Ernest Hemingway- TRIVIA

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

"Silkey Sockey"


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.

T. S. Eliot; Joseph Conrad


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

To sing at a gala honoring Queen Victoria


What nickname did Hemingway give himself while in high school?

"Hemingstein"


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

The Tabula


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

John Dos Passos


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

Gertrude Stein


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.

Robert McAlmon


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

Malcolm Cowley


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

Marlene Dietrich


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

The Killers


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

To Have and Have Not


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

$100,000


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

"The Matadors"


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

"A Budding Friendship"


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

"The Happy Ending"


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

F. Scott Fitzgerald


Hemingway forbade this man to marry his sister Carol.

John Gardner


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

Sylvia Beach


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?

John Steinbeck


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

Colin Miller


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

Across the River and into the Trees


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

Harold Loeb


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

Lady Duff Twysden


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

Agnes Von Kurowsky


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.

Dorothy Davies


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

Trumbull White


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

The cello


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

Eric (Chink) Dorman-Smith


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?

Both attended Bryn Mawr College; Both were from St. Louis


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

Edward O'Brien


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?

Agatha Christie


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

Gary Cooper


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

Morley Callaghan


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.

Edward M. Mckey


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

James Joyce


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

Suite 206


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

Martha Gellhorn


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

Mr. Scrooby


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?

"Earn this. Earn it."


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?

For Whom the Bell Tolls


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

David O. Selznick


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?

The Chicago Daily News


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.

Across the Street and Into the Grill


Her nickname for Hemingway was "Oinbones."

Madelaine (Sunny) Hemingway


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

907 Whitehead Street


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

1954


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

For Whom the Bell Tolls


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

Ford Madox Ford


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

F. Scott Fitzgerald


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?"

Martha Gellhorn


Hemingway called this wife his "pocket Rubens."

Mary Welsh Monks


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

Poor Old Mama


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."

Robert Frost


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."

Jane Mason


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

Adriana Ivancich


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."

Ezra Pound


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?

The Queen Conch


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."

Bernard Berenson


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

Orson Welles


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

Pauline Pfeiffer


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.

Juan Belmonte


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

F. Puss


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

$1.00


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

Ford Madox Ford


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

Hadley Richardson


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

The calves


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

A Separate Peace


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

Kiki's Memoirs


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

William Shakespeare


What was Hemingway's nickname for second son Patrick?

Mousie


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.

City of Angels


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

Green Hills of Africa


What was Hemingway's nickname for his brother Leicester?

The Baron


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

The Dingo Bar


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.

Gone with the Wind


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."

J. Edgar Hoover


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

Lauren Bacall


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

Thomasville


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.

Norman Mailer


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

John F. Kennedy


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

Chris O'Donnell


Which press published Hemingway's first book?

Contact Publishing Co.


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

Tom Jenks


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

Sherwood Anderson


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

Hyena


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

Unwilling Companion


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

John Hemingway


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

Martha Gellhorn


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

George Plimpton


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

William Seward, Jr.


"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?

Nelson Algren


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

Mako


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."

Papa Hemingway


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

Alfred Rice


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

The earth


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

The Yankees


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

Mike Campbell


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

F. Scott Fitzgerald


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

Ernest Walsh


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

inaccrochable


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

G. K. Chesterton


He was Hemingway's first bibliographer.

Louis Henry Cohn


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

Ingrid Bergman


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

Charles Fenton


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

Hadley Richardson


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?

For Whom the Bell Tolls


Hemingway spent the majority of his life in this home.

The Finca Vigía in Cuba


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

Mariel Hemingway


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

Mary Hemingway


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."

Maxwell Perkins


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

Magic


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

Paul Verlaine


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

Islands in the Stream


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

Sports Illustrated


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

Spain


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

le Grau du Roi


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

General George Patton


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

Mr. Sing


From 1920-1924, Hemingway wrote for this newspaper.

The Toronto Star


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.

Rudyard Kipling


Where did Hemingway and first wife Hadley enjoy sking?

Schruns, Austria