Easy War Trivia
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
Medium War Trivia
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
Hard War Trivia
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