LITERATURE QUIZ NO. 23
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:03 pm1. What is the longest running play in history?
THE MOUSE TRAAP BY AGATHA CHRISTIE
2. All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan" were bequeathed to which hospital?
GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL
3. “Millie's book”, about an English Springer Spaniel, was on the US bestseller list for 29 weeks. Which “First Lady” was Millie’s owner?
BARBARA BUSH
4. Which Tolkein character was born on September 22 1290?
BILBO BAGGINS
5. Who is the world's top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold?
BARBARA CARTLAND
6. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of what?
FUR
7. Who wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
DR. SEUSS
8. What was the name of the detective in Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"?
AUGUSTE C. DUPIN
9. Who wrote “The Wizard Of Oz”?
FRANK BAUM
10. Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays, but which ones?
HAMLET - JULIUS CAESER - MACBETH - RICHARD III
11. The first American novel to sell one million copies was published on March 20, 1852 and was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, what was it called?
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
12. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
JOHN MILTON
13. Which book by which author originally had a main character called “Pansy O'Hara” and a plantation called “Fountenoy Hall”?
GONE WITH THE WIND / MARGARET MITCHELL
14. Who was Sherlock Holmes' archenemy?
PROFESSOR MORIARTY
15. What were the occupations of the three men in a tub?
BUTCHER, BAKER AND CANDLE STICK MAKER
16. What are the names of The Three Musketeers?
ARAMIS - POTHOS - ATHOS
17. Which detective, created by which author arrived on the mystery scene in "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887?
SHERLOCK HOLMES BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
18. Which story begins begins, 'Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.'
TALES OF 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS
19. Which famous quote by Sherlock Holmes was never actually said?
ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WATSON
20. Which writer teamed up with Stephen King for the Novel “Black House”?
PETER STRAUB
THE MOUSE TRAAP BY AGATHA CHRISTIE
2. All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan" were bequeathed to which hospital?
GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL
3. “Millie's book”, about an English Springer Spaniel, was on the US bestseller list for 29 weeks. Which “First Lady” was Millie’s owner?
BARBARA BUSH
4. Which Tolkein character was born on September 22 1290?
BILBO BAGGINS
5. Who is the world's top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold?
BARBARA CARTLAND
6. Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of what?
FUR
7. Who wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.
DR. SEUSS
8. What was the name of the detective in Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"?
AUGUSTE C. DUPIN
9. Who wrote “The Wizard Of Oz”?
FRANK BAUM
10. Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespearian plays, but which ones?
HAMLET - JULIUS CAESER - MACBETH - RICHARD III
11. The first American novel to sell one million copies was published on March 20, 1852 and was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, what was it called?
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
12. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
JOHN MILTON
13. Which book by which author originally had a main character called “Pansy O'Hara” and a plantation called “Fountenoy Hall”?
GONE WITH THE WIND / MARGARET MITCHELL
14. Who was Sherlock Holmes' archenemy?
PROFESSOR MORIARTY
15. What were the occupations of the three men in a tub?
BUTCHER, BAKER AND CANDLE STICK MAKER
16. What are the names of The Three Musketeers?
ARAMIS - POTHOS - ATHOS
17. Which detective, created by which author arrived on the mystery scene in "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887?
SHERLOCK HOLMES BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
18. Which story begins begins, 'Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.'
TALES OF 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS
19. Which famous quote by Sherlock Holmes was never actually said?
ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WATSON
20. Which writer teamed up with Stephen King for the Novel “Black House”?
PETER STRAUB
