Free Literature Trivia Questions.

Which author created the sleuths Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot?
A: Agatha Christie.

Who wrote Kidnapped?
A: Robert Louis Stevenson.

What animal story was Anna Sewell's only published work?
A: Black Beauty.

What is Shakespeare's only play to have an English place name in its title?
A: The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Which medieval writer was brother-in-law to John of Gaunt?
A: Geoffrey Chaucer.

Who wrote The Moonstone?
A: Wilkie Collins.

Who is widely regarded as the founder of Greek tragedy?
A: Aeschylus.

What relation to each other were Rabelais' giants Gargantua and Pantagruel?
A: Father and son.

Which 18th century writer was Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin?
A: Jonathan Swift.

What is the title of the play that chronicles a day in the life of the small Welsh village of Llareggub?
A: Under Milk Wood.

What was the last book written by Aldous Huxley.
A: Literature and Science.

Which fictional character is said to be based on Vlad the Impaler, a Transylvanian king of Wallachia?
A: Dracula.

In which ocean was the island setting of Lord of the Flies?
A: Pacific.

What sort of factory did Roald Dahl write about?
A: Chocolate.

What is the title of Franz Kafka's short story in which the hero turns onto an insect?
A: The Metamorphosis.

He was a physician and fonder of the University of London. His book, first published in 1852, is still a popular reference work on the English language. What is its title?
A: Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.

Which English poet drowned while sailing off the coast of Italy in 1822?
A: Shelly.

Whose political philosophy is expounded in The Republic and Laws?
A: Plato.

Which American writer was court-martialled in 1830 for neglect of duty?
A: Edgar Allen Poe.

Who wrote In Memoriam?
A: Lord Tennyson.

Which poet laureate wrote the biography The Life of Nelson in 1813?
A: Robert Southey.

Which British psychologist wrote the book The Use of Lateral Thinking?
A: Edward de Bono.

Who was the author of The Wind in the Willows, dramatized by A A Milne as Toad of Toad Hall?
A: Kenneth Grahame.

Whose works include Howards End and A Passage to India?
A: E M Forster.

Who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea?
A: Ernest Hemingway.

Which of Swift's novels is an allegorical tale describing travel to lands of giants, miniature people and intelligent horses?
A: Gulliver's Travels.

Who wrote about a pig called the Empress of Blandings?
A: P G Wodehouse.

What nationality was Nobel prizewinner Patrick White?
A: Australian.

Who was banished to the Black Sea by the Emperor Augustus for his supposedly immoral Ars Amatoria?
A: Ovid.

Which of Scott Fitzgerald's novels was unfinished at the time of his death?
A: The Last Tycoon.

Which Bronte sister lived longest?
A: Charlotte.

What is the term applied to the unrhymed, iambic pentameter used by Shakespeare in all his plays?
A: Blank verse.

Which character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland suffered from the mercury poisoning characteristic of his trade?
A: The Mad Hatter.