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Hemingway Trivia

Test your iceberg theory knowledge and see if you have the direct, punchy grit to survive a marlin fight or a Paris deadline.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

During World War II, while patrolling from Cuba aboard Pilar, what type of German vessel was Hemingway’s crew searching for?

U-boats

During which conflict did Ernest Hemingway report for the North American Newspaper Alliance in 1937?

Spanish Civil War

From the basement of which famous Paris hotel did Hemingway recover old notebooks that became the raw material for his memoir?

Hôtel Ritz

What was Grace Hall Hemingway’s relationship to Ernest Hemingway?

His mother

What type of weapon wounded Ernest Hemingway on the Italian Front on July 8, 1918?

Mortar shell