Trivia Quiz on British Literature Part 4
Updated: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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Test your knowledge of iconic British authors, characters, and classics—from Chaucer and Shakespeare to modern favorites. A fast-paced 50-question team challenge perfect for book lovers and trivia pros alike.
Gather your squad for a lively tour through British literature, spanning poets, playwrights, novelists, opening lines, pen names, and beloved children’s classics. This group quiz is ideal for book clubs, classrooms, library nights, office socials, or pub-quiz style streams, and it can be duplicated with a single click to play on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, YouTube Live, Twitch, Kick, and more. Split into teams, rotate readers, and keep the pace brisk—sprinkle in optional leaderboard reveals to build suspense between sections. Whether your players are casual readers or lit majors, the mix of classics and contemporary favorites keeps everyone engaged and competing for the final bragging rights.
1. Who became the new Poet Laureate in 1999?
A) Ted Hughes
B) Seamus Heaney
C) Andrew Motion
D) Simon Armitage
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2. Who is David John Cornwell better known as?
A) John Le Carré
B) George Smiley
C) Ian Fleming
D) Tom Clancy
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3. Name The Playwright Who Was Born On And Who Died On 23rd April
A) Marlowe
B) Ben Jonson
C) Shakespeare
D) John Webster
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4. Who wrote the novel Cakes And Ale?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) W. Somerset Maughan
D) Daphne du Maurier
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5. Who invented James Bond ?
A) Ian Fleming
B) Albert R. Broccoli
C) Kingsley Amis
D) John Gardner
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6. What is the fourth book in the Harry Potter series
A) The Goblet Of Fire
B) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
C) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
D) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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7. Who wrote Great Expectations?
A) Jane Austen
B) George Eliot
C) Mark Twain
D) Charles Dickens
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8. What was H.G Wells' first novel?
A) The Time Machine
B) The Island of Doctor Moreau
C) The War of the Worlds
D) The Invisible Man
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9. His many Romantic odes include 'Ode to Melancholy' and 'Ode to a Graecian Urn'
A) William Wordsworth
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) John Keats
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10. Who Created Lord Peter Wimsey
A) Agatha Christie
B) Dorothy L Sayers
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) G.K. Chesterton
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11. Under What Pen Name Did Hector Hugh Munro Write
A) Ellis Peters
B) George Eliot
C) Saki
D) Mark Twain
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12. Who created Sherlock Holmes ?
A) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Agatha Christie
C) Dashiell Hammett
D) Edgar Allan Poe
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13. Which Poet Wrote No Verse During His Time As Poet Laureate
A) John Dryden
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
D) William Wordsworth
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14. Who is the author of "Harry Potter" ?
A) George R. R. Martin
B) J. R. R. Tolkien
C) Joan Rowling
D) Joanne Rowling
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15. Who Penned The 1999 Autobiography (Managing My Life)?
A) David Beckham
B) Bobby Robson
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Alex Ferguson
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16. What Famous Gothic Novel Was Written By Mary Shelley
A) Frankenstein
B) Dracula
C) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
D) Wuthering Heights
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17. Which Author's Father Was Imprisoned For Debt
A) Jane Austen
B) Charles Dickens
C) Thomas Hardy
D) George Orwell
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18. Who created Winnie the Pooh?
A) A. A. Milne
B) Beatrix Potter
C) Walt Disney
D) C. S. Lewis
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19. Who Is Novelist Helen Fieldings Most Famous Character?
A) Daniel Cleaver
B) Mark Darcy
C) Bridget Jones
D) Carrie Bradshaw
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20. Who is the author of "Brave New World" ?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) Margaret Atwood
D) Ray Bradbury
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21. In The Book The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, What Was The Name Of Adrian's Girllfriend
A) Deborah
B) Tessa
C) Penelope
D) Pandora
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22. Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'Once Upon A Time There Was A Little Chimney Sweep And His Name Was Tom'
A) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
B) Little Women
C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D) The Water Babies
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23. Author of "The Lighthouse" and "Eminent Victorians"?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Lytton Strachey
C) James Joyce
D) D. H. Lawrence
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24. What Was Shakespeare's First Play
A) Hamlet
B) Henry VI
C) The Comedy of Errors
D) Titus Andronicus
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25. In Which Book Which Is Also A Film Has The Characters Pod, Arrietty, Homily & Peagreen?
A) The Secret Garden
B) The Little House on the Prairie
C) The Borrowers
D) The Box of Delights
E) The Incredible Journey
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26. Who Wrote The Gothic Novel Dracula
A) Mary Shelley
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Bram Stoker
D) Horace Walpole
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27. Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) Charles Dickens
D) John Milton
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28. What Nationality Was Jospeh Conrad
A) Polish
B) British
C) Russian
D) Ukrainian
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29. Who Wrote The Play (The Mousetrap)
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) William Shakespeare
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Agatha Christie
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30. Which Of Jane Austens Novels Was Publsihed Posthumously
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Persuasion
C) Emma
D) Sense and Sensibility
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31. How Is Mrs William Heelis Better Known
A) Beatrix Potter
B) Jane Austen
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Mary Shelley
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32. Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'Mr & Mrs Dursley of number 4 Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal'
A) The Hobbit
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) The Chronicles of Narnia
D) Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone
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33. Who created 'The Saint'?
A) Leslie Charteris
B) Ian Fleming
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Rex Stout
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34. Whose Works The Ballad Of Reading Gaol & De Profundis, Were Written From His Experiences In Prison
A) Charles Dickens
B) Victor Hugo
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Jean Genet
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35. Douglas Adams is famous for writing what ?
A) The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
B) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
C) Life, the Universe and Everything
D) 1984
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36. At which railway station does Harry Potter catch the Hogwart's Express at platform 9 and 3 quarters?
A) Paddington Station
B) St Pancras International
C) King's Cross
D) Waterloo Station
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37. Which Author Wrote The Book Black Beauty?
A) Beatrix Potter
B) Charles Dickens
C) Jane Austen
D) Anna Sewell
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38. Which Famous Book Begins With The Line 'Marley was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt about that'
A) Oliver Twist
B) Great Expectations
C) A Christmas Carol
D) The Great Gatsby
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39. Who wrote the famous series of Discworld books?
A) Neil Gaiman
B) Douglas Adams
C) Terry Pratchett
D) Philip Pullman
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40. Who wrote "The Wind in the Willows" ?
A) Beatrix Potter
B) J. M. Barrie
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Kenneth Grahame
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41. Who Wrote `The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'?
A) J.R.R. Tolkien
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Arthur C. Clarke
D) Douglas Adams
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42. What subject did 'Mr. Chips' teach?
A) Mathematics
B) History
C) Music
D) Latin
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43. Who Wrote The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Agatha Christie
C) Dorothy L. Sayers
D) Wilkie Collins
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44. What Rank Was Biggles
A) Major
B) Captain
C) Lieutenant
D) Colonel
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45. Who Wrote Gullivers Travels
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Daniel Defoe
C) Charles Dickens
D) Jane Austen
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46. Which School Did Billy Bunter Attend
A) Greyfriars
B) Rugby School
C) Eton College
D) Harrow School
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47. Whose Life Was The Subject Of James Boswell's Biography, Published In 1791
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Alexander Pope
C) William Shakespeare
D) Samuel Johnson
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48. Which Nobel Prize Winner Wrote (A History Of The English Speaking Peoples)
A) George Orwell
B) James Joyce
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Winston Churchill
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49. Who wrote '1984'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) Ray Bradbury
C) Margaret Atwood
D) George Orwell
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50. Which Author Wrote Novels Apon Which The Tv Series (All Creatures Great & Small) Was Based
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Charles Dickens
C) James Herriot
D) Jack London
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