200 Literature Trivia Questions with Answers
200 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who wrote 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'?
Answer
Douglas Adams
Who wrote the epic poem 'The Faerie Queene'?
Answer
Edmund Spenser
Which novel by Harper Lee features the character Atticus Finch?
Answer
To Kill a Mockingbird
Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
Answer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is the name of the monkey king in 'Journey to the West'?
Answer
Sun Wukong
What is Sherlock Holmes's address in 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'?
Answer
221B Baker Street
What is the name of the protagonist in 'The Sun Also Rises'?
Answer
Jake Barnes
In 'Moby-Dick', what is the name of the ship's first mate?
Answer
Starbuck
Who wrote the novel 'Gravity's Rainbow'?
Answer
Thomas Pynchon
What is the name of the detective in 'The Big Sleep'?
Answer
Philip Marlowe
In 'The Great Gatsby', what is the name of the narrator?
Answer
Nick Carraway
What is the name of the little girl in 'The Secret Garden'?
Answer
Mary Lennox
Who is the author of 'The Hobbit'?
Answer
J.R.R. Tolkien
In 'Charlotte's Web', what is the name of the pig?
Answer
Wilbur
Which Dr. Seuss book features a character named Sam-I-Am?
Answer
Green Eggs and Ham
Who wrote the novel 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'?
Answer
Mark Twain
Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
Answer
T.S. Eliot
Which novel by Gabriel García Márquez begins with the line 'Many years later...'?
Answer
One Hundred Years of Solitude
In which George Orwell novel does the character Winston Smith appear?
Answer
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Which American poet wrote 'The Raven'?
Answer
Edgar Allan Poe
What is the name of the narrator in 'Moby-Dick'?
Answer
Ishmael
Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Fahrenheit 451'?
Answer
Ray Bradbury
What is the name of the protagonist in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
Answer
Dorian Gray
Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
Answer
Leo Tolstoy
In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', what is the real name of Boo Radley?
Answer
Arthur Radley
Who wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
Answer
Lewis Carroll
Which French author wrote 'The Stranger'?
Answer
Albert Camus
What is the name of the young wizard protagonist in J.K. Rowling's series?
Answer
Harry Potter
Who wrote the children's book 'Charlotte's Web'?
Answer
E.B. White
What is the name of the fictional bear in A.A. Milne's stories?
Answer
Winnie-the-Pooh
Who wrote the novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
Answer
J.D. Salinger
Who wrote "Rip Van Winkle"?
Answer
Washington Irving
Where were many of Shakespeare's plays produced?
Answer
Globe Theater
What year did the sci-fi book "1984" come out?
Answer
1949