1. Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote children's stories under what pseudonym?
A. George SeldenB. Lewis CarrollC. E.B. WhiteD. A.A. Milne
|
B. Lewis Carroll
|
2. What prolific author wrote the novel "Thinner" using the pseudonym Richard Bachman?
A. Ray BradburyB. Herman WoukC. Stephen KingD. John Irving
|
|
C. Stephen King
|
3. Early in his career, what noted author wrote the novels "Odds On" as John Lange and "A Case of Need" as Jeffrey Hudson?
A. Michael CrichtonB. Scott TurowC. John GrishamD. Robin Cook
|
|
A. Michael Crichton
|
4. What actress wrote the 1926 play "Sex" as Jane Mast?
A. Mae WestB. Clara BowC. Lillie LangtryD. Mary Pickford
|
|
A. Mae West
|
5. What 19th-century American writer used amusing pseudonyms such as Diedrich Knickerbocker and Jonathan Oldstyle?
A. James Fenimore CooperB. Washington IrvingC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Walt Whitman
|
|
B. Washington Irving
|
6. What writer took his pseudonym from a character in "The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam"?
A. SakiB. O. HenryC. EliaD. Voltaire
|
|
A. Saki
|
7. What mystery writer used the pseudonym Mary Westmacott to write romance stories?
A. Sue GraftonB. Agatha ChristieC. Anne RiceD. P.D. James
|
|
B. Agatha Christie
|
8. Who was the pseudonymous author of the trashy 1969 bestseller "Naked Came the Stranger"?
A. QB. Kilgore TroutC. Penelope AsheD. Nicholas Blake
|
|
C. Penelope Ashe
|
9. Which of these pseudonyms was not used by a female writer?
A. George SandB. John Oliver HobbesC. Gordon DaviotD. Anthony Hope
|
|
D. Anthony Hope
|
10. What European writer's real name was Jacques Thibault?
A. StendahlB. MoliereC. Anatole FranceD. George Eliot
|
|
C. Anatole France
|
