3995 C.S. Lewis Trivia Questions with Answers
3995 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Oxford pub was associated with C.S. Lewis and the Inklings?
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The Eagle and Child
Which C.S. Lewis novel was published in 1956 and dedicated to Joy Davidman?
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Till We Have Faces
Which C.S. Lewis book features the fictional demon Screwtape?
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The Screwtape Letters
Under what title were C.S. Lewis’s BBC radio talks later published as a book?
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Mere Christianity
Which C.S. Lewis novel was first published in 1950 and introduces Narnia through a wardrobe?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Which Cambridge college became C.S. Lewis's academic home after he took a Cambridge chair in 1954?
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Magdalene College
What was C.S. Lewis's wartime military unit during World War I?
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Somerset Light Infantry
What was C.S. Lewis's final published Narnia novel?
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The Last Battle
What Christian religion did C.S. Lewis return to in 1931?
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Christianity
Which author and scholar was C.S. Lewis's close friend in the Inklings?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
What was the full name of C.S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia?
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Clive Staples Lewis
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s 1933 allegorical novel about a spiritual pilgrimage?
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The Pilgrim’s Regress
At which university did C.S. Lewis become the first holder of the English chair in 1954?
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University of Cambridge
Which C.S. Lewis novel about a space voyage was published first in 1938?
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Out of the Silent Planet
What was C.S. Lewis’s wartime rank when he served in the British Army?
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Second lieutenant
Which C.S. Lewis book is a fictional debate between a senior and junior demon?
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The Screwtape Letters
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1950 apologetics book based on BBC broadcasts?
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Mere Christianity
Which children’s fantasy series did C.S. Lewis write?
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The Chronicles of Narnia
Which C.S. Lewis novel was published in 1945 as the final book of the Space Trilogy?
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That Hideous Strength
Which C.S. Lewis book presents his 1941–1944 BBC talks on Christianity?
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Mere Christianity
Which university appointed C.S. Lewis to its first English literature fellowship in 1925?
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University of Oxford
Who was C.S. Lewis’s close friend and fellow fantasy author of The Lord of the Rings?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which book began C.S. Lewis’s seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Which society did C.S. Lewis help establish at Oxford in 1941?
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The Socratic Club
Which 1955 book by C.S. Lewis recounts his spiritual journey?
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Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis book collected his BBC wartime broadcasts about Christianity?
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Mere Christianity
What fictional name did C.S. Lewis use for his 1961 book about grief?
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N.W. Clerk
Which C.S. Lewis work began as BBC broadcasts during World War II?
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Mere Christianity
What was C.S. Lewis’s first published novel, released in 1938?
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Out of the Silent Planet
Which medieval-literature study earned C.S. Lewis the 1937 Hawthornden Prize?
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The Allegory of Love
Who was the American-born writer whom C.S. Lewis married in 1956?
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Joy Davidman
Which C.S. Lewis novel was published first, The Pilgrim’s Regress or The Great Divorce?
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The Pilgrim’s Regress
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s first Cambridge professorship?
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Medieval and Renaissance English
Where did C.S. Lewis die in 1963?
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Oxford, England
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing for traditional moral values?
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The Abolition of Man
What was C.S. Lewis’s full first name, usually shortened to “C.S.”?
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Clive Staples