Book Trivia Questions

Written By Adrian

We all love a good quiz, don’t we? So I thought it was about time that I added a few literary trivia questions to the site. They range from the easy to the very difficult, and I make no apologies for that. Some of them you’ll either know or you won’t. I’ll add a few more as and when they occur to me. Let me know how you get on in the comments below.

Starter for Ten

  • 1. Jay gatsby is in love with who?

  • 2. Name the hotel where the count resides in ‘A gentleman in Moscow’ by Amor Towles

  • 3. In the ‘Shawshank redemption’ by Stephen King, Andy tells Red to go to a tree in a hayfield near which town?

  • 4. What’s the name of the sub in Jules Verne’s ‘20000 leagues under the sea?’

  • 5. The Mauritshuis in The Hague features a picture of which bird which is also in the title of a book by Donna Tartt?

  • 6. What was the name of the first Harry Potter book published in the US?

  • 7  In which state do Mark Twain’s characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn live?

  • 8 Which English espionage writer took up Irish citizenship before he died?

  • 9 Which American singer-songwriter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?

  • 10 What was the name of Bill Sykes’ dog in Oliver Twist?

Starter for Ten Answers

  • 1 Daisy Buchanan

  • 2 Metropol

  • 3 Buxton

  • 4. Nautilus

  • 5 The Goldfinch

  • 6 ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.’

  • 7 Missouri

  • 8 John le carre

  • 9 Bob dylan

  • 10 Bullseye

Lets have a few more Literary quiz questions…….Round 2

  • 1. Which Shakespeare character was  the father of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia?

  • 2. Ernest hemingway wrote 'For whom the bell tolls' in which country?

  • 3. ‘Burmese days’ was the debut novel of which writer?

  • 4. From ‘To to kill a mockingbird’, what was Scout Finch's real name?

  • 5. From ‘Pride and prejudice’, the Bennet sisters are Lydia, Jane and ?

  • 6 Mary Anne Evans was the real name of which author?

  • 7. Who was 13 and three quarters when he started writing his diary?

  • 8. What type of animal is in the title of the first book in Hilary Mantels’ Thomas Cromwell trilogy?

  • 9 .Jane Harpers bestselling thriller series is set in which country?

  • 10. ‘Shadowlands’ starring Anthony Hopkins, is about which Belfast born writer?


Round 2 Answers

  • 1 King lear 

  • 2 Cuba

  • 3 George Orwell

  • 4. Jean Louise

  • 5 Kitty

  • 6 George Eliot

  • 7 Adrian Mole

  • 8 Wolf (Hall)

  • 9 Australia

  • 10 CS Lewis

Book Opening Lines

A round about opening book lines, featuring some of my own personal favourites.

1. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again

2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife..

3. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

4. The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

5. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

6. The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

7. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

8. In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.

9. It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

10. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.


1. Rebecca by daphne du maurier

2 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

3 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

4 The Secret History by Donna Tartt

5 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Marcia Marquez

6 The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

7 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

8 The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers

9 City of Glass by Paul Auster

10 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy


Booker Prize Winners


It’s coming up to the announcement of the Booker Prize winner for 2023. See if you can identify the authors who wrote these titles.

  1. The luminaries (2013)

  2. True History of the Kelly Gang (2001)

  3. The White Tiger (2008)

  4. Vernon God Little (2003)

  5. Milkman (2018)

  6. Amsterdam (1998)

  7. The Famished Road (1991)

  8. Schindlers Ark (1982)

  9. Rites Of Passage (1980)

  10. The Promise (2021)

  1. Elizabeth Catton

  2. Peter Carey

  3. Aravind Adiga

  4. DBC Pierre

  5. Anna Burns

  6. Ian McEwan

  7. Ben Okri

  8. Thomas Keneally

  9. William Golding

  10. Damon Galgut

Books and Numbers

Can you identify the numbers in these book titles?

  1. Farenheit _____ Ray Bradbury

  2. The ____ Winds Kristin Hannah

  3. Daisy Jones and the ____ Taylor Jenkins Read

  4. 11/12/____ Stephen King

  5. The ____ man Graham Greene

  6. The _____ autumns of Jacob De Zoet David Mitchell

  7. A widow for ____ Year John Irving

  8. Less than ____ Brett Easton Ellis

  9. Station ____ Emily St John Mandel

  10. The ____ Justin Cronin

  1. 451

  2. Four

  3. Six

  4. 63

  5. Third

  6. Thousand

  7. One

  8. Zero

  9. Eleven

  10. Twelve

Book Colours

What colours are missing from these titles?

  1. The _____ Road (Anne Enright)

  2. Devil in a ____ Dress (Walter Mosely)

  3. My Name is ___ (Orhan Pamuk)

  4. The _____ Tiger (Aravind Adiga)

  5. The Man in the _____ Suit (Agatha Christie)

  6. The ______ Admiral (Patrick O’Brian)

  7. Agnes ____ (Anne Bronte)

  8. The ______ Chair (C.S. Lewis)

  9. The _____ Echo (Michael Connelly)

  10. _____ Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)

  1. Green

  2. Blue

  3. Red

  4. White

  5. Brown

  6. Yellow

  7. Grey

  8. Silver

  9. Black

  10. Olive

Literary Addresses

Who are the famous residents at these famous fictional literary addresses?

  1. Pemberley Estate, Derbyshire

  2. 9 Bywater Street, Chelsea

  3. 7 Saffron Hill, London

  4. Carfax Abbey, Purfleet

  5. Misselthwaite Manor

  6. 7 Eccles Street, Dublin

  7. Manor Farm

  8. Victory Mansions, London

  9. Village of Macondo, Columbia

  10. 1 Cloud Street, West Leederville, Perth, Western Australia

  1. FitzWilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  2. George Smiley, John Le Carre

  3. Fagins den, Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

  4. Dracula, Bram Stoker

  5. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

  6. Home of Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce

  7. Animal Farm, George Orwell

  8. Home Of Winston Smith, 1984, George Orwell

  9. Home of the Buendia, 100 years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  10. Cloud Street, Tim Winton

Adrian https://www.bookshelfdiscovery.com
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