📚 Page-Turner Challenge! Test Your Literary Knowledge: Top 50 Trivia!

From Shakespeare to sci-fi, prove your mastery of the written word with this novel-worthy quiz!

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Easy Level

  1. Who wrote 'Romeo and Juliet'?
    Answer: William Shakespeare
  2. What dystopian novel features 'Big Brother'?
    Answer: 1984 by George Orwell
  3. Which novel begins with 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
    Answer: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  4. Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
    Answer: Harper Lee
  5. What is the sequel to 'The Hunger Games' called?
    Answer: Catching Fire
  6. Which author created Sherlock Holmes?
    Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  7. What fictional island is the setting for 'Lord of the Flies'?
    Answer: An unnamed tropical island
  8. Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?
    Answer: Jane Austen
  9. What is the first book in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' series?
    Answer: The Fellowship of the Ring
  10. Which poet wrote 'The Raven'?
    Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
  11. What novel features the character Jay Gatsby?
    Answer: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  12. Who wrote the 'Harry Potter' series?
    Answer: J.K. Rowling
  13. What is the name of the whale in 'Moby-Dick'?
    Answer: Moby Dick
  14. Which author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
    Answer: J.D. Salinger
  15. What classic novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama?
    Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Medium Level

  1. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
    Answer: John Milton
  2. What novel features the Bennet family?
    Answer: Pride and Prejudice
  3. Which Russian author wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
    Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. What is the real name of Mark Twain?
    Answer: Samuel Clemens
  5. Which play by Arthur Miller is about the Salem witch trials?
    Answer: The Crucible
  6. What novel by Mary Shelley features a scientist named Victor Frankenstein?
    Answer: Frankenstein
  7. Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
    Answer: T.S. Eliot
  8. What is the sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
    Answer: Through the Looking-Glass
  9. Which author wrote 'Brave New World'?
    Answer: Aldous Huxley
  10. What is the name of the fictional language in 'A Clockwork Orange'?
    Answer: Nadsat
  11. Who wrote the short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
    Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
  12. What novel by Gabriel García Márquez popularized magical realism?
    Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude
  13. Which author wrote 'The Odyssey'?
    Answer: Homer
  14. What is the first name of the author George Orwell?
    Answer: Eric
  15. Who wrote the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'?
    Answer: Dylan Thomas
  16. Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
    Answer: The Catcher in the Rye
  17. What is the setting of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights'?
    Answer: The Yorkshire moors
  18. Who wrote 'The Divine Comedy'?
    Answer: Dante Alighieri
  19. Which author penned 'The Canterbury Tales'?
    Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
  20. What is the real name of George Eliot?
    Answer: Mary Ann Evans

Hard Level

  1. What unfinished novel by Jane Austen was published posthumously?
    Answer: Sanditon
  2. Who wrote the experimental novel 'Finnegans Wake'?
    Answer: James Joyce
  3. Which poet wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale'?
    Answer: John Keats
  4. What is the original title of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' in German?
    Answer: Die Verwandlung
  5. Which playwright wrote 'Waiting for Godot'?
    Answer: Samuel Beckett
  6. What was Virginia Woolf's first published novel?
    Answer: The Voyage Out
  7. Who wrote the epic poem 'Beowulf'?
    Answer: Unknown (Anonymous)
  8. Which author created the fictional land of Middle-earth?
    Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
  9. What is the real name of the poet Pablo Neruda?
    Answer: Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
  10. Which novel by Herman Melville opens with 'Call me Ishmael'?
    Answer: Moby-Dick
  11. Who wrote the satirical essay 'A Modest Proposal'?
    Answer: Jonathan Swift
  12. What is the name of the fictional language in '1984'?
    Answer: Newspeak
  13. Which Russian novel features Prince Myshkin as its protagonist?
    Answer: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  14. Who wrote the poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?
    Answer: T.S. Eliot
  15. What was the original title of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
    Answer: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus