Trivia Quiz on Children'S Literature

1. 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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2. Who kissed the girls & made them cry

A) Georgie porgie

B) Humpty Dumpty

C) London Bridge

D) Little Boy Blue

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3. Who wrote The Little Prince

A) Victor Hugo

B) Antoine de saint-exupery

C) Marcel Proust

D) Gabriel García Márquez

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4. In Peter Pan what were the names of Wendy's brothers

A) Peter and James

B) Michael John

C) John and Peter

D) Michael and John

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5. Which creature taught Dr. Doolittle how to talk to the animals

A) His parrot

B) A talking monkey

C) A clever fox

D) A wise turtle

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6. Who spells his name T I double grr

A) Tiger

B) Piglet

C) Pooh

D) Tigger

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7. What was the name of Dr Doolittle's pet duck

A) Dab dab

B) Quacker

C) Waddles

D) Puddles

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8. What menacing character was best friends with Tommy Anderson

A) Victor the Violent

B) Dennis the Menace

C) Grim the Grump

D) Lenny the Lurker

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9. Who is Mother Goose's son?

A) Jack

B) Humpty Dumpty

C) Little Boy Blue

D) Little Miss Muffet

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10. Who wrote "The Emporers New Clothes"

A) Hans christian anderson

B) The Grimm Brothers

C) Charles Perrault

D) Beatrix Potter

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11. What popular american writer coined the word nerd

A) Mark Twain

B) Harper Lee

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) Doctor seuss

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12. Which Company Published The Harry Potter Novels

A) Penguin Random House

B) Scholastic

C) HarperCollins

D) Bloomsbury

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13. Jack and Jill went up a ____ to fetch a pail of water

A) Valley

B) Slope

C) Hill

D) Hillock

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14. What was johanna spyri's story about a little alpine lass

A) The Swiss Family Robinson

B) Little Women

C) Cinderella

D) Heidi

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15. What did the three little kittens lose

A) Their hats

B) Their gloves

C) Their mittens

D) Their scarves

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16. Who wrote the book Gremlins in 1943 - later filmed

A) Ian Fleming

B) Roald Dahl

C) J.R.R. Tolkien

D) Arthur C. Clarke

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17. Who wrote The Ugly Duckling

A) Charles Perrault

B) Hans christian anderson

C) Beatrix Potter

D) Brothers Grimm

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18. 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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19. With what does Dr. Seuss' name rhyme

A) Goose

B) Rejoice

C) Moose

D) Juice

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20. Ferdinand is a story about a ____

A) Bull

B) Horse

C) Cow

D) Calf

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21. P L Travers created which famous character

A) Peter Pan

B) Mary Poppins

C) Winnie the Pooh

D) Alice

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22. The Newbery Medal is given annually for what

A) Best Children's picture book

B) Best Young Adult novel

C) Best Children's fiction

D) Best Children's book

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23. What is the name of the horse in the black stallion

A) The Stallion

B) The black

C) Black Beauty

D) Shadowfax

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24. Which Fictional Character Opened The New York Stock Exchange On June 8th 1999

A) Noddy

B) Mickey Mouse

C) Barney the Dinosaur

D) Dora the Explorer

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25. In Kiplings Jungle Book Mang was what type of creature

A) Tiger

B) Bat

C) Monkey

D) Bear

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26. Who created 'peter rabbit'

A) A.A. Milne

B) L. Frank Baum

C) Beatrix Potter

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27. Which Very Famous Book Which I'm Sure Many Of You Have Read Was Written & Illustrated By “ Eric Carle ” In 1969 ?

A) Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

B) The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar

C) Where the Wild Things Are

D) The Cat in the Hat

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28. What color is mary poppin's umbrella

A) Blue

B) Black

C) Red

D) Green

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29. In the nursery rhyme what is Fridays child

A) Full of grace

B) Loving and Giving

C) Has far to go

D) Works hard for a living

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30. For who was the play 'peter pan' exclusively written

A) Adults

B) Children

C) Teenagers

D) Animals

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31. What who caught the grinch in the act of stealing the christmas tree

A) Max the dog

B) Cindy-lou who cindy lou who

C) Augustus Maywho

D) Mrs. Who

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32. Who wrote about Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

A) Lewis Carroll

B) Enid Blyton

C) Roald Dahl

D) J.K. Rowling

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33. Winnie the Pooh lived where

A) Hundred Acre Wood

B) The Hundred Acre Wood

C) Hundred Acre Forest

D) 100 Acre Wood

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

A) Badger

B) Rabbit

C) Mouse

D) Hedgehog

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35. What kind of book did dr seuss pen five of ten best-sellers in u.s history by 1994

A) Textbooks

B) Children's books

C) Adult fiction

D) Non-fiction

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36. Who wrote the 'noddy' books

A) Roald Dahl

B) Beatrix Potter

C) Enid blyton

D) A. A. Milne

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37. What is the name of Dr. Seuss's egg hatching elephant

A) Gertie

B) Horton

C) Gertrude

D) Mayzie

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38. 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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39. The childrens story 'The Rose and The Ring' was written by which 19th century novelist

A) Charles Dickens

B) Lewis Carroll

C) William thackeray

D) George Eliot

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40. 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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41. What's the most common name in nursery rhymes

A) Jill

B) Mary

C) Humpty

D) Jack

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42. 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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43. In what book did the grinch steal christmas

A) The grinch who stole christmas

B) How the Grinch Stole Christmas

C) The Grinch's Christmas Caper

D) The Grinch and the Missing Mistletoe

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44. What is stolen by tom, tom the piper's son

A) a dog

B) a cow

C) Pig

D) a sheep

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45. What is the name of the dog from the Grinch who stole christmas

A) Spot

B) Rover

C) Max

D) Buddy

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46. In the poem who dug cock robins grave

A) The Sparrow with his bow and arrow

B) The Wren with a watering can

C) Owl with his trowel

D) The Mole with a spade

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47. Who ate chicken little

A) Goosey Loosey

B) Henny Penny

C) Foxy loxy

D) Ducky Lucky

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48. Who wrote the children's classic Ann of Green Gables

A) Beatrix Potter

B) J. M. Barrie

C) Enid Blyton

D) L M Montgomery

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49. In Kiplings How the Leopard got its Spots name the Leopard

A) Spots

B) Best Beloved

C) Stripe

D) King of Beasts

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50. 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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