Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- This romantic literary character loves passionately Estella, a beautiful girl, brought up by the cold, wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham.
- This pragmatic and opportunistic literary hero is attracted by the pretty and coquettish Scarlett OHara.
- This literary character, depicted by the Victorian writer Thomas Hardy, escapes with Tess, the woman he loves, although she had committed a murder.
- In this novel the main character, Rodion Razkolnikov, who lives in St. Petersburg, murders an old pawnbroker and her younger sister, and later, gets overwhelmed by feelings of paranoia and self-loathing.
- In this novel, American millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett is found stabbed to death during a journey. The case is investigated by detective Hercule Poarot, who is also among the passengers.
- In the novel ‘A Study In Scarlet’, the word ‘RACHE’ is written in blood on the wall of a deserted house beside a dead body. Name the literary detective who investigates the case.
- In this famous play Claudius murders his brother, the King of Denmark, and marries the widowed Queen Gertrude.
- In this novel, private eye Philip Marlowe is arrested on suspicion of the murder of Terry Lenox’s wife. After Marlowe is released, he finds out that Terry Lenox, himself, has committed suicide in Mexico. When Marlowe gets home, he finds a cryptic note from Lenox and a $5000 bill.
- In this book, based on a true story, Truman Capote recounts the murders of Herb Clutter, a rich farmer from Kansas, his wife Bonnie, his sixteen-year-old daughter Nancy, and his fifteen-year-old son, Kenyon.
- In this bestseller, based on a real case and written by Joe McGinnis, Jeffrey MacDonald is accused of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters.
- This author wrote ‘The Road to Gandolfo’, a story in which the former General MacKenzie Hawkins makes up an outrageous plan to kidnap the Pope and to demand a ransom of $400 million – a dollar for every Catholic in the world.
- This novel is narrated by the fictional character Frank Chambers, a drifter who stops at a roadside diner and meets ‘femme fatale’, Cora. After starting an affair, Cora and Frank murder Cora’s husband, Nick Papadakis, who is the owner of the diner.
- In this novel, written by Agatha Christie, the Banty family discover in their library the dead body of a young woman. Later, the remains of another dead girl are found in a nearby quarry. Which detective investigates the case?
- How many works did Stephen King write under the pseudonym Richard Bachman?
- What is the name of Jacks werewolf friend in the novel The Talisman?
- What was one of Randall Flaggs nicknames in Stephen Kings novel The Stand?
- In Stephen Kings novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, what position did Tom Gordon play for the Boston Red Sox?
- In the novel Dolores Claiborne, what is the name of Dolores Claibornes daughter?
- What is the name of the mouse in the book The Green Mile?
- In which of the parts that Tolkien originally divided the book in do Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas decide to go after Merry and Pippin in The Two Towers?
- Is Wormtongue really sad when he sees the army of Uruk-Hai in the book, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers?
- The Diary of a Madman
- Servant of the Bones
- The Hellbound Heart
- The Tell-tale Heart
- The Talisman; Black House
- As I Lay Dying
- Battlefield Earth
- The Dunwich Horror; The Colour Out of Space; The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- The Devils Dictionary