3995 C.S. Lewis Trivia Questions with Answers
3995 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who narrates C.S. Lewis’s 1942 book The Screwtape Letters?
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Screwtape
Where did C.S. Lewis and other Inklings often meet in Oxford?
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The Eagle and Child
What was C.S. Lewis’s first published work of fiction for children?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Which C.S. Lewis book won the 1957 Carnegie Medal?
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The Last Battle
Which C.S. Lewis work is a fictional account of a patient’s temptation by a senior demon?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which 1943 C.S. Lewis book argues against reducing education to mere subjective feeling?
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The Abolition of Man
Which 1950 C.S. Lewis book begins The Chronicles of Narnia in publication order?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Which C.S. Lewis work is a Christian exploration of pain and suffering published in 1940?
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The Problem of Pain
Which 1956 novel by C.S. Lewis retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through the princess Orual?
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Till We Have Faces
Who is the lion in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series?
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Aslan
Which C.S. Lewis novel, published in 1938, is set partly on the planet Malacandra?
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Out of the Silent Planet
What was the name of the Cambridge professorship C.S. Lewis held from 1954?
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Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Which C.S. Lewis book presents a series of conversations between a senior and junior demon?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which C.S. Lewis work was adapted from his 1941–1944 radio broadcasts?
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Mere Christianity
Which poet and novelist did C.S. Lewis marry in 1956?
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Joy Davidman
Which C.S. Lewis book presents Christianity through a fictional demon’s letters?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which Cambridge university college appointed C.S. Lewis to a fellowship in 1954?
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Magdalene College
Which 1942 book by C.S. Lewis presents correspondence from a senior demon?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which 1936 book by C.S. Lewis examines medieval ideas about courtly love?
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The Allegory of Love
Who was the dedicatee of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
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Lucy Barfield
Which C.S. Lewis book about human affection was published in 1960?
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The Four Loves
Which C.S. Lewis book was published in 1943 and argued for objective moral values?
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The Abolition of Man
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1940 book defending Christianity and addressing human suffering?
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The Problem of Pain
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1942 book based on correspondence between a demon and his apprentice?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which 1956 novel did C.S. Lewis dedicate to his wife, Joy Davidman?
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Till We Have Faces
Which C.S. Lewis work is written as a memoir of grief after his wife's death?
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A Grief Observed
Which medieval author wrote The Divine Comedy, a major influence on C.S. Lewis?
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Dante Alighieri
Which C.S. Lewis work argues against reducing humanity to purely biological or technological progress?
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The Abolition of Man
What religion did C.S. Lewis embrace after his 1931 conversion?
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Christianity
What book title was given to C.S. Lewis’s BBC talks on Christianity during World War II?
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Mere Christianity
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1942 epistolary satire about temptation?
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The Screwtape Letters
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s brother and longtime housemate?
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Warren Lewis
Which C.S. Lewis novel is set largely on the planet Mars?
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Out of the Silent Planet
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s famous children’s fantasy series?
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The Chronicles of Narnia
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s first scholarly book on English literature?
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The Allegory of Love
Which 1943 book by C.S. Lewis examines moral education and objective values?
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The Abolition of Man
Which 1936 scholarly book made C.S. Lewis’s academic reputation?
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The Allegory of Love