Thriller Trivia
50 Trivia Questions & Answers
What is the name of the title character of the thriller novel 'Gone Girl'?
Amy Click to see the answer
What is the title of James Herbert's first novel, published in 1974?
The Rats
Who plays the female lead in the 2011 adaptation of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'?
Rooney Mara
Who plays the male lead in the 2014 adaptation of 'Gone Girl'?
Ben Affleck
Which novel by Sheridan Le Fanu was inspiration for Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'?
Carmilla
What did the girl play with in the popular Stieg Larsson novel?
Fire
Who wrote the novella 'The Woman in Black'?
Susan Hill Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'The Godfather'?
Mario Puzo
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better' is taken from what book?
Choke
In which novel by Thomas Harris was the first appearance of Dr. Hannibal Lecter?
Red Dragon
What novel did Daphne Du Maurier write about Cornish ship wreckers?
Jamaica Inn
Jonathan Harker's journal and Dr. Seward's diary feature in what famous 1897 novel?
Dracula
In what language was 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' originally written?
Swedish
Who is known for her 'Vampire Chronicles', beginning with 'Interview with the Vampire'?
Anne Rice
How old is the drug dealing protagonist in the Nick McDonnel book 'Twelve'?
17
The Edgar Allan Poe short story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' is set in which city?
Paris
Which George du Maurier novel was inspiration for Gaston Leroux's 'The Phantom of the Opera'?
Trilby
Which author wrote 'The Metamorphosis'?
Franz Kafka
In what year was 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' first published?
2005
In what year was the novel 'Gone Girl' first published?
2012
Who wrote the short story 'I, Robot' in 1950?
Isaac Asimov Click to see the answer
Who wrote 'The Castle of Otranto', which is generally regarded as the first gothic novel?
Horace Walpole
Who wrote the novel 'The Mysteries of Udolpho'?
Ann Radcliffe
Who wrote the novel 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'?
Stieg Larsson
Who wrote the novel 'Brave New World'?
Aldous Huxley
Who coined the phrase 'Big Brother is watching you'?
George Orwell
Who plays the male lead in the 2011 adaptation of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'?
Daniel Craig Click to see the answer
Who wrote the 'Books of Blood' series of novels?
Clive Barker
Which author wrote, 'when you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling'?
Yann Martel
Which famous horror novel is subtitled 'The Modern Prometheus'?
Frankenstein
Which best selling sci fi author was born in Petrovichi, USSR in 1922?
Isaac Asimov
Who wrote 'Brighton Rock' and 'Our Man in Havana'?
Graham Greene
Who plays the female lead in the 2014 adaptation of 'Gone Girl'?
Rosamund Pike
The line 'this is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful' is taken from which book?
Prozac Nation
The character Prim Everdeen first appeared in which of these novels?
The Hunger Games
Who wrote the science fiction thrillers 'The Day Of The Triffids', 'The Midwich Cuckoos' and 'The Kraken Wakes'?
John Wyndham
Who wrote the novel 'I Am Legend'?
Richard Matheson
Which Ray Bradbury novel opens 'It was a pleasure to burn'?
Fahrenheit 451
Who is the chief protagonist in John Buchan's 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'?
Richard Hannay
Who wrote the novel 'Jurassic Park'?
Michael Crichton Click to see the answer
What is the first novel in which a werewolf is portrayed as a victim?
The Werewolf of Paris
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen' is the first line from which book?
Nineteen Eighty-Four
You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope' is a quote from which novel?
The Hunger Games
Who wrote the 1866 book 'Crime and Punishment'?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In which John Wyndham novel are all the women in a village impregnated on the same night?
The Midwich Cuckoos
The plot of which of these novels concerns the bloodline of Jesus Christ?
The Da Vinci Code
Which best selling author wrote 'The Odessa File'?
Frederick Forsyth
Who wrote the novel 'The Exorcist'?
William Peter Blatty
The novel 'The Big Sleep' was written by who?
Raymond Chandler
Who wrote 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' which was later adapted into a film?
Patricia Highsmith
