The Ultimate Hemingway Trivia Challenge

A family portrait of the Hemingway family from 1905. From left: Marcelline, Sunny, Clarence, Grace, Ursula and Ernest.

Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in what Chicago suburb?

Orland Park

Oak Park

Elmhurst

Naperville

In 1918 as the US entered World War I, Hemingway was unable to join the Army due to his poor eyesight. Nevertheless he traveled to Europe to work as:

A War Correspondent

An Ambulance Driver

A Nurse

An American Spy

Hemingway and his first wife Hadley Richardson moved to what important literary capital in the early 1920s?

Berlin

Rome

Brussels

Paris

In 1926, which title was the first of Hemingway's novels to be published?

The Sun Also Rises

A Farewell to Arms

Death in the Afternoon

The Old Man and the Sea

After Hemingway divorced his first wife, he and his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer moved to what popular tropical getaway?

The Bahamas

Key West

Saint Martin

Grand Cayman Island

In 1937, Hemingway agreed to report on the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. He used the experience as inspiration for which Pulizter-nominated novel?

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Death in the Afternoon

Moveable Feast

In Our Time

Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's third wife, was one of the most important female journalists in American history. As a writer she:

Was the only woman to land at Normandy on D-Day

Covered the blitz in London

Reported from Dachau concentration camp

Wrote a highly regarded travel book

During WWII, Hemingway got into trouble for what incident?

Getting into a fistfight with an American soldier.

Writing about the conditions of army camps.

Pretending to be an infantry captain to a group of Resistance fighters.

Stealing a tank.

While traveling in Africa in 1954, Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary Welsh, survived what:

Falling out of a treehouse

Two successive plane crashes

A lion attack

A shipwreck

In 1959, which publication commissioned Hemingway to travel around Spain and write a series of articles about bullfighting?

Life magazine

The New Yorker

Playboy

Paris Review

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