Trivia Quiz on British Literature Part 5

1. Who Is Noted For His (Nonsense Verse)

A) Lewis Carroll

B) Ogden Nash

C) Dr. Seuss

D) Edward Lear

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2. Whose Autobiography Was Entitled (Dear Me)

A) Peter Ustinov's

B) David Niven's

C) Groucho Marx's

D) Mitch Albom's

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3. What was sherlock holmes most famous novel?

A) A Study in Scarlet

B) The Hound of The Baskervilles

C) The Sign of the Four

D) The Valley of Fear

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4. Who wrote the novels 'About A Boy'', 'How To Be Good'' and 'High Fidelity''?

A) David Nicholls

B) Helen Fielding

C) Nick Hornby

D) Martin Amis

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5. Who wrote 'The Birds'?

A) Alfred Hitchcock

B) H. G. Wells

C) Edgar Allan Poe

D) Daphne du Maurier

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6. Who Wrote (Brave New World)

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Margaret Atwood

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7. Who Wrote The Novel Lady Chatterly's Lover

A) DH Lawrence

B) Aldous Huxley

C) George Orwell

D) Virginia Woolf

E) F. Scott Fitzgerald

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8. Which English Author Created Horatio Hornblower

A) Patrick O'Brian

B) Jane Austen

C) C.S. Forester

D) Daniel Defoe

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9. Tilly Trotter, Hannah Massey And Maggie Rowan Are All Characters Created By Which Novelist?

A) Daphne du Maurier

B) Catherine Cookson

C) Elizabeth Gaskell

D) Barbara Cartland

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10. Eliza Doolittle Appears In Which Play

A) The Importance of Being Earnest

B) Hamlet

C) Much Ado About Nothing

D) Pygmalion/My Fair Lady

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11. Where Would You Find Poets Corner

A) St Paul's Cathedral

B) The British Museum

C) Tower of London

D) Westminster Abbey

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12. Who wrote "Ten Little Indians?"

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Dorothy L. Sayers

C) Enid Blyton

D) Agatha Christie

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13. How Is Jack Dawkins Otherwise Known As In A Dickens Novel?

A) Artful Dodger

B) Tiny Tim

C) Pip

D) Oliver Twist

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14. Which Literary Character Had A Dog Called Bulls Eye?

A) Bill Sykes (Oliver!)

B) Fagin

C) Sherlock Holmes

D) Huckleberry Finn

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15. Who Created The Character Adrian Mole

A) Philip Pullman

B) Terry Pratchett

C) Sue Townsend

D) J.K. Rowling

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16. Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo'

A) The Great Gatsby

B) 101 Dalmations

C) Oliver Twist

D) The Secret Garden

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17. Which Author Wrote The 'Just So Stories''?

A) Beatrix Potter

B) A. A. Milne

C) George Orwell

D) Rudyard Kipling

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18. Who wrote the 'Father Brown' crime stories?

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) G.K. Chesterton

C) Agatha Christie

D) Dorothy L. Sayers

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19. According To "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" what number is the answer to everything?

A) Forty Nine

B) Sixty Seven

C) Forty Three

D) Forty Two

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20. In What book would you find a Hefalump?

A) The Hobbit

B) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

C) Winnie the Pooh

D) Where the Wild Things Are

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21. Which St Louis Born Novelist & Poet Became A British Subject In 1927

A) T S Eliot

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) Langston Hughes

D) Oscar Wilde

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22. Which Em Forster Novel Features The Schlegal Sisters

A) Howards End

B) A Room with a View

C) A Passage to India

D) Where Angels Fear to Tread

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23. Who wrote 1984 ?

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Margaret Atwood

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24. Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'

A) Pride & Prejudice

B) Sense and Sensibility

C) Emma

D) Jane Eyre

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25. Who Wrote The Novel Emma

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jane Austen

C) Virginia Woolf

D) Mary Shelley

E) George Eliot

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26. Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home'

A) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

B) The Wind In The Willows

C) The Secret Garden

D) Treasure Island

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27. What Was The Title Of The First Ever James Bond Novel

A) Dr. No

B) From Russia with Love

C) Goldfinger

D) Casino Royale

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28. In 'Alice In Wonderland', who never stopped sobbing?

A) Mock Turtle

B) Dormouse

C) Mad Hatter

D) White Rabbit

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29. Who Wrote (Old Possums Book Of Practical Cats)

A) W.B. Yeats

B) Oscar Wilde

C) Robert Frost

D) T.S. Eliot

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30. Who wrote the book (Brave New World)

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) Margaret Atwood

D) Ray Bradbury

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31. H.G. Wells novel where Earth is invaded by Martians.

A) The Time Machine

B) The Invisible Man

C) The Island of Dr. Moreau

D) War of the worlds

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