British Literature Trivia Questions & Answers

British Literature

Do you know the ABCs of British Literature – Austen, Byron, and Chaucer? Take a Swift look at these questions. You might even be crowned a trivia king or queen by the time you're Donne with them.

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What T was the name of George’s dog in the Enid Blyton “Famous Five” stories?

Who wrote the book “the guns of Navarone”?

Which novel opens with the line ” The Mole had been working very hard all the morning spring cleaning his house”?

Point Clue: I penned my first children’s story in 1943 entitled The Gremlins. Who am I?

Point Clue: I wrote the popular children’s stories Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Who am I?

What is the name of Billy Bunter’s sister? Belinda, Bunty, Brenda, Bessie

Who wrote The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason?

What was the name of George’s dog in the Enid Blyton “Famous Five” stories? Clue — it begins with T.

Which sport are Dick Francis’ novels about?

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”?