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.
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?
What was Captain Queeg’s first name and rank in the 1951 novel – and later movie – The Caine Mutiny?
Who wrote Children’s Books about the Land of Narnia?
Which American novelist wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Somerset Maugham’s 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence is a roman a clef about what great French artist?
What famous American writer was granted a patent for a best-selling book that contained no words?
The literary world owes a big debt to actors John Heminges and Henry Condell who compiled what in 1623?
What’s the name of the railway station in the 1945 classic Brief Encounter?
What was the particular link between Jean Plaidy, Phillipa Carr and Victoria Holt?
Criticizing which author for her lack of passion did Charlotte Bronte write “Her business is not half so much with the human heart as with the human eyes, mouth, hands and feet.”?
Name the Shakespeare character son of the witch Sycorax?
How many of Shakespeare’s heroines disguise themselves as males?
Who wrote Babel Tower?
What is the first name of P G Wodehouse’s character Cheesewright?
Who is the novelist whose works have been filmed the most?
What happens to Pinocchio every time he tells a lie?
Who wrote ‘Paradise Lost’?
What was the name of the broken-down, partially blind old horse Ichabod Crane rode in Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
What name connects a Shakespearean King, a 19th century poet and painter, and a manufacturer of jet aircraft?
The Flying Nun was based on which book?
How many lovers are named in Casanova’s memoirs, Story of My Life, first published in their complete form in the early 1960s?
Which poet died while helping the Greeks fight for their independence?
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