LITERATURE QUIZ 8
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:29 am1 Who has been the subject of works by George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare and John Dryden?
CLEOPATRA
2 April 2nd is the anniversary of whose birthday, celebrated in Denmark?
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
3 Which author created the character of CIA operative Jack Ryan?
TOM CLANCY
4 What type of books were Moody and Sankey famed for publishing in the 19th century?
HYMN BOOKS
5 In which county is the novel Cider with Rosie set?
GLOUCESTSHIRE
6 In 2005 who penned the book Confessions of an Heiress?
PARIS HILTON
7 For what genre of novels is the Hugo Prize awarded?
SCI-FI
8 According to a novel published in 1897, who arrived in Whitby on a vessel called the Demeter?
DRACULA
9 The final chapter of which novel opens with the words, “Reader I married him”?
JANE EYRE
10 Which literary creation of Robert E Howard was played on film by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
CONAN THE BARBARIAN
11 The Camels are Coming published in 1932 marked the literary debut of which heroic character?
BIGGLES
12 What is the main output of the publishing company Bartholomew’s?
MAPS AND ATLASES
13 Which novel was a sequel to Little Women?
GOOD WIVES
14 Whose diaries were infamously forged by Konrad Kajau?
ADOLF HITLER
15 In which novel did Ada Doom “see something nasty in the woodshed”?
COLD COMFORT FARM
16 Which Dickens novel opens with the line “Now what I want is facts”?
HARD TIMES
17 Which novel later filmed starring Robert Redford opens with the line” In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since”?
THE GREAT GATSBY
18 Who was the intended target of the assassin in The Day of the Jackal?
CHARLES DE GAULLE
19 Who refused the title of Poet Laureate in 1813?
SIR WALTER SCOTT
20 What was the first published novel of Charles Dickens?
THE PICKWICK PAPERS
CLEOPATRA
2 April 2nd is the anniversary of whose birthday, celebrated in Denmark?
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
3 Which author created the character of CIA operative Jack Ryan?
TOM CLANCY
4 What type of books were Moody and Sankey famed for publishing in the 19th century?
HYMN BOOKS
5 In which county is the novel Cider with Rosie set?
GLOUCESTSHIRE
6 In 2005 who penned the book Confessions of an Heiress?
PARIS HILTON
7 For what genre of novels is the Hugo Prize awarded?
SCI-FI
8 According to a novel published in 1897, who arrived in Whitby on a vessel called the Demeter?
DRACULA
9 The final chapter of which novel opens with the words, “Reader I married him”?
JANE EYRE
10 Which literary creation of Robert E Howard was played on film by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
CONAN THE BARBARIAN
11 The Camels are Coming published in 1932 marked the literary debut of which heroic character?
BIGGLES
12 What is the main output of the publishing company Bartholomew’s?
MAPS AND ATLASES
13 Which novel was a sequel to Little Women?
GOOD WIVES
14 Whose diaries were infamously forged by Konrad Kajau?
ADOLF HITLER
15 In which novel did Ada Doom “see something nasty in the woodshed”?
COLD COMFORT FARM
16 Which Dickens novel opens with the line “Now what I want is facts”?
HARD TIMES
17 Which novel later filmed starring Robert Redford opens with the line” In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since”?
THE GREAT GATSBY
18 Who was the intended target of the assassin in The Day of the Jackal?
CHARLES DE GAULLE
19 Who refused the title of Poet Laureate in 1813?
SIR WALTER SCOTT
20 What was the first published novel of Charles Dickens?
THE PICKWICK PAPERS
