowulf's archenemy?

6. What epic depicts the wanderings of Odysseus after the Trojan War?

7. In what book are the characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee?

Ph.D. Level

8. What important book is composed of 114 chapters?

9. What are described as "mimsy" in "Jabberwocky"?

10. The Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads are part of the ____.


1. "A Tale of Two Cities."

2. Paul Bunyan.

3. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

4. HAL.

5. Grendel.

6. "The Odyssey."

7. "Through the Looking-Glass."

8. Quran.

9. The borogoves.

10. Vedas.

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