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Book Lover's trivia - April
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1
What was Shakespeare's wife's name?
Anne Philips
Anne Hathaway
Anne Williams
Anne Robertson
2
Who created Sherlock Holmes?
Franklin W. Dixon
Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Carolyn Keene
3
What is the name of John’s true love in Nicholas Sparks’
Dear John
?
Suzanne
Savannah
Sarah
Sally
4
In
Calvin and Hobbes
, who imagines himself to be an astronaut?
Hobbes
Calvin
5
What kind of animal is Moby Dick?
shark
octopus
deer
whale
6
In the Bible, who said this: "Am I my brother's keeper?"
Eve
Adam
Cain
Abel
7
Name the hero of John Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progress
who flees from the City of Destiny to the Celestial City
King
Faith
Sheppard
Christian
8
What novel starts: "All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"?
Where the Crawdads Sing
Me Talk Pretty One Day
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
9
Which book begins: “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board”?
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Life of Pi
Treasure Island
The Old Man and the Sea
10
Who wrote fairy tales?
Hans Christian Andersen
Laura Ingalls Wilder
11
What is Helen Keller's autobiography titled?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Story of My Life
In Memory Yet Green
The Diary of a Young Girl
12
What is the title of Mark Twain's autobiography?
My Life and Hard Times
Growing Up
Roughing It
Poetry and Truth
13
Who is the heroine of Janet Evanovich’s
One for the Money
and its sequels?
Stephanie Plum
Sarah Peach
Sadie Pear
Stacy Partridge
14
What are the little people called in
The Wizard of Oz
?
oompa loompas
whos
munchkins
borrowers
15
Notre Dame de Paris
was written by...
John Bunyan
Charles Dickens
Victor Hugo
Rudyard Kipling
16
Which word was coined by George Orwell in
1984
?
heffalump
snozzwangers
jabberwock
newspeak
17
Who wrote the "Pit and the Pendulum"?
Edgar Allen Poe
Herman Melville
18
Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote under the name Dr. Seuss
True
False
19
Who wrote
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
?
Mark Twain
George Orwell
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
20
What was the full name of British novelist C. S. Lewis?
Cameron Stone Lewis
Carl Steven Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
Clark Sylvester Lewis
21
Veronica Roth’s
Divergent
book series is set in a post-apocalyptic version of which U. S. city?
Chicago
New York
Indianapolis
Houston
22
In the
Wizard of Oz
, the Lion lacked...
a heart
courage
a brain
23
This writer penned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel
The Goldfinch
Anne Patchett
Elizabeth Strout
Donna Tartt
Anita Shreve
24
What is this from: "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy"?
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Golden Compass
Midnight Comes for Charlie Bone
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
25
Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under what pen name?
Joseph Conrad
Mark Twain
O. Henry
Ellery Queen
26
Linus, Lucy, and Snoopy appear in what comic strip?
Popeye
Peanuts
Archie
Garfield
27
Who lived in the Emerald City?
Rumpelstiltskin
Hulk
Anne Shirley
Wizard of Oz
28
The Da Vinci Code
opens with a murder in which famous museum?
British Museum
The Natural History Museum
The Louvre
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
29
What novel is set on a desert planet inhabited by giant sandworms?
1984
Dune
Ender's Game
A Brave New World
30
Rip Van Winkle is a character in the book _ by Washington Irving.
Pilgrim's Progress
Don Quioxote
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Sketch Book
31
Who wrote the young adult vampire-romance novel
Twilight
?
J.K. Rowling
Stephenie Meyer
Franz Kafka
Leo Tolstoy
32
What Lois Lowry book centers on Jonas's apprenticeship as his community's "Receiver of Memory?"
The Giver
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Little Fires Everywhere
Uncle Tom's Cabin
33
In the Bible, who wore a coat of many colors?
Job
John
Joseph
Jesus
34
What mystery writer created the detective Hercules Poirot?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Stephen King
James Patterson
35
Phileas Fogg wins his bet by circling the world in how many days?
35
90
80
70
36
Jules Verne’s fictional submarine the Nautilus is captained by which character?
Captain Jack
Captain Bill
Captain Nemo
Captain Dory
37
This author was a child slave in London but later became the most popular author in England at age 25
G. K. Chesterton
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
Henry David Thoreau
38
Name That Book: What is the seventh and final installment in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
39
How many books of the Bible are named after women?
4
1
3
2
40
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
47
37
57
27
41
“It was a pleasure to burn.” This is the beginning of...
The Hunger Games
Dante’s Inferno
The Golden Compass
Fahrenheit 451
42
Ann Brashares wrote
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
True
False
43
What are the four houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Hufflepuff
Gryffindor
Slytherin
Ravenclaw
44
How many ghosts visited Scrooge?
4
3
2
1
45
How are the Hardy Boys related?
cousins
father and son
nephew and uncle
brothers
46
Which of these plays is NOT considered to be one of Shakespeare’s comedies?
Merchant of Venice
Macbeth
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter’s Tale
47
What was the smiling feline's name in
Alice in Wonderland
?
Cheerful Cat
Cheshire Cat
Chaplain Cat
Chesapeake Cat
48
A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?
The Polar Express
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Snowy Day
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
49
Select the Elizabethan playwright
Shakespeare
Dante
Homer
50
Name the villian who taught Oliver Twist to steal
Claudius
Cruella deVille
Fagin
Count Olaf
51
In what year was
Of Mice and Men
published?
1947
1957
1927
1937
52
Which writer created Miss Marple?
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Austen
Franklin W. Dixon
53
Which book by Rick Riordan comes first in this series?
The Lightning Thief
The Last Olympian
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Sea of Monsters
54
Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in print with which novel?
A Study in Scarlet
The Valley of Fear
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Sign of the Four
55
In which state does the story of
The Red Pony
unfold?
California
Indiana
Idaho
Michigan
56
"The day begins in the middle of the night," is from...
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Twilight
The Phantom Tollbooth
Little Women
57
What poet wrote "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
Maya Angelou
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
58
Select the titles of Veronica Roth's books
Compliant
Allegiant
Divergent
Insurgent
59
What did Mary Shelley write?
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein
Dracula
A Christmas Carol
60
In H.G. Wells’s
The Time Machine
, does the character first travel forward or backward in time?
Backward
Forward
61
This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for best fiction. In 1940, the film adaptation won the Oscar for Best Picture
Anne of Green Gables
Mary Poppins
Gone with the Wind
The Sound of Music
62
Who is the oldest of the four March sisters in Little Women?
Jo
Beth
Amy
Meg
63
What kind of stories did Aesop write?
horror
fables
romance
comedy
64
What is the secret identity of the fictional superhero Batman?
Peter Parker
Bruce Banner
Clark Kent
Bruce Wayne
65
What was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's pen name?
George Orwell
Anthony Burgess
George Eliot
Lewis Carroll
66
What kind of animal is Black Beauty?
cat
rabbit
cow
horse
67
Hester Prynne is the protagonist of which book?
The Screwtape Letters
The Hobbit
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
68
Who is the half-blood prince in the world of Harry Potter?
Professor McGonagall
Dumbledore
Mr. Gaunt
Snape
69
Name the boy whose adventures are told in
Treasure Island
Flynn Hawkins
Jim Hawkins
Tim Hawkins
Ben Hawkins
70
In
Gulliver's Travels
, which were giants?
Lilliputians
Brobdingnagians
71
What did J. D. Salinger write?
The Grapes of Wrath
1984
Catcher in the Rye
A Brave New World
72
This series that uses second-person perspective and turns the reader into the one deciding the outcome of the books
Read, Choose, Read
Choose Your Own Adventure
Create Your Story
You Decide the End
73
Who wrote
Little House on the Prairie
?
Harriet Tubman
Charlotte Brontë
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Emily Brontë
74
Which genre is Stephen King associated with?
romance
western
horror
humor
75
Who wrote the novels
O Pioneers!
and
My Antonia
?
Willa Cather
Jane Austen
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mary Shelley
76
Les Miserables
was written by...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nora Roberts
Victor Hugo
Clive Cussler
77
Who wrote the
Jungle Book
?
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Green
Rudyard Kipling
T. S. Eliot
78
Select the works of Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days
Tresure Island
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Journey to the Center of the Earth
79
Which actor played the role of Jay Gatsby in
The Great Gatsby
, adapted from the book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Johnny Depp
Ryan Gosling
Tom Hanks
80
What novel features the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a tiger named Richard Parker?
Life of Pi
Walden
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
81
In what book does Captain Ahab pilot a ship named the Pequod?
Treasure Island
Gulliver's Travels
Moby Dick
Gone with the Wind
82
Who wrote
Kidnapped
and
Treasure Island?
Charles Dickens
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lewis Carroll
C. S. Lewis
83
Who wrote
Common Sense
and
The Age of Reason
?
Thomas Paine
William Shakespeare
Lewis Carroll
Jules Verne
84
What comic book hero is nicknamed "Web-Slinger"?
Batman
Green Lantern
Superman
Spider-Man
85
What is the first book in the Bible?
Leviticus
Exodus
Genesis
Numbers
86
Robinson Crusoe died on the island
False
True
87
Ichabod Crane is a character in which book?
Alice in Wonderland
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Little Women
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
88
In Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, two star-crossed lovers are rivals. What profession do they share?
Trapeze Artists
Magicians
Acrobats
Tightrope Walkers
89
Diana Prince is the public persona of which fictional superhero?
Batgirl
Harley Quinn
Invisible Woman
Wonder Woman
90
What fictional character lived on Sunnybrook Farm in the novel by Kate D. Wiggin?
Rebecca
Layne
Belinda
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