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1
What is the name of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s second novel, dealing with the guilt of the protagonist Raskolnikov?
The House Of The Dead
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Demons
2
Which of the Brontë sisters was known for only writing one novel, a tragic romance involving Heathcliff and Catherine?
Anne
Mary
Emily
Charlotte
3
John Green’s novel The Fault In Our Stars has its title taken from a quote of which Shakespearean Tragedy?
Henry V
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
4
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
The Handmaid's Tale
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
1984
5
"Never pray to the gods that answer after dark"
The Jaunt
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Haunter In The Dark
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
6
Grimes released Geidi Primes in 2012, including singles Caladan and Shadout Mapes. Which series are these names from?
Foundation
Remembrance of Earth's Past
Dune
The Left Hand of Darkness
7
In Cervante’s Don Quixote, what does the title character believe are giants which he must duel?
Tractors
Statues
Donkeys
Windmills
8
In The War Of The Worlds, what are the Martians' main weaknesses?
Water
Radiation
Pathogens
High-frequency soundwaves
9
Which fantasy novel by Diana Wynn Jones was adapted to an animated film by Studio Ghibli?
Tales From Earthsea
Spirited Away
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Howl's Moving Castle
10
Which horror author, known for his Cthulhu mythos, was so influential that a subgenre of horror was named after him?
Robert E. Chambers
H.P Lovecraft
Stephen King
Edgar Allan Poe
11
The Beatles song “Norwegian Wood,” from their album Rubber Soul, was used to name a novel by which Japanese author?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Haruki Murakami
Yukio Mishima
Osamu Dazai
12
In 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, what is the Nautilus?
Ghost Ship
Leviathan
Submarine
Whale
13
Mined only on Arrakis, what is the alternate name for the drug Melange in Dune, essential for space travel?
Substance D
Soma
The Spice
Moloko
14
“If you were to write a story with me as the main lead, it would certainly be a tragedy”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Sandman
Tokyo Ghoul
The Eternal Champion
15
Which author known for his Mistborn series took over the Wheel of Time series after the passing of Robert Jordan?
Michael Moorcock
R.A Salvatore
Brandon Sanderson
Eoin Colfer
16
Uzumaki is a manga written and drawn by artist Junji Ito. In Uzumaki, what is the subject of horror?
A carnivorous planet
Fish on legs
Spirals
Enclosed spaces
17
“I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.”
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Water Margin
Dream of the Red Chamber
Journey to the West
18
The Harry Potter series was believed to be partly inspired by what influential High Fantasy by Ursula K Le Guin?
Aurelian Cycle
Hainish Cycle
Earthsea Cycle
Inheritance Cycle
19
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
The Dark Tower
Malazan Book Of The Fallen
Elric of Melnibone
The Worm Ouroboros
20
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” features the names “Il Magnifico” and “Scaramouche”. Where did these names originate?
Theatre of the Absurd
Commedia Dell'arte
The Lesser Key of Solomon
Jungian Archetypes
21
This famous alien invasion novel dealing with the dimension-folding Trisolarans takes its name from the physics problem
The Sitnikov Problem
The Triple Star Problem
The Three Body Problem
The Drake Equation
22
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Emma
Persuasion
23
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
The Masque of Red Death
The Call of Cthulhu
The Yellow Wallpaper
The King in Yellow
24
What Latin-American novel is the first magical realist novel, dealing with the generational conflict of the Buendias?
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane
Midnight's Children
Kafka On The Shore
25
This author won 6 Hugo awards, most of any single author, for works Starship Troopers and Stranger In A Strange Land.
Issac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
H.G Wells
Robert Heinlein
26
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
A Little Life
The Bell Jar
Norwegian Wood
A Complicated Kindness
27
The War of the Roses was the primary inspiration for the feud between the great houses in what popular fantasy series?
A Song of Ice and Fire
The Kingkiller Chronicle
A Court of Thorns and Roses
The Poppy War
28
The chronicle of Leopold Bloom’s journey in Dublin by James Joyce takes its name from which Greek epic?
Odyssey
Iliad
Oresteia
Oedipus Rex
29
Finish the title of this well-known sci-fi psychological horror short story. I Have No Mouth, And
I Must Cry
I Must Laugh
I Must Scream
I Must Eat
30
“Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
The Priory of The Orange Tree
The Song of Achilles
Uprooted
The Midnight Library
31
Name the novel for the quotes in the following section. "I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
Little Women
Middlemarch
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Eyre
