Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Which member of the Tribulation Force dies at the end of the self-titled novel?
- What was Dick Franciss profession before he became a writer?
- What was the first novel Dick Francis wrote?
- In what novel by Dick Francis does the popular character Sid Halley first appear?
- Sid Halley, the protagonist of several novels by Dick Francis, is disabled. What is the nature of his disability?
- Only two Dick Francis characters appear as the protagonist of more than one book. Sid Halley is one of them. Who is the other?
- What is the profession of Charles Todd in the novel In the Frame?
- How many non-fiction books did Dick Francis write in the 20th century?
- Why didnt Dick Francis win the 1956 Grand National when he was a jump jockey for the Queen Mother?
- What was the popular rumor that circulated about Dick Franciss books?
- What did Dick Francis do after the death of his wife?
- In the novel The Clique, what school do the members of the Pretty Committee go to?
- Who is the Pretty Committees second in command in the book The Clique?
- Who comes back with Alicia from Spain in Lisi Harrisons The Clique?
- What movie does The Clique character Claire get a part in?
- Call me Ishmael. With the above line, the narrator of this 1851 novel by Herman Melville laconically introduces himself in the very first sentence, making it one of the best-known opening sentences in English literature.
- It was a pleasure to burn. This popular novel by Ray Bradbury, depicting a fictional world of the near future, is in fact an indirect condemnation of the present and a considerate warning about the forthcoming fate of human society.
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. is the beginning of this famous Dickens historical novel, concerning the French Revolution and dealing with some timeless moral issues, such as guilt, treachery and patriotism.
- It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression as pretty as an airport. As is typical for author Douglas Adams, this 1988 detective novel begins with a humorous and unusual line, grabbing attention from the very first sentence.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Name the famous Jane Austens novel, beginning with those words, concerning the problems of love and marriage, which was initially entitled First Impressions�?.
- This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course. In this Stephen King novel, these are the leading character and narrators first words of the story of his life, and the unusual encounter which changes it forever.
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Arguably the best of his works, Tolstoy severely criticizes the highest circles of Russian society through this tragic love story of two of its members, one of them being Alexei Vronsky.
- Both in the year when Mark Twain was born and the year when he died, the Halleys Comet passed by Earth. -Mark borrowed his pseudonym from Mississippi riverboat terminology, where calling “mark twain�? marked safe water.
- This romantic hero is a wealthy gentleman who at first feels superior to Elizabeth Bennet and ignores her. Later, however, he falls in love with her, which is a blow to his pride.
- This literary character from the only novel of Emily Bronte is passionately and intensely in love with Cathrine Earnshow, but she marries someone else because of her desire for social advancement.
- This literary character has an obssessive love affair with Mildred Rogers, a shallow and self-centerd woman he encounters in London.
- This fictional hero falls in love with his employee, the governess Jane Eyre, but their wedding ceremony is interrupted by the announcement that he has a wife who lives in the attic of his manor, Thornfield Hall.
- This romantic hero is obsessed with the beautiful Fermina Daza. He waits more than 50 years for her husband to die and declares his love for her.
- This mysterious literary hero acquired an immense wealth in order to win back his beloved Daisy, who had married Tom Buchanan.
- This American officer, the literary creation of Ernest Hemingway, deserts World War I and escapes to Switzerland with his beloved Catherine Barkley.