A Gentleman in Moscow Trivia
A Gentleman in Moscow trivia highlights the background, publication context, and memorable details behind Amor Towles’s 2016 novel. Published five years after Rules of Civility, it marked Towles’s second novel and helped cement his reputation for elegant, historically minded fiction.
Easy A Gentleman in Moscow Trivia
13 questions
These easy A Gentleman in Moscow trivia questions are great for beginners and kids around age 12 and under.
Question 1
Who wrote A Gentleman in Moscow?
Answer: Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow was written by Amor Towles.
Question 2
In what year was A Gentleman in Moscow published?
- A.2016
- B.2011
- C.2014
- D.2018
Answer: 2016
A Gentleman in Moscow was published in 2016, five years after Towles's earlier novel Rules of Civility.
Question 3
Which place does A Gentleman in Moscow hold in Towles’s bibliography?
- A.third novel
- B.debut novel
- C.second novel
- D.first novel
Answer: second novel
A Gentleman in Moscow was published in 2016 and is Amor Towles’s second novel, following Rules of Civility.
Question 4
What was Amor Towles's novel published before A Gentleman in Moscow?
Answer: Rules of Civility
Towles's previous novel before A Gentleman in Moscow was Rules of Civility.
Question 5
What year was Rules of Civility published?
Answer: 2011
Rules of Civility was published in 2011.
Question 6
Who is the confined nobleman at the center of the novel?
- A.Osip Glebnikov
- B.Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov
- C.Mishka Mindich
- D.Andrey Duras
Answer: Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov
Count Alexander Rostov is the novel’s protagonist, sentenced to house arrest at the Metropol after the Revolution.
Question 7
Most of the story takes place in which city?
Answer: Moscow
Most of the novel is set in Moscow.
Question 8
Which hotel confines Count Rostov under house arrest?
- A.Hotel Metropol
- B.Hotel Astoria
- C.Hotel Savoy
- D.Hotel Nacional
Answer: Hotel Metropol
Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to lifelong house arrest inside Moscow’s Metropol Hotel, where the novel is set largely indoors.
Question 9
What punishment does a Bolshevik tribunal place on Rostov?
Answer: House arrest
Rostov is placed under house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal.
Question 10
What punishment does Count Alexander Rostov receive?
- A.1920
- B.1924
- C.1922
- D.1918
Answer: 1922
Rostov is sentenced to lifelong house arrest inside Moscow’s Metropol Hotel, which is the novel’s central premise.
Question 11
Where is Count Rostov eventually confined at the Metropol?
- A.a small attic room
- B.his grand suite
- C.the Boyarsky kitchen
- D.the hotel lobby
Answer: a small attic room
After his sentence, Rostov is stripped of his grand suite and moved into a tiny attic room at the Metropol Hotel.
Question 12
After he is sentenced, where is Rostov moved inside the hotel?
Answer: A small room in the attic
After sentencing, Rostov is moved to a small room in the hotel's attic.
Question 13
Which young girl becomes Rostov's friend early in the novel?
Answer: Nina Kulikova
A young girl named Nina Kulikova befriends Rostov early in the story.
A Gentleman in Moscow Family Trivia
8 questions
These family A Gentleman in Moscow trivia questions are built for mixed-age game nights, classrooms, and groups.
Question 1
What piece of writing from Rostov's younger days is quoted against him at the very start of the story?
Answer: A poem from his youth
The novel opens with a poem from Rostov's youth being cited against him.
Question 2
How does the Bolshevik court describe Rostov during his hearing?
- A.A traveling musician
- B.A factory manager
- C.aristocrat
- D.A war hero
Answer: An unrepentant aristocrat
The court calls Rostov an unrepentant aristocrat.
Question 3
In what year had Rostov returned from Paris to support a friend, a detail that helps spare him?
Answer: 1913
Rostov is spared execution because he once returned from Paris in 1913 to support a friend.
Question 4
Which hotel becomes Rostov’s long-term prison in the novel?
- A.The Metropol
- B.Hotel Lux
- C.Astoria Hotel
- D.National Hotel
Answer: The Metropol
Rostov is confined inside The Metropol after his sentence in A Gentleman in Moscow. The novel’s central setting is the hotel itself.
Question 5
The Metropol Hotel stands across from which famous landmark?
Answer: The Kremlin
The hotel is located across from the Kremlin.
Question 6
After his move upstairs, on which floor is Rostov's attic room?
Answer: The sixth floor
Rostov's attic room is on the hotel's sixth floor.
Question 7
Which treasured belongings does Rostov keep with him after being moved to the attic room?
Answer: Books
Rostov keeps some treasured books after being moved upstairs.
Question 8
Which unusual animal resident pads around the Metropol?
Answer: A one-eyed cat
A one-eyed cat roams the Metropol in the story.
Fun A Gentleman in Moscow Trivia
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These fun A Gentleman in Moscow trivia questions highlight surprising moments and playful facts for game-night groups.
Question 1
What surname does Count Alexander use while confined at the Metropol?
- A.Rostov
- B.Orlov
- C.Petrov
- D.Sokolov
Answer: Rostov
Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is the central character placed under house arrest in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel, and he goes by the surname Rostov.
Question 2
What is Rostov's middle name?
Answer: Ilyich
Rostov's middle name is Ilyich.
Question 3
What hotel detail especially fascinates Nina in the Metropol?
- A.Dining menus
- B.Housekeeping schedules
- C.Room numbers
- D.Elevator routes
Answer: Room numbers
Nina is especially curious about the Metropol’s room numbers, a small detail that helps define her inquisitive conversations with Rostov in the hotel setting.
Question 4
Where do the Count and Nina first meet when she is still a child?
Answer: In the hotel restaurant
The Count and Nina meet in the hotel restaurant when she is a child.
Question 5
What is Nina's father in the novel?
- A.party official
- B.widowed bureaucrat
- C.army officer
- D.hotel manager
Answer: widowed bureaucrat
Nina is introduced is the daughter of a widowed bureaucrat, a small but telling detail about her family background.
Question 6
Where do Anna and Rostov regularly meet at the Metropol?
- A.the roof terrace
- B.his former suite
- C.the hotel bar
- D.the ballroom
Answer: his former suite
Anna Urbanova and Rostov repeatedly meet at the Metropol, often in Rostov’s former suite, which anchors their relationship scenes in the novel.
Question 7
Which Metropol chef is known for culinary pride and a fiery temper?
- A.Andrey Druz
- B.Mishka Telyakov
- C.Osip Glebnikov
- D.Emile Zhukovsky
Answer: Emile Zhukovsky
Emile Zhukovsky is the Metropol’s celebrated chef in A Gentleman in Moscow, and he’s remembered for both skill and temperament.
Question 8
Whose remembered advice quietly helps shape the Count's education long after the lessons were given?
Answer: His grandmother's
The Count's grandmother plays an important role in his education through remembered advice.
Question 9
What aristocratic bit of backstory gives Rostov's past an old-world flash of danger?
Answer: A duel
A duel from Rostov's past is part of his aristocratic backstory.
Question 10
Which hotel spot proves the story has room for both refinement and a trim?
Answer: The barber shop
The novel includes scenes set in the Metropol's barber shop.
Question 11
What does the Count keep valuing with almost ceremonial devotion?
Answer: Proper table settings and formal manners
The Count values proper table settings and formal manners throughout the book.
Funny A Gentleman in Moscow Trivia
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These funny A Gentleman in Moscow trivia questions highlight playful moments, odd facts, and inside jokes.
Question 1
In this novel, if someone mentions "the bishop," should you picture church vestments or a child with a nickname?
- A.A clergyman
- B.A chess piece
- C.A hotel manager
- D.A boy's nickname
Answer: A child with a nickname.
The novel uses "bishop" is the nickname of a boy, not as a religious title.
Question 2
What role does Rostov occupy at the Metropol after his sentence?
- A.manager
- B.intern
- C.interns
- D.resident
Answer: resident
After the tribunal sentences him to house arrest, Count Alexander Rostov lives at the Metropol is a resident of the hotel, not as staff or a guest.
Question 3
What forces Rostov into the attic room?
- A.A salary cut
- B.A family move
- C.Losing his grand suite
- D.A prison transfer
Answer: Losing his grand suite
Rostov is moved from his grand suite to a small attic room after his sentence changes his status in the Metropol.
Question 4
Inside the same hotel where he once stayed as a guest, what job does the former aristocrat take on?
- A.Professional waiter
- B.Chef
- C.Bellhop
- D.Bartender
Answer: He becomes a professional waiter.
The irony is central: a former aristocrat becomes a professional waiter in the same hotel.
Question 5
What especially memorable visual detail does the novel’s cat have?
Answer: It has only one eye.
The cat stands out in part because it has only one eye.
Question 6
When history gets rude, what polished tool does Rostov keep reaching for?
Answer: Impeccable manners.
Rostov often relies on impeccable manners even when events around him are chaotic.
Question 7
What does Nina’s master key let Rostov explore?
- A.the dining room
- B.the roof terrace
- C.the Metropol’s secret spaces
- D.the hotel lobby
Answer: the Metropol’s secret spaces
Nina gives Rostov a master key, and that opens up the Metropol’s hidden rooms and service corridors.
Question 8
What role best fits Nina’s curious habit of asking questions?
- A.intern
- B.interns
- C.resident
- D.detective
Answer: detective
Nina’s curiosity in the hotel often makes her seem like a little detective, probing people and situations for clues.
Question 9
What does Emile treat like a battlefield and command post?
- A.Dinner service
- B.Wine service
- C.Housekeeping
- D.Lobby duties
Answer: Dinner service
The clue comes from Emile’s kitchen scenes, where dinner service is described is a battlefield. It’s a running Metropol detail, not a plot summary.
Question 10
Even after his world shrinks to a few rooms, what quality of the Count remains stubbornly intact?
Answer: His sense of ceremony.
The novel emphasizes that the Count’s sense of ceremony survives his reduced circumstances.
Question 11
Which Amor Towles novel was published in 2016?
- A.Rules of Civility
- B.The Lincoln Highway
- C.Table for Two
- D.A Gentleman in Moscow
Answer: A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow was published in 2016 and is Amor Towles’s second novel, after Rules of Civility.
Question 12
How long is Count Rostov confined to the Metropol?
- A.About ten years
- B.A single winter
- C.More than thirty years
- D.About three years
Answer: More than thirty years
Rostov is sentenced to house arrest inside the Metropol Hotel and remains there for decades, far longer than a short prison term.
Question 13
One end of the Count’s friendship range is a hard-nosed Soviet official. What’s at the other end?
Answer: A child explorer.
The contrast highlighted in the fact is between a child explorer and a hard-nosed Soviet official.
Hard A Gentleman in Moscow Trivia
12 questions
These hard A Gentleman in Moscow trivia questions are for expert fans who want a real challenge.
Question 1
What is the full name of the tribunal that judges Count Rostov at the start of the novel?
Answer: The Emergency Commission of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.
Rostov is judged by the Emergency Commission of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.
Question 2
Which poem is cited as evidence against Rostov during his hearing?
Answer: Where Is It Now.
The poem used against him is titled 'Where Is It Now.'.
Question 3
Before his confinement, Rostov belonged to what rank of former Russian nobility?
Answer: He was a count.
Rostov is explicitly identified is one of the former nobility known as counts.
Question 4
What was the name of Rostov's family estate?
Answer: Idlehour.
Rostov's family once maintained an estate called Idlehour.
Question 5
Name Rostov's close friend from before the Revolution.?
Answer: Mikhail "Mishka" Mindich.
Rostov's close pre-revolutionary friend is Mikhail 'Mishka' Mindich.
Question 6
What is the name of Count Rostov's sister?
Answer: Helena.
The Count's sister is named Helena.
Question 7
What is the Metropol’s more casual dining room called?
- A.The Piazza
- B.The Boyarsky
- C.The Ballroom
- D.The Veranda
Answer: The Piazza
At the Metropol Hotel in *A Gentleman in Moscow*, the casual dining room is called the Piazza, distinct from the formal ballroom used in the opening sentencing scene.
Question 8
What is the name of the Metropol's nightclub and entertainment venue?
Answer: The Shalyapin Salon.
A central nightclub and entertainment space in the hotel is the Shalyapin Salon.
Question 9
Later in the story, Nina devotes herself to what kind of work outside Moscow?
Answer: Agricultural work.
Nina later becomes committed to Soviet agricultural work outside Moscow.
Question 10
Sofia is left in Rostov's care after Nina disappears during which era?
Answer: Stalin's era.
Nina disappears during Stalin's era, after which Sofia is left with Rostov.
Question 11
What major opportunity does Sofia eventually earn as a pianist?
Answer: The chance to perform abroad.
Sofia eventually earns the chance to perform abroad is a pianist.
Question 12
Rostov's endgame is built around helping Sofia get safely where?
Answer: Out of the Soviet Union.
The Count's final plan centers on getting Sofia safely out of the Soviet Union.
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