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with answers about literature, books, authors and more.
Who is the narrator of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories?
A: Dr. Watson.
Which English writer married Anne Hathaway?
A: William Shakespeare.
Complete the title of Shakespeare's play: The Two Gentleman of ...
A: Verona.
What is the surname shared by the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays
and the pet laureate appointed in 19084?
A: Hughes.
What nationality is the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
A: Colombian.
Who is the American author of Couples and The Witches of Eastwick?
A: John Updike.
For which other work than the Odyssey is Homer noted?
A: The Iliad.
Complete the title of this Ionesco play: The Bald...
A: Prima Donna.
Which English poet planned a Communist colony in America with Robert
Southey?
A: Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Who wrote Schindler's Ark?
A: Thomas Keneally.
Which American dramatist and novelist wrote A Streetcar Named Desire
in 1947?
A: Tennessee Williams.
Who wrote A Brief History of Time?
A: Stephen Hawking.
Which English author, who sometimes wrote under the name 'Boz',
portrayed the social and economic ills of Victorian England in his
novels?
A: Charles Dickens.
Where were Chaucer's pilgrims bound?
A: Canterbury.
Which science-fiction pioneer wrote The Time Machine?
A: H G Wells.
Who hunted Moby-Dick?
A: Captain Ahab.
Which novel was set in a bureaucratic totalitarian state, 35 years
ahead of the book's publication date?
A: Nineteen Eighty-four.
What was Oscar Wilde's only novel?
A: The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
A: Dante.
From which mythical creatures was Odysseus protecting his sailors
when he stuffed their ears with wax?
A: Sirens.
Who wrote the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood and Youth?
A: Tolstoy.
Who wrote an elegy on Abraham Lincoln called When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd'?
A: Walt Whitman.
Which was the home planet for the aliens in H G Wells' War of the
Worlds?
A: Mars.
Which literary family lived at the parsonage in the village of
Haworth on the Yorkshire Moors?
A: The Bronte family.
How far under the sea were Jules Verne's explorers?
A: Twenty thousand leagues.
Which English poet was the spouse of the novelist who created
Frankenstein?
A: Percy Bysshe Shelley.
What nationality was the playwright Henrik Ibsen?
A: Norwegian.
What was W H Auden's first name?
A: Wystan.
Who wrote the plays The Wasps, The Birds, and The Frogs?
A: Aristophanes.
Whose plays include Anna Christie and Mourning Becomes Electra?
A: Eugene O'Neill.
Which 16th century English dramatist was imprisoned for murder, and
was himself murdered in a tavern brawl?
A: Christopher Marlowe.
Which book by Robert Louis Stevenson featured a doctor who
experimented with drugs?
A: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Who wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth?
A: Jules Verne.
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