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.
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?
What was the name of Dick and Jane’s baby sister in elementary school primers of old?
What do the initials J. D. stand for in author J. D. Salinger’s name?
Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?
Which 20th Century author wrote ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’?
Which book had the longest stay on the New York Times paperback bestsellers list?
Who was the author of Spy Catcher in 1987? It was banned by the British government.
Which of Swift’s novels is an allegorical tale describing travel to lands of giants, miniature people and intelligent horses?
Which famous book begins with the line ‘No One would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own’?
Which Indian poet and philosopher was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Who wrote the novel Brave New World?
Who wrote that ‘The workers have nothing to lose but their chain'”?
What nationality was Hans Christian Andersen?
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet fakes her death to avoid marrying who?
What color were the covers of the crime novels published in the 1930s by Victor Gollancz?
Pine Eyes is the literal translation of which characters name?
Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?
Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick, Dr. Watson, suffered a war-time bullet wound. Where was it?
Who wrote 2001?
What famous nineteenth-century French novelist published a plagiarized nonfiction work under the pseudonym Bombet and when the plagiarism was discovered, defended the nonexistent Bombet in letters signed by an equally nonexistent Bombet Jr.?
Which American novelist wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Of the trio of female US novelists who have sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published?
How did James F Fixx, promoter of jogging for good health, die in 1984?
What did Sherlock Holmes keep in the toe of a Persian slipper?
Who wrote the ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’?
Which children’s book series where there is ‘an old house in Paris that was covered in vines’ and where there ‘lived twelve little girls in two straight lines’ is famous for having the closing line ‘That’s all there is, there isn’t any more’?
What is the name of Scrooge’s clerk?
Virginia Woolf always did it standing up – did what?
Henri Charrier is better known by what nickname?
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
What American novelist was challenged to a duel and beaten by a woman he later married?
Name Ernest Hemmingway’s book dealing with bullfighting.
Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
What is the subtitle of Peter Pan?
Where did writer Ian Fleming find the name James Bond for his hero-spy?
Which Coleridge character brought a curse upon his crew by killing an albatross?
What every-day item was named after Mrs Gamp in Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit?
What is the native country of Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot?
The book ‘The Satanic Verses’ by Salman Rushdie caused controversy after it was claimed it was blasphemous against which religion?
What were the names of Wendy Darlings 2 brothers in Peter Pan?
Who wrote the horror novels Carrie and Misery?
Who wrote the novels Humboldt’s Gift and Herzog?
What is the only novel to top the best-seller lists for two consecutive years?
Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?
Whose 1995 novel The Moor’s Last Sigh enraged Hindu militants in India?
What 1889 comic classic that describes a boating holiday on the Thames was initially intended to be a serious travel guide until the humorous elements took over and made the book what it now is?
Where is the Wind in the story about Toad and Badger?
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