Non- Fiction Trivia
80 Trivia Questions & Answers
Who wrote 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'?
William L. Shirer Click to see the answer
Who wrote the book 'Complete Hip and Thigh Diet'?
Rosemary Conley
Who directed the film adaptation of 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption'?
Angelina Jolie
How many J. M. Coetzee books appear in '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die'?
10
Who wrote 'The Power of Positive Thinking' in 1953?
Norman Vincent Peale
Who wrote a book of 'Inspiring Recipes for Meatless Meals'?
Linda McCartney
The book 'The Devil in the White City' features tales of which serial killer?
H. H. Holmes Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'The Almagest', a mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?
Ptolemy
Who was the former Beirut hostage who wrote 'An Evil Cradling'?
Brian Keenan
Which scientist collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book 'Why War?'?
Albert Einstein
Whose works include 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' and 'The Right Stuff'?
Tom Wolfe
Who wrote a best-selling science book called 'A Brief History of Time'?
Stephen Hawking
Which Norman Mailer book is based on a protest march?
The Armies of the Night
In what year was Paula Deen's The Deen Family Cookbook first published?
2009
Who purchased the film rights to 'The Devil in the White City' in 2010?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Who wrote 'The Devil in the White City'?
Erik Larson Click to see the answer
Who wrote the book 'In Search of Schrödinger's Cat'?
John Gribbin
Who wrote 'The Pilgrims Progress'?
John Bunyan
Merriam-Webster is a name associated with which sort of books?
Dictionaries
In what year was 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption' first published?
2010
Who co-authored 'The Communist Manifesto' with Karl Marx?
Friedrich Engels
Rhonda Byrne wrote which best selling self help book in 2006?
The Secret
What is the name of Andy McNab's 1993 book about a patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq?
Bravo Two Zero
In what year was 'The Devil in the White City' originally published?
2003
In which city is the Bodleian library?
Oxford
In what year was 'The Joy of Cooking' first published?
1931
Who wrote the book 'Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption'?
Laura Hillenbrand
Philosopher and writer Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, is associated with what school of thought?
Utilitarianism
In what decade was the 'Oxford English Dictionary' first published?
1920s
Who published the book 'Le Guide culinaire' in 1903?
August Escoffier
The book 'The Devil in the White City' is set in which US city?
Chicago
Which author wrote biographies about Princess Diana, Tom Cruise and Monica Lewinsky?
Andrew Morton
Who collaborated with Maurice Joyant to write 'Art de Cuisine'?
Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec
The first public library in America was opened in what year?
1698 Click to see the answer
Which internet CEO wrote the best selling book 'Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead'?
Sheryl Sandberg
Which basketball legend titled his autobiography 'Driven from Within'?
Michael Jordan
Who wrote 'Into Thin Air', 'Into the Wild' and 'Under the Banner of Heaven'?
Jon Krakauer
The Lady In The Van' is the memoir of which playwright?
Alan Bennett
The book 'Call the Midlife' is the biography of which BBC radio presenter?
Chris Evans
In what year was Julia Child's second cookbook released?
1968 Click to see the answer
What is the title of John Bunyan's famous work?
Pilgrim's Progress
Over 1 million copies have been sold of the motivational book 'Awaken The Giant Within', but who wrote it?
Anthony Robbins
Who wrote 'The Fire Next Time' and 'Notes of a Native Son'?
James Baldwin
Who wrote 'The Armies of the Night'?
Norman Mailer
In which decade did Guinness start to publish its book of Records annually?
1960s
Which writer wrote a book about bullfighting entitled 'Death in the Afternoon'?
Ernest Hemingway
Who wrote an 1861 'Book of Household Management'?
Isabella Beeton
In what year was the first Los Angeles Times Cookbook published?
1902
Who wrote the book 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking'?
Susan Cain Click to see the answer
In which century did Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Baghdadi write the 'Kitab al-Tabikh'?
13th
The book '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' features an introduction from who?
Peter Ackroyd
The book 'The Devil in the White City' features tales of which architect?
Daniel Burnham
In what year was the Settlement Cookbook by Simon Kander published?
1903
Which ancient civilisation wrote the oldest known cookbook on clay tablets?
Babylonians
Which writer changed his name to distance himself from a relative in the Salem witch trials?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In what year was 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking' originally published?
2012
How did Alfred Nobel initiate the Nobel Prize?
Requested in his will
Who wrote 'The Female Eunuch'?
Germaine Greer
The title of the autobiography of which soccer player is titled 'Commitment'?
Didier Drogba
Which Russian wrote of 'War and Peace'?
Leo Tolstoy
Whose 1896 'The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book' has stayed in print for over a century?
Fannie Farmer
In which year was the first vegetarian cookbook supposedly written?
1812
Who wrote the official biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs life?
Walter Isaacson
Who was the author of 'Das Kapital'?
Karl Marx Click to see the answer
Which London road is associated with book sellers?
Charing Cross Road
Who wrote 'The Prince', a famous work that redefined the beliefs of cynicism in the Italian Renaissance?
Niccolò Machiavelli
Who wrote the motivational book 'How to Win Friends & Influence People'?
Dale Carnegie
Who published essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and Manners in 1841 and 1844?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which politician published the memoirs entitled 'You Can't Say That'?
Ken Livingstone
Who left school at 16, studied cookbooks at the British Museum, and now has her own supermarket line of food?
Delia Smith Click to see the answer
Which MP has written a well-received biography of William Pitt the Younger?
William Hague
Who wrote the 2010 cookbook 'Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home'?
Nigella Lawson
Who wrote the book 'The Audacity of Hope'?
Barack Obama
The first public library in America was opened in what state?
South Carolina
Who wrote the book 'The Birds of America'?
John James Audubon
The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen was written in what state?
New York
Who wrote the inspirational best selling book 'The Secret'?
Rhonda Byrne
Who was the author of the first known cookbook to be written by an American?
Amelia Simmons
Whose non-fiction work includes 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album'?
Joan Didion
Who released a 'Complete Cookery Course' in 1986 and an illustrated 'Complete Cookery Course' in 1989?
Delia Smith
