| The Gore Vidal Quiz - Part 2 |
Vidal has not owned a home in which of the following places? [649 responses]
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Upstate New York (27) |
 4% |
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Southern California (31) |
5% |
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France (424) |
65% |
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Guatemala (156) |
24% |
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Italy (11) |
2% |
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Answer: France | Vidal's grandfather, Sen. T.P. Gore, represented what state? [647 responses]
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Arizona (3) |
 0% |
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Oklahoma (513) |
79% |
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Tennessee (94) |
15% |
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Virginia (16) |
2% |
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New York (21) |
3% |
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Answer: Oklahoma |
Which of the following literary scholars has not written a book about Vidal? [588 responses]
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Fred Kaplan (36) |
 6% |
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Bernard F. Dick (193) |
33% |
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Ray Lewis White (125) |
21% |
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John W. Aldridge (135) |
23% |
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Robert Kiernan (99) |
17% |
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Answer: John W. Aldridge | Vidal did something remarkable at age 10. What? [589 responses]
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Wrote a novel (30) |
 5% |
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Drove a car (7) |
1% |
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Flew an airplane (466) |
79% |
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Ran for public office (3) |
1% |
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Saved his grandfather's life (83) |
14% |
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Answer: Flew an airplane |
In which of the following movies did Vidal not appear? [589 responses]
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With Honors (44) |
 7% |
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The Conversation (361) |
61% |
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Gattaca (54) |
9% |
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Fellini Roma (57) |
10% |
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Shadow Conspiracy (73) |
12% |
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Answer: The Conversation | Which of the following names has no personal affiliation with Vidal? [580 responses]
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Jimmie Trimble (13) |
 2% |
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Howard Austen (23) |
4% |
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Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler (109) |
19% |
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Robert Graves (275) |
47% |
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Rusty Godowsky (160) |
28% |
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Answer: Robert Graves |
Which of the following Vidal books is not autobiographical? [577 responses]
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Season of Comfort (87) |
 15% |
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Two Sisters (138) |
24% |
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Palimpsest (17) |
3% |
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Screening History (67) |
12% |
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Judgment of Paris (268) |
46% |
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Answer: Judgment of Paris | What is Vidal's birthday? [570 responses]
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Jan. 18, 1923 (71) |
 12% |
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March 22, 1924 (75) |
13% |
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Oct. 3, 1925 (371) |
65% |
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Dec. 25, 1926 (23) |
4% |
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July 4, 1927 (30) |
5% |
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Answer: Oct. 3, 1925 |
Vidal's gravesite in Washington, D.C., is located a few hundred feet from the mausoleum of what writer? [569 responses]
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Ernest Hemingway (29) |
 5% |
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Henry Adams (342) |
60% |
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Henry James (148) |
26% |
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John Dos Passos (19) |
3% |
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Christopher Isherwood (31) |
5% |
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Answer: Henry Adams | Which of the following actors is not or was not a close friend of Vidal? [568 responses]
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Paul Newman (18) |
 3% |
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Claire Bloom (11) |
2% |
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Susan Sarandon (44) |
8% |
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Charlton Heston (459) |
81% |
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Cyril Ritchard (36) |
6% |
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Answer: Charlton Heston |
Vidal ran for the U.S. Senate in what year and what state? [572 responses]
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New York, 1960 (259) |
45% |
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Virginia, 1968 (7) |
1% |
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California, 1968 (52) |
9% |
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California, 1982 (248) |
43% |
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Connecticut, 1982 (6) |
1% |
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Answer: California, 1982 | During his youth in the '40s and '50s, which of the following famous writers did Vidal never meet? [559 responses]
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George Santayana (54) |
10% |
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Anais Nin (15) |
3% |
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Jack Kerouac (49) |
9% |
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Thomas Mann (200) |
36% |
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John Steinbeck (241) |
43% |
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Answer: Thomas Mann |
What was the name of the estate Vidal bought in upstate New York in the early 1950s? [573 responses]
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Edgewater (349) |
61% |
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Merrywood (99) |
17% |
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Laurel House (86) |
15% |
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Broad Branch (9) |
2% |
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Hill House (30) |
5% |
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Answer: Edgewater | Vidal has a suite named after him in a hotel in which of the following countries? [562 responses]
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France (47) |
8% |
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England (34) |
6% |
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Thailand (128) |
23% |
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Italy (337) |
60% |
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Greece (16) |
3% |
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Answer: Thailand |
BONUS QUESTION: While recovering from rheumatoid arthritis after World War II, Vidal studied which of the following? [571 responses]
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Art (41) |
7% |
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Chinese (102) |
18% |
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Ballet (277) |
49% |
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Poetry (39) |
7% |
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Archaelogy (112) |
20% |
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Answer: Ballet | |
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