Mixed Literature Trivia

91. What were the names of the four children in the book "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"?

From Quiz Books

Answer: Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy

This is a children's book by CS Lewis. The children find a new and strange land called Narnia by going through the back of the wardrobe.

From Quiz Pretty Easy General Literature Quiz

Answer: 'Emma'

'Emma' was about a young girl who was the social leader of her small English town of Highbury.

From Quiz General Literature

Answer: A Christmas Carol

From Quiz Fantastic Books

Answer: 221B Baker Street

From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 13

Answer: Napoleon

Animal Farm was first published in August 1945 as a political satire on Stalin's Soviet Union. Napoleon the pig is undoubtedly the Stalin character in the book. When the animals first drive Farmer Jones away from the farm the leadership of the animals is jointly taken by Napoleon and Snowball. After a while though Snowball is driven away from the farm as well by the power-hungry Napoleon. After that if anything bad happens it is attributed to Snowball by Napoleon and his henchman, Squealer. Boxer is the hard-working carthorse who ends up being sent to the knacker's yard when he is no longer fit for work.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 12

Answer: J.K. Rowling

Born in England,on July 31, 1965, J.K. Rowling was a big rags to riches author. She began writing the first bits of the Harry Potter stories in the Elephant House, a cafe in Edinburgh. Many of her characters and expressions come from her real life experiences. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter has made her a billionaire and an instant success in children's literature.

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From Quiz The Classic Book Mash

Answer: Pencey & Pencey prep

Holden was expelled from every school he ever went to. He always started fights with the other boys, broke the rules, and got bad grades in homework.

From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 11

Answer: Vampires

It is the story of a vampire prince who tries to take over Los Angeles California. A small band of humans come together to try and stop him, including a police detective, a priest, a young boy, and a beautiful woman with powers of her own. Who will survive?

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From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 9

Answer: Philip Marlowe

Philip Marlowe is one of the defining characters of the detective novel genre. His integrity, good looks, and indefatigability are almost proverbial.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 8

Answer: Jules Verne

Auda, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout are characters in "Around the World in Eighty Days". Nemo is the captain in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". Jupiter is a tamed orangutan in "Mysterious Island" and Captain Hatteras is the main character of a novel of the same name.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 7

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Walt Whitman 1819-1892 was deeply affected by the death of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The poem features prominently in the movie "Dead Poets Society", with Robin Williams playing the "Captain", in this case a school teacher who finally gains the respect of the students. Question by player wonkatriv

From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 6

Answer: The Lord of the Rings

"The Lord of the Rings" trilogy is comprised of three fantasy books: "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers," and "The Return of the King." Written by the philologist and professor J. R. R. Tolkien, it is the most successful trilogy in the history of literature.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 5

Answer: Emily Jane Bronte

Charlotte Bronte wrote "Jane Eyre" and Anne wrote "Agnes Gray". Maria, Elizabeth, and Branwell (the only boy) round out the six. Interestingly, Branwell was considered the most promising of the children, although he failed to show himself at the Royal Academy when he was sent there, and subsequently spent his money on alcohol and other trivial pursuits. He died at age 31.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 4

Answer: A Clockwork Orange

Burgess wrote the novel in 1962 and it was made into a film in 1971, directed by Stanley Kubrick. The origin of the title is unclear as Burgess gave different explanations for it.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 3

Answer: Nancy Drew

The idea for the series was from the originator of the idea for the "Hardy Boys" books, Edward Stratemeyer, who hired Mildred Wirt to ghostwrite the series using the pen name Carolyn Keene. Subsequent authors continued to use the same name. Question by player shuehorn

From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 2

Answer: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The story is about a young boy who was turned into the size of a thumb but figures out how to get a ride on the back of a white goose named Martin on his way to hopefully find his home one day and end the curse. Nils initially gets turned into a tomte - a short mythical creature who has a beard - but can only talk to animals. Ms. Lagerlöf spent three years watching and learning about birds and other animal life to help her write her masterpiece.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 1

Answer: Limerick

A five line limerick, with a rhyming scheme a-a-b-b-a, is one of the easiest poems to write. Popularized in 1845 from "The Book of Nonsense" by Edward Lear, the rhyming scheme is catching, easy to master and fun to create. Question by player Cece1952

From Quiz World Literature

Answer: War and Peace

Tolstoy's working title for this massive novel was "The Year 1805", the year in which the action begins. It is a study of several noble families set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, climaxing with his invasion of Russia in 1812. The book contains dramatic descriptions of the battles of Austerlitz and Borodino. The other options are works by Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Dickens.

From Quiz The Misplaced Literature Quiz

Answer: British

Lee Child was born in Coventry, England, in 1954. He has written over 20 books based on the itinerant Jack Reacher character and his adventures, as he wanders through America and Europe. The books often feature on best selling lists, and have won several international awards. Reacher has featured in movies played by Tom Cruise, who has now been declared by the author to be too small to play the role, as the character is 6' 5". Question submitted by Warrior100

From Quiz Literature Lucky Dip

Answer: Weaver

Silas Marner is a weaver who leaves his home town after being wrongly accused of a crime. Full of bitterness, he turns to money as his comfort and becomes a miser. One night he finds that his money is gone. The villagers try to comfort him but he sinks into depression. Later a baby girl, whose mother is dead in the snow, wanders into his house. He calls her Hephzibah after his mother, although she is known to everyone as Eppie. Silas brings her up as his own and this humanises him and helps to bring him together with the community. The novel was the third one from George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans.

From Quiz Literary Curiosities

Answer: The author donated the copyright of works involving Peter Pan to the Hospital.

James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937) was born in Scotland, graduated from the University of Edinburgh and moved to London where he worked with literature and theater and used to live near the GOSH. Barrie had great success with the "Peter Pan" novels and plays, and had success with other works. In 1929, J.M. Barrie gave the copyright of Peter Pan to the hospital, which provided a significant source of income to GOSH.

From Quiz Don't Forget to Write

Answer: Bernie Taupin

In 1967 Elton and Bernie both answered the same newspaper advert for song writers. They failed the audition, but have stayed together as friends and collaborators for more then 50 years, and written many songs from the gentle 'Your Song' to the vibrant 'Rocket Man'.

From Quiz My Bookshelf

Answer: 'The War of the Worlds' by H. G. Wells

This book contains the famous tripod-like aliens, and was adapted for radio in America in 1938. The radio play is the subject of an urban myth: that listeners believed the radio reports within the script were true accounts, and that mass hysteria took hold of America. Newspapers greatly exaggerated the story to discredit radio broadcasting.

From Quiz The Ten Books I Would Choose If I Were Marooned

Answer: Buck

Buck ultimately embraces his wild instincts, allowing him to survive in the wilderness. "White Fang" was also written by London, as a companion story. White Fang starts his life as a wolfdog, and the story follows him to domestication. White Fang and Black Tooth were also dog paw puppets on the Soupy Sales TV show in the 1960s. Lassie was a collie who had her own movie and TV series.

From Quiz A Miscellany of Literature

Answer: Umberto Eco

The author, Umberto Eco, is also known as a semiotician, philosopher, essayist and literary critic. "The Name of the Rose" works on several levels both intellectual and as a detective novel. Set in medieval Italy at the time of the Inquisition, the investigator in this book is an English monk called William of Baskerville, with characteristics and detecting methods reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes and an assistant called Adso. There are medieval philosophies, superstitions, ignorance, squalor and "The Inquisition" for William to contend with as he tries to solve the mystery of a series of murders. The chapter headings of the book follow the canonical hours of the day e.g Matins, Lauds, Terce, Sext, Vespers, Compline.

From Quiz World Literature

Answer: The Quiet American

The book is set in Vietnam at the time of occupation by the French Army and before the Vietnam war. It has been described as a 'terrifying portrait of innocence at large'.

From Quiz Novels Through the Ages

Answer: Agnes Magnúsdóttir

Traditional Icelandic surnames are formed by taking the father's first name, and suffixing it with either "son" or "dóttir", meaning "son" or "daughter". Her name literally means "Agnes, Magnus's daughter".

From Quiz A Spoonful of Literature

Answer: Oliver Twist

'Oliver Twist' is a classic written by Charles Dickens, (1812-1870). Oliver Twist is an orphan who lives in a workhouse. During his childhood, he embarks on different adventures, meeting many people of good and bad influence. Charles Dickens wrote this book to let people know about how orphans were being treated in 19th century England. Today, it is considered as one of the most important and influential pieces of literature, because it showed people the horrible side of the misfortunate's life.

From Quiz Popular Literature Old and New

Answer: Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn's novel was published in June 2012 and remained number one on the New York Times Bestseller list for eight weeks. The story (influenced by Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and Zoe Heller's "Notes on a Scandal") centers around a couple's difficult marriage and the disappearance of the wife Amy on their fifth wedding anniversary. Up to the dénouement this thriller's plot is filled with unexpected twists and turns that captured readers and critics alike. Even though Reese Witherspoon served as producer, it was Rosamund Pike who was eventually cast as Amy with Ben Affleck as husband Nick. Directed by David Fincher, the movie was released in fall 2014.

From Quiz What Have I Been Reading?

Answer: Bring up the Bodies

'Wolf Hall' was published in 2009 and met with great success, winning the prestigious Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as being named one of the "Ten Best Historical Novels" by 'The Observer' newspaper. The sequel, 'Bring up the Bodies', was published in 2012 and continues the story of Thomas Cromwell. 'Bring up the Bodies' also won the Man Booker Prize as well as being named the 2012 Costa Book of the Year.

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