Trivia Quiz on British Authors

1. Who wrote 'The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy'

A) Douglas adams

B) Arthur C. Clarke

C) Isaac Asimov

D) Neil Gaiman

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2. Who wrote the children's book Bedknobs and Broomsticks

A) Mary Norton

B) Enid Blyton

C) Beatrix Potter

D) Lewis Carroll

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3. What better name is Mary Westmacott better known

A) Dorothy L. Sayers

B) Daphne du Maurier

C) Enid Blyton

D) Agatha Christie

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4. Which fantasy writer's latest book is called "The Fifth Elephant"

A) J.K. Rowling

B) George R.R. Martin

C) Terry pratchett

D) Neil Gaiman

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5. P L Travers created which famous character

A) Peter Pan

B) Mary Poppins

C) Winnie the Pooh

D) Alice

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6. Who said "sex older women best they think its their last time"

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) Ian Fleming

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) George Orwell

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7. Who created 'peter rabbit'

A) A.A. Milne

B) L. Frank Baum

C) Beatrix Potter

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8. Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Grey"

A) Charles Dickens

B) Edgar Allan Poe

C) Jane Austen

D) Oscar wilde

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9. Which author wrote the two World War 2 books 'Fighter' and 'Bomber'

A) Len deighton

B) Ian Fleming

C) Alistair MacLean

D) Patrick O'Brian

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10. Who wrote the original story "The Lost World"?

A) Jules Verne

B) H. G. Wells

C) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

D) Michael Crichton

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11. What are the Christian names of the novelist P D James

A) Dorothy Phyllis

B) Phyllis dorothy

C) Phyllis Jane

D) Mary Phyllis

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12. Who wrote the Prisoner of Zenda?

A) John Buchan

B) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

C) Anthony Hope

D) H. G. Wells

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13. Who wrote the 'noddy' books

A) Roald Dahl

B) Beatrix Potter

C) Enid blyton

D) A. A. Milne

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14. Which author wrote the "Redwall" series of novels

A) Ian McEwan

B) Brian jacques

C) J.K. Rowling

D) Terry Pratchett

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15. What were J.B. Priestley's christian names

A) John Benjamin

B) John Boyd

C) John boynton

D) Jonathan Boynton

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16. What is the middle name of author Arthur C. Clarke

A) Arthur Cyril Clarke

B) Arthur Bernard Clarke

C) Charles

D) Arthur Philip Clarke

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17. Who wrote The Deceiver 1991 and The Fist of God 1993

A) John le Carré

B) Tom Clancy

C) Ken Follett

D) Frederick Forsyth

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18. Harbour who wrote 'the invisible man'

A) H.g wells

B) Herbert George Wells

C) H. G. Wills

D) George Herbert Wells

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19. Edgar Cuthwellis was option but the author chose another what

A) Lewis Carrol

B) Charles Dickens

C) H.G. Wells

D) Arthur Conan Doyle

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20. Who created the fictional character 'Tristram Shandy'?

A) Jonathan Swift

B) Charles Dickens

C) Jane Austen

D) Laurence Stern

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21. Which authors books are most borrowed from libraries

A) Agatha Christie

B) J.K. Rowling

C) Catherine Cookson

D) Stephen King

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22. Which Science Fiction author created The Triffids

A) Isaac Asimov

B) Arthur C. Clarke

C) John Wyndom

D) Philip K. Dick

E) H.G. Wells

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23. Who wrote the classic science fiction novel ' Hellicona Spring"

A) Isaac Asimov

B) Brian aldiss

C) Arthur C. Clarke

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24. Who wrote "Dracula"

A) Bram stoker

B) Mary Shelley

C) H. P. Lovecraft

D) Stephen King

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25. Who said Tis better to have loved and lost etc

A) Alfred Lord Tennyson In Memoriam

B) William Wordsworth

C) George Gordon Byron

D) John Keats

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26. Give either first name of the author P.G.Wodehouse

A) Bertram

B) Pelham grenville

C) Archibald

D) Percy

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27. Which author wrote 'The Cruel Sea'?

A) C.S. Forester

B) Patrick O'Brian

C) Alistair MacLean

D) Nicholas Monsarrat

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28. Arthur Sarsfield Ward the creator of Fu Man Chu is which author

A) Sax Rohmer

B) H. Rider Haggard

C) John Buchan

D) E. Phillips Oppenheim

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29. Who wrote the children's story Badjelly the Witch

A) Spike milligan

B) Enid Blyton

C) Roald Dahl

D) Beatrix Potter

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30. Who wrote Vanity Fair

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jane Austen

C) William thackeray

D) George Eliot

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31. What do the 4 of top 10 children's authors have in common

A) British

B) American

C) Australian

D) Canadian

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32. The famous last words: 'go away___ I'm alright' were uttered by whom

A) H.g. wells wells

B) George Bernard Shaw

C) Oscar Wilde

D) Arthur Conan Doyle

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33. Which author created Svengali

A) Georges du maurier

B) George du Maurier

C) H. G. Wells

D) Charles Dickens

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34. Peter George wrote Two Hours to Doom filmed as what

A) Fail-Safe

B) Paths of Glory

C) Dr Strangelove

D) The Manchurian Candidate

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35. Who wrote, 'Goodbye to all That'

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) Siegfried Sassoon

C) Robert graves

D) Wilfred Owen

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36. Which children's author wrote the autobiographies 'Boy' and 'Solo'?

A) Beatrix Potter

B) Dr. Seuss

C) Roald Dahl

D) Lewis Carroll

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37. Who wrote The Day of the Jackal

A) Ian Fleming

B) Ken Follett

C) Frederick Forsyth

D) John Le Carre

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38. Who wrote the thrillers, "Sheba" and "Year of the Tiger"

A) Jack Higgins

B) Ian Fleming

C) Ken Follett

D) Tom Clancy

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39. Which writer created Tabitha Twitchet, Babbity Bumble, Mr Tod

A) J.K. Rowling

B) A.A. Milne

C) Roald Dahl

D) Beatrix Potter

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40. What was hg well's first novel

A) Time machine

B) The War of the Worlds

C) The Invisible Man

D) The First Men in the Moon

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41. BOZ was the penname if which writer

A) William Makepeace Thackeray

B) George Eliot

C) Lewis Carroll

D) Charles Dickens

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42. The Chronic Argonauts was the original title of what SF book

A) The Invisible Man

B) The War of the Worlds

C) The Time Machine

D) The First Men in the Moon

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43. Who wrote The Joy of SexAlex

A) Henry Miller

B) Doris Lessing

C) Comfort

D) Anais Nin

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44. Martin Fallon Hugh Marlow James Graham Harry Patterson who

A) Martin Fallon

B) Hugh Marlow

C) James Graham

D) Jack Higgins

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45. Who wrote Whip Hand Proof and Flying Finish

A) Neville Shute

B) Dick Francis

C) Agatha Christie

D) Ian Rankin

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46. Who wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) Mary Shelley

C) Bram Stoker

D) Robert Louis Stevenson

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47. "Who Wrote The Christmas Story ""The Snowman""?"

A) Beatrix Potter

B) Raymond Briggs

C) Dr. Seuss

D) Chris Van Allsburg

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48. "Who wrote the Christmas story, ""The Snowman""?"

A) Dr. Seuss

B) Raymond Briggs

C) Enid Blyton

D) Beatrix Potter

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49. "Who was the author of ""A Christmas Carol""?"

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jane Austen

C) Mark Twain

D) H.G. Wells

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50. Who won a place in the Guinness Book of Records for writing 26 books in 1983?

A) Enid Blyton

B) Barbara Cartland

C) Agatha Christie

D) Stephen King

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