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📚 Literary Legends! Test Your Author Knowledge: Top 50 Trivia!

How well do you know the world's most famous authors and their works? Challenge yourself with these fascinating literary questions!

Easy Level

  1. Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?

    Answer: William Shakespeare

  2. Which author created the detective Sherlock Holmes?

    Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

  3. Who wrote the "Harry Potter" series?

    Answer: J.K. Rowling

  4. Which author wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?

    Answer: Jane Austen

  5. Who is the author of "The Great Gatsby"?

    Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

  6. Which writer penned "1984"?

    Answer: George Orwell

  7. Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

    Answer: Harper Lee

  8. Which author created the character Huckleberry Finn?

    Answer: Mark Twain

  9. Who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"?

    Answer: J.D. Salinger

  10. Which author wrote "Moby-Dick"?

    Answer: Herman Melville

  11. Who is the author of "The Hobbit"?

    Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

  12. Which writer created the character Jane Eyre?

    Answer: Charlotte Brontë

  13. Who wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"?

    Answer: Mark Twain

  14. Which author penned "Little Women"?

    Answer: Louisa May Alcott

  15. Who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?

    Answer: Lewis Carroll

Medium Level

  1. Which author wrote "Brave New World"?

    Answer: Aldous Huxley

  2. Who created the fantasy world of Middle-earth?

    Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

  3. Which Russian author wrote "War and Peace"?

    Answer: Leo Tolstoy

  4. Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?

    Answer: Oscar Wilde

  5. Which author penned "Frankenstein"?

    Answer: Mary Shelley

  6. Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"?

    Answer: Ernest Hemingway

  7. Which American poet wrote "Leaves of Grass"?

    Answer: Walt Whitman

  8. Who wrote "Wuthering Heights"?

    Answer: Emily Brontë

  9. Which author created the character Atticus Finch?

    Answer: Harper Lee

  10. Who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?

    Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

  11. Which author penned "Crime and Punishment"?

    Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky

  12. Who wrote "The Bell Jar"?

    Answer: Sylvia Plath

  13. Which author created the character Jay Gatsby?

    Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

  14. Who wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

    Answer: Gabriel García Márquez

  15. Which playwright wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire"?

    Answer: Tennessee Williams

  16. Who wrote "The Sound and the Fury"?

    Answer: William Faulkner

  17. Which author penned "The Canterbury Tales"?

    Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

  18. Who wrote "Beloved"?

    Answer: Toni Morrison

  19. Which author created the character Holden Caulfield?

    Answer: J.D. Salinger

  20. Who wrote "The Divine Comedy"?

    Answer: Dante Alighieri

Hard Level

  1. Which author wrote "In Search of Lost Time"?

    Answer: Marcel Proust

  2. Who wrote "The Brothers Karamazov"?

    Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky

  3. Which author penned "The Waste Land"?

    Answer: T.S. Eliot

  4. Who wrote "Ulysses"?

    Answer: James Joyce

  5. Which author created the character Raskolnikov?

    Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky

  6. Who wrote "The Metamorphosis"?

    Answer: Franz Kafka

  7. Which author penned "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"?

    Answer: Milan Kundera

  8. Who wrote "The Second Sex"?

    Answer: Simone de Beauvoir

  9. Which author created the character Emma Bovary?

    Answer: Gustave Flaubert

  10. Who wrote "The Stranger"?

    Answer: Albert Camus

  11. Which author penned "Don Quixote"?

    Answer: Miguel de Cervantes

  12. Who wrote "The Aeneid"?

    Answer: Virgil

  13. Which author created the character Gregor Samsa?

    Answer: Franz Kafka

  14. Who wrote "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"?

    Answer: Homer

  15. Which author penned "The Trial"?

    Answer: Franz Kafka

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