59+ Best War Trivia Questions & Answers

Question: Which author wrote a book about the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and people living there?

Answer: John Hersey

Question: When was the book 'The Winds of War' first published?

Answer: 1971

Question: The novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front' was written by a veteran of which war?

Answer: World War I

Question: What Leon Uris novel deals with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising?

Answer: Mila 18

Question: The novel 'Birdsong' is set during which war?

Answer: World War I

Question: What is the name of the 1993 film adaptation of 'The Killer Angels' called?

Answer: Gettysburg

Question: In what year was 'Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War' first published?

Answer: 2009

Question: Which novelist wrote a World War II book from the viewpoint of German soldiers?

Answer: Irwin Shaw

Question: In what year was 'Slaughterhouse-Five' first published?

Answer: 1969

Question: Which writer, trained as an aeronautical engineer, wrote a fictional book about nuclear war?

Answer: Nevil Shute

Question: In what year was 'All Quiet on the Western Front' first published?

Answer: 1929

Question: In what year was the novel 'Regeneration' first published?

Answer: 1991

Question: In which decade was the novel 'Catch-22' first published?

Answer: 1960s

Question: Which author wrote a novel set in a psych ward serving soldiers of WWII suffering from emotional trauma?

Answer: Leo Rosten

Question: The novel 'The Book Thief' was written by which author?

Answer: Markus Zusak

Question: In what year was 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' first published?

Answer: 1940

Question: Who wrote the book 'The Winds of War'?

Answer: Herman Wouk

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Regeneration'?

Answer: Pat Barker

Question: A series of books about SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp and the 'Alpha Force' novels are among the works of which writer?

Answer: Chris Ryan

Question: Who played the male lead in the 1943 film adaptation of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

Answer: Gary Cooper

Question: In which novel did the character John Yossarian originally appear?

Answer: Catch-22

Question: In what language was 'All Quiet on the Western Front' originally written?

Answer: German

Question: Which band recorded a lyrical adaptation of the book 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

Answer: Metallica

Question: In what year was 'The Killer Angels' first published?

Answer: 1974

Question: Who wrote 'Dispatches'?

Answer: Michael Herr

Question: What is the novel Leon Uris wrote about the Nazi invasion of Greece?

Answer: The Angry Hills

Question: Which war is the book 'The Winds of War' about?

Answer: World War II

Question: Which author wrote 'Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War'?

Answer: Karl Marlantes

Question: The novel 'Slaughterhouse-Five' is about which war?

Answer: World War II

Question: The novel 'A Farewell to Arms' is based on Hemingway's own experience as what in World War I?

Answer: Ambulance driver

Question: Which novel by David L. Robbins deals with the battle of Stalingrad?

Answer: War of the Rats

Question: Who wrote a novel about a plan to kidnap Winston Churchill during WWII?

Answer: Jack Higgins

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Red Badge of Courage'?

Answer: Stephen Crane

Question: In what city does Leo Tolstoy's novel 'War and Peace' begin?

Answer: Saint Petersburg

Question: Who wrote 'The Death and Life of Dith Pran'?

Answer: Sydney Schanberg

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Birdsong'?

Answer: Sebastian Faulks

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Slaughterhouse Five'?

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Naked and the Dead'?

Answer: Norman Mailer

Question: Which war is the book 'The Killer Angels' about?

Answer: US Civil War

Question: What is the name of Derek Robinson's novel about an airman washed up on the Channel Islands?

Answer: Kramer's War

Question: What is the name of Cornelius Ryan's account of the Battle for Berlin?

Answer: The Last Battle

Question: Which author wrote a book based on his service in the Philippines during World War II?

Answer: Norman Mailer

Question: Who wrote about the Vietnam War after becoming a war correspondent for 'The Chicago Tribune'?

Answer: Philip Caputo

Question: Who played the female lead in the 1943 film adaptation of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

Answer: Ingrid Bergman

Question: Which author wrote 'The Killer Angels'?

Answer: Michael Shaara

Question: Which author wrote the novel 'The Eagle Has Landed'?

Answer: Jack Higgins

Question: Which author has written novels about Alexander the Great and Erwin Rommel?

Answer: Steven Pressfield

Question: The novel 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' is set during which war?

Answer: Spanish Civil War

Question: Which of these novelists wrote a book based on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956?

Answer: James A. Michener

Question: Which book by Anthony Mockler deals with the Italian invasion and Allied liberation of Ethiopia?

Answer: Haile Selaisse's War

Question: Who wrote a novel about underground French Resistance fighters of WWII, including Jean Blomart?

Answer: Simone de Beauvoir

Question: Who won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for a collection of short stories on WWII?

Answer: James A. Michener

Question: Who wrote the novel 'The Stranger's Child'?

Answer: Alan Hollinghurst

Question: The novel 'The Short-Timers' by Gustav Hasford was the basis for what movie?

Answer: Full Metal Jacket

Question: Which novel is about a Vietnam War soldier going AWOL in Paris?

Answer: Going After Cacciato

Question: Who wrote the novel 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Question: In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village' is the start of what novel?

Answer: A Farewell to Arms

Question: Who wrote the novel 'Force 10 from Navarone'?

Answer: Alistair MacLean

Question: What is the name of Herman Wouk's account of a mutiny on a US Navy ship in the Pacific?

Answer: The Caine Mutiny