3995 C.S. Lewis Trivia Questions with Answers
3995 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which C.S. Lewis book presents the idea of the “Tao” as universal moral law?
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The Abolition of Man
What was the pen name C.S. Lewis used for poetry published in the 1920s?
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Clive Hamilton
Which C.S. Lewis book was published in 1936 as a study of medieval love literature?
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The Allegory of Love
Who was C.S. Lewis’s older brother and frequent travel companion?
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Warren Lewis
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1933 allegorical novel about a journey through religious ideas?
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The Pilgrim’s Regress
What medium first presented C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity to a wide audience?
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BBC radio broadcasts
What pen name did C.S. Lewis use for the 1918 poetry collection Spirits in Bondage?
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Clive Hamilton
Which C.S. Lewis novel follows the orphaned girl Orual in the kingdom of Glome?
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Till We Have Faces
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s memoir about his conversion from atheism?
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Surprised by Joy
At which Oxford church did C.S. Lewis worship and preach as a layman?
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Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s BBC radio talks later published as Mere Christianity?
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Broadcast Talks
Which Cambridge professorship did C.S. Lewis hold from 1954 until his death?
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Medieval and Renaissance English
What was C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book of Christian literary criticism about the dangers of modern education?
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The Abolition of Man
Which author and Oxford colleague was C.S. Lewis’s close friend in the Inklings?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which C.S. Lewis book is a memoir of his early life and conversion?
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Surprised by Joy
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing that education needs a moral foundation?
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The Abolition of Man
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s Cambridge professorship beginning in 1954?
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Medieval and Renaissance English
Which C.S. Lewis novel completes the Space Trilogy and is set largely on Earth?
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That Hideous Strength
Which C.S. Lewis book collects his reflections after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman?
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A Grief Observed
Which 1955 memoir by C.S. Lewis describes his early life and return to Christianity?
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Surprised by Joy
What 1943 C.S. Lewis book examines the dangers of human pride and ideology?
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The Abolition of Man
Which C.S. Lewis novel, published in 1938, began his science-fiction Space Trilogy?
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Out of the Silent Planet
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s seven-book fantasy series about Narnia?
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The Chronicles of Narnia
Which C.S. Lewis book argues for Christianity through a fictional dialogue between a demon and his nephew?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which C.S. Lewis book presents a fictional conversation about Christianity?
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The Screwtape Letters
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s space-trilogy novel published in 1938?
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Out of the Silent Planet
What pseudonym does the protagonist use in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy?
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Elwin Ransom
What was C.S. Lewis's full first name, rather than the initials he used publicly?
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Clive Staples
What 1952 book collected C.S. Lewis's wartime BBC talks about Christianity?
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Mere Christianity
Which C.S. Lewis novel features the space-traveling philologist Elwin Ransom?
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Out of the Silent Planet
Which C.S. Lewis book developed his wartime radio talks into a Christian apologetics work?
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Mere Christianity
Which author became one of C.S. Lewis’s closest literary friends through the Inklings?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which C.S. Lewis book examines the medieval worldview and imagination?
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The Discarded Image
At which Cambridge college did C.S. Lewis become a fellow and teach English?
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Magdalene College
Which C.S. Lewis work is a fictional correspondence between a demon and his nephew?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which C.S. Lewis novel features the wardrobe leading to Narnia?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe