Book Trivia Questions
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.
The luminaries (2013)
True History of the Kelly Gang (2001)
The White Tiger (2008)
Vernon God Little (2003)
Milkman (2018)
Amsterdam (1998)
The Famished Road (1991)
Schindlers Ark (1982)
Rites Of Passage (1980)
The Promise (2021)
Elizabeth Catton
Peter Carey
Aravind Adiga
DBC Pierre
Anna Burns
Ian McEwan
Ben Okri
Thomas Keneally
William Golding
Damon Galgut
Books and Numbers
Can you identify the numbers in these book titles?
Farenheit _____ Ray Bradbury
The ____ Winds Kristin Hannah
Daisy Jones and the ____ Taylor Jenkins Read
11/12/____ Stephen King
The ____ man Graham Greene
The _____ autumns of Jacob De Zoet David Mitchell
A widow for ____ Year John Irving
Less than ____ Brett Easton Ellis
Station ____ Emily St John Mandel
The ____ Justin Cronin
451
Four
Six
63
Third
Thousand
One
Zero
Eleven
Twelve
Book Colours
What colours are missing from these titles?
The _____ Road (Anne Enright)
Devil in a ____ Dress (Walter Mosely)
My Name is ___ (Orhan Pamuk)
The _____ Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
The Man in the _____ Suit (Agatha Christie)
The ______ Admiral (Patrick O’Brian)
Agnes ____ (Anne Bronte)
The ______ Chair (C.S. Lewis)
The _____ Echo (Michael Connelly)
_____ Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
Green
Blue
Red
White
Brown
Yellow
Grey
Silver
Black
Olive
Literary Addresses
Who are the famous residents at these famous fictional literary addresses?
Pemberley Estate, Derbyshire
9 Bywater Street, Chelsea
7 Saffron Hill, London
Carfax Abbey, Purfleet
Misselthwaite Manor
7 Eccles Street, Dublin
Manor Farm
Victory Mansions, London
Village of Macondo, Columbia
1 Cloud Street, West Leederville, Perth, Western Australia
FitzWilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
George Smiley, John Le Carre
Fagins den, Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Home of Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Home Of Winston Smith, 1984, George Orwell
Home of the Buendia, 100 years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cloud Street, Tim Winton