Who was C.S. Lewis’s close friend and fellow Inkling who wrote The Lord of the Rings?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
3995 C.S. Lewis Trivia Questions with Answers
3995 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What was the full name of the British author known as C.S. Lewis?
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Clive Staples Lewis
Which C.S. Lewis book examines the idea of universal human affection in four categories?
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The Four Loves
What was the name of the Oxford society whose weekly meetings C.S. Lewis chaired?
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The Socratic Club
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1942 book of Christian apologetics about temptation?
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The Screwtape Letters
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s autobiography about his spiritual journey?
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Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis book records radio talks later adapted into Mere Christianity?
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Broadcast Talks
Which C.S. Lewis novel follows Mark Studdock at the fictional N.I.C.E.?
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That Hideous Strength
Which C.S. Lewis novel features the talking horse Bree?
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The Horse and His Boy
Which C.S. Lewis fantasy series begins with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
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The Chronicles of Narnia
Which C.S. Lewis work argues that modern education can undermine objective moral values?
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The Abolition of Man
Which university employed C.S. Lewis as an English literature professor from 1954?
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Cambridge University
Which C.S. Lewis book presents a fictional correspondence between a demon and his nephew?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which C.S. Lewis science-fiction novel features the philologist Elwin Ransom?
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Out of the Silent Planet
Which C.S. Lewis book follows the demon Screwtape’s advice to his nephew Wormwood?
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The Screwtape Letters
What academic chair did C.S. Lewis hold at Cambridge University from 1954?
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Medieval and Renaissance English
What was C.S. Lewis’s pen name for his autobiography Surprised by Joy?
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None; he used his own name
What was C.S. Lewis’s Oxford literary discussion group called?
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The Inklings
Which C.S. Lewis book presents Christianity through radio talks later collected in print?
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Mere Christianity
Which C.S. Lewis novel was published in 1938 as the first part of his Space Trilogy?
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Out of the Silent Planet
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s BBC radio-talk collection published in 1952?
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Mere Christianity
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s wife who inspired A Grief Observed?
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Joy Davidman
What was C.S. Lewis’s final completed Narnia novel?
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The Last Battle
Which writer was C.S. Lewis’s fellow Inkling and author of The Hobbit?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which 1943 C.S. Lewis book argues that education needs objective moral values?
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The Abolition of Man
What is the name of the first book in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy?
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Out of the Silent Planet
Which C.S. Lewis book developed from his 1940s BBC radio broadcasts about Christianity?
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Mere Christianity
Which C.S. Lewis book is framed as letters from the demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood?
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The Screwtape Letters
Who is the central human character in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy?
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Elwin Ransom
What name does C.S. Lewis give Mars in Out of the Silent Planet?
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Malacandra
Which university employed C.S. Lewis as a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College?
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University of Oxford
Which lecture series led to C.S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man?
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Riddell Memorial Lectures
Which C.S. Lewis novel features the fictional organization NICE?
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That Hideous Strength
What was C.S. Lewis’s wartime book about suffering, published in 1940?
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The Problem of Pain
What was C.S. Lewis’s first published book under the name Clive Hamilton?
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Spirits in Bondage
Which C.S. Lewis work was published posthumously in 1964 under the title Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer?
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1956 mythological novel retelling the Cupid and Psyche story?
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Till We Have Faces
What Christian book by C.S. Lewis developed from wartime radio broadcasts?
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Mere Christianity
Which 1950 novel by C.S. Lewis begins the publication history of The Chronicles of Narnia?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
What name did C.S. Lewis use for the literary group that met at Oxford?
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The Inklings
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s 1955 autobiography?
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Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis novel features the demon Screwtape writing letters to Wormwood?
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The Screwtape Letters