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.
ACCORDING TO THE YELLOW PAGES AD WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE BOOK SUPPOSEDLY WRITTEN BY J R HARTLEY?
THE HALF WIT SMIKE APPEARS IN WHICH DICKENS NOVEL?
WHO CREATED THE CHILDREN’S LAND OF NARNIA AND LION WITCH WARDROBE?
O’Henry created which western character in a short story?
There were two authors of the ‘Communist Manifesto’, which was first published 1848? Karl MARX was one. Who was the other?
ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF WHICH CLASSIC NOVEL?
THE SEA COOK WAS THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF WHAT FAMOUS NOVEL?
WHO IS KANGA’S SON IN THE WINNIE-THE-POOH STORIES?
In the Hans Christian Andersen story, which little girl was found inside the petals of a flower?
In which city is the statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘Little Mermaid’?
Fill in the missing two words in the key sentence in Camus’s The Stranger in which the main character Mersault finds peace in the realization that life has no meaning. “It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the ___ ___ of the universe.”
Michel de Montaigne of France is best known for popularizing what kind of writing as a literary genre?
The murder of landlady Alena and the angst it causes in the psyche of the perpetrator is central to the plot of which 1866 literary classic?
Can you fill in the phrase in the title of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the X?
Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese artist best known as the creator of which celebrated manga (anime) character?
The title of which classic 19th century Russian novel comes from the plot where deceased serfs are counted for accounting purposes?
When he was killed in a car crash in 1960, which existentialist became the shortest-lived of any literature Nobel laurate till date?
John F. Kennedy’s often quoted sentence in his 1961 inaugural address was inspired by which Lebanese-American poet who wrote “Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?…”?
Which classic 1958 novel concerns the life of Okonkwo of the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria?
Which popular French children’s fictional character was created by Jean de Brunhoff in 1931?
Which trio are collectively regarded as the top Greek tragedians who were key to the development of drama as we know it?
Fans of Russian Literature who cannot read the originals in Russian ought to be thankful to Constance Garnett. Why?
Which Russian playwright and short story writer was a practising doctor throughout his literary career and once said “medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress”?
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber are the four novels considered as the most influential of the fiction of the literature of which country?
In the days of Haroun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad, a poor porter pauses to rest on a bench outside the gate of a rich merchant’s house, where he complains to Allah about the injustice of a world which allows the rich to live in ease while he must toil and yet remain poor. The owner of the house hears this, and sends for the porter, and it is found they are both named X. The rich X tells the poor X that he became wealthy, “by Fortune and Fate,” the details of which he will now proceed to relate. What magnificent adventures follow?
Which 17th century literary classic ends with the title character stipulating in his will that his niece will be disinherited if she marries anyone who reads about chivalry?
Homage to Catalonia, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Road to Oxiana, In Patagonia and Arabian Sands are some of the classics in what genre of writing?
WHAT ‘B’ WAS A FRENCH NOVELIST WHO DIED PARTLY FROM DRINKING TOO MUCH BLACK COFFEE?
IN WHICH TOWN IS THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV SET?
WHAT ‘AK’ IS A BOOK WRITTEN BY TOLSTOY?
IN WHICH EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITY DID ANN FRANK WRITE HER FAMOUS DIARY?
WHICH FICTIONAL CHARACTER LIVES AT 7 SAVILE ROW, BURLINGTON GARDENS, LONDON?
WHICH MICHAEL ONDAATJE BOOK WAS MADE INTO AN OSCAR WINNING FILM WITH RALPH FIENNES?
WHO WROTE THE MAIGRET STORIES?
WHO CREATED THE FAIRY TALE CHARACTER ‘LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD’?
WHAT ‘L’ HAD A THORN REMOVED FROM ITS FOOT BY ANDROCLES?
IN WHICH CITY DID PHILEAS FOGG BEGIN HIS TRIP AROUND THE WORLD?
WHICH ‘GG’ SHOULDN’T YOU KILL IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE GETTING VALUABLE EGGS?
WHO WROTE IN 1770 “IF GOD DID NOT EXIST IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO INVENT HIM”?
WHAT ‘PF’ WENT AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS?
NAME THE SUBMARINE THAT WAS COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN NEMO IN THE JULES VERNE’S NOVEL “TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA”?
WHAT ‘AL’ WHEN RUBBED SHOULD GRANT THREE WISHES?
KONRAD KUJAU & GERD HEIDEMANN WERE ARRESTED IN MAY 1983 FOR THEIR PART IN WHAT FRAUDULENT PUBLICATION?
WHICH 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN WROTE ‘THE PRINCE’?
WHAT ‘S’ IS THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING NOVELIST WHO ORIGINALLY WROTE IN YIDDISH?
IN WHICH COUNTRY WAS DR ZHIVAGO FIRST PUBLISHED?
FRANZ KAFKA WROTE IN GERMAN, WHAT NATIONALITY WAS HE?
WHICH ‘HCA’ IS A DANISH WRITER BEST KNOWN FOR HIS FAIRY TALES?
WHAT ‘HP’ IS WHAT AN UGLY FROG TURNS INTO WHEN KISSED BY A PRINCESS?
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