Classics Trivia
221 Trivia Questions & Answers
Which word is missing from the D.H.Lawrence novel 'Sons and ...'?
Lovers Click to see the answer
Which of these is one of the characters in 'Lord Of The Flies'?
Piggy
Which of these is the title of a Shakespeare play?
Hamlet
Who wrote 'The Awakening'?
Kate Chopin
Lorna Doone' is set in which part of England?
South West
What is the first name of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Victor
Who wrote 'Winnie and Wolf', a fictionalisation of the relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler?
AN Wilson Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'?
Jules Verne
Where in Britain was The French Lieutenant's Woman set?
Lyme Regis
Who created the magical world of Narnia?
CS Lewis
Who wrote The Secret Seven series of books?
Enid Blyton
What present-day country is the setting for Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet'?
Denmark
Which drug was Sherlock Holmes addicted to?
Opium
Which of these is a novel by Isaac Asimov?
I Robot
What was the title of the pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821?
Adonaïs
Where was 'Gulliver's Travels' writer Jonathan Swift born?
Dublin Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'Pilgrim's Progress'?
John Bunyan
What was the profession of George Eliot's 'Silas Marner'?
Weaver
Which French writer created 'The Miser' called Harpagon?
Moliere
Which classic story features a place called Never Never Land?
Peter Pan
Who wrote the novel '101 Dalmations'?
Dodie Smith
What was the name of Bertie Woosters butler?
Jeeves
Which writer's quote: 'If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat'?
Mark Twain
Where is the play Hamlet set?
Denmark
Which character in 'Oliver Twist' owns a dog called Bullseye?
Bill Sikes
Which novel's central male character is Humbert Humbert?
Lolita
Which of these is NOT a creature from 'Lord Of The Rings'?
Gremlin
Who wrote the classics 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad'?
Homer Click to see the answer
Who wrote the classic novel 'Emma'?
Jane Austen
Whose ghost appears in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'?
Caesar
Who wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
Mark Twain
Which of these is NOT a heroine in a Shakespeare play?
Vanessa
When did H.G.Wells write about his 'Time Machine'?
1890s
Who was the young hero of 'Treasure Island'?
Jim Hawkins
What is the profession of the title character in the novel 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'?
Teacher
What is the name of Shakespeare's simple constable in 'Measure For Measure'?
Elbow
What is the first name of Sherlock Holmes' adversary Professor Moriarty?
James
Who wrote 'White Fang'?
Jack London
Which Shakespeare play includes the monster Caliban?
The Tempest
Which of these Charlotte Bronte novels was published first ?
Jane Eyre
Which Shakespeare King was killed at Pontefract Castle?
Richard III
Who wrote 'The Darling Buds of May', serialised on TV starring David Jason?
HE Bates
Who wrote 'The Call of the Wild'?
Jack London Click to see the answer
As in Dostoevsky's novel, how many 'Brothers Karamazov' are there?
3
What pen name does Rupert Allason use when writing his spy novels?
Nigel West
What color was David Copperfield's hair in the Dicken novel?
Red
Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Jane Austen
What is the name of the farm in 'Animal Farm'?
Manor Farm
What is the first name of Sherlock Holmes's older brother?
Mycroft
Which place was ruled by Shakespeare's King Lear?
Britain
Who wrote 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?
E. L. James
Which name became popular for girls after the publication of 'Peter Pan'?
Wendy
Who wrote the classic book 'Anna Karenina'?
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' was published in which century?
15th
Which of the Bronte sisters wrote 'Agnes Grey'?
Anne
Which Scottish King did Shakespeare write about?
Macbeth
Who wrote 'Sense and Sensibility'?
Jane Austen
What was the middle name of the doggerel poet William McGonagall?
Topaz
Of which book did Joseph Conrad write 'Melville knows nothing of the sea'?
Moby Dick
Who wrote 'Black Beauty'?
Anna Sewell
Which Danish prince did Shakespeare write about?
Hamlet Click to see the answer
What was the original title of Moby Dick?
The Whale
Who wrote 'Doctor Zhivago'?
Pasternak
Whose second novel, 'Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee', concerns three young Asian women growing up in Britain?
Meera Syal
Who wrote 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'?
Mark Twain
Which author created 'The Invisible Man'?
H.G.Wells
Which of these is the name of Winston Smith's girlfriend in '1984'?
Julia
Who wrote 'Lolita'?
Nabokov
Who is the author of the science-fiction novel 'Gridlinked'?
Neal Asher
Which biblical character did Charlton Heston play in 'The Ten Commandments'?
Moses
According to Shakespeare, 'All's Well That ...' what?
Ends Well
Who wrote the classic book '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'?
Jules Verne
What was the name of Hamlet's father?
Hamlet
Which of the Bronte sisters was the oldest?
Charlotte
Who wrote the play 'School For Scandal'?
Sheriden
Thornfield Hall is central to which classic novel?
Jane Eyre
Who's missing from the title of the Dickens novel 'The Mystery of ...'?
Edwin Drood
Which Shakespeare play is the basis for the movie 'Ran'?
King Lear
What is the name of Winston's girlfriend in the novel '1984'?
Julia
Which year was the setting for Graham Greene's classic novel 'Brighton Rock'?
1938
What kind of animal is the Jungle Book's Baloo?
Bear
What's the name of Atticus Finch's daughter in the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
Scout
What is the first name of the founder of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency in the novels by Alexander McCall Smith?
Precious
Where did Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen come from?
Verona
Sir Percy Blakeney was also known secretly as 'The Scarlet'?
Pimpernel
One of the pigs in Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is called ...?
Napoleon
What is the name of the family of sisters in 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Bennett
Who wrote 'The Time Machine'?
H G Wells
Which color is missing from the classic novel: 'The ... Pimpernel'?
Scarlet
What was the name of Captain Hook's ship in 'Peter Pan'?
Jolly Roger
Which part of England is the setting for the novel Lorna Doone?
Exmoor
Who wrote 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
Oscar Wilde Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage'?
Stephen Crane
The release of 'Lady Chaterley's Lover' by DH Lawrence led to which publisher being tried in 1960 under the Obscenity Act?
Penguin Books
Which writer created the Scrooge character?
Charles Dickens
Who wrote 'Through the Looking Glass'?
Lewis Carroll
Who wrote 'Jungle Book'?
Rudyard Kipling
Who wrote about the 'Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders'?
Daniel Defoe Click to see the answer
Who wrote the classic novel 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Jonathon Swift
Who wrote 'The Woman in White'?
Wilkie Collins
Who wrote 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?
Charles Dickens
Which auther wrote the well-known novels, 'A Passage To India' and 'A Room With A View'?
E.M. Forster
Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
Leo Tolstoy
Who wrote 'Middlemarch'?
George Eliot
Who wrote 'The Prisoner of Zenda'?
Anthony Hope
Who wrote The Napoleon of Notting Hill?
G. K. Chesterton Click to see the answer
Which gay icon's memoirs are called 'The Naked Civil Servant'?
Quentin Crisp
Of whom did Norman Mailer say 'The greatest mind ever to stay in prep school'?
J.D.Salinger
Who wrote the book 'Midnight's Children' which was awarded the 'Best of the Booker' in 2008?
Salman Rushdie
Who wrote 'Jayne Eyre'?
Charlotte Bronte
Man Friday appears in which classic book?
Robinson Crusoe
Who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe'?
Daniel Defoe
Who wrote 'Great Expectations'?
Charles Dickens
Which rotund character is the most famous creation of Frank Richards?
Billy Bunter
Who wrote 'The Man in the Iron Mask'?
Alexandre Dumas
Who wrote 'The Moonstone'?
Wilkie Collins
Bill Sikes and Fagin are characters from which Dickens novel?
Oliver Twist
Who wrote 'The Importance of being Earnest'?
Oscar Wilde Click to see the answer
Name the Graham Greene novel that features the character Harry Lime?
The Third Man
Who wrote 'Lord Jim'?
Joseph Conrad
Who wrote 'The Phantom of the Opera'?
Gaston Leroux
Who wrote the book 'Trainspotting'?
Irvine Welsh
Who wrote about 'Tristram Shandy'?
Laurence Sterne
Who wrote 'Lord of the Flies'?
William Golding
Who wrote 'Lorna Doone'?
R D Blackmore
Who wrote the classic book 'Tom Jones'?
Henry Fielding
Name the main character in Orwell's '1984'?
Winston Smith
Which is the correct name of the Jane Austen novel?
Mansfield Park
Who wrote 'Silas Marner'?
George Eliot
Who wrote 'Les Misérables'?
Victor Hugo
Which of these is J.P.Donleavy's most famous novel?
The Ginger Man
Which of literature's great heroines was originally to be called 'Pansy'?
Scarlett O'Hara
Who wrote 'Oliver Twist'?
Charles Dickens Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'Heart of Darkness'?
Joseph Conrad
Who wrote 'Rights of Man'?
Thomas Paine
Who wrote 'David Copperfield'?
Charles Dickens
Which of the following is from C.S.Lewis's collection of Narnia stories?
Prince Caspian
Which of these is the title of one of the poems from T.S.Eliot's 'Four Quartets'?
Little Gidding
Which classic novel ends: 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past'?
The Great Gatsby
Who wrote the book 'The Executioner's Song'?
Norman Mailer
Who wrote 'Bleak House'?
Charles Dickens
Paul Morel is the main character in which DH Lawrence novel?
Sons and Lovers
NOT a book written by George Orwell?
Brighton Rock
Which of these DH Lawrence novels was published first?
Sons And Lovers
Which French writer wrote 'The Plague'?
Albert Camus
Which author created the character Phileas Fogg?
Jules Verne
Bullseye the dog appears in which Dickens novel?
Oliver Twist
Which of these great literary works was written in the Tudor Period?
Twelfth Night
Which celebrated poet penned the opening line, 'Father, father, where are you going?'?
William Blake
Who wrote 'Far from the Madding Crowd'?
Thomas Hardy
Who is the illustrator mosy closely associated with Roald Dahl?
Quentin Blake Click to see the answer
Who wrote about 'Three Men in a Boat'?
Jerome K Jerome
As in the title of the BBC adaptation and in the Dickens novel itself, how is Amy Dorrit better known?
Little Dorrit
Who wrote 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'?
L Frank Baum
Boz' was the psuedonym of which writer?
Charles Dickens
Who wrote 'Barchester Towers'?
Anthony Trollope
Who wrote 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'?
Thomas Hardy
Which 19th century French writer created Athos, Porthos and Aramis?
Alexandre Dumas
Who wrote the classic 'The Age of Innocence?'
Edith Wharton
Bill and Nancy are characters from which Dickens novel?
Oliver Twist
Which 'bear of little brain' was the most famous creation of A.A. Milne?
Winnie-the-Pooh
Middlemarch' was written by which of the following?
George Eliot
Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?
Emily Bronte
Who wrote The Man who was Thursday?
G. K. Chesterton
Who wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
Charles Dickens
Which of these Evelyn Waugh books was published before the other two?
Decline And Fall
Which of these Dickens novels was published first?
Oliver Twist
Who wrote 'Moby Dick'?
Herman Melville
Which of these HG Wells novels was published first?
The Time Machine
Which British actor starred as Fagin in David Lean's classic adaptation of Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'?
Alec Guinness
Which novella by Ian McEwan opens in June 1962 on Edward and Florence's wedding day?
On Chesil Beach
Who wrote 'The Deerslayer'?
James Fenimore Cooper Click to see the answer
Which Dickens novel features an escaped convict as one of the central characters?
Great Expectations
Which classic novel ends: 'After all, tomorrow is another day'?
Gone With The Wind
Who wrote 'A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys'?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote 'King Solomon's Mines'?
Henry Rider Haggard
Who wrote the classic book 'The Prince'?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Which of these is a title of a Harry Potter book?
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Click to see the answer
Which of these Dickens novels was published last?
Great Expectations
After all, tomorrow is another day' are the last words spoken in which classic movie?
Gone With The Wind
Which is the only Shakespeare play that mentions America?
Comedy Of Errors
Who wrote 'Tales From the Arabian Nights'?
Richard Francis Burton
Who wrote the classic novel 'Kidnapped'?
Robert Louis Stevenson
What is the correct title of the classic Dickens novel?
David Copperfield
Which novel hears the savage chanting 'Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!'?
Lord of the Flies
Which of the following is a 1902 novel by A.E.W. Mason?
The Four Feathers
Pip is the hero of which Dickens novel?
Great Expectations Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Who wrote the novel 'Cashel Byron's Profession'?
George Bernard Shaw
Who wrote 'The Last of the Mohicans'?
James Fenimore Cooper
Who wrote 'Ivanhoe'?
Sir Walter Scott
Who wrote the novel 'Waverley'?
Sir Walter Scott
Who wrote 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Who wrote 'Nightmare Abbey'?
Thomas Love Peacock
Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote 'The Brothers Karamazov'?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Which of these is a novel by Charles Dickens?
Great Expectations
Which Katharine McMahon novel, featuring the character Rosa Barr, is set amid the Crimean War?
The Rose Of Sebastopol
Who wrote the classic novel 'Rebecca'?
Daphne du Maurier Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
O Henry' was the pen-name of which writer?
William Sydney Porter
Who created the character Sherlock Holmes?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Who wrote 'Don Quixote'?
Miguel de Cervantes
Which of these is the correct title of a Dickens novel?
Great Expectations
Who wrote about 'The Princess and the Goblin'?
George MacDonald
Who wrote 'Little Women'?
Louisa May Alcott
Who wrote 'Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys'?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote the classic book 'Walden'?
Henry David Thoreau
Who wrote 'Little Lord Fauntleroy'?
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Who wrote the book 'Allan Quatermain'?
Henry Rider Haggard
Which writer's last play was 'The Tempest' in 1611?
William Shakespeare
Which Dickens novel features Wackford Squeers?
Nicholas Nickleby
The musical 'West Side Story' is based on which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet
Who wrote 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Who wrote 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Which Shakespeare play features Shylock?
Merchant Of Venice
Which of the following was a Dickensian character?
Nicholas Nickleby
Which Dickens novel features the characters Tiny Tim and Ebeneezer Scrooge?
A Christmas Carol
Who wrote 'Vanity Fair'?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Who wrote about 'The Princess and Curdie'?
George MacDonald
