Literature
Know your Kafka from your Kerouac? Your Dickens from your Dickinson? Hopefully you kept good notes in English class because you'll need some novel ideas to answer these questions.
In literature, what type of novel is a ‘roman a clef’?
Point Clue: I penned my first children’s story in 1943 entitled The Gremlins. Who am I?
To which gentleman’s club did Jules Vern’s fictional character Phileas Fogg belong?
Point Clue: I wrote the popular children’s stories Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Who am I?
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Which classic novel opens with the line, “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo”?
In a Mid summer nights Dream, who was ‘King of the Fairies’?
Who penned the children’s story How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
What T was the name of George’s dog in the Enid Blyton “Famous Five” stories?
Who wrote the story A Child’s Christmas in Wales?
Who wrote the book “the guns of Navarone”?
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel….PAPER NET
Four calling birds — Who wrote the novel The Birds?
Which novel opens with the line ” The Mole had been working very hard all the morning spring cleaning his house”?
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. NEED TINY LESBIAN SIS
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet what is the name of Hamlet’s mother? Gertrude, Gladys, Geraldine, Guinevere
What was the occupation of the Shakespearean character “Shylock”?
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. PINKED PAD
What was the name of William Shakespeare’s mother? Juliet, Anne, Elizabeth, Mary
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. A BANBURY DREG
What is the name of Billy Bunter’s sister? Belinda, Bunty, Brenda, Bessie
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel….FRODO NIGHT SHELTER
Who wrote The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason?
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. UNREAL DISASTER
Who wrote “Jaws”?
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. LOST MEALS
What single word is missing in the titles of the following book series? …, Run, … Redux, … Is Rich, … At Rest, … Remembered.
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. COMMEND A FINE
Which famous author was portrayed by Paul Bettany in A Knight’s Tale?
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. LARGE LADS ALL SCATTER MANURE
Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre?
Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. SAD HERMIT
What was the name of George’s dog in the Enid Blyton “Famous Five” stories? Clue — it begins with T.
According to some sources, the title of which Somerset Maugham book comes from a review of his other novel Of Human Bondage in which the novel’s protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as “so busy yearning for X that he never saw the Y at his feet”?
Michael Bond wrote about which famous animal in a series of books for children?
To whom did Helen Keller dedicate her autobiography, The Story of My Life?
Who wrote The Da Vinci Code?
Which Shakespearian role does Lady Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) get in Shakespeare in Love?
Whose autobiography is entitled The Wheel of Fortune?
What color is the Mr Men character Mr Happy?
Who won a Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children?
William Sidney Porter, Who we know as O. Henry, spent some time in Honduras. What was he doing there?
Who wrote the novel Jurassic Park, which the Spielberg film was based on?
What skill won people high office in the land of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
Who wrote East Of Eden?
What famous American novelist has written several mysteries under the pen name Edgar Box?
Who wrote the first modern ghost story in the English language?
Which of Tolkien’s fantasy characters inhabit the world of Middle Earth?
When R.L. Stevenson wrote the classic Treasure Island, he based the character of Long John Silver on which friend of his who wrote the poem Invictus?
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