200 Literature Trivia Questions with Answers
200 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954?
Answer
Ernest Hemingway
Which pseudonym did Charlotte Brontë use when publishing "Jane Eyre"?
Answer
Currer Bell
Which author wrote "The Sun Also Rises"?
Answer
Ernest Hemingway
Who wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken"?
Answer
Robert Frost
Who is the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
Answer
Ken Kesey
What is the name of the protagonist in "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka?
Answer
Gregor Samsa
Who wrote the play "Death of a Salesman"?
Answer
Arthur Miller
Who wrote the children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"?
Answer
Beatrix Potter
In which century was Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" written?
Answer
14th century
Which novel by Jane Austen features the character Mr. Darcy?
Answer
Pride and Prejudice
Who wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby"?
Answer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Which 14th-century poem by William Langland features the dreamer Will?
Answer
Piers Plowman
Which 1554 Spanish work is often cited as the first picaresque novel?
Answer
Lazarillo de Tormes
Which novel won the first Booker Prize in 1969?
Answer
Something to Answer For
What was the first book printed in English by William Caxton?
Answer
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
In which city is James Joyce's "Ulysses" chiefly set?
Answer
Dublin
Who wrote the 1925 novel "Mrs Dalloway"?
Answer
Virginia Woolf
What is the French title of Albert Camus's novel "The Stranger"?
Answer
L'Étranger
Which poet wrote the only novel "The Bell Jar"?
Answer
Sylvia Plath
George Eliot's novel "Middlemarch" is set in which fictional English town?
Answer
Middlemarch
Which Japanese writer is traditionally credited with "The Tale of Genji"?
Answer
Murasaki Shikibu
What language was the Old English epic poem "Beowulf" written in?
Answer
Old English
Which novel begins with the line "Call me Ishmael"?
Answer
Moby-Dick
Which author created the detective Hercule Poirot?
Answer
Agatha Christie
Which French author wrote "Les Misérables"?
Answer
Victor Hugo
Which Irish author wrote the novel "Dracula"?
Answer
Bram Stoker
Which author wrote the allegorical novella "Animal Farm"?
Answer
George Orwell
Which John Steinbeck novel features the characters George and Lennie?
Answer
Of Mice and Men
Who wrote 'The Chronicles of Narnia'?
Answer
C. S. Lewis
What is the name of the detective in 'The Maltese Falcon'?
Answer
Sam Spade
In 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', who paints Dorian's portrait?
Answer
Basil Hallward
Which Nigerian author wrote 'Things Fall Apart'?
Answer
Chinua Achebe
In Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', what is the name of the scientist?
Answer
Victor Frankenstein
What is the name of the protagonist in 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
Answer
Holden Caulfield
Which American author wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
Answer
Harper Lee
In 'The Lord of the Rings', what is the name of the ring that rules all others?
Answer
The One Ring
Who wrote the children's book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'?
Answer
Eric Carle
Which author wrote 'The Handmaid's Tale'?
Answer
Margaret Atwood
What is the name of the whale in Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick'?
Answer
Moby Dick