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1. Who wrote the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’? Reveal Answer Harper Lee 2. What was George Orwell’s real name? Reveal Answer Eric Arthur Blair 3. Which Shakespearean play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Reveal Answer Hamlet 4. What is the first novel in J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy? Reveal Answer The Fellowship of the Ring 5. Who is the author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’? Reveal Answer Jane Austen 6. What is the name of the fictional town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’? Reveal Answer Macondo 7. Which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg? Reveal Answer The Great Gatsby 8. Who wrote the dystopian novel ‘Brave New World’? Reveal Answer Aldous Huxley 9. Who is the author of the ‘Harry Potter’ series? Reveal Answer J.K. Rowling 10. What is the pen name of the author of ‘Little Women’? Reveal Answer Louisa May Alcott 11. Who wrote ‘Moby Dick’? Reveal Answer Herman Melville 12. In which Charles Dickens novel is the character of Ebenezer Scrooge found? Reveal Answer A Christmas Carol 13. What is the name of the fictional land where ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ are set? Reveal Answer Narnia 14. Who is the author of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series, which inspired the TV series ‘Game of Thrones’? Reveal Answer George R.R. Martin 15. Which American author wrote ‘The Old Man and the Sea’? Reveal Answer Ernest Hemingway 16. Who is the author of the dystopian novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’? Reveal Answer Margaret Atwood 17. Which famous Russian author wrote ‘War and Peace’? Reveal Answer Leo Tolstoy 18. Which poem begins with the line ‘Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary’? Reveal Answer The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 19. What is the name of the protagonist in J.D. Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’? Reveal Answer Holden Caulfield 20. In Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, who is the father of Scout and Jem? Reveal Answer Atticus Finch 21. Who is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Color Purple’? Reveal Answer Alice Walker 22. Who wrote the philosophical novel ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’? Reveal Answer Friedrich Nietzsche 23. What novel begins with the famous line, ‘Call me Ishmael’? Reveal Answer Moby Dick 24. Who is the author of ‘Crime and Punishment’? Reveal Answer Fyodor Dostoevsky 25. What is the title of the sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s ‘Gone with the Wind’? Reveal Answer Scarlett 26. Who is the author of ‘Les Misérables’? Reveal Answer Victor Hugo 27. What is the name of the second book in J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series? Reveal Answer Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 28. What dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess features a violent youth culture and a protagonist named Alex? Reveal Answer A Clockwork Orange 29. Who is the author of the poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’? Reveal Answer Emily Dickinson 30. What is the name of the novel that Ernest Hemingway based on his experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I? Reveal Answer A Farewell to Arms 31. What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship in ‘Moby Dick’? Reveal Answer The Pequod 32. What is the title of the sequel to Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’? Reveal Answer Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There 33. Who wrote ‘The Metamorphosis’, a novella about a man who wakes up to find he has transformed into a giant insect? Reveal Answer Franz Kafka 34. What novel begins with the line ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’? Reveal Answer A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 35. Who wrote the epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’? Reveal Answer John Milton 36. What is the name of the prison in Alexandre Dumas’s ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’? Reveal Answer Château d’If 37. Who wrote the novel ‘1984’? Reveal Answer George Orwell 38. What is the name of the city where Charles Dickens’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ is set? Reveal Answer Paris and London 39. Who is the author of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’? Reveal Answer Jonathan Swift 40. What novel by Emily Brontë features the characters Heathcliff and Catherine? Reveal Answer Wuthering Heights 41. What is the name of Sherlock Holmes’s brother in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories? Reveal Answer Mycroft Holmes 42. Who wrote the Gothic novel ‘Frankenstein’? Reveal Answer Mary Shelley 43. In which book would you find the character Jay Gatsby? Reveal Answer The Great Gatsby 44. Which author wrote ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’? Reveal Answer Ernest Hemingway 45. Who is the author of the short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’? Reveal Answer O. Henry 46. Which novel by Charlotte Brontë features the character Mr. Rochester? Reveal Answer Jane Eyre 47. Who wrote ‘Don Quixote’? Reveal Answer Miguel de Cervantes 48. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’, what is the name of the dragon? Reveal Answer Smaug 49. What novel begins with the line ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’? Reveal Answer Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 50. What is the name of the creature in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’? Reveal Answer The creature is often referred to as ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’, but he does not have an official name in the book. 51. Who is the author of the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’? Reveal Answer Robert Frost 52. What is the name of the main character in ‘The Catcher in the Rye’? Reveal Answer Holden Caulfield 53. What Shakespearean play is also known as ‘The Moor of Venice’? Reveal Answer Othello 54. In what novel is there a character named Boo Radley? Reveal Answer To Kill a Mockingbird 55. Who wrote the novel ‘The Sound and the Fury’? Reveal Answer William Faulkner 56. Which American author wrote ‘In Cold Blood’? Reveal Answer Truman Capote 57. What is the name of the character who narrates most of the story in ‘Moby Dick’? Reveal Answer Ishmael 58. What famous American novel features a character named Tom Joad? Reveal Answer The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 59. Who is the author of ‘The Secret Life of Bees’? Reveal Answer Sue Monk Kidd 60. Who wrote the science fiction novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Reveal Answer Philip K. Dick 61. Who wrote ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’? Reveal Answer Tennessee Williams 62. What famous American author wrote the short story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’? Reveal Answer Edgar Allan Poe 63. Who is the author of ‘Sense and Sensibility’? Reveal Answer Jane Austen 64. Who is the author of ‘Beloved’? Reveal Answer Toni Morrison 65. In ‘Pride and Prejudice’, who does Elizabeth Bennet marry? Reveal Answer Mr. Darcy 66. Who wrote the novel ‘Middlemarch’? Reveal Answer George Eliot 67. Who is the author of ‘Maus’, a graphic novel about the Holocaust? Reveal Answer Art Spiegelman 68. Who wrote the novel ‘Bleak House’? Reveal Answer Charles Dickens 69. What is the name of the protagonist in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’? Reveal Answer Santiago 70. What novel by Thomas Hardy features the character Tess Durbeyfield? Reveal Answer Tess of the d’Urbervilles 71. Who is the author of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’? Reveal Answer Charles Dickens 72. In ‘The Lord of the Rings’, what is the name of the hobbit who carries the One Ring to Mount Doom? Reveal Answer Frodo Baggins 73. Who is the author of ‘A Room of One’s Own’? Reveal Answer Virginia Woolf 74. What novel by Jules Verne features a journey to the center of the Earth? Reveal Answer Journey to the Center of the Earth 75. Who wrote the novel ‘Treasure Island’? Reveal Answer Robert Louis Stevenson 76. What is the name of the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’? Reveal Answer Nick Carraway 77. Who is the author of ‘Of Mice and Men’? Reveal Answer John Steinbeck 78. In ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, what is the name of the war that occurs among several noble houses for the Iron Throne? Reveal Answer The War of the Five Kings 79. Who is the author of the ‘Outlander’ series? Reveal Answer Diana Gabaldon 80. In ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, who does Alice follow into the rabbit hole? Reveal Answer The White Rabbit 81. Who wrote the novel ‘The Catch-22’? Reveal Answer Joseph Heller 82. Who is the author of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’? Reveal Answer Oscar Wilde 83. What famous novel features a character named Hester Prynne? Reveal Answer The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 84. Who wrote ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’? Reveal Answer Mark Twain 85. Who is the author of ‘The Scarlet Letter’? Reveal Answer Nathaniel Hawthorne 86. In which novel would you find the character Atticus Finch? Reveal Answer To Kill a Mockingbird 87. Who is the author of ‘Crime and Punishment’? Reveal Answer Fyodor Dostoevsky 88. What is the name of the farm in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’? Reveal Answer Manor Farm 89. What novel features a dystopian future society where books are banned and ‘firemen’ burn any that are found? Reveal Answer Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 90. Who wrote ‘The Stranger’? Reveal Answer Albert Camus 91. Who is the author of ‘Les Misérables’? Reveal Answer Victor Hugo 92. Who wrote the play ‘The Crucible’? Reveal Answer Arthur Miller 93. What famous detective is featured in ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’? Reveal Answer Sherlock Holmes 94. Who wrote the novel ‘Ulysses’? Reveal Answer James Joyce 95. Who wrote ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’? Reveal Answer Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez 96. Who is the author of ‘The Little Prince’? Reveal Answer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 97. In what year was Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ first published? Reveal Answer 1813 98. Who wrote the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’? Reveal Answer Tennessee Williams 99. In what language was ‘The Divine Comedy’ originally written? Reveal Answer Italian 100. Who wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’? Reveal Answer Geoffrey Chaucer 101. What is the real name of the author known as George Orwell? Reveal Answer Eric Arthur Blair 102. Who wrote ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’? Reveal Answer Beatrix Potter 103. Who wrote the play ‘Death of a Salesman’? Reveal Answer Arthur Miller 104. Who wrote ‘Gone with the Wind’? Reveal Answer Margaret Mitchell 105. Who is the author of ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’? Reveal Answer Anne Frank 106. Who wrote ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’? Reveal Answer L. Frank Baum 107. What is the pen name of the author of ‘Oliver Twist’? Reveal Answer Charles Dickens 108. Who is the author of the ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ series? Reveal Answer C.S. Lewis 109. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, who is the character that represents a mockingbird metaphor? Reveal Answer Boo Radley 110. What novel by Orson Scott Card is about a child genius named Ender Wiggin? Reveal Answer Ender’s Game 111. Who is the author of ‘The Glass Menagerie’? Reveal Answer Tennessee Williams 112. Who is the author of the novel ‘Rebecca’? Reveal Answer Daphne du Maurier 113. In ‘Harry Potter’, what is the name of Harry’s pet owl? Reveal Answer Hedwig 114. Who wrote the novel ‘The Brothers Karamazov’? Reveal Answer Fyodor Dostoevsky 115. What is the name of the fictional town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’? Reveal Answer Macondo 116. Who wrote ‘War and Peace’? Reveal Answer Leo Tolstoy 117. What was Charles Dickens’ final novel, which remained unfinished at his death? Reveal Answer The Mystery of Edwin Drood 118. Who wrote ‘The Shining’? Reveal Answer Stephen King 119. Who wrote the epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’? Reveal Answer John Milton 120. What is the name of the dystopian society in George Orwell’s ‘1984’? Reveal Answer Oceania 121. Who is the author of the novel ‘East of Eden’? Reveal Answer John Steinbeck 122. In ‘The Hobbit’, what is the name of the hobbit protagonist? Reveal Answer Bilbo Baggins 123. Who is the author of ‘Wuthering Heights’? Reveal Answer Emily Brontë 124. Who is the author of the play ‘Macbeth’? Reveal Answer William Shakespeare 125. Who wrote ‘The Metamorphosis’? Reveal Answer Franz Kafka 126. Who is the author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’? Reveal Answer John Steinbeck 127. What is the pen name of the author of ‘Moby-Dick’? Reveal Answer Herman Melville 128. Who is the author of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’? Reveal Answer Ken Kesey 129. Who is the author of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’? Reveal Answer Kurt Vonnegut Sharing is Caring:
