British Literature Quiz (Septima)

20. Who was the monarch of England when Shakespeare wrote and first performed Richard III?

28. Eric Blair is the real name of which English novelist (1903-1950) most famous for novels published in 1945 and 1949?

26. In his 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds, HG Wells describes a Martian invasion that begins where?

3. In which English county does the Bennet family live?

4. Fill in the gap from Satan in Paradise Lost: "The _______ is it own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of hell"

19. What is the metre in which Shakespeare wrote?

16. What is the name of island kingdom of man that is destroyed in judgement at the end of the Second Age?

21. Which of these is NOT a Shakespeare play?

13. What is the great hall in which the King of Rohan sits in The Lord of the Rings?

1. Finish the famous first line of Pride & Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a . . .

7. Which of these characters does Richard NOT kill during Shakespeare's Richard III?

27. Rat, Mole, Toad, and Badger are the main characters in which 1908 novel by Kenneth Grahame?

9. At what 1485 battle was Richard III killed, leading to the beginning of the Tudor dynasty?

33. In The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, what is the answer to the ultimate question?

17. What does the Elvish (Quenya) word Namárië mean?

14. What is the name of the ring that Galadriel wears, and by which she protects Lothlorien?

23. Which English poet famously began the poem Daffodils: "I wandered lonely as a cloud"

11. What does the Old English word þrym mean?

2. What was Jane Austen's original title for Pride & Prejudice?

12. In the territory of what two modern states is the story of Beowulf set?

10. Complete the first line of Beowulf: "Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum...

35. "'Well I'm back,' he said" is the last line of which novel?

22. In Hamlet, what is the name of Hamlet's mother?

31. Who says this about Galadriel and Lothlorien (in LOTR): "I have looked the last upon that which was fairest"?

8. Complete the first line of Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent...

15. In Moria, Gandalf falls into the abyss while fighting which ancient beast?

18. Shakespeare's play Macbeth is about an 11th century king of which kingdom?

5. What was John Milton's official job title in the interregnum government?

34. The main character of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is born at midnight on 15 August 1947: what is happening?

24. Mary Shelley, wife of Romantic poet Percy Shelley, wrote which classic novel in 1816?

30. Which of these is NOT a book in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series?

25. Which 1859 novel by Charles Dickens begins: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?

29. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is a novelist best known for what style of writing?

6. What was the name of Milton's essay arguing against Parliament's censorship law?

32. The great poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) is from which part of the United Kingdom?