Trivia Quiz on British Literature Part 2

1. POETS: Who wrote Kabla Kahn

A) William Wordsworth

B) John Keats

C) Percy Bysshe Shelley

D) Samuel taylor coleridge

E) Lord Byron

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2. What fictitious murderer first appeared in String of Pearls 1840s

A) Jack the Ripper

B) Hannibal Lecter

C) Sweeny Todd

D) Norman Bates

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3. What is the full name of the creator of "Jeeves & Wooster"

A) Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

B) Pelham Gilbert Wodehouse

C) P. G. Wodehouse

D) Pelham grenville wodehouse

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4. Who wrote the humorous books on One Upmanship

A) P.G. Wodehouse

B) Steven Potter

C) Jonathan Swift

D) Mark Twain

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5. What kind of animal is Beatrix Potters Mrs Tiggy Winkle

A) Badger

B) Rabbit

C) Mouse

D) Hedgehog

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6. Who wrote the best selling novel Polo

A) Dan Brown

B) Jilly cooper

C) Barbara Cartland

D) Jeffrey Archer

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7. Who wrote Northanger Abbey

A) Charlotte Brontë

B) Mary Shelley

C) Jayne Austin

D) George Eliot

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8. In what literary work would you find the yahoos

A) Moby-Dick

B) The Odyssey

C) Don Quixote

D) Gulliver's Travels

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9. What characters first appeared in Entertaining Young Gussie

A) Bertie Wooster and Jeeves

B) Jeeves and Wooster

C) Aunt Agatha and Sir Watkyn Bassett

D) Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett

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10. What book is the connection between E. Nesbitt and railways

A) Five Children and It

B) The Wouldbegoods

C) The railway children

D) The Story of the Amulet

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11. Who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel 'Of Human Bondage

A) George Orwell

B) Charles Dickens

C) Somerset maughan

D) Jane Austen

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12. What spy novelist was Moscow correspondent for Reuters & The Times of London

A) John le Carré

B) Ian Fleming

C) Robert Ludlum

D) Tom Clancy

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13. What 1902 children's book continues to sell over 50,000 copies per year

A) The Wind in the Willows

B) The tale of peter rabbit

C) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

D) Treasure Island

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14. In which of Charles Dickens' novels would you find the character Dora Spenlow

A) Great Expectations

B) Oliver Twist

C) David copperfield

D) Bleak House

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15. What is heaven called in the Pilgrims Progress

A) New Jerusalem

B) Celestial city

C) Zion

D) City of God

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16. What eponymous Dickens character born with a caul over head

A) Oliver Twist

B) David Copperfield

C) Ebenezer Scrooge

D) Pip

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17. Which author wrote about the fictional Napoleonic war hero Sharpe

A) Patrick O'Brian

B) Jane Austen

C) Bernard cornwell

D) C.S. Forester

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18. Which book is subtitled "the Mistakes of a Night"

A) The Rivals

B) The School for Scandal

C) The Merry Wives of Windsor

D) She stoops to conquer

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19. Who was the first Briton to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

A) George Bernard Shaw

B) John Galsworthy

C) T. S. Eliot

D) Rudyard Kipling

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20. What fictional Englishman belongs to the Ganymede club

A) Bertie Wooster

B) Jeeves

C) Lord Emsworth

D) Sir Roderick Glossop

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21. Which Author Who Is Most Remembered for Writing Another Series Of Books. Also Wrote the Childrens Story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Roald Dahl

C) Enid Blyton

D) Ian Fleming

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22. A Ten pound note depicts a scene from which Dickens novel

A) Pickwick Papers

B) Oliver Twist

C) Great Expectations

D) David Copperfield

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23. Who was Poet Laureate from 1843 to 1850, during which period he wrote no poetry at all

A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B) William Wordsworth

C) Alfred, Lord Tennyson

D) George Gordon, Lord Byron

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24. Who was the author of The Moonstone

A) Charles Dickens

B) Edward Bulwer-Lytton

C) Arthur Conan Doyle

D) Wilkie Collins

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25. What was Lady Chatterley's first name

A) Connie

B) Catherine

C) Elizabeth

D) Constance

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26. Who created The Scarlet Pimpernel

A) Agatha Christie

B) Arthur Conan Doyle

C) Baroness Orczy

D) J. M. Barrie

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27. Who wrote the thriller "The Eagle has Landed"

A) Alistair MacLean

B) Robert Ludlum

C) Jack higgins

D) Tom Clancy

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28. In the Winnie the Pooh books what name is over Poohs door

A) Mr Milne

B) Mr Wiggins

C) Mr Sanders

D) Mrs Piglet

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29. David John Moore Cornwell became famous as who

A) Ian Fleming

B) John Le Carre

C) George Orwell

D) Frederick Forsyth

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30. In the book Treasure Island which character owns the Spyglass Inn

A) Jim Hawkins

B) Captain Smollett

C) Long john silver

D) Dr. Livesey

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31. Charles Bingley was a character in what classic novel

A) Emma

B) Jane Eyre

C) Great Expectations

D) Pride and Prejudice

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32. Agatha Christie's elderly female crimesolver

A) Hercule Poirot

B) Miss marple

C) Ariadne Oliver

D) Tuppence Beresford

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33. Which Jane Austen novel was originally entitled First Impressions

A) Emma

B) Sense and Sensibility

C) Mansfield Park

D) Pride and Prejudice

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34. Which childrens classic was written by Anna Sewell

A) The Secret Garden

B) Black beauty

C) Little Women

D) Peter Pan

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35. Who's first book was "Down and Out in Paris and London"

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) H. G. Wells

D) James Joyce

E) Virginia Woolf

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36. Whose autobiography is Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied With String

A) Michael Crawford

B) Micheal crawford

C) Michael Crichton

D) Michael Palin

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37. Who were Curier Ellis and Acton Bell

A) The Austen sisters

B) The Brontë brothers

C) A group of 19th-century poets who wrote under pseudonyms

D) Bronte sisters – pen names

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38. Who wrote Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence

A) Charles Dickens

B) Somerset Maugham

C) Jane Austen

D) Thomas Hardy

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39. Who wrote David Copperfield

A) Jane Austen

B) Mark Twain

C) Charles dickens

D) George Eliot

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40. What other name is Mellor’s famously known by

A) The Old Man and the Sea

B) Pride and Prejudice

C) Lady Chatterlys Lover

D) Gone with the Wind

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41. Who was the mistress of D.H. Lawrence's Wragley Hall

A) Frieda Weekley

B) Lady chatterley

C) Dora Carrington

D) Lady Ottoline Morrell

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42. Writer who created Hannah Massay Maggie Rowan Tillie Trotter

A) Elizabeth Gaskell

B) Catherine Cookson

C) Daphne du Maurier

D) Barbara Cartland

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43. Whose first novel was Where Angels Fear to Tread

A) E m forster

B) H. G. Wells

C) Thomas Hardy

D) Henry James

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44. In Tarka the Otter what was Old Nog

A) A Crane

B) A Kingfisher

C) A Moorhen

D) A Heron

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45. Samuel Johnson's dictionary was published in what year

A) 1745

B) 1760

C) 1773

D) 1755

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46. What building links Stacy Keach and Oscar Wilde

A) Tower of London

B) Newgate Prison

C) Alcatraz

D) Reading Jail

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47. Who according to Hilaire Belloc, had a chief defect of "chewing little bits of string"

A) John Dryden

B) Henry king

C) George Herbert

D) Matthew Arnold

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48. What Shakespeare character ends saying The rest is Silence

A) Macbeth

B) King Lear

C) Ophelia

D) Hamlet

E) Othello

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49. Cedrick Errol Was The Name Given To Which Epnymous Child Hero Of The 19th Century

A) Oliver Twist

B) David Copperfield

C) Tom Sawyer

D) Little Lord Fauntleroy

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50. Who wrote the classic spy novel "The Thirty-nine Steps"

A) Ian Fleming

B) John le Carré

C) Robert Ludlum

D) John Buchan

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