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.
Who wrote: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”?
IN WHAT BOOK DID WE MEET THE EOLI AND THE MORLOCKS?
WHAT COLOR IS THE MISTERMAN MR WORRY?
PETER, PHYLLIS AND ROBERTA ARE BETTER KNOWN AS WHAT ACCORDING TO E NESBIT?
WHO WROTE THE BEST SELLING NOVELS, ‘OF MICE AND MEN’, ‘THE GRAPES OF WRATH’ AND ‘EAST OF EDEN’?
WHAT ‘T ARE THE PLANTS WITH WHICH BILL MASON HAS TO STRUGGLE?
WHICH ‘JA’ WROTE KANE AND ABEL AND FIRST AMONG EQUALS’?
WHICH FAMOUS NOVEL BEGINS WITH THE LINE “ IT WAS A BRIGHT COLD DAY IN APRIL AND THE CLOCKS WERE STRIKING THIRTEEN ”?
What make of car did Inspector Morse drive in the first Morse novel?
Treasure Island – What is the actual name of the island in the novel?
Who penned the novel Lost Horizon?
Name any year during which he/she was alive…. Jane Austen
Who wrote the novel on which the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was based?
In which decade was Tolkien born?
Point Clue: My parents were Norwegian and in 1953 I married the Hollywood actress Patricia Neal. Who am I?
Which playwright said in a 1960 revue ‘Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key’?
Who wrote the book The Hammer of God?
Whose father was put into a Pie by Mr McGregor?
Where did the name Winnie, for Winnie the Pooh, come from?
Captain W E Johns invented which hero?
What was William Golding’s follow up to The Lord of the Flies?
What was the profession of Sir David Frost’s father?
What is observed annually on June 16 in Dublin to celebrate the life of James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses?
Who wrote the popular children’s poem The Pied Pipe r of Hamelin?
Abel Magwitch and Biddy appear in which Dickens book?
Which English children’s book author and illustrator is renowned for creating Peter Rabbit?
PHYLLIS PEARSALL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESIGN AND CREATION OF WHAT BOOK FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1936?
WHAT ‘MM’ WAS AGATHA CHRISTIE’S FEMALE DETECTIVE?
FOR WHICH MINISTRY DID WINSTON SMITH WORK IN 1984?
NAME THE AUTHOR OF THE CANTERBURY TALES?
WHAT ‘G’ WROTE THE FORSYTHE SAGA?
E W HORNUNG CREATED WHICH FICTIONAL CHARACTER?
WHO WAS BORN IN WATTENSCHEID GERMANY NOVEMBER 11TH 1920?
Which novel features a ship called the Covenant?
Ulysses – What is the name of the central character in this James Joyce novel?
Who wrote the novel Cold Comfort Farm?
Which famous writer lived at 393 Old Commercial Road in Plymouth?
Who penned the novel Beau Geste?
In which decade did Tolkien die?
Point Clue: I wrote the popular children’s stories Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Who am I?
JRR Tolkien (1892-1973) wrote the Hobbit in 1937 for his children and Lord of the rings in 1954/55. Give me 2 of his first names.
Who were Miss Marple’s next door neighbors in the Agatha Christie mysteries about the sleuthing senior citizen from St. Mary Mead?
Who wrote the novel Black Beauty, first published in 1877?
In which Jerome K Jerome novel would you find a dog called Mont Morency?
Which British writer, noted for a series of novels dealing with black magi and occultism, also wrote Murder off Miami?
Who wrote ‘Robinson Crusoe’?
Who wrote the novels about Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple?
Little Larry Puny Pete Small Sam considered names of who?
Who’s 1st Novel was entitled ‘The Time Machine’?
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