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British Literature

Do you know the ABCs of British Literature โ€“ 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.

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

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I am Roald Dahl

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

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I am Roald Dahl

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

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Bessie

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

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Thomas Paine 90

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

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Timmy

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

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Timmy

Who wrote the book “the guns of Navarone”?

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Alistair McClaine

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

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Wind in the willows

Michael Bond wrote about which famous animal in a series of books for children?

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Paddington Bear

Who won a Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children?

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Salmam Rushdie.

Which 20th Century author wrote ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’?

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George Orwell

Which sport are Dick Francis’ novels about?

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Horse racing

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”?

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The Moon and Sixpence Based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin, it is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged English stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly in order to pursue his desire to become an artist. Presumably Strickland’s “moon” is the idealistic realm of Art and Beauty, while the “sixpence” represents human relationships and the ordinary pleasures of life.

What color is the Mr Men character Mr Happy?

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Yellow

What skill won people high office in the land of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?

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Rope dancing.

Who wrote the first modern ghost story in the English language?

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Daniel Defoe. It was True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal.

Which of Tolkien’s fantasy characters inhabit the world of Middle Earth?

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The Hobbits.

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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William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

Who went with Alice to Buckingham Palace?

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Christopher Robin

What author moved some 56 times in the six months after he was issued a death threat?

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Salman Rushdie.

Somerset Maugham’s 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence is a roman a clef about what great French artist?

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Paul Gauguin.

Who wrote 2001?

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Arthur C Clarke

Who wrote ‘Under Milk Wood’?

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Dylan Thomas

What did Sherlock Holmes keep in the toe of a Persian slipper?

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His tobacco

Whose first Secret Diary was written when he was 13 3/4?

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Adrian Mole

What is the subtitle of Peter Pan?

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The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up.

Which of Swift’s novels is an allegorical tale describing travel to lands of giants, miniature people and intelligent horses?

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Gulliver’s Travels.

The book ‘The Satanic Verses’ by Salman Rushdie caused controversy after it was claimed it was blasphemous against which religion?

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Islam (his full name is Ahmed Salman Rushdie).

What color were the covers of the crime novels published in the 1930s by Victor Gollancz?

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Yellow.

What is the name of Scrooge’s clerk?

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Bob Cratchet

Who wrote Children’s Books about the Land of Narnia?

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C.S. Lewis

Who wrote the ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’?

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Edward Gibbon

What every-day item was named after Mrs Gamp in Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit?

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the umbrella

What was the first published Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

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A Study In Scarlet, in 1887.

Where did writer Ian Fleming find the name James Bond for his hero-spy?

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On a coffee-table book, Birds of the West Indies, by ornithologist James Bond.

Where is the Wind in the story about Toad and Badger?

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The willows

What were the names of Wendy Darlings 2 brothers in Peter Pan?

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Michael and John

Whose memoirs were called There and back again?

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Bilbo Baggins The Hobbit

Whose 1995 novel The Moor’s Last Sigh enraged Hindu militants in India?

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Salman Rushdie’s.

Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick, Dr. Watson, suffered a war-time bullet wound. Where was it?

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On his shoulder, according to A Study in Scarlet; in the leg, according to The Sign of Four.

HG Wells “Invisible Man” had what physical oddity?

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Albino

Virginia Woolf always did it standing up – did what?

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Wrote her books

Writer who created Hannah Massay Maggie Rowan Tillie Trotter?

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Catherine Cookson

Who wrote Lord of the Flies?

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William Golding

Which character has been played by the most actors?

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Sherlock Holmes

What is the native country of Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot?

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Belgium

What is the name of the python in the novel ‘Jungle Book’?

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Kaa

What was Gulliver’s first name in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?

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Lemuel.

Who was the author of Spy Catcher in 1987? It was banned by the British government.

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Peter Wright

What is the title of the 3rd book in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series?

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