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.
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.
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”?
Michael Bond wrote about which famous animal in a series of books for children?
Who won a Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children?
Which 20th Century author wrote ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’?
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”?
What color is the Mr Men character Mr Happy?
What skill won people high office in the land of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
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?
Who went with Alice to Buckingham Palace?
What author moved some 56 times in the six months after he was issued a death threat?
Somerset Maugham’s 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence is a roman a clef about what great French artist?
Who wrote 2001?
Who wrote ‘Under Milk Wood’?
What did Sherlock Holmes keep in the toe of a Persian slipper?
Whose first Secret Diary was written when he was 13 3/4?
What is the subtitle of Peter Pan?
Which of Swift’s novels is an allegorical tale describing travel to lands of giants, miniature people and intelligent horses?
The book ‘The Satanic Verses’ by Salman Rushdie caused controversy after it was claimed it was blasphemous against which religion?
What color were the covers of the crime novels published in the 1930s by Victor Gollancz?
What is the name of Scrooge’s clerk?
Who wrote Children’s Books about the Land of Narnia?
Who wrote the ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’?
What every-day item was named after Mrs Gamp in Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit?
What was the first published Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Where did writer Ian Fleming find the name James Bond for his hero-spy?
Where is the Wind in the story about Toad and Badger?
What were the names of Wendy Darlings 2 brothers in Peter Pan?
Whose memoirs were called There and back again?
Whose 1995 novel The Moor’s Last Sigh enraged Hindu militants in India?
Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick, Dr. Watson, suffered a war-time bullet wound. Where was it?
HG Wells “Invisible Man” had what physical oddity?
Virginia Woolf always did it standing up – did what?
Writer who created Hannah Massay Maggie Rowan Tillie Trotter?
Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
Which character has been played by the most actors?
What is the native country of Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot?
What is the name of the python in the novel ‘Jungle Book’?
What was Gulliver’s first name in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels?
Who was the author of Spy Catcher in 1987? It was banned by the British government.
What is the title of the 3rd book in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series?
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