Posted on December 3, 2025 by Game BoyMark Twain Trivia Mark Twain Trivia Mark Twain was such an influential and prolific writer that he is often quoted for his political, satirical, social and humorous views. Even TBoy is a huge fan of this moustached journalist. But do you really know him? Take the TBoy Trivia challenge! 1 / 5 True or False:Samuel Clemons was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. True False FALSEClemens was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, the sixth of seven children. At age 4, Sam and his family moved to the small frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri. 2 / 5 True or False:Lured by the infectious hope of striking it rich in Nevada's silver rush, Sam traveled across the open frontier from Missouri to Nevada by stagecoach. True False TRUEAfter failing as a silver prospector, Sam began writing for the "Territorial Enterprise" (a historic flamboyant Nevada newspaper founded in 1858 ) where he used (for the first time) his pen name: Mark Twain. 3 / 5 True or False:The T-boy Society of Literature selected "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as the greatest American novel of all time. True False TRUEAs a riverboat pilot up and down the Mississippi River, he knew the culture and vernacular the boat would port at and had his characters speak that way. Mainstream critics protested and tried to ban the book: The jargon was not appropriate for literature. Twain himself protested, demanding not a single word be revised. 4 / 5 True or False:In 1873 Sam's focus turned toward social criticism. He and (Hartford Courant publisher) Charles Dudley Warner, co-wrote 'The Gilded Age' a novel that attacked political corruption, big business, and the American obsession with getting rich that seemed to dominate the era. True False 5 / 5 True or False:Twain was also a humorist. Regarded by many are his most revered quotations"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Sound familiar? True False Your score isThe average score is 50% 0% Restart quiz
