Trivia Quiz on British Literature Part 3

1. She died at 28 but her book on household management famous

A) Hannah Glasse

B) Delia Smith

C) Mrs Beeton

D) Nigella Lawson

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2. Who wrote The Sign of Four and The Valley of Fear

A) Agatha Christie

B) Conan doyle

C) J. R. R. Tolkien

D) Edgar Allan Poe

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3. In which John le Carre novel does George Smiley first appear

A) Call for the dead

B) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

C) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

D) The Honourable Schoolboy

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4. What was the first James Bond book

A) Dr. No

B) Casino Royal

C) Moonraker

D) Goldfinger

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5. Who wrote the novel The French Lieutenants Woman

A) John Fowles

B) Henry James

C) Margaret Atwood

D) Ian McEwan

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6. Ted Hughes poet laureate died in which year

A) 1999

B) 1998

C) 1997

D) 1990

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7. Name the British novelist, a successful member of the Bloomsbury Group, who drowned herself in 1942

A) Daphne du Maurier

B) E. M. Forster

C) Vita Sackville-West

D) Virginia woolf

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8. In what Dickens novel does Alfred Jingle appear

A) Oliver Twist

B) Bleak House

C) David Copperfield

D) The Pickwick Papers

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9. Which was the first 'james bond' novel

A) Live and Let Die

B) Moonraker

C) Casino royale

D) Diamonds Are Forever

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10. John Dick Ann Timmy who is missing from this famous five

A) George

B) John

C) Timmy

D) Julian

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11. Who wrote the fantasies "Popcorn" and "This Other Eden"

A) Neil Gaiman

B) Ben Elton

C) Douglas Adams

D) Terry Pratchett

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12. What author wrote about Adrian Mole

A) George Orwell

B) Sue Townsend

C) J.K. Rowling

D) Charles Dickens

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13. Who does Adrian Mole lust after

A) Daphne

B) Pippa

C) Pandora

D) Molly

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14. Before Becoming A Famous Poet "Pam Ayres" Used To Be Part Of Which Famous Organisation?

A) Mi5

B) MI6

C) KGB

D) CIA

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15. Which novel by H G Wells describes the invasion of Earth by martians

A) The Time Machine

B) The Invisible Man

C) The Island of Doctor Moreau

D) The War of the Worlds

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16. In which cult novel do gang members known as 'droogs' appear

A) A Clockwork Orange

B) Brave New World

C) 1984

D) Fahrenheit 451

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17. Who wrote the 'Waverley Novels'

A) Jane Austen

B) Charles Dickens

C) Robert Louis Stevenson

D) Walter scott

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18. Who created the Discworld series of novels

A) J.K. Rowling

B) George R.R. Martin

C) Neil Gaiman

D) Terry Pratchett

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19. Whose first novel was 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'

A) Alan Sillitoe

B) John Braine

C) Stan Barstow

D) Kingsley Amis

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20. Which poet wrote Ode to a Skylark

A) Wordsworth

B) Shelley

C) Keats

D) Coleridge

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21. In literature who taught at the Marcia Blain school for Girls

A) Miss Mackay

B) Miss Rose Sutherland

C) Miss Annie MacLeod

D) Miss Jean Brodie

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22. In what famous poem does killing an albatross cause disaster

A) The Raven

B) Kubla Khan

C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

D) Ozymandias

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23. What was the title of Agatha Christie's first Hercule Poirot novel

A) The Mysterious Affair at Styles

B) Poirot Investigates

C) The ABC Murders

D) The mysterious affair at styles

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24. Which book caused a minor controversy in 1997 when a survey of Waterstone's customers voted it the best book of the twentieth century

A) Ulysses

B) 1984

C) Lord of the rings

D) The Great Gatsby

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25. Who wrote about a british agent named george smiley?

A) Ian Fleming

B) Len Deighton

C) Graham Greene

D) John le carr

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26. What was A.A. Milne's first name

A) Arthur

B) Alfred

C) Albert

D) Alan

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27. In Winnie the Pooh what's the name over the door Pooh's house

A) Mr Sanders

B) Mr Brown

C) Mr Jenkins

D) Mr Thompson

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28. Who Is The Author Of High Fidelity A Tale Set In An 80's Record Store

A) Irvine Welsh

B) Douglas Coupland

C) Nick Hornby

D) Bret Easton Ellis

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29. Brian Jones Died In A Swimming Pool At Cotchford Farm, Sussex But Which Author Once Owned The Farm

A) Virginia Woolf

B) Rudyard Kipling

C) A A Milne (Winne The Pooh)

D) Henry James

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30. Who killed macbeth

A) Lady Macbeth

B) Duncan

C) Banquo

D) Macduff

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31. Virginia Woolf always did it standing up - did what

A) Wrote her books

B) Wrote poetry

C) Painted portraits of her characters

D) Translated novels into French

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32. In 1903 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published which book

A) The hound of the baskervilles

B) The Sign of the Four

C) A Study in Scarlet

D) The Lost World

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33. Who wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman

A) Aldous Huxley

B) Ian McEwan

C) John fowles

D) Margaret Atwood

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34. When did Sir Walter Scott write Ivanhoe

A) 1810

B) 1815

C) 1819

D) 1825

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35. What authors only detective work was The Red House Mystery

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) A A Milne

C) Agatha Christie

D) Dorothy L. Sayers

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36. Who wrote Goodbye Mr Chips

A) Charles Dickens

B) George Orwell

C) Jane Austen

D) James hilton

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37. Who used the pseudonym Ellis Bell

A) Emily Bronte

B) Charlotte Bronte

C) Anne Bronte

D) George Eliot

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38. Who wrote _Dido_ and _Pa

A) Agatha Christie

B) Philip Pullman

C) Joan aiken

D) Dorothy L. Sayers

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39. Which Dickensian character had a nurse called Clara Peggotty

A) Oliver Twist

B) Fagin

C) David Copperfield

D) Ebenezer Scrooge

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40. Which poet wrote the poem, "The Soldier"

A) Wilfred Owen

B) John Keats

C) Rupert Brooke

D) T. S. Eliot

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41. Who wrote Three Men in a Boat

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jerome K Jerome

C) J. M. Barrie

D) Mark Twain

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42. In Wonderland, Who Took A Watch Out Of His Waistcoat Pocket Only To Discover That He Was Late

A) The White Rabbit

B) The Mad Hatter

C) The March Hare

D) The Cheshire Cat

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43. What Sort Of Animal Was Tarka

A) An Otter

B) Beaver

C) Mink

D) Ferret

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44. In which hospital would you find Sir Lancelot Spratt?

A) St Mary's Hospital

B) St Swithens

C) Guy's Hospital

D) Royal Free Hospital

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45. Who Wrote The Book Alice In Wonderland

A) J.R.R. Tolkien

B) Mark Twain

C) Charles Dickens

D) Lewis Carrol

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46. Which Shakespeare Play Begins With 3 Witches Upon The Heath

A) Macbeth

B) Hamlet

C) Othello

D) King Lear

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47. This fearsome creature lived on Grympen Myre and was the principal character in which book

A) Dracula

B) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

C) The Hound Of The Baskervilles

D) The Picture of Dorian Gray

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48. Who are the four ghosts in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol?

A) Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Yet to Come, and Tiny Tim

B) Christmas Past, Present, Yet to Come, and Jacob Marley

C) Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come

D) The Ghosts of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

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49. Which is the name of the baddie in the Harry Potter series

A) Severus Snape

B) Dolores Umbridge

C) Lord Voldemort

D) Albus Dumbledore

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50. According to the nursery rhyme, who, 'sat in the corner eating a Christmas Pie''

A) Little Jack Horner

B) Humpty Dumpty

C) Little Boy Blue

D) Old King Cole

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