Literature Top 50 Trivia

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50 total questions

This literature top 50 trivia trivia collection contains questions across multiple difficulty levels:

  • easy: 15 questions
  • hard: 15 questions
  • medium: 20 questions

easy Level Questions

  1. 1
    Who wrote 'Romeo and Juliet'?
  2. 2
    What dystopian novel features 'Big Brother'?
  3. 3
    Which novel begins with 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
  4. 4
    Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
  5. 5
    What is the sequel to 'The Hunger Games' called?
  6. 6
    Which author created Sherlock Holmes?
  7. 7
    What fictional island is the setting for 'Lord of the Flies'?
  8. 8
    Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?
  9. 9
    What is the first book in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' series?
  10. 10
    Which poet wrote 'The Raven'?
  11. 11
    What novel features the character Jay Gatsby?
  12. 12
    Who wrote the 'Harry Potter' series?
  13. 13
    What is the name of the whale in 'Moby-Dick'?
  14. 14
    Which author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
  15. 15
    What classic novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama?

hard Level Questions

  1. 1
    What unfinished novel by Jane Austen was published posthumously?
  2. 2
    Who wrote the experimental novel 'Finnegans Wake'?
  3. 3
    Which poet wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale'?
  4. 4
    What is the original title of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' in German?
  5. 5
    Which playwright wrote 'Waiting for Godot'?
  6. 6
    What was Virginia Woolf's first published novel?
  7. 7
    Who wrote the epic poem 'Beowulf'?
  8. 8
    Which author created the fictional land of Middle-earth?
  9. 9
    What is the real name of the poet Pablo Neruda?
  10. 10
    Which novel by Herman Melville opens with 'Call me Ishmael'?
  11. 11
    Who wrote the satirical essay 'A Modest Proposal'?
  12. 12
    What is the name of the fictional language in '1984'?
  13. 13
    Which Russian novel features Prince Myshkin as its protagonist?
  14. 14
    Who wrote the poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?
  15. 15
    What was the original title of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?

medium Level Questions

  1. 1
    Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
  2. 2
    What novel features the Bennet family?
  3. 3
    Which Russian author wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
  4. 4
    What is the real name of Mark Twain?
  5. 5
    Which play by Arthur Miller is about the Salem witch trials?
  6. 6
    What novel by Mary Shelley features a scientist named Victor Frankenstein?
  7. 7
    Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
  8. 8
    What is the sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
  9. 9
    Which author wrote 'Brave New World'?
  10. 10
    What is the name of the fictional language in 'A Clockwork Orange'?
  11. 11
    Who wrote the short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
  12. 12
    What novel by Gabriel García Márquez popularized magical realism?
  13. 13
    Which author wrote 'The Odyssey'?
  14. 14
    What is the first name of the author George Orwell?
  15. 15
    Who wrote the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'?
  16. 16
    Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
  17. 17
    What is the setting of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'?
  18. 18
    Who wrote 'The Divine Comedy'?
  19. 19
    Which author penned 'The Canterbury Tales'?
  20. 20
    What is the real name of George Eliot?

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