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What Do These Works Have in Common? Quiz


A quiz with a very simple theme: all you have to do is choose what the three titles I give you have in common.

A multiple-choice quiz by timence. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
timence
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
358,962
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
1177
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Megadyptes (8/10), blackavar72 (8/10), 1995Tarpon (10/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. What do the books "The God of Small Things", "True History of the Kelly Gang" and "Life of Pi" have in common? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What do the books "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Mrs Dalloway" and "The Old Man and the Sea" have in common? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What do "The Spanish Tragedy", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Doctor Faustus" have in common? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Despite their very different genres, what do the books "The Hunger Games", "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" have in common? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What do "The Scarlet Letter", "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and "The Crucible" have in common? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The literary works "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", "Black Beauty" and "Watership Down" have an interesting perspective in common. What is it? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What scary theme do the works of fiction "The Stand" (Stephen King), "On the Beach" (Nevil Shute) and "The Last Man" (Mary Shelley) share? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The literary works "Peter Pan", "Lost Horizon" and "The Hobbit" all have what in common? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "Silent Spring", "The Diary of a Young Girl" and "The Interpretation of Dreams" are all works of non-fiction.


Question 10 of 10
10. The futuristic thriller "The Running Man", the mystery novel "Absent in the Spring" and the collection of short pieces "Sketches by Boz" have what in common? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What do the books "The God of Small Things", "True History of the Kelly Gang" and "Life of Pi" have in common?

Answer: Man Booker prize winners

"The God of Small Things" by Indian author Arundhati Roy won the Man Booker prize for fiction in 1997; "True History of the Kelly Gang" was Australian Peter Carey's winning work in 2001 and "Life of Pi" was the winner in 2002 (Canadian Yann Martel was the author).
2. What do the books "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Mrs Dalloway" and "The Old Man and the Sea" have in common?

Answer: Authors who committed suicide

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (subtitled "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream") was written by Hunter S Thompson, an American author and journalist who ended his own life in 2005 at the age of 67. "Mrs Dalloway" was written by Virgina Woolf, a British author and feminist who drowned herself at 49 by walking into a river with a pocket of stones. Ernest Hemingway, who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea", commited suicide at age 62, following a sad family tradition of his father and grandfather.
3. What do "The Spanish Tragedy", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Doctor Faustus" have in common?

Answer: Elizabethan Literature

"The Spanish Tragedy" was a revenge play written by Thomas Kyd around 1582-1592; "Romeo and Juliet" was penned by Shakespeare around 1591-1595, and "Doctor Faustus" some time in the late 16th Century by Christopher Marlowe. Elizabethan Literature was named after the reigning monarch, Elizabeth I of England, who ruled from 1558-1603.

It saw a large volume of dramatic works produced, including many plays by its most famous exponent, Shakespeare.
4. Despite their very different genres, what do the books "The Hunger Games", "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" have in common?

Answer: Written in first person

"The Hunger Games" is narrated by 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by 15-year-old boy Christopher, who has Asperger's Syndrome.
5. What do "The Scarlet Letter", "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and "The Crucible" have in common?

Answer: Death of the main character

"The Crucible" is a play written in 1953 by Arthur Miller, originally titled "The Chronicles of Sarah Good". It focuses on the events of the Salem witch trials and the execution of accused witches (including the main character, John Proctor). "The Scarlet Letter" is a fictional work by Nathaniel Hawthorne, telling the story of a woman who is shunned by her community in the mid 17th Century for acts of adultery.

The book ends with her death. "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" tells the story of a young boy whose father is a high-ranking German officer.

His death at the end is a large plot twist as he is accidentally sent to the gas chamber.
6. The literary works "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", "Black Beauty" and "Watership Down" have an interesting perspective in common. What is it?

Answer: Main characters are animals

Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" was originally published as part of "The Jungle Book" and has a central character who is a mongoose. Anna Sewell's "Black Beauty" is told from the perspective of the horse himself. "Watership Down", by Richard Adams, centres on a group of rabbits.
7. What scary theme do the works of fiction "The Stand" (Stephen King), "On the Beach" (Nevil Shute) and "The Last Man" (Mary Shelley) share?

Answer: The end of the world

"The Last Man", first published in 1826, is one of the first of a long line of works of apocalyptic fiction. It tells the story of a plague that wipes out most of the world's population. Stephen King's "The Stand" has a very similar theme, when a biological weapon is accidentally released and spreads rapidly, killing all but the handful of people who have a genetic immunity. "On the Beach" has a similar theme, with a nuclear World War III wiping out all Northern Hemisphere life.
8. The literary works "Peter Pan", "Lost Horizon" and "The Hobbit" all have what in common?

Answer: Fantasy worlds created by the author

In the play "Peter Pan", the characters are taken to Neverland, a world where people never grow old. In "Lost Horizon", Shangri-La is also a place where immortality can be found, but also a paradise. "The Hobbit" is set in Middle Earth, a fantasy world of hobbits, trolls, elves, orcs and many other fantastical creatures.
9. "Silent Spring", "The Diary of a Young Girl" and "The Interpretation of Dreams" are all works of non-fiction.

Answer: True

"Silent Spring" was written by Rachel Carson in 1962 and is credited as having a large impact on the US (if not international) environmental movement. "The Diary of a Young Girl" was taken directly from holocaust victim Ann Frank's diary during the early 1940s. Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" outlines the psychoanalyst's theories on the unconscious and the meanings behind dreams.
10. The futuristic thriller "The Running Man", the mystery novel "Absent in the Spring" and the collection of short pieces "Sketches by Boz" have what in common?

Answer: Authors who used pseudonyms

"The Running Man" was authored by Richard Bachmann (better known as Stephen King). "Absent in the Spring" was one of several mystery novels by Mary Westamacott (who most of us would know better as Agatha Christie). "Sketches by Boz" was authored by a man named Boz, better known as Charles Dickens.
Source: Author timence

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