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 an essay entitled Notes on Hospitals in 1859?
Who wrote the horror novel, The Rats?
Who is the author of the book… The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Which literary character recruited a gang of street urchins called The Baker Street Irregulars?
According to his creator Ian Fleming, in what decade was James Bond born?
Which was the first James Bond novel? Dr No, From Russia with Love, Casino Royale, You Only Live Twice
What color were the covers of the crime novels published in the 1930s by Victor Gollancz?
What words did Lewis Carroll combine to come up with the term “chortle” in Through a Looking-Glass?
Catriona was a sequel to which famous novel?
Who had the novels Spy Hook and Spy Line published in the 80s?
Who wrote The Alchemist?
Which 1959 short story is about Colin, a poor teenager who turns to long-distance running as a method of both an emotional and a physical escape from his bleak prospects in life?
Who was known as the demon barber of Fleet Street?
What bizarre theory about Dr. Watson did mystery writer Rex Stout, and ardent Sherlock Holmes fan, once suggest to fellow members of the Baker Street Irregulars?
Utopia by Thomas More is largely based on which influential work of philosophy and political theory?
Who wrote the stories about Peter Rabbit?
WHAT ‘MM’ IS THE UNLIKELY FEMALE SLEUTH IN AGATHA CHRISTIE’S DETECTIVE STORIES?
WHICH ‘FB’ IS THE CATHOLIC PRIEST DETECTIVE, HERO OF G.K. CHESTERTON’S STORIES?
ALFRED JINGLE APPEARS IN WHICH DICKENS NOVEL?
WHO SAID “SEX OLDER WOMEN BEST THEY THINK ITS THEIR LAST TIME”?
WHO WROTE THE STORY ‘THE OLD MAN OF LOCHNAGAR’?
HOW IS MRS WILLIAM HEELIS BETTER KNOWN?
WHICH ‘EG’ WROTE A CITY OF BELLS, GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY AND THE SCENT OF WATER?
Who opened a shop called Nostalgia of Mud?
Lorna Doone – Who is the male hero in Lorna Doone?
Which novel by RM Ballantyne features the character of Ralph Rover?
Which gothic horror was penned by Mary Shelley in 1818?
Who is the author of the book… Hollywood Wives
Which Yorkshire born writer penned the novels Polo, Riders and Bella?
Who was the first British author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
In the novel 1984 the lead character Winston Smith has a fear of which animals? Bats, rats, cats, gnats
In the cartoon, who is Andy Capp’s wife?
In books by Beatrix Potter, what creature was Mr Tod?
What famous character in English literature made his debut in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887?
Which fictional detective refers to using the little gray cells?
Where did mystery writer Agatha Christie acquire her extensive knowledge of poisons?
In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, why were Lilliputian heretics known as Big-Enders.
Baden-Powell used themes from which two books in setting up the Scouting movement?
Whose birthday is celebrated throughout the world on 25th January?
What is the name of Frankenstein’s monster?
Charles Duff wrote the macabre Handbook of what?
WHICH FAIRY STORY CHARACTER WAS ORIGINALLY AN OLD WOMAN, THEN A YOUNG GIRL CALLED SILVER HAIR?
MARIE STOPES DISCOVERED WHAT IN BRITISH MUSEUM AFTER MARRIAGE?
WHICH ‘NS’ WROTE A TOWN LIKE ALICE?
THE TERM BIG BROTHER IS TAKEN FROM WHICH GEORGE ORWELL BOOK?
WHAT ‘RDB’ WAS A BARRISTER WHO WROTE LORNA DOONEL?
IN WHICH JOHN STEINBECK STORY FEATURES THE SLOW-WITTED LENNIE AND HIS FRIEND GEORGE?
WHAT IS THE NAME OF SHERLOCK HOLMES’ HOUSEKEEPER?
Which author of the Talking Heads monologues was granted the freedom of the city of Leeds in 2006?
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