Wicked Hard Literary Trivia

Who wrote the Illiad?

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights recounts the tragic romance between which two lovers?

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood takes its name from which Shakespeare play?

John Milton's Paradise Lost was written during which century?

Who wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?

In Stephen King's 11/22/63, a high school English teacher hurtles back in time to 1963 and attempts to stop what event?

The hero Beowulf faces a monster known by this name

This author penned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch

Which of these ingredients does NOT appear in the witches' "double, double, toil and trouble" speech from Macbeth?

This genre of fiction, in which novels like Dracula are told in letters, is called what?

Who wrote the noir classic The Maltese Falcon?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in print in which novel?

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer reside in which state?

Put the three cantos of The Divine Comedy in order

Which of these writers doesn't belong with the other two?

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury takes its name from which Shakespeare play?

True or False: "Agatha Christie" is a pen name

John Donne is known as a member of which school of poetry?

Author Zora Neale Hurston was part of which literary movement?

Which is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

How many acts are in Romeo and Juliet?

In H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, does the character first travel forward or backward in time?

In Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, what food does Oliver famously ask for more of?

Who wrote the Beat classic "Howl"?

Which poet associated with Romanticism wrote "Songs of Innocence and Experience"?

In Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield worries about how this animal survives the winters in New York

Who is the heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

Who is the youngest daughter of King Lear?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was originally published in which language?

In what year was Gillian Flynn's thriller Gone Girl published?

Who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

Who is the hero of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series?