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 records his autobiography up to his conversion to Christianity?
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Surprised by Joy
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s science-fiction trilogy set partly on Malacandra?
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The Space Trilogy
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s first published book of fiction?
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The Pilgrim’s Regress
Which C.S. Lewis work won the 1957 Carnegie Medal for children’s literature?
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The Last Battle
Which group did C.S. Lewis belong to with J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams?
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The Inklings
What university did C.S. Lewis teach at from 1954 until 1963?
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Cambridge University
Which C.S. Lewis book explains how the world of Narnia was created?
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The Magician's Nephew
Which C.S. Lewis book presents the fictional demon Screwtape giving advice to a junior tempter?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which C.S. Lewis book was published posthumously in 1964 as letters to a fictional friend?
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
Which C.S. Lewis novel opens the Chronicles of Narnia in its original publication order?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Which C.S. Lewis book examines the problem of human suffering in Christian apologetics?
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The Problem of Pain
Which C.S. Lewis book is a 1955 autobiography about his conversion and intellectual journey?
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Surprised by Joy
Which book did C.S. Lewis publish under the pen name Clive Hamilton in 1919?
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Spirits in Bondage
At which Cambridge university did C.S. Lewis hold a medieval and Renaissance English professorship?
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University of Cambridge
What Oxford pub was associated with C.S. Lewis’s literary group, the Inklings?
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The Eagle and Child
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s final published novel?
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Till We Have Faces
Under what pseudonym did C.S. Lewis publish Spirits in Bondage?
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Clive Hamilton
Which C.S. Lewis work adapts his 1941 radio talks on Christianity?
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Mere Christianity
Which C.S. Lewis book was originally published under the name N.W. Clerk?
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A Grief Observed
Which Narnia book was published first in 1950?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Which Oxford college did C.S. Lewis tutor at from 1925?
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Magdalen College
Which 1942 C.S. Lewis book presents Christian apologetics through a series of letters from a senior demon?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which Cambridge college became C.S. Lewis’s academic home when he took a professorship in 1954?
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Magdalene College
Which author was C.S. Lewis’s close friend and fellow member of the Inklings?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s science-fiction trilogy’s main protagonist?
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Elwin Ransom
Which university appointed C.S. Lewis to a Cambridge professorship in 1954?
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University of Cambridge
Which 1933 C.S. Lewis book retells the Christian journey through an allegorical pilgrimage?
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The Pilgrim’s Regress
What was C.S. Lewis’s Oxford literary society with J.R.R. Tolkien called?
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The Inklings
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1944 book defending objective moral values?
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The Abolition of Man
Which 1943 C.S. Lewis novel features the protagonist Ransom on Malacandra?
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Out of the Silent Planet
Which C.S. Lewis book explains Christianity through a series of imagined wartime radio talks?
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Mere Christianity
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s series about the land of Narnia?
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The Chronicles of Narnia
Which 1943 C.S. Lewis book argues that moral education must protect objective values?
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The Abolition of Man
What 1936 scholarly book made C.S. Lewis an important literary historian?
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The Allegory of Love
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s Cambridge college?
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Magdalene College
What 1938 novel began C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy?
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Out of the Silent Planet
What name did C.S. Lewis use for the 1955 autobiography Surprised by Joy?
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Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis book presents his BBC radio talks later collected as Mere Christianity?
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Mere Christianity
Which book by C.S. Lewis was adapted into the 2005 film starring Liam Neeson as Aslan’s voice?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Which Christian denomination did C.S. Lewis belong to?
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Anglicanism
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s 1933 allegorical novel about a medieval pilgrim?
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The Pilgrim’s Regress