Statistics for Literature by Letter 'B' (Multiple Choice)

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Question	Answer	% Correct
One of the most important and most often translated works in Old English literature. Author unknown. Composition date unknown. Set in pagan Scandinavia. The manuscript was conveniently half-destroyed by fire. Okay. I believe them.	Beowulf	100%
This popular book is often found in hotel rooms... left lying carelessly about or in a bedside drawer by housekeeping.	The Bible	100%
Best-selling book. Bad luck at the box office.	Bonfire of the Vanities	92%
Twenty Medals of Honor were awarded to soldiers of the 7th Cavalry for actions during a hard-fought battle in South Dakota in 1890. The site of this battle is in the title of a well-known 1970 non-fiction book by Dee Brown.	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	83%
Enter Philip Marlowe.	The Big Sleep	83%
A simple gardener is suddenly mistaken for an all-knowing, political genius.	Being There	58%
A military catastrophe that was the result of planning by a little boy playing field marshal. He should have been given a big box of tin soldiers and led to a shady spot in the garden... and told not to come back into the house until World War Two was over.	A Bridge Too Far	50%
This 1947 short story by Howard Breslin inspired a 1955 film about a tough, one-armed WWII veteran on a visit to a small, Californian desert town.	Bad Day at Honda	50%
The life of a horse as related straight from the horse's mouth.	Black Beauty	50%
Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Esther Summerson, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Inspector Bucket, Nemo et al.	Bleak House	42%