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Literature Basic and Advanced General Knowledge Quiz Questions
1. The Term ‘Money is The Root of All Evil ‘ features in which book of the Bible?
Answer: Timothy.
2. Which French Romantic novelist wrote The Count of Monte Cristo?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas.
3. What famous playwright wrote the oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 movie network?
Answer: Paddy Chayefsky, Who Earlier Gave Us Marty.
4. What does the ‘J’ stand for in author J. K. Rowling’s name? (Harry Potter).
Answer: Joanne.
5. Which ‘JE’ is governess to the ward of Mr. Rochester, in the book bearing her name?
Answer: Jane Eyre
6. Who wrote and starred in the 1922 version of Robin Hood?
Answer: Douglas Fairbanks.
7. Which word created by Jk Rowling gained entry into the oxford english dictionary in 2003?
Answer: Muggle.
8. One of Shakespeare’s tragedies is called ‘The Scottish Play’ by superstitious actors. which?
Answer: Macbeth.
9. Name the author who created Hannibal Lecter?
Answer: Thomas Harris.
10. In what book does humpty dumpty first appear?
Answer: Through The Looking Glass.
11. According to the cowboy encyclopaedia what is an Orejano?
Answer: Unbranded Calf.
12. Mary Clarissa Miller, adopted a pseudonym to become one of Britain’s top crime authors, how is she better known?
Answer: Agatha Christie.
13. What is the second book of the Bible’s Old Testament?
Answer: Exodus.
14. Which children’s author won the 2005 Blue Peter Book of the Year award?
Answer: Michael Morpurgo.
15. What book about four days in Iowa took Robert J. Waller two weeks to write, and topped bestseller lists for seven months?
Answer: The Bridges of Madison County.
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16. Which author took a bus full of merry pranksters on a 3 year bus trip around America filming the country and it’s people?
Answer: Ken Kesey.
17. Name Ernest Hemmingway’s book dealing with Bullfighting?
Answer: Fiesta.
18. Which Japanese author and playwright known for nihilistic writings committed ritual suicide by seppuku in 1970?
Answer: Yukio Mishima.
19. Who wrote the concerto called “The Emperor”?
Answer: Beethoven.
20. Who wrote the mega-selling book “The Da Vinci Code”?
Answer: Dan Brown.
21. About which author did Graham Greene say ‘It was as though X had put all his writing in a sieve out of which all the adjectives and adverbs fell out’?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
22. No sleuthing allowed! What struggling doctor wrote The Narrative of John Smith that will be published in 2011 about 130 years after it was first written?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle.
23. Where was the first book printed in the English tongue (in 1475)?
Answer: Bruges.
24. What was the first book in English to be printed in England?
Answer: The Canterbury Tales.
25. Who wrote the first modern ghost story in the English language?
Answer: Daniel Defoe.
26. Whose Job as a book binder on an edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica led to the discovery of electricity?
Answer: Michael Farraday.
27. In Harry Potter, in what year was The Harry Potter Author J.K Rowling Born?
Answer: 1965 (31st July)
28. Which author did Hitler acclaim as the prophet of right wing authoritarianism?
Answer: Nietzsche.
29. Who Famously Wrote ‘A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg’?
Answer: Samuel Butler
30. In July 1987 former Mi5 agent peter wright, published his memoirs in a very controversial book what was it called?
Answer: Spy Catcher.
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31. Who wrote an autobiography “Beginning” in 1989, aged 28?
Answer: Kenneth Branagh.
32. What author moved some 56 times in the six months after he was issued a death threat?
Answer: Salman Rushdie.
33. Who was the author of the book entitled ‘A Brief History of Time’ first published in 1988?
Answer: Stephen Hawking.
34. Which Oscar winning film was inspired by the book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
Answer: Lawrence Of Arabia.
35. What two-word term does the cynic’s dictionary call: ‘A movie seen about 50 times by about that many people’?
Answer: Cult Film.
36. Charles Dodgson wrote his classic children’s story under what name?
Answer: Lewis Carroll.
37. Who wrote the Messiah?
Answer: Handel.
38. Which Actor Wrote The Book ‘The Outlaw Trail’?
Answer: Robert Redford.
39. Which novel has the longest sentence in literature 823 words?
Answer: Les Miserables – Victor Hugo.
40. Who wrote The Beggar’s Opera in 1728?
Answer: John Gay.
41. In what year did the author Agatha Christie die?
Answer: 1976.
42. Who wrote ‘The History Of Mr. Polly’?
Answer: H. G. Wells.
43. In which Ian Fleming novel did James Bond first appear?
Answer: Casino Royale.
44. Who wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1898?
Answer: Oscar Wilde.
45. Who wrote the original story The Witches, filmed in 1990?
Answer: Roald Dahl.
46. The films ‘The Constant Gardener’, ‘The Tailor of Panama’ and ‘The Russia House’ were based on novels by which British author?
Answer: John Le Carre.
47. Whose 1995 novel The Moor’s Last Sigh enraged hindu militants in India?
Answer: Salman Rushdie’s.
48. Who Founded The London Library?
Answer: Thomas Carlyle.
49. The Sequel to which famous novel was called ’20 Years After’?
Answer: The Three Musketeers.
50. What was Shakespeare’s first tragedy?
Answer: Titus Andronicus.
