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 were the Christian names of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
What musical instrument did Sherlock Holmes play?
San Jose State University in the US has an annual fiction contest for bad writing named for which 19th century writer known for his hyperbolic prose?
What name is given to the English ‘group’ of artists of Bohemian disposition that existed from 1905 until around World War II?
Bran Castle that is located on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia in Romania is marketed as the home of which sinister figure?
What term that is a mechanism for the disappearance of inconvenient documents comes from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in which it is a slot into which officials deposit records to be destroyed?
Which Victorian literary character’s immortal words are these?
Which 1895 poem, probably the best evocation of Victorian stoicism was once called “the essence of the message of The Gita (Bhagavad Gita) in English”?
What book published in 1922 has the following introduction? “Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey.”
What is the title of the acclaimed tetralogy of novels by Lawrence Durrell that are set in an African port city?
The 19th century criminal Adam West who was nicknamed the ‘Napoleon of Crime’ by Scotland Yard is speculated to be the inspiration behind the creation of which literary villain?
Which 1844 novel of William Makepeace Thackeray, later adapted into a movie by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the life of an Anglo-Irish fortune-hunter called Andrew Robinson Stoney?
‘The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.’ This unforgettable opening line is from which author’s A Bend in the River and lent itself to the title of that authors authorized biography The World Is What It Is by Patrick French?
“In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of the characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season Spring.” Literary buffs should be able to immediately say what this alludes to. Can you?
Concerned about the vagaries of English spelling, which man of letters willed a portion of his wealth to fund the creation of a new phonemic alphabet for the English language?
The title of which Virginia Woolf’s essay comes from her conception that ‘a woman must have money and this (X) if she is to write fiction’?
Published in 1719, what is sometimes regarded as the first novel in English?
WHICH SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR CREATED THE IDEA OF THE COMMUNICATION SATELLITE?
HOW OLD WAS MARY SHELLY WHEN SHE WROTE FRANKENSTEIN?
WHAT ‘BP’ WAS USED, WITH VINEGAR, TO MEND JACK’S HEAD AFTER HE FELL DOWN THE HILL?
WHAT ‘SJB’ SUCCEEDED CECIL DAY LEWIS AS POET LAUREATE?
WHAT IS THE HEDGEHOG CALLED IN THE TALES OF BEATRIX POTTER?
WHICH SOUTH AFRICAN COUNTRY (NOT SOUTH AFRICA) BANNED THE BOOK “BLACK BEAUTY” AFTER CLAIMING IT’S TITLE WAS RACIST?
WHAT ‘NNL’ IS. THE HOME OF PETER PAN?
IN WHAT BUILDING IN LONDON IS POETS CORNER?
WHO WROTE THE BOOK (BRAVE NEW WORLD)?
WHICH ‘JA’ RESIGNED HIS POSITION AS DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN 1986?
WHICH ‘AIW’ GREW OR SHRANK ACCORDING TO WHICH BOTTLE SHE DRANK FROM?
WHAT ‘BS’ IS A ROAD THAT CONNECTS SHERLOCK HOLMES & MADAME TUSSAUDS?
WHAT ‘CC’ IS A BEST SELLING NOVELIST FROM THE NORTH OF ENGLAND WHO WROTE BOOKS ABOUT TILLY TROTTER?
IN JM BARRIES PETER PAN WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE FAIRY?
WHICH WAS THE MOST FAMOUS CREATION OF P.L TRAVERS?
HOW MUCH DOES MICHAEL HENCHARD SELL HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER FOR IN THOMAS HARDY’S NOVEL THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE?
WHAT ‘W’ WAS THE IRISH WIT JAILED IN 1895?
WHAT ‘JW’ WAS A SCI-FI WRITER WHO INVENTED KIDS WITH YELLOW EYES AND PLANTS WITH A FATAL STING?
IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE WHICH CHARACTER LIVED AT PUDDLEBY-ON-THE-MARSH?
WHO WROTE THE NOVEL DRACULA?
WHAT COUNTRY IS DRACULA SAID TO COME FROM?
WHAT ‘TPP’ IS A DICKENS BOOK THAT INCLUDES MR JINGLE, MRS BARDELL AND MR SNODGRASS?
WHAT SORT OF ANIMAL WAS SHERE KHAN IN THE JUNGLE BOOK?
TO WHICH WRITER DOES THE WORD SHAVIAN APPLY?
IN WHICH DISTRICT DID BEATRIX POTTER LIVE?
WHAT ‘A’ WAS THE GIRL CREATED BY LEWIS CARROLL?
WHICH CHARACTER HAS BEEN PORTRAYED IN FILMS MORE THAN ANY OTHER?
WHICH HIGHLY POPULAR CHILDREN’S STORIES WERE THE BRAINCHILD OF THE REVERAND W AWDRY?
WHAT TYPE OF CHILDRENS BOOKS WERE THE BRAIN CHILD OF ROGER HARGREAVES?
WHO WROTE THE GOTHIC NOVEL DRACULA?
WHO WROTE ‘FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD’?
WHAT IS THE SURNAME OF CATHY IN WUTHERING HEIGHTS?
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