LITERATURE QUIZ NO. 9
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:32 am1 In which range of mountains does Heidi live?
THE ALPS
2 Who did Sherlock Holmes describe as the Napoleon of Crime?
PROFESSOR MORIATY
3 Which literary character proclaimed “I am the master of all I survey”?
ROBINSON CRUSOE
4 Which novel was inspired by the sinking of the SS Politician off the coast of Scotland?
WHISKEY GALORE
5 Which amateur sleuth made a final appearance in the 1976 story Sleeping Murder?
MISS MARPLE
6 Which Jules Verne novel became the basis of a concept album by Rick Wakeman?
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
7 Which creature can Harry Potter converse with when speaking Parseltongue?
SNAKES
8 Who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962?
JOHN STEINBECK
9 Who penned his most famous work in Seething Lane, London?
SAMUEL PEPYS
10 Which novel by Michael Ondaatje won the Booker Prize and went on to be adapted into an Oscar winning film?
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
11 Which actor is the son of a Poet Laureate who held the title from 1967 to 1972?
DANIEL DAY LEWIS
12 Who wrote under the nom de plume of Acton Bell?
ANNE BRONTE
13 What is the first surname to be mentioned in the first line of the first Harry Potter novel?
DURSLEY
14 Which two Shakespeare plays have an Italian city in the title? (Not including ROMEo and Juliet)
VENICE AND VERONA
15 Which outlaw the subject of a novel by Sir Walter Scott was played on film by Liam Neeson?
ROB ROY
16 Who wrote the book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
WASHINGTON IRVING
17 Which Shakespeare character speaks the most lines, 1422 in total?
HAMLET
18 Which novel contains no named female characters after the author followed the instructions of his stepson Lloyd Osbourne who wrote a note that read “No women in the story”?
TREASURE ISLAND
19 The first name of which Harry Potter character was chosen by JK Rowling after one of the characters in The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare?
HERMIONE
20 Name the four novels of Dan Brown that were simultaneously in the Top Ten Best Sellers List in 200
THE DA VINCI CODE, DECEPTION POINT, ANGELS AND DEMONS AND DIGITAL FORTRESS
THE ALPS
2 Who did Sherlock Holmes describe as the Napoleon of Crime?
PROFESSOR MORIATY
3 Which literary character proclaimed “I am the master of all I survey”?
ROBINSON CRUSOE
4 Which novel was inspired by the sinking of the SS Politician off the coast of Scotland?
WHISKEY GALORE
5 Which amateur sleuth made a final appearance in the 1976 story Sleeping Murder?
MISS MARPLE
6 Which Jules Verne novel became the basis of a concept album by Rick Wakeman?
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
7 Which creature can Harry Potter converse with when speaking Parseltongue?
SNAKES
8 Who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962?
JOHN STEINBECK
9 Who penned his most famous work in Seething Lane, London?
SAMUEL PEPYS
10 Which novel by Michael Ondaatje won the Booker Prize and went on to be adapted into an Oscar winning film?
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
11 Which actor is the son of a Poet Laureate who held the title from 1967 to 1972?
DANIEL DAY LEWIS
12 Who wrote under the nom de plume of Acton Bell?
ANNE BRONTE
13 What is the first surname to be mentioned in the first line of the first Harry Potter novel?
DURSLEY
14 Which two Shakespeare plays have an Italian city in the title? (Not including ROMEo and Juliet)
VENICE AND VERONA
15 Which outlaw the subject of a novel by Sir Walter Scott was played on film by Liam Neeson?
ROB ROY
16 Who wrote the book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
WASHINGTON IRVING
17 Which Shakespeare character speaks the most lines, 1422 in total?
HAMLET
18 Which novel contains no named female characters after the author followed the instructions of his stepson Lloyd Osbourne who wrote a note that read “No women in the story”?
TREASURE ISLAND
19 The first name of which Harry Potter character was chosen by JK Rowling after one of the characters in The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare?
HERMIONE
20 Name the four novels of Dan Brown that were simultaneously in the Top Ten Best Sellers List in 200
THE DA VINCI CODE, DECEPTION POINT, ANGELS AND DEMONS AND DIGITAL FORTRESS
