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World Literature
The world is full of stories, and this category contains multitudes. If you know your Hesse from your Hosseini and your Adichie from your Allende, these World Literature questions are the ones for you.
What happened one night to the central character of Kafka’s Metamorphosis?
What nationality is the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
WHOSE NOVELS INCLUDE THE AUNT’S STORY AND THE TREE OF MAN?
WHO CREATED THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL?
Which novel features the central character… Phileus Fogg
Who took the assumed name Sebastian Melmoth when living in Paris?
In the Alexandre Dumas novel of 1844 “The Three Musketeers”, what was the name of the leading female character, who was an agent of Cardinal Richelieu?
Who was the love of Quasimodo’s life?
What jungle hero said: “I want you. I am yours. You are mine”?
In Aesop’s fable, which two animals have a race?
What 1908 satirical work by the Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France describes a fictitious island of great auks that exists on the northern coast of Europe?
WHO WROTE PINOCCHIO?
WHO WROTE THE THREE MUSKETEERS?
Archdeacon Frollo is the villain of the piece in which classic novel? Les Miserables, Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Kidnapped, The Three Musketeers
In fairy tales – what was the name of the little man who could turn straw into gold?
In what writer’s work did author Cicily Isabel Fairfield Andrews find her famous pseudonym – Rebecca West?
Max Brod was a good friend of which influential Czech writer and in 1924 saved the unpublished works of this writer from incineration by going against the writer’s will?
Whose treasure did Ben Gunn dig up on Skeleton Island?
Which 1884 work by Henrik Ibsen that tells the story of Gregers Werle is considered to be his finest work?
Whose collection of fairy tales published in 1697 included ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘ Sleeping beauty’?
WHAT NATIONALITY IS HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN?
WHO DID JEAN DE BRUNHOFF CREATE?
Which prominent Nigerian writer was executed in 1996?
According to the title of the Hans Christian Anderson story who had new clothes?
What’s the English title of Freud’s book Traumdeutung?
What color is the Mr Men character Mr Happy?
In adventure literature, what lie in an unexplored region of Africa beyond a mountain range called Sheba’s breasts and a lush green valley called Kukuanaland?
In the folk tale about Rumpelstiltskin, how long did it take the miller’s daughter to guess his name?
Which recent literary Nobel laureate wrote in one of his memoirs “Istanbul’s fate is my fate”?
WHICH ALGERIAN BORN FRENCH AUTHORS WORKS INCLUDED L’ETRANGER AND LA PESTE?
WHAT ‘C’ IS THE FRENCH AUTHOR OF THE STRANGER?
What was the title of the 1960 autobiography of the very first Fuller Brush man, Alfred Fuller?
What book begins, “He came into the world in the middle of the thicket, in one of those little, hidden forest glades which seems to be entirely open, but are really screened in on all sides”?
If Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day details the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and The Last Battle tells about the Battle of Berlin, which of his books tells the story of Operation Market Garden in WWII?
How many knights could be seated around king Arthur’s Round Table?
What was the name of the cat featured with Dick, Jane and their dog spot in the old school primer Now We Read?
What German’s operatic saga is retold Texas-style in Jim Luigs’ stage production, DAs Barbecu?
The most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death in 1985, whose best known works are the Our Ancestors trilogy and the Cosmicomics collection of short stories?
WHICH 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN WROTE ‘THE PRINCE’?
CARLO COLLODI CREATED WHICH FAMOUS CHILDREN’S CHARACTER?
Who was Phileas Fogg’s valet in ‘Around the World in 80 days’?
For what would an Edgar be awarded or won?
Which famous writer was prime minister at the Weimar court from 1775-85?
Sometimes called the world’s first novel, what 11th century work of Japanese literature is attributed to Murasaki Shikibu?
What Frenchman wrote about two fantastic space odysseys – one to the moon and one to the sun – more than 200 years before Jules Verne?
An opera written to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal was first performed on December 24, 1871. What was it?
Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha are prominent characters in which controversial literary work that famously attracted a fatwa?
WHAT ‘S’ WROTE LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR?
Who wrote the novel The Vicar of Wakefield?
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