Ernest Hemingway Trivia

Ernest Hemingway Trivia

Timeless Hemingway once featured an Ernest Hemingway trivia contest, which was held on a monthly basis. The winner of each contest was awarded a free Hemingway book and a beautifully laminated Timeless Hemingway bookmark. The trivia contest was discontinued long ago, but the questions and answers were saved for posterity.

What was little Ernie's pet name for his mother?

Hemingway once wrote he'd like to grind this author into powder, which he would then sprinkle over the grave of this author with the hopes of bringing him back to life.

According to Hemingway folklore, Grace Hemingway (EH's mother) declined what invitation in order to be present on her wedding day?

What nickname did Hemingway give himself while in high school?

What was the name of the high school literary magazine in which one of Hemingway's earliest stories, "The Judgment of Manitov" appeared?

Which one of Hemingway's friends once wrote that the author left his wives, "more able to cope with life than he found them"?

After reading a draft of The Sun Also Rises, this writer advised Hemingway to "start over again, and concentrate." Hemingway did just that.

Not only did he publish some of Hemingway's earliest work, he has also been accused of spreading rumors that Ernest Hemingway was a homosexual.

In his review of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, he called the book a "Baedeker of bulls."

She once said of Ernest Hemingway: "I honestly think that if more people had friends like Ernest was, there would be fewer analysts."

Of all his novels and short stories made into movies, which was the only film Hemingway actually liked?

Which Hemingway novel is the only of his novels to be set in the United States?

What sum of money did Paramount Pictures give Ernest Hemingway for the rights to film, For Whom The Bell Tolls?

What was Hemingway's original title for "The Killers"?

What was Hemingway's original title for "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"?

What was Hemingway's original title for "The Short Happy Life Francis Macomber"?

He was the timekeeper, whose negligence in stopping a round of boxing, caused Hemingway to be floored by his opponent, Morley Callaghan.

Hemingway forbade this man to marry his sister Carol.

She introduced Katherine Anne Porter and Hemingway because she said, "I want the two best modern American writers to know each other."

Hemingway once bet John O'Hara $50 that he could break his blackthorn walking stick over his head (Hemingway won the bet). Who had given this walking stick to O'Hara?

Hemingway was not at all amused when this man, a fellow Oak Parker, jokingly asked him to autograph a set of Mark Twain books.

Where is "Harry's Bar" mentioned in Hemingway's oeuvre?

He is the model for Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises?

She is the model for Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises?

She is the model for Nurse Barkley in A Farewell to Arms?

When adolescent Ernest started walking home with this fellow classmate, it prompted his mother to write, "It is the very first notice he has ever taken of any girl." Ernest would have his first date with this girl.

This journalist was the first to advise young Ernest that the best writing comes from personal experience.

While his mother played the piano and his father, the cornet, what musical instrument did Ernest try his hand at?

Who introduced Hemingway to the Shakespeare quotation that he would later use in the story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"?

Other than being married to the same man, what two things did Hemingway's first wife Hadley Richardson and third wife Martha Gellhorn have in common?

Hemingway was amused when this man misspelled his last name (Hemenway) in print.

Hemingway is one of the world's most translated writers, but he is not the world's most translated writer. According to numerous sources, who holds first place honors?

Hemingway was greatly distressed that this man made it out to the barn before he did.

He once said of Hemingway: "Something within him drove him to want to be expert at every occupation he touched."

While legend has it that Hemingway was the first American wounded in Italy during World War I, this Lieutenant was killed in June, several weeks before young Ernest's wounding at the Fossalta di Piave.

A young Hemingway once labelled this writer, "the greatest writer in the world."

What was the number of the suite at the Sun Valley lodge that became known as "Hemingstein's Mixed Vicing and Dicing Establishment"?

Her term of endearment for Hemingway was "The Pig."

During his relationship with fourth wife Mary Welsh Monks, Hemingway often referred to his sexual potency as this.

At the end of the film, Saving Private Ryan, a dying Tom Hanks says "angels on our shoulders" in reference to the P51 tank bombers flying overhead. Private Ryan (played by Matt Damon) responds, "What sir?" What Hanks says next sounds like, "Ernest, Ernest." Having learned earlier in the film that Hanks was a teacher of English composition, many think that in saying "angels on our shoulders," he is actually quoting Ernest Hemingway. But Hanks has not said, "Ernest, Ernest." What are his exact last words to Private Ryan?

At the end of the film, Se7en, Morgan Freeman recites a Hemingway quote, which includes the following words: "world, fine, place." What novel does this quotation come from?

He was the producer of a film version of A Farewell to Arms that Hemingway absolutely despised.

If you examined the resumes of Hemingway's fourth wife Mary and his brother Leicester, you would notice a similarity. Where were the two once employed?

E. B. White felt this would have been a more appropriate title for Hemingway's critically scorned 1950 novel, Across the River and into the Trees.

Her nickname for Hemingway was "Oinbones."

What is the street address of Hemingway's Key West, Florida home?

In what year was Ernest Hemingway awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

The Spanish Civil War was the inspiration for which Hemingway novel.

Hemingway occasionally referred to this fellow writer as "the golden walrus."

He had a theory that Hemingway needed a new woman for every big book.

She always resented being known solely as Ernest Hemingway's wife and once said: "Why should I be a footnote to someone else's life?"

Hemingway called this wife his "pocket Rubens."

One of the characters in Green Hills of Africa is referred to as P.O.M. What do these initials stand for?

Upon hearing the news of Hemingway's death in 1961, he said: "I remember the fascination that made me want to read aloud 'The Killers' to everybody that came along. He was a friend I shall miss. The country is in mourning."

After she broke her back in a deliberate jump off her second-story balcony, Hemingway referred to her as "the girl who fell for him literally."

Her artwork appeared on the first edition cover of Hemingway's 1950 novel, Across the River and into the Trees.

This writer once offered a friendly bit of advice to Hemingway's first wife Hadley: "Most wives try to change their husbands. With him it would be a terrible mistake."

What is the name of the boat Harry Morgan uses to transport the Cuban bank robbers from Key West to Havana in Hemingway's novel, To Have and Have Not?

He once wrote that The Old Man and the Sea "is an idyll of the sea as sea, as un-Byronic and un-Melvillian as Homer himself, and communicated in a prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse."

When this man declined an invitation to narrate the 1937 documentary, The Spanish Earth, Hemingway was asked to fill in and he did.

Who was Hemingway referring to when he told Tennessee Williams: "She died like everyone else . . . and after that she was dead"?

When this man was informed of Hemingway's death by suicide, he replied, "Well Done." Appropriate words from a man who would ultimately take his own life in a similar way.

What is the name of the cat mentioned in Hemingway's 1964 book, A Moveable Feast?

In 1937, the North American Newspaper Alliance paid Hemingway this amount of money per word to report on the Spanish Civil War.

He once said of Hemingway: "I did not read more than six words of his before I decided to publish everything he sent me."

She once described Hemingway by saying: "He had the nerve of a brass monkey."

Once while shark hunting, Hemingway shot himself in this part of the body.

A Hemingway phrase inspired the title of this book written by John Knowles.

Hemingway wrote an introduction for this book, which was originally published in June of 1930.

Hemingway once labelled this writer, "the undisputed champion."

What was Hemingway's nickname for second son Patrick?

Nicholas Cage, Meg Ryan, and Ernest Hemingway: in what movie did each of these personalities play a role? Hemingway's role, of course, was not that of an actor. Cage simply makes reference to the great author in the film.

The longest sentence Hemingway ever wrote was 424 words. In which of his books does this sentence appear?

What was Hemingway's nickname for his brother Leicester?

In what bar did Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald first meet?

Hemingway's 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls was an incredible seller for its time. By the close of 1943, almost 900,000 copies had been sold worldwide, making it the biggest selling book in American fiction since this work.

He once said of Hemingway: "His judgement is not of the best, and if his sobriety is the same as it was some years ago, that is certainly questionable."

"You're even bigger than I imagined," she said, after meeting Hemingway in Spain.

Which company manufactures the "Ernest Hemingway Collection" line of furniture?

This writer, who wrote a preface for Gregory Hemingway's book, Papa: A Personal Memoir once paid Ernest Hemingway a great compliment by calling him the "literary father" of all modern novelists.

This president asked Hemingway to read at his inauguration. Hemingway declined the invitation due to his failing health.

Who played the part of Ernest Hemingway in the 1996 film, In Love and War?

Which press published Hemingway's first book?

This editor prepared Hemingway's unfinished book, The Garden of Eden for publication in 1986.

The Torrents of Spring (1926) is a parody of this writer.

What animal can be heard at the end of Hemingway's 1936 short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"?

In Martha Gellhorn's book, Travels With Myself and Another, Hemingway is referred to as U.C. What do these initials stand for?

He said of his father: "He may have been a SOB to some people, but he was not a SOB to me."

She called Carlos Baker's biography of Hemingway, "the King James Version."

In a 1958 interview with this man, Hemingway claimed to have written the ending of A Farewell to Arms 39 times before being satisfied.

Of all the professors in academia, he was Hemingway's favorite, mainly because he admired the great writer's works and told him so.

"All you Truman Capote fans get your hats and coats and leave the room. Here comes a real writer." Who is the "real writer" Hemingway is referring to in this quote?

This type of shark devours Santiago's marlin in The Old Man and the Sea.

Mary Hemingway tried (unsuccessfully) to prevent the publication of this book, for she felt it was nothing more than a "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money."

He served as Hemingway's lawyer from 1948-1961 and then as Mary Hemingway's lawyer until his death in 1985.

When Robert Jordan and Maria make love in For Whom the Bell Tolls, it is this that moves.

In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago advises the boy, Manolin to have faith in this baseball team.

What is the name of Brett Ashley's perpetually drunk fiancé in The Sun Also Rises?

Hemingway compared this writer's talent to the pattern made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.

He was "the man who was marked for death."

Gertrude Stein used this word to describe Hemingway's story, "Up in Michigan"?

In "The Three-Day Blow," Nick shows his appreciation for this British novelist/poet.

He was Hemingway's first bibliographer.

She played the role of Maria in the film version of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.

This man, the author of The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway, also ended his life in suicide.

Hemingway called this woman, "the best and truest and loveliest person that I have ever known."

In 1941, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler opposed the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board's recommendation stating: "I hope that you will reconsider before you ask the University to be associated with an award for work of this nature." Which Hemingway book was he referring to?

Hemingway spent the majority of his life in this home.

She narrated A&E's 1998 biography of Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life.

Hemingway dedicated his 1950 novel, Across the River and into the Trees to this woman.

He said, after reading Hemingway's 1940 book, For Whom the Bell Tolls: "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality, no one ever so completely performed it."

What is the name of the steamer that towed log booms in Hemingway's 1924 short story, "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"?

In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway claims to have written in a rented room where this man had died.

Of the ten Hemingway novels published, which is the longest?

Which magazine paid Hemingway an incredible $15 per word for a two thousand word story about bullfighting?

Hemingway's lavish 60th birthday party was held here.

In The Garden of Eden, David and Catherine stay in this hotel while in France.

In Across the River and Into the Trees, Richard Cantwell thinks a large lobster served to him resembles this man.

In To Have and Have Not, Harry Morgan thinks this man is the smoothest looking thing.

From 1920-1924, Hemingway wrote for this newspaper.

In his 1964 book, A Moveable Feast, Hemingway notes that the "talent" of this writer is one of the things needed to achieve the fourth and fifth dimension in writing.

Where did Hemingway and first wife Hadley enjoy sking?