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Edgar Allan Poe Trivia Quiz

Quoth the Raven: “Let’s have some trivia!”

Thirty tricky questions about the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Good luck and don’t mind the pendulum. It’s just for show.

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The Dorky Round

One

What wine lures Fortunato down into the catacombs?
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Montillado

Two

What Poe story featured an old man with a filmy, vulture-eye?
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The Tell-Tale Heart

Three

Which Poe short story is considered the first modern detective story?
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Four

Whose treasure is being sought out in The Gold-Bug?
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Captain Kidd

Five

Which Poe story inspired elements of The Picture of Dorian Gray?
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The Oval Portrait

Six

Who is the host of The Masque of the Red Death?
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Prince Prospero

Seven

What story features a feline with a gallows shaped patch on its fur?
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The Black Cat

Eight

What story has a character who is kept alive through hypnosis?
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

Nine

Which Poe tale heavily features all the senses except sight?
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The Pit and the Pendulum

Ten

In what city did Poe die?
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Baltimore, Maryland

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The Geeky Round

One

Poe was born in what city?
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Boston, Massachusetts

Two

What story features siblings Roderick and Madeline?
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The Fall of the House of Usher

Three

Which Poe poem features a gallant knight searching for a legendary place?
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Eldorado

Four

In which story does the main character kill someone by means of a poison candle?
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The Imp of the Perverse

Five

What story has the alternate title, “the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs”
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Hop-Frog

Six

What is the name given to Morella’s daughter?
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She, too, is named Morella.

Seven

What was the name of Poe’s wife?
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Virginia Clemm

Eight

Who old was Virginia when she married Poe?
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Thirteen. She would die from tuberculosis at 24.

Nine

In what month does The Raven take place?
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December

Ten

How many colored rooms are in The Masque of the Red Death?
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Seven. Blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black.

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The Nerdy Round

One

Poe was court marshalled as a cadet at what school?
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The United States Military Academy at West Point

Two

Where was The Raven first published?
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New York Evening Mirror

Three

During what event does The Pit and the Pendulum take place?
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The narrator is imprisoned during the Spanish Inquisition.

Four

The protagonist of The Premature Burial suffers from what condition?
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Catalepsy

Five

What is the name of the titular character in The Black Cat?
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Pluto

Six

After Poe’s death, what rival published a slanted biography to destroy his Edgar Allan Poe’s reputation?
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold

Seven

What titular woman was described as “the queenliest dead that ever died so young”?
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Lenore

Eight

What poem progresses from “the jingling and the tinkling/” to “the moaning and the groaning”?
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The Bells

Nine

In which poem did Poe celebrate the nurturing power of women?
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To Helen

Ten

Which Poe poem tells the fictionalized account of a Turkic conqueror?
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Tamerlane

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