Literary Trivia

Who is the author of The Fault in Our Stars? 

Which novel tells the travels of George and Lennie during the Depression Era?

Which is the correct word choice for the blank in this sentence: "I am borrowing _______ books"

To Kill a Mockingbird spent ________ weeks on the best seller list. 

The Imagination Library is a free children's book gifting program started by what famous singer in 1995?

Who is the author of The Outsiders?

According to Guiness World Records, which author has the most published works?

"I wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of a _________.

RACECAR reads the same backwards and forwards. This is an example of what literary device?

How many Harry Potter books are there in the original series?

Who wrote many short stories and poems including 'The Raven' and 'The Cask of Amontillado'?

How many lines does a sonnet have?

Approximately how many characters die in King Lear?

What item did Shakespeare leave his wife in his will?

What does the acronym FOMO stand for?

What Edgar Allen Poe poem is the basis for the Baltimore football team's name?

Katniss won the ______th Hunger Games after volunteering.

Which Italian novel for children has been adapted in over 240 languages?

What word refers to a fictional book of between 20,000 and 50,000 words?

What is the term for a pair of rhyming lines?

Whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote many popular classic books?

In Washington Irving's legend, the Headless Horseman haunts what town?

Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?

Dr. Watson is the companion of which fictional detective?

Theodor Geisel is the real name of which author?

What do you call two or more words that are mashed together to create a new word, like “brunch” or “smog”?

Who is Huckleberry Finn's best friend? 

John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a ___________.

The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning is:

What musical, also a book, tells the story of a misunderstood girl with green skin?

What is the most commonly used letter in the alphabet?

What diary-writing middle-schooler is friends with Rowley Jefferson?

The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a ____________. 

In The Giver, what is the name of the boy who is chosen to receive all the community’s memories?

In Flowers for Algernon, what first happens to Charlie after he undergoes the experimental surgery?

What are Mrs. Heuchan's dogs' names?

Which Shakespearean play is the quote 'to be or not to be, that is the question' taken from?

Which book by George Orwell recently became very popular again after the presidential election?

Which "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" character was noted for his smile?

Which one is NOT a name of one of the three Brontë sisters?

In the children's books about a 25 foot tall red dog, what is the name of the dog?

Which of the following novels is a popular classic written by Jane Austen?

Which Dickens character declares, "Bah, Humbug!"? 

English is the ________ most spoken language in the world.

Who does Romeo fall in love with in Shakespeare's popular play?

Which American author wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby", published in 1922?

Percy Jackson & the Olympians features a boy who discovers he’s the son of _____________.

"Call me Ishmael" is the opening line from what novel?

In the title of a novel/movie about a fashion magazine,what brand of shoes does the devil wear?

________________ is the best-selling novel of all time, with over 500 million copies sold.

Who wrote the children's book Charlotte's Web?

Edward Cullen is a ___________? 

What is the name of the lion in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"?

Which of these is the correct order of the first three books in the Divergent series?

What’s the name of the boy who never grows up in J.M. Barrie’s famous story?