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Awarded 665 times.
Who is Father Christmas's "Green Brother"?
Awarded Nov 25 at 4:33
What is Paul's character based on in "Code Name Verity"?
Awarded Nov 21 at 19:42
What does Tolkien mean by "eating tea" in Letters from Father Christmas?
Awarded Nov 19 at 18:54
Last sentence of "Foundation and Earth" by Isaac Asimov
Awarded Nov 15 at 17:07
Is there any significance to the races of mates and harpooners in Moby Dick?
Awarded Nov 13 at 14:13
Was Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868) really "the earliest police procedural"?
Awarded Nov 12 at 10:00
Who are "they" in "They took me [Gandalf] and they set me alone on the pinnacle of Orthanc"?
Awarded Nov 7 at 1:56
Story about a man who wins three bets with the devil
Awarded Nov 2 at 18:35
Identify poem: My gentle child, behold this horse, / a noble animal of course, / though not to be relied on
Awarded Nov 1 at 8:32
What was supposedly satanic about the Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Oct 29 at 2:26
Why did Gandalf remember Saruman's name but not his own in "The White Rider"?
Awarded Oct 28 at 11:09
To what song is the narrator of Coward's "Me and the Girls" referring?
Awarded Oct 23 at 11:27
Missing passage in "Brideshead Revisited"
Awarded Oct 21 at 10:26
What are the other numbers in the number line there for?
Awarded Oct 20 at 11:41
Is Tauriel in any of Tolkien's actual writings?
Awarded Oct 16 at 12:35
Charles Dickens school master stating "facts, facts, facts!"
Awarded Oct 10 at 6:03
Why does the fourth stanza of Brian Bilston's "Pedant's" not rhyme?
Awarded Oct 7 at 23:00
Is there any connection between the names "Elbereth" in The Lord of the Rings and "Ilbereth" in Letters From Father Christmas?
Awarded Oct 2 at 9:52
What is the source of this cheesy quote?
Awarded Sep 19 at 7:15
Who wrote the poem The Mask?
Awarded Sep 19 at 7:15
"Fine knacks for ladies" by John Dowland
Awarded Sep 15 at 16:25
What does it mean that the "blood of Westernesse" runs nearly true in Denethor and Faramir but not in Boromir?
Awarded Sep 5 at 23:08
In what American magazine was Tolkien's "Smith of Wootton Major" first published?
Awarded Sep 3 at 3:40
Landmark identification in "The Angel" (Arsenal FC's anthem)
Awarded Sep 2 at 8:22
Where was the phrase "behind the wind" first used?
Awarded Sep 1 at 13:17
How was the th' in older poems pronounced?
Awarded Aug 23 at 2:17
What is this work by "Balbus" mentioning a Sea of Serpents?
Awarded Jun 28 at 19:16
Short horror story about cinemas locked in a spiral of competition
Awarded Jun 26 at 18:37
What is the context and origin of this Dante quote?
Awarded Jun 25 at 0:06
Book about boy who is in a race with rest of the family to get inheritance on passing of relative
Awarded Jun 23 at 21:07
Why were boiled vegetables with mayonnaise a Soviet New Year's tradition?
Awarded Jun 17 at 17:38
Poem about a gross but beautiful urban garden, possibly by Millay
Awarded Jun 15 at 4:57
Does Don Quijote in fact say "Facts are the enemy of truth"?
Awarded Jun 2 at 6:33
Identify a song in the Pippi Longstocking books
Awarded May 30 at 14:19
Author of poem often attributed to "anonymous": "I dreamt death came the other night..."
Awarded May 25 at 19:19
Time of action of "Dangerous Liaisons" by Laclos
Awarded May 19 at 15:57
"He saw more wounds than one" in "The Passionate Pilgrim"
Awarded May 13 at 17:32
Is calling Queequeg a "cannibal" meant to imply he literally consumed human flesh?
Awarded May 12 at 4:14
Is this Game of Thrones scene about the usage of "m'lord" in the novels too?
Awarded Apr 17 at 7:17
Why does Arrian always specify who was archon of Athens when giving a date?
Awarded Apr 14 at 16:08
Was the affair between John Proctor and Abigail in The Crucible historically accurate?
Awarded Apr 14 at 0:46
Why would Henry want to close the breach?
Awarded Apr 5 at 18:07
In which version of "Snow White" is her name really "Lips Red as Blood, Hair Black as Ebony, Skin White as Snow"?
Awarded Apr 4 at 19:38
What are "rent and waistline parties"?
Awarded Apr 4 at 14:57
What "great writer" is Lahiri quoting in Whereabouts?
Awarded Mar 23 at 8:42
Why are inserts of images inserted in a manner that interrupts the narrative?
Awarded Mar 22 at 23:07
Novel about two young highwaymen getting caught up in Scottish sectarian violence
Awarded Mar 20 at 12:32
Looking for a quote: "It may be true that every man has his price but there is not enough gold in the world to pay mine"
Awarded Mar 19 at 12:34
Meaning of "corruption invariably lurked within"and "fever-traps and outrages to beauty" in E. Nesbit's Man-size in Marble?
Awarded Mar 11 at 8:01
What is the provenance of "A fox jumped up one winter's night"?
Awarded Mar 11 at 8:01
What is "Hammet-style"?
Awarded Mar 11 at 8:01
Does "call me Ishmael" imply that that might not be his real name?
Awarded Mar 9 at 13:52
Why does Germanic poetry have special rules regarding alliteration with words starting with the letter s?
Awarded Mar 7 at 0:43
How did one become a Wizard in A Wizard of Earthsea?
Awarded Mar 2 at 14:27
Did Shakespeare err in using Ephesus as a port setting?
Awarded Feb 28 at 3:51
Looking for a German short story about how "there is no worse taste than half a cherry"
Awarded Feb 23 at 23:09
What does postmodernism mean in terms of literature?
Awarded Feb 15 at 4:33
"Taxed to such small purpose" in "The Golden Bowl" by Henry James
Awarded Feb 13 at 14:55
Short story with cassette tape labeled "Requiem for a Cancer Cell" in a public bathroom
Awarded Feb 11 at 17:52
Why does Doctor Faustus ask for only 24 years of life?
Awarded Feb 11 at 8:39
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