At which university did C.S. Lewis hold a chair from 1954?
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Cambridge University
3995 C.S. Lewis Trivia Questions with Answers
3995 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What was C.S. Lewis’s academic specialty at Oxford University?
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English literature
Which C.S. Lewis work grew from his BBC radio broadcasts during World War II?
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Mere Christianity
Which 1952 book by C.S. Lewis developed from his BBC talks on Christianity?
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Mere Christianity
Which organization did C.S. Lewis help found in Oxford in 1933?
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The Inklings
What was C.S. Lewis’s first academic chair at the University of Cambridge called?
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Medieval and Renaissance Literature
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing that moral education needs an objective basis?
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The Abolition of Man
What is the name of C.S. Lewis’s Christian allegory published in 1933?
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The Pilgrim’s Regress
Which C.S. Lewis book explains Christian belief through fictional conversations with a demon?
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The Screwtape Letters
Which writer became C.S. Lewis’s close friend and fellow Oxford academic?
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Which allegorical novel by C.S. Lewis was published in 1956 as the final Narnia book?
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The Last Battle
What is the name of the main character in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy?
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Elwin Ransom
Which Cambridge college employed C.S. Lewis as a fellow and tutor from 1954?
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Magdalene College
What subject did C.S. Lewis hold the Cambridge chair in from 1954?
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Medieval and Renaissance Literature
On what date did C.S. Lewis die in Oxford, according to the Gregorian calendar?
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22 November 1963
Which C.S. Lewis novel is narrated by a medieval woman named Orual?
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Till We Have Faces
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s Christian apologetics book based on his wartime radio broadcasts?
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Mere Christianity
Which C.S. Lewis novel begins the Chronicles of Narnia with four children entering a wardrobe?
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
What was C.S. Lewis’s birth name before he became known by his initials?
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Clive Staples Lewis
Which C.S. Lewis work retells the Cupid and Psyche myth through Orual?
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Till We Have Faces
Which C.S. Lewis book presents fictional letters from a senior demon to a junior tempter?
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The Screwtape Letters
What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1955 autobiography about his journey toward Christianity?
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Surprised by Joy
What nickname did C.S. Lewis give the Oxford pub where the Inklings often met?
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The Bird and Baby
In which Oxford literary group did C.S. Lewis participate with J.R.R. Tolkien?
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The Inklings
What was C.S. Lewis’s birthplace?
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Belfast
What pen name did C.S. Lewis use for Spirits in Bondage?
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Clive Hamilton
What subject did C.S. Lewis teach at Magdalene College, Cambridge, after moving there in 1954?
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Medieval and Renaissance English
Which C.S. Lewis novel begins the Space Trilogy with protagonist Elwin Ransom?
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Out of the Silent Planet
Which C.S. Lewis book presents Christianity through radio talks later adapted into essays?
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Mere Christianity
Which C.S. Lewis autobiography describes his intellectual and spiritual conversion?
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Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis book argues that moral education should resist reducing values to personal feelings?
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The Abolition of Man
Which C.S. Lewis book is framed as a travel account through a strange afterlife?
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The Great Divorce
Which C.S. Lewis book examines the idea of four kinds of human love?
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The Four Loves
Which C.S. Lewis novel follows the adult life of Orual, queen of Glome?
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Till We Have Faces
Which medal did C.S. Lewis win for The Last Battle in 1957?
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Carnegie Medal
Which C.S. Lewis work features the demon Screwtape advising his nephew Wormwood?
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The Screwtape Letters
What is the first novel in C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy?
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Out of the Silent Planet