Classic Books Trivia

How much did the most expensive book (Codex Leicester) sell for in today money

What is the Great Gatsby’s first name?

What is the name of Mr. Darcy’s estate in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice?

What is Aaron Davis'( The Prowler) Favorite Classic Novel?

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

The movie Clueless is a modern adaptation of which novel?

Hamlets full name is Hamlet Polonius

What poet wrote the following lines: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by”?

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

Whose castle does British solicitor Jonathan Harker find himself a prisoner in?

Don Quixote was written in which language?

In which state does Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird take place?

Elisabeth Badinter is the richest author in the world.

Despite her appearance in only one story, who is the most notable female in Sherlock Holmes?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” starts the lengthy opening line to this novel by Charles Dickens

In the Odyssey, Circe turns Odysseus' crew into what type of animal?

What Daniel Defoe title character was based on real-life sailor Alexander Selkirk?

What William Golding novel tells of Ralph and Piggy's attempts to organize a gang of kids after a plane crash?

To whom does the title of the novel Frankenstein refer?

Which novel explores a dystopian future where books are burned as contraband?

How does Mary Poppins arrive at the Banks home on Cherry Tree Lane in London?

What book by Lois Lowry finds 12-year-old Jonas rebelling against a futuristic society?

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, who are the two families which are at war with each other?

Which Shakespearean classic inspired Disney’s The Lion King?

Who wrote the Odyssey?

In what book do two friends use a rope to swing into an imaginary kingdom?

What 1869 novel ends: "Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this?"

Which of her own characters did Agatha Christie call “a detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep”?

What Victor Hugo novel boasts a brain-numbing 823-word sentence, peppered with 51 semicolons, and 93 commas?

What E.B. White book tells the story of a dad who raids a music store to give his mute son a voice?