Jane Austen Trivia

Jane's father, George, held what occupation?

Why did Britain’s upper classes start vacationing at English seaside resorts in the early 1800s?

How many novels did Jane Austen publish in her lifetime?

Jane Austen wrote under the pen name “A Lady.”

Which of the following dances were popular in the Regency Era? (There may be more than one right answer!)

Which Jane Austen film adaptation does this scene appear in?

Which unusual seaside activity became popular in Britain as early as the 1770s?

The 1995 movie "Clueless" is a loose adaptation of which novel?

Austen was born in Steventon, England. What county is this in?

The majority of Jane Austen's letters (about 3,000) have been preserved and published.

The Bank of England introduced a new plastic banknote with Jane's face on it in 2017.

Which novel was Austen's first?

Which novel is this line from? "The person... who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

Pride and Prejudice starts with which of the following opening lines?

Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were released posthumously as a set.

London saw the formation of the first public gas work in 1812.

Which of these statements about courtship during the Regency Era is false?

Which war took place during the Regency Era?

Jane Austen agreed to marry someone but broke this engagement a day later.

Who was the "Regent" who gave the era its name?

According to IMDB, how many movies/TV shows are adapted from Jane Austen works?

This unfinished novel features Charlotte Heywood, who visits a seaside village with the Parker family as a guest.

Austen dedicated which novel to the Prince Regent in 1815?

This novel can be considered to be the most comic in tone of Austen's works. It had a recent film adaptation in 2020.

Which Jane Austen film adaptation does this scene appear in?