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According to Jane Austen, a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of what?

Wife Click to see the answer

According to Douglas Adams, what is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?

42

The great fish moved silently through the night water' is the first line of what book?

Jaws

The line from Treasure Island is 'yo ho ho and a bottle of…' what?

rum

Who is described as 'the girl who was on fire' in The Hunger Games?

Katniss

Beatrix Potter writes 'Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and …?'

Peter

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To sleep, perchance to dream' is a line from which work by William Shakespeare?

Hamlet Click to see the answer

Which John Grisham thriller has the line 'Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected'?

The Firm

Which author wrote, 'Maybe okay will be our always.'?

John Green

To be, or not to be: that is the question' is the most famous line in which Shakespeare work?

Hamlet

Finish the quote from Wuthering Heights 'Honest people don't hide their ….'

deeds

Complete the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory quote: 'Rainbow drops - suck them and you can ... in six different colors'

spit

Fill in the blank in the quote from the novel Cloud Atlas 'What is a BLANK, but a multitude of drops'

ocean

Complete the title of the Judy Blume book - 'Are you there God? It's me, …'

Margaret

What season is said to be like 'sun shining on the rain and rain falling on the sunshine' in The Secret Garden?

spring

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Which Lord of the Rings character refers to a valuable item as 'My Precious'?

Gollum Click to see the answer

Fill the blank in the Wizard of Oz quote: 'Some people without ... do an awful lot of talking, don't you think'

brains

Nothing captures human interest more than human ________ ' in 'Angels and Demons'?

tragedy

According to the title of the book. 'Highly Successful People' have how many habits?

7

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning' are the directions to where?

Neverland

What 'drowns out all but the brightest stars?' according to Lord of the Rings?

moonlight

Complete the line from Green Eggs and Ham: 'I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, …'

Sam I Am

Who wrote the oft quoted lines ''He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.'

W H Auden

The lady doth protest too much, methinks' is often quoted, but what Shakespeare work is it from?

Hamlet

Which Stephen King horror novel has the line 'High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great'?

Carrie

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation' is a line from which book, which shares its name with a famous singer?

Tom Jones

Who wrote the line in the Godfather 'Great men are not born great, they grow great '?

Mario Puzo

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Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash' is a quote from which J G Ballard novel?

Crash Click to see the answer

Who said at the end of the Wizard of Oz 'Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!'

Dorothy

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre says 'I would always rather be happy than ….'?

dignified

Which author wrote in Anna Karenina, 'if you look for perfection, you'll never be content'?

Tolstoy

Something is rotten in the state of ….' where, according to William Shakespeare?

Denmark

Complete the 1984 slogan : 'War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is …'

strength

What career is mentioned in Oliver Twist with: 'We won't make …. of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to'

an author

Complete the famous line from a JRR Tolkein classic: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a ….'?

hobbit

Which two-faced character says, 'You must suffer me to go my own dark way' in a Stevenson novel?

Dr Jekyll

Complete the Samuel Becektt quote: 'Let's go.' 'We can't.' 'Why not?' 'We're waiting for….'

Godot

Two rights don't equal a ..' what, according to Roald Dahl's BFG?

left

The quote 'All children, except one, grow up' refers to which character?

Peter Pan

Everyone loves a …' what, according to the Da Vinci Code?

conspiracy

What hour were the clocks striking in the famous quotation from the first line of 1984?

13

Complete The Godfather quote '... can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.'

lawyers

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In which novel do we first hear 'Big Brother is watching?'

1984 Click to see the answer

Adventures do occur, but not punctually' is a line from a book about which country?

India

Finish the quote from The Godfather: 'Never hate your enemies. It affects your ….'

judgement

Four legs good, two legs bad' is from a novel criticising which sort of political regime?

communism

What crime is Macbeth thinking of committing when he says 'Let not light see my black and deep desires?'

murder

Complete the Wuthering Heights quote 'She burned too bright for this ...'

world

Complete the quote from To Kill A Mockingbid 'Atticus told me to delete the ... and I'd have the facts'.

adjectives

I am Oz, the Great and ….'what, says the character in the Wizard of Oz?

terrible

Complete the line from Lord of the Rings: 'A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for ….'

friendship

Complete the quote 'Men are from Mars, women are from '?

Venus

Which teenage diarist writes 'How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world'.

Anne Frank

What type of animal is being talked about in the quote 'Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water'

shark

Fill in the blank in the quote from Jurassic Park: '… is always rape of the natural world'.

discovery

Mr Bumble in Oliver Twist says what 'opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper'?

crying

Love loves to love love' is a quote from which work by James Joyce?

Ulysses

Which Roald Dahl character says 'Don't gobblefunk around with words'?

BFG

All men are enemies, and all animals are…' what on Animal Farm?

comrades

Which Yann Martel book contains the quote, 'Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.'?

Life of Pi

The average man don't like trouble and ________', according to the 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?

danger

Which type of creature says 'So long and thanks for all the fish' in a Douglas Adams novel?

dolphin

Complete the quote from Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank: 'Because ... has more patience than people'.

paper

Complete the Pride and Prejudice quote: 'A lady's imagination is very …'?

rapid

Complete the To Kill A Mockingbird quote: 'I think there's just one kind of …'

folks

Complete the quote from the Chronicles of Narnia: 'Narnia! It's all in the ... just like I told you'

wardrobe

Which Jane Austen character says, 'I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control'?

Emma

Complete the quote from Winnie the Pooh 'Some people care too much. I think it's called …'

love

Complete the Alice in Wonderland quote: 'Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always….'

tea time

Finish the quote: Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from …..'

a store

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The quote 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is from a book written by which author?

John Dalberg Click to see the answer

One you are real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.' Who wrote this book?

Margery Williams

Who wrote 'The universe doesn't allow perfection' in 'A Brief History of Time'?

Stephen Hawking

What is the first name of the character in Jerry Maguire who says the famous line 'Show me the money'?

Rod

How many parts were there to the Shakespeare play Henry IV?

2

What book is this quote from: 'what a slut time is. She screws everybody'?

The Fault In Our Stars

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Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need' is a line from which watery book?

Three Men in a Boat Click to see the answer

Which singer writes in his autobiography 'There are lots of things I really like besides girls'.

Justin Bieber

As well as plays, Shakespeare wrote many sonnets. How many lines are there in a sonnet?

14

Which teenager writes 'My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.'

Adrian Mole

Lashings of ginger beer' is often wrongly given as a quote from which children's adventure series?

Famous Five

Who wrote that there was 'no place like home' in the Wizard of Oz?

Frank L Baum

How many parts were there to the Shakespeare play Henry VI?

3

Which book contains the line 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others'?

Animal Farm

Which John Steinbeck novel features this line, 'Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.'?

Of Mice and Men

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The line 'All morons hate it when you call them a moron' is from Catcher in the Rye by which author?

JD Salinger Click to see the answer

Who tells Charlie 'I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true' in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Grandpa Jo

Four legs good, two legs bad' is a quote from which George Orwell classic?

Animal Farm

In the The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the bunnies are told 'Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there.' What happened?

He was put in a pie

How old was Shakespeare when he married Anne Hathaway?

18

Which scientist logically argues, 'If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?'

Stephen Hawking

Whose book The God Delusion contains the line 'We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in.'

Richard Dawkins

Who 'ate someone's liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone'?

Hannibal Lecter

Shakespeare's quote 'there never was a story of more woe' is about which of his works?

Romeo and Juliet

Which author wrote, 'When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.'?

Yann Martel

How far does big nut brown hare say she loves little nutbrown hare in 'Guess How Much I Love You'?

To the moon and back

Which author wrote, 'Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.'?

Harper Lee

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Which spell are the Hogwarts' students learning when they are told to 'Swish and flick'?

Wingardium leviosa Click to see the answer

When Alice in Wonderland comes to a fork in the road and asks ''Which road do I take?', who answers?

Cheshire Cat

What book is this quote from: 'I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free'?

Wuthering Heights

Which teenager says 'Pandora! My lost love! Now I will never stroke your treacle hair!'?

Adrian Mole

The quote 'Men of God and men of war have strange affinities' features in which book?

Blood Meridian

Which author wrote 'Truly God was good, to make man so blind' in The Thorn Birds?

Colleen McCullough

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted' is a line from which George Eliot novel?

Middlemarch

Who appeals for more food with the line 'Please sir, I want some more?'

Oliver Twist

When Harry Potter says 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good' what is he doing?

Using the marauders' map

Who is known as 'he who must not be named' in the Harry Potter novels?

Lord Voldemort

Who says to Harry Potter: 'Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet'.

Moaning Myrtle

Which literary villain said he was 'giving serious thought to eating your wife'?

Hannibal Lecter

Yes,' Smirnov answered, 'he was on a nuclear-powered submarine' sums up the plot of which Tom Clancy novel?

Hunt for Red October

Which author wrote, 'Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.'?

Jodi Picoult

What book is the 'Skin Horse' in?

The Velveteen Rabbit

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Four legs good, two legs bad' was the ethos of which novel?

Animal Farm Click to see the answer

Who has 'knobbly knees, and turned out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose?'

The Gruffalo

Which author wrote, 'Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.'?

George R.R. Martin

You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how' is from which epic American Civil War novel?

Gone with the Wind

Which author writes in the Discworld novels 'Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind'?

Terry Pratchett

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish'. Which book is the previous quote taken from?

The Lord of the Rings

Bah, humbug' is said by which character in a festive novel?

Ebenezer Scrooge

It is never to late to be wise', according to which Daniel Defoe book?

Robinson Crusoe

The quote 'My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered' starts off which book?

The Lovely Bones

Which author wrote, 'Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it.'?

William Shakespeare

Willy Loman says 'I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been' in which Arthur Miller work?

Death of a Salesman

Which book has the line, 'Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.'?

Gone with the wind

At the beginning of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it is announced 'I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow ….' how many children?

5

In the play 'Romeo and Juliet' - Juliet's age is said to be what?

13

Which famous family film ends with the line 'I'll be right here'?

ET

Which celebrity writes in their autobiography: 'I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure.'

Katie Price

He loved Big Brother' is the last line of 1984 by which famous author?

George Orwell

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us' comes from which Michael Crichton novel?

Jurassic Park

In Memoirs of a Geisha is the line 'at the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone'. How many words does the poem have?

3

The last line of which series is 'The scar had not pained Harry for 19 years. All was well'.

Harry Potter

What foodstuff is Dr Seuss referring to in 'Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say'?

green eggs and ham

Where are the travellers when they hear the line 'Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!' in the Wizard of Oz?

Emerald City

Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life' is from which modern Betty Smith novel?

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A label attached to which fictional character reads 'Please look after this bear'?

Paddington

The List is Life' refers to a list drawn up by which character?

Oskar Schindler

Which district in the Hunger Games is described as 'where you can starve to death in safety'?

12

Which literary character tells two children 'I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.'

The Cat in the Hat

Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship is described as 'whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same' in which book?

Wuthering Heights

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs' is from which novel?

Jurassic Park

Who refers to Hermione as a 'mudblood' in the Harry Potter novels?

Draco Malfoy

Which Harry Potter book features the line, 'Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.'?

The Deathly Hallows

Who wrote in Wuthering Heights, 'Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.'

Emily Bronte

Complete the line spoken by Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca 'Play it again…'?

Sam

The animals in which book have the motto 'Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound'?

Watership Down

There is no place like home' is the moral of which L Frank Baum novel?

The Wizard of Oz

A character in which Victorian novel says 'I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free'?

Wuthering Heights

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Complete this famous quote 'You've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel Lucky. Well do ya….'?

Punk Click to see the answer

Do you 'clean' anyone?' is a famous quote from which movie?

Leon

I am double the worst trouble you ever thought of' is a famous quote from which film?

Heat

Complete the line from East of Eden: 'My imagination will get me a passport to …..'

hell

Can't we just like kick this old school? You know, like I stick the baby in a basket, send it your way, like Moses and the reeds?' Name the film?

Juno

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.', is the first line from which book?

1984

Questions: 9
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Complete the following words from Dumbledore to Harry Potter: 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not...'?

real Click to see the answer

What 'is the nicest word there is' according to Little House on the Prairie?

home

Complete the famous movie quote 'Mother of Mercy, is this the end of ____'?

Rico

According to some of the animals in Animal Farm, the only good human is one who is what?

dead

In I Can't Stay Long, what is 'the most secret animal on earth' according to Laurie Lee?

man

I was thinking I could, like, have this baby, and give it to someone that like totally needs it'. Name the movie?

Juno

Complete the famous quote 'Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a ____'?

Star

You don't stare at my stomach all the time, you look at my face and every time I see you, the baby starts kicking super hard' Name the movie?

Juno

Flames, on the side of my face, breathing… breath… heaving breaths' comes from what film?

Clue

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In Animal Farm, George Orwell says which animal 'is the only creature which consumes without producing'?

man Click to see the answer

Snap out of it' appears in Moonstruck. Who is the popstar actress who says this line?

Cher

What kind of beans are mentioned in the famous Hannibal Lector quote regarding a census takers liver?

Fava

Complete the famous quote from a Clint Eastwood character 'Go ahead, make my…'?

Day

One plus two plus two plus one' is a famous line from which movie?

Clue

Finish the following quote from The Great Gatsby: 'that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little….'?

fool

Mrs. Lando, when your husband enrolled Mathilda at Spencer, he told us she had 'problems'. Name the film?

Leon

Fill in the blanks of this famous quote 'Nobody puts ___ in the corner'?

Baby

What race of being says 'Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.' to Frodo in Lord of the Rings?

Elf

Complete the famous quote from 'The Sixth Sense': 'I see ____ people'?

Dead

According to Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island, 'dead men don't…'

bite

Complete the famous line from Casablanca' 'Here's looking at you…'?

Kid

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Fill in the blanks in this famous movie quote 'This is another fine _____ you've gotten me into'?

Mess Click to see the answer

Fill in the blanks of this famous movie quote 'I'll get you, my pretty, and your little ____ too'?

Dog

Complete the famous quote 'Forget it ____, Its Chinatown'?

Jake

Fill in the blanks of a famous quote from a Cher movie '_____ out of it'?

Snap

In the Three Musketeers, Dumas says which is 'the most selfish of all the passions'?

love

Complete the famous quote from Jaws 'You're gonna need a bigger…'?

Boat

Complete the Les Miserables quote: 'He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with ….'

two

Complete the quote from Girl With A Pearl Earring 'I did not mind the ... so much when he was there'.

cold

Which sport is referred to in the quote 'Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion'?

Gold

Which book contains, 'Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one'?

1984

Complete the title of the play by William Shakespeare- As You ??? It

Like

Which character in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is told: 'you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'

Ford

Da-da da-da da da. I am your singing telegram' comes from which film?

Clue

Complete the last line of Cecelia Ahearn's novel P.S. I Love You: 'In the meantime, she would just …'?

live

Complete the famous quote from the Marathon Man 'Is it…'?

Safe

What is the first name of the character in The Sixth Sense who utters the quote 'I see Dead People'?

Cole

Complete the famous movie quote: 'You Ain't Seen Nothing…'?

Yet

What is the first name of the character who utters the line 'I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse'?

Vito

I say what I mean, and I do what I say' comes from which film?

Heat

Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.' Name the film.

Heat

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry' is a quote associated with which super hero?

Hulk

In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 'Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important.' What?

tea

Who is described in the first line of a book as 'handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition'

Emma

In the play 'Macbeth' how is Lady Macbeth related to the central character?

Wife

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