Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- This 1999 film, based on the novel The Positronic Man, was co-written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg and starred Robin Williams. It was nominated for Academy award for best make-up.
- This remake of a Dino Risi film from 1974 was based on the Italian novel Il buio e il miele (Darkness and Honey) by Giovanni Arpino, starred Al Pacino and was nominated for four Academy awards, winning one of them.
- This 1994 film, nominated for four Academy Awards and directed and produced by Robert Redford was based on Richard Goodwins book Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties.
- The biography of Nobel prize winning economist and mathematician John Nash, written by Sylvia Nasar, inspired this 2001 movie directed by Ron Howard, which was nominated for 8 Academy awards and won four of them.
- This 1990 film featuring Harrison Ford and Brian Dennehy was an adaptation of the Scott Turows novel of the same name about of a prosecutor charged with the murder of his female colleague.
- Based on a 1983 book by Dick King-Smith, this 1995 Australian film directed by Chris Noonan was nominated for seven Academy Awards.
- This 1997 science fiction movie directed by Robert Zemeckis was adapted from Carl Sagans novel of the same title.
- This authors Pulitzer Prize-winning novel American Pastoral and his 1969 bestseller Portnoys Complaint were both included in Time magazines 100 Best Novels list.
- This novel by Theodore Dreiser, included in Time magazines 100 Best Novels list, tells the story of a young man, Clyde Griffiths and deals with subjects such as religion, abortion and capital punishment.
- This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the fictional tired old town of Maycomb, Alabama, is narrated by six-year-old Scout Finch.
- This British authors novels Brideshead Revisited and A Handful of Dust both appeared on the list of Time magazines list of 100 Greatest Novels.
- What allegorical novel, included on Time magazines 100 Greatest Novels list, follows a group of young boys marooned on a desert tropical island?
- This novel by Jack Kerouac, regarded as the defining work of the Beat Generation, is based on the spontaneous trips made by the author and his friends.
- Midnights Children, one of the books on Time magazines list of 100 Greatest Novels, was written by this author, who was sentenced to death following the publication of one of his literary works.
- Which of the following acknowledged literary works was left out of the list of 100 Best English-language Novels, published in Time magazine in 2006?
- What novel on Time magazines Best Novels list follows Holden Caulfield, a character that has come to be associated with teenage angst and rebellion?
- What fantasy novel, focusing on the adventures of the Pevensie siblings and set approximately in 1940, appeared on Time magazines 100 Best English-language Novels?
- What 18th century English writer depicted Man Friday, whose name has become an expression used to describe a loyal male personal assistant?
- A neurological condition, characterised by altered perceptions of body image and visual illusions, was named after this character from childrens literature.
- This economic term, derived from the name of a folklore hero, refers to income redistribution.
- Which of these eponyms, derived from Jonathan Swifts novel Gullivers Travels, means a crude person, lacking in intelligence?
- Which of these eponyms, derived from the name of a character created by Charles Dickens, is not correctly matched with its definition?
- What Nobel Prize-winning author depicted fictional character George F. Babbitt, whose surname has become synonymous with a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to dominant middle-class standards?
- This authors best-selling novel brought the term Pollyana into the English language to describe an illogically and blindly optimistic person.
- The adjective Falstaffian, meaning jovial and with zest for life, is derived from the name of the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, who is featured in this Shakespearean comedy.
- What is the definition of the term dogberrysm, which is derived from Shakespeares play Much Ado About Nothing?
- Tartuffe, whose name has come to mean a hypocrite, especially one who affects religious piety, is the protagonist of a comedy by this playwright.
- Earnest Hemingway was born in 1899 in a Chicago suburb, and later attended this high school.
- At the age of seventeen Ernest Hemingway began working as a reporter for The Kansas City Star, where he remained for how long?
- On what date was Ernest Hemingway wounded, while performing his duties as a WW I ambulance driver?