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