Who played Anna Karenina in the 1935 film adaptation starring Fredric March?
Answer
Greta Garbo
96 Leo Tolstoy Trivia Questions with Answers
96 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which actor played Pierre Bezukhov in the 1966 Soviet film War and Peace?
Answer
Sergei Bondarchuk
What was the name of the railway station where Leo Tolstoy died?
Answer
Astapovo
Which Tolstoy novella follows the young nobleman Dmitry Olenin in the Caucasus?
Answer
The Cossacks
Which Tolstoy story features the peasant Pakhom, who dreams of owning more land?
Answer
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Which Tolstoy novella follows the final days of Ivan Ilyich, a high-court judge?
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
What was the name of Leo Tolstoy’s wife, whom he married in 1862?
Answer
Sofia Behrs
Which philosopher’s ideas strongly influenced Leo Tolstoy’s nonviolent Christian teachings?
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Henry David Thoreau
Which Tolstoy novel features the character Dmitri Nekhlyudov?
Answer
Resurrection
Which war did Leo Tolstoy describe in his 1855 Sevastopol Sketches?
Answer
Crimean War
Which religious leader did Leo Tolstoy correspond with about Christian nonviolence?
Answer
Mahatma Gandhi
What was the title of Leo Tolstoy’s 1863–1869 novel?
Answer
War and Peace
What was Leo Tolstoy’s first major novel about Cossack life called?
Answer
The Cossacks
Which Russian Orthodox body excommunicated Leo Tolstoy in 1901?
Answer
The Holy Synod
Which Tolstoy short story asks, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
Answer
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
At which university did Leo Tolstoy study from 1844 to 1847?
Answer
Kazan University
Which historical French leader appears as a major figure in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace?
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Napoleon Bonaparte
What was the name of Leo Tolstoy’s youngest child?
Answer
Ivan Tolstoy
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella centered on Pozdnyshev’s confession?
Answer
The Kreutzer Sonata
Who is the central rebel leader in Leo Tolstoy’s novella Hadji Murat?
Answer
Hadji Murat
Which battle in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is fought on 7 September 1812?
Answer
The Battle of Borodino
Which Leo Tolstoy novel opens with the sentence “All happy families are alike”?
Answer
Anna Karenina
In Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, what is the name of Natasha Rostova’s husband?
Answer
Pierre Bezukhov
In Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, what is the full name of Pierre Bezukhov?
Answer
Pyotr Kirillovich Bezukhov
Which Leo Tolstoy short story is known in English as After the Ball?
Answer
After the Ball
What was the name of Leo Tolstoy’s country estate where he was born and later buried nearby?
Answer
Yasnaya Polyana
According to the Gregorian calendar, on what date was Leo Tolstoy born?
Answer
9 September 1828
What was the name of Leo Tolstoy’s educational journal published in 1862?
Answer
Yasnaya Polyana
What illness caused Leo Tolstoy’s death in 1910?
Answer
Pneumonia
What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s spiritual autobiography published in 1884?
Answer
A Confession
Which Leo Tolstoy novel is set partly in the Caucasus and follows Olenin?
Answer
The Cossacks
Which Leo Tolstoy book influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideas about nonviolence?
Answer
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
What was the title of Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 drama about a wealthy family’s estate?
Answer
The Fruits of Enlightenment
How many volumes make up the main narrative of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace?
Answer
Four volumes