SOME ENGLISH LITERATURE QUESTIONS
🎯 Who wrote the poems “Ozymandias” and “Ode to the West Wind”?
Answer: Shelley
🎯 What ‘TOTH’ Is A. A. Milne’s play taken from a book by Kenneth Grahame?
Answer: Toad of Toad Hall
🎯 Which book about four days in Lowa took Robert J. Waller two weeks to write, and topped bestseller lists for seven months?
Answer: The Bridges of Madison County
🎯 Which comic actor and writer co-wrote the book “Life and How to Survive It”?
Answer: John Cleese
🎯 Who wrote Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln and Julian?
Answer: Gore Vidal
🎯 What ‘N’ is the bird Keats wrote an ode to?
Answer: Nightingale
🎯 What was the only novel to be written by Margaret Mitchell?
Answer: Gone with the Wind
🎯 Which Author created The Sleuths Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot?
Answer: Agatha Christie
🎯 Which ‘JE’ is Governess to The Ward Of Mr Rochester, in the book bearing her name?
Answer: Jane Eyre
🎯 How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
Answer: 154
🎯 Which authors first (unsuccessful) book was inland voyage?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
🎯 Who wrote “An Outcast of the Islands”?
Answer: Joseph Conrad
🎯 Who wrote Charlie And The Chocolate Factory?
Answer: Roald Dahl
🎯 In which Thomas Hardy novel does the character Bathsheba Everdene appear?
Answer: Far from the Madding Crowd
🎯 Who wrote the science fiction novel Slaughterhouse Five?
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut
🎯 What seven words provide the opening line of the Shakespeare play Richard III?
Answer: Now is the winter of our discontent
🎯 Which group of fans are the only ones to be mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary?
Answer: Trekkies
🎯 Who wrote the novel Invisible Man In 1952?
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
🎯 John Ridd is the male lead in which book with a girl’s name as its title?
Answer: Lorna Doone
🎯 Which great book was started in Bedford Jail In 1675?
Answer: The Pilgrim’s Progress
🎯 The authorised version of the Holy Bible was made at the order of which king?
Answer: James I (1611)
🎯 Which novel opens with the words, ‘Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again … ”
Answer: Rebecca
🎯 Who wrote about a pig called the Empress of Blandings?
Answer: P G Wodehouse
🎯 Whose 1995 novel The Moor’s Last Sigh enraged Hindu militants in India?
Answer: Salman Rushdie’s
🎯 Which county shares its name with the first name of an English author?
Answer: Somerset (Maugham)
🎯 What title is held by Shakespeare’s Cymbeline?
Answer: King of Britain
🎯 Excluding the word Hawaii what is the only word in the English dictionary that has a double ’i’?
Answer: Skiing
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