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