Braingle's Daily Trivia Quiz for Mar 23, 2023
A Literature Quiz : Not all places used as settings in literature actually exist. Can you tell fact from fiction?
1. The island of Lilliput is just one of the places visited in "Gulliver's Travels". Is this a real place?
2. The John Steinbeck novel "Cannery Row" takes place in La Jolla, California. Does La Jolla exist?
3. Several of John Grisham's novels take place in Canton, Mississippi. Does Canton exist?
4. In the novel "Warday", we learn about the country of Aztlan. Does Aztlan exist?
5. The towns of East Egg and West Egg both figure prominently in "The Great Gatsby". Do either of these two places really exist?
6. Jonathan Swift wrote about "A Voyage to Brobdingnag". Does Brobdingnag exist?
7. In the late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a series of stories about a group of people travelling to the Canterbury Cathedral. Does the Cathedral really exist?
8. Set sometime between 1835-1845, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" takes place in St. Petersburg, Missouri. Is this a real place?
9. Anthony Trollope has written a series of books whose settings include towns such as Silverbridge, Hogglestock, and Greshamsbury. Which of these places actually exists?
10. "Gone with the Wind" is set at the Tara Plantation in Jonesboro, Georgia. The plantation does not exist. Is the city real?
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