Trivia Quiz on British Literature

1. In "Alice in Wonderland", who sings of "Soup of the evening, wonderful soup"

A) Gryphon

B) Cheshire Cat

C) Mock turtle

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2. In what Dickens novel is there a case of spontaneous combustion

A) Oliver Twist

B) Bleak House

C) Great Expectations

D) A Tale of Two Cities

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3. Who buried the treasure on Treasure Island

A) Long John Silver

B) Jim Hawkins

C) Captain Flint

D) Billy Bones

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4. Who wrote the 39 steps (both names)

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Dashiell Hammett

C) John Buchan

D) Ian Fleming

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5. Bunyon wrote Pilgrims Progress - where

A) Tower of London

B) Bedford Jail

C) Newgate Prison

D) Old Bailey

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6. What novel did Daphne du Mauruer write about Cornish Shipwreckers

A) Jamaica Inn

B) Rebecca

C) Frenchman's Creek

D) The House on the Strand

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7. Who or what is the Empress of Blandings

A) A pig

B) A racehorse from the Blandings series

C) A noble title in medieval England

D) A fictional queen in a fairy tale

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8. In Kiplings poem Gunga Din what job had Gunga Din

A) Waterboy

B) Water Carrier

C) Powder Monkey

D) Rifleman

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9. Whose novels include 'Restoration' and 'The Way I Found Her'

A) Rose Tremain

B) Ian McEwan

C) Hilary Mantel

D) Margaret Atwood

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10. Whose books describe the career of 'Horatio Hornblower'

A) Patrick O'Brian

B) Jane Austen

C) C s forester

D) Robert Louis Stevenson

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11. Which character did Lewis Carroll's Alice meet, sitting on a mushroom smoking a 'long hookah'

A) The Mad Hatter

B) The caterpillar

C) Cheshire Cat

D) The White Rabbit

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12. Which 19th Century novelist's writings included travel sketches called Pictures From Italy and American Notes

A) Mark Twain

B) Jane Austen

C) Charles Dickens

D) Leo Tolstoy

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13. Greenmantle, Three Hostages, Island of Sheep which character

A) Sherlock Holmes

B) Richard Hannay

C) Hercule Poirot

D) Philip Marlowe

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14. Whose cases were Empty House Copper Beeches Black Peter

A) Sherlock Holmes

B) Hercule Poirot

C) Miss Marple

D) Philip Marlowe

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15. Who wrote The Ipcress File

A) John le Carré

B) Ian Fleming

C) Len deighton

D) Robert Ludlum

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16. In what series of books did The Empress of Blandings appear

A) The Blandings Castle series

B) Jeeves and Wooster

C) Jeeves and Wooster a pig

D) The Pig Who Wanted to Be Elected

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17. Students at Cambridge - no dogs - what Lord Byron keep

A) Bear

B) Cat

C) Dog

D) Monkey

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18. What literary work gave Geoffrey Chaucer something to do from 1387 to 1400

A) The Book of the Duchess

B) The canterbury tales canterbury tales

C) Troilus and Criseyde

D) The Legend of Good Women

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19. Who wrote 'The Camomile Lawn'

A) Daphne du Maurier

B) Mary Wesley

C) Margaret Drabble

D) Iris Murdoch

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20. Who wrote the novel brighton rock

A) Ian McEwan

B) Anthony Burgess

C) James Joyce

D) Graham greene

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21. Which Holds The Record For The Novelist Most Borrowed From Public Libraries ?

A) Agatha Christie

B) Charles Dickens

C) Catherine Cookson

D) J.K. Rowling

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22. Paul Morel was a character in which classic novel

A) Great Expectations

B) Sons and Lovers

C) The Portrait of a Lady

D) Middlemarch

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23. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were written in which century

A) Thirteenth

B) Fourteenth

C) Fifteenth

D) Sixteenth

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24. Whose novels include 'The Cement Garden' and 'Comfort of Stangers'

A) Kazuo Ishiguro

B) Ian mcewan

C) Margaret Atwood

D) Julian Barnes

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25. Who was Elia

A) Samuel Johnson

B) George Eliot

C) Charles Lamb

D) Thomas De Quincey

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26. Who wrote The Dong with the Luminous Nose and The Jumblies

A) Edward Lear

B) Lewis Carroll

C) Dr. Seuss

D) Ogden Nash

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27. Who was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin

A) Jane Austen

B) Charlotte Brontë

C) Mary Shelley

D) George Eliot

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28. What star sign is Harry Potter

A) Cancer

B) Virgo

C) Libra

D) Leo

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29. The book called 'the cocktail party' was written by _________

A) Virginia Woolf

B) George Bernard Shaw

C) Ts eliott

D) James Joyce

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30. Which eponymous character was Thane of Cawder Glaimes

A) Duncan

B) Banquo

C) Lady Macbeth

D) Macbeth

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31. Name the first ship from which Gulliver was shipwrecked in 'Gulliver's Travels'

A) Sea Venture

B) Endeavour

C) Antelope

D) Hopewell

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32. In the 'james bond' books, who is m's secretary

A) Miss Moneypen

B) Miss Moneypenny

C) Miss Carstairs

D) Miss Money Penny

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33. Books who wrote the book "The Wives of Henry VII"

A) Antonia fraser

B) Alison Weir

C) Hilary Mantel

D) Margaret George

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34. Eppie Cass is a central character in which |novel by George Eliot

A) Middlemarch

B) Adam Bede

C) Silas Marner

D) The Mill on the Floss

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35. Who often solved a three pipe problem

A) Dr. John Watson

B) Inspector Lestrade

C) Sherlock Holmes

D) Hercule Poirot

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36. Which Dickens novel features Waxford Squears

A) Oliver Twist

B) Bleak House

C) David Copperfield

D) Nicholas Nickleby

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37. Who is the anti-heroine of Thackeray's "novel without a hero"

A) Amelia Sedley

B) Emma Woodhouse

C) Mary Crawford

D) Becky sharp

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38. In The World Of Literature “Oliver Mellors” Is Better Known As Who?

A) Mr. Darcy

B) Edward Rochester

C) Lady Chaterlys Lover

D) Romeo

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39. The detective Miss Marple was created by which writer

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Agatha christie

C) Dorothy L. Sayers

D) Edgar Allan Poe

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40. Who wrote "the french lieutenant's woman"

A) John Fowles

B) Graham Greene

C) Aldous Huxley

D) Ian McEwan

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41. Which was the first James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in 1953

A) Dr. No

B) Live and Let Die

C) Goldfinger

D) Casino royale

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42. In Watership Down rabbit language what is a hrududu

A) a wagon

B) A motor car

C) a bicycle

D) a storm

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43. What school does Harry Potter attend

A) Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

B) Durmstrang Institute

C) Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

D) Hogwarts

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44. Hoffman who wrote about a british agent named george smiley

A) Ian Fleming

B) John le carr

C) Tom Clancy

D) Ken Follett

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45. A novel by Keith Waterhouse

A) Brighton Rock

B) The Day of the Triffids

C) Billy Liar

D) The Remains of the Day

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46. Who created james bond

A) John Gardner

B) Ian fleming

C) Kingsley Amis

D) Anthony Horowitz

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47. Mr & Mrs Dursley Of No. 4 Privet Drive,Were Proud To Say That They Were Perfectly Normal Is the opening passage to which famous book?

A) The Hobbit

B) Pride and Prejudice

C) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

D) Harry Potter & The Philosphers Stone

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48. What novel centres on the romances of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen

A) Women in Love

B) The Rainbow

C) Sons and Lovers

D) Lady Chatterley's Lover

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49. Got to do with it Who created the famed butler "Jeeves"

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Charles Dickens

C) George Orwell

D) Pg wodehouse

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50. Who is the author of Jude the Obscure

A) Charles Dickens

B) George Eliot

C) Jane Austen

D) Thomas hardy

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