QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE USA

• Who was the Texas billionaire who ran for U.S. president in 1992 and 1996?
  - Ross Perot / comments /
  
  
• Which 19th century American writer is said to be the founder of detective genre?
  - Edgar A. Poe / comments /
  
  
• What pen name did an American writer use to sign his humorous stories which he wrote in prison?
  - O. Henry / comments /
  
  
• Which American compiled the first dictionary of the American variant of the English language?
  - Webster / comments /
  
  
• Which two novels by Mark Twain are often called "the first modern American novels"?
  - (1) Huck Finn, (2) Tom Sawyer / comments /
  
  
• Name the 1954 Nobel Laureate in Literature who wrote, "The Sun Also Rises"?
  - Ernest Hemingway / comments /
  
  
• Which famous Edgar A. Poe poem is named for a bird?
  - "The Raven" / comments /
  
  
• Which American author wrote "The Last of the Mohicans"?
  - James Fenimore Cooper / comments /