What book does the name of an American coffeehouse chain Starbucks come from?

The Mysterious Island

Treasure Island

Gulliver's Travels

Moby-Dick

The company took the name of the chief mate in the book Moby-Dick: Starbuck, after considering "Cargo House" and "Pequod".

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Answers by country

Estonia

90%

Spain

78%

Australia

10%

15%

71%

Republic of Ireland

12%

16%

64%

Romania

14%

64%

the United States

13%

23%

56%

116

Pakistan

12%

31%

56%

Austria

13%

15%

16%

53%

Switzerland

15%

51%

the Netherlands

18%

12%

50%

Italy

20%

10%

50%

the United Kingdom

13%

19%

16%

48%

112

Poland

11%

23%

19%

45%

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Germany

13%

22%

20%

41%

477

Canada

10%

30%

20%

40%

Greece

11%

47%

29%

India

16%

27%

29%

22%

Which famous novel was rejected by a number of publishers, so eventually its author had to pay the cost for publication himself?

Ulysses (Joyce)

The Trial (Kafka)

In Search of Lost Time (Proust)

The Name of the Rose (Eco)

Phillip K. Dick, author of SF novels that have been made into numerous films ("Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Paycheck") denied the existence of a certain person. Who was that person?

Which institution awards the Pulitzer prize?

Time

Swedish Royal Academy

Columbia University

United Nations

What is that national musical instrument of Japan called?