| The Gore Vidal Quiz - Part 2 |
Vidal has not owned a home in which of the following places? [618 responses]
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Upstate New York (26) |
 4% |
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Southern California (30) |
5% |
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France (400) |
65% |
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Guatemala (151) |
24% |
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Italy (11) |
2% |
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Answer: France | Vidal's grandfather, Sen. T.P. Gore, represented what state? [616 responses]
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Arizona (3) |
 0% |
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Oklahoma (483) |
78% |
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Tennessee (93) |
15% |
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Virginia (16) |
3% |
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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? [558 responses]
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Fred Kaplan (36) |
 6% |
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Bernard F. Dick (182) |
33% |
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Ray Lewis White (118) |
21% |
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John W. Aldridge (127) |
23% |
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Robert Kiernan (95) |
17% |
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Answer: John W. Aldridge | Vidal did something remarkable at age 10. What? [559 responses]
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Wrote a novel (30) |
 5% |
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Drove a car (6) |
1% |
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Flew an airplane (439) |
79% |
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Ran for public office (3) |
1% |
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Saved his grandfather's life (81) |
14% |
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Answer: Flew an airplane |
In which of the following movies did Vidal not appear? [560 responses]
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With Honors (41) |
 7% |
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The Conversation (342) |
61% |
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Gattaca (52) |
9% |
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Fellini Roma (57) |
10% |
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Shadow Conspiracy (68) |
12% |
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Answer: The Conversation | Which of the following names has no personal affiliation with Vidal? [551 responses]
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Jimmie Trimble (13) |
 2% |
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Howard Austen (23) |
4% |
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Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler (107) |
19% |
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Robert Graves (261) |
47% |
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Rusty Godowsky (147) |
27% |
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Answer: Robert Graves |
Which of the following Vidal books is not autobiographical? [548 responses]
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Season of Comfort (81) |
 15% |
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Two Sisters (131) |
24% |
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Palimpsest (16) |
3% |
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Screening History (61) |
11% |
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Judgment of Paris (259) |
47% |
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Answer: Judgment of Paris | What is Vidal's birthday? [541 responses]
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Jan. 18, 1923 (70) |
 13% |
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March 22, 1924 (73) |
13% |
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Oct. 3, 1925 (347) |
64% |
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Dec. 25, 1926 (22) |
4% |
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July 4, 1927 (29) |
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? [541 responses]
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Ernest Hemingway (27) |
 5% |
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Henry Adams (322) |
60% |
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Henry James (143) |
26% |
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John Dos Passos (19) |
4% |
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Christopher Isherwood (30) |
6% |
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Answer: Henry Adams | Which of the following actors is not or was not a close friend of Vidal? [540 responses]
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Paul Newman (17) |
 3% |
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Claire Bloom (10) |
2% |
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Susan Sarandon (44) |
8% |
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Charlton Heston (435) |
81% |
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Cyril Ritchard (34) |
6% |
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Answer: Charlton Heston |
Vidal ran for the U.S. Senate in what year and what state? [545 responses]
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New York, 1960 (247) |
45% |
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Virginia, 1968 (7) |
1% |
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California, 1968 (51) |
9% |
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California, 1982 (235) |
43% |
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Connecticut, 1982 (5) |
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? [532 responses]
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George Santayana (50) |
9% |
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Anais Nin (15) |
3% |
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Jack Kerouac (46) |
9% |
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Thomas Mann (190) |
36% |
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John Steinbeck (231) |
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? [547 responses]
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Edgewater (327) |
60% |
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Merrywood (98) |
18% |
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Laurel House (83) |
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? [537 responses]
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France (46) |
9% |
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England (31) |
6% |
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Thailand (121) |
23% |
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Italy (323) |
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? [542 responses]
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Art (41) |
8% |
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Chinese (97) |
18% |
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Ballet (264) |
49% |
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Poetry (34) |
6% |
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Archaelogy (106) |
20% |
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Answer: Ballet | |
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