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.

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

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Who wrote the book “the guns of Navarone”?

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

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

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

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

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

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Which sport are Dick Francis’ novels about?

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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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What color is the Mr Men character Mr Happy?

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

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

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

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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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Who went with Alice to Buckingham Palace?

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

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

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Who won a Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children?

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

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

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Whose memoirs were called There and back again?

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

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

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HG Wells “Invisible Man” had what physical oddity?

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Virginia Woolf always did it standing up – did what?

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Writer who created Hannah Massay Maggie Rowan Tillie Trotter?

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Who wrote Lord of the Flies?

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Which character has been played by the most actors?

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

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

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

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

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

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Who wrote the novel Brave New World?

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

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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?

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Who wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

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

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Who wrote 2001?

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Who wrote ‘Under Milk Wood’?

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

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

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What is the subtitle of Peter Pan?

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

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

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

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What is the name of Scrooge’s clerk?

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

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

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