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1
Who said: "There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library"?
Toni Morrison
Philip Roth
Ray Bradbury
Maya Angelou
2
Airstrip One is a superstate Oceania province, in a world of perpetual war & government surveillance. Name the book.
The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
1984 by George Orwell
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
3
Though born in different years, what's the shared birthday of Bilbo & Frodo Baggins from
The Hobbit
&
Lord Of The Rings
?
10th May
1st January
22nd September
15th August
4
Who declined the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature?
John-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauviour
Allen Ginsberg
Ayn Rand
5
One of these Harry Potter titles and publication dates is correct. Which one?
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone / 1997
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / 2001
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / 1999
6
Published in 1978,
The World According To Garp
was written by which American novelist?
John Green
John Irving
John Grisham
John Updike
7
What year were the first Pulitzer Prizes awarded?
1915
1923
1930
1917
8
Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy formed a love triangle with the titular character of which 1996 British best-seller?
Olive Kitteridge
Bridget Jones
Anna Karenina
Eleanor Oliphant
9
What title did Jane Austen originally give to the book that was eventually published as
Pride and Prejudice
?
Elizabeth and Darcy
First impressions
Five sisters of Meryton
Pemberley Views
10
The dystopian
Tomorrow
series was written by which Australian writer?
John Marsden
James Phelan
Tristan Bancks
Morris Gleitzman
11
Manga are a type of comic that come from Vietnam.
True
False
12
Where does the book
Fahrenheit 451
get its name?
The Celcius conversion at which book covers bond.
The temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns.
The name of the publishing company at which the main characters work
The glue temperature needed to seal the books pages to its spine.
13
In
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
, the enchanted dessert that the White Witch gave to Edmund was 'honeycomb'?
True
False
14
The Artful Dodger is a character from which classic novel?
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Of mice and men by John Steinbeck
Lord of the flies by William Golding
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
15
What was Stephen King’s first published novel?
Christine
Carrie
The shining
Cujo
16
Which of these books is considered 'the first' written and published for the Young Adult (YA) market?
A wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott Dell (1960)
The Outsiders by SE Hinton (1967)
The Pigman by Paul Zindel (1968)
17
The Ridgeway Campus
Staff Reading Challenge
is met by reading and registering 30 books.
False
True
18
Who wrote about the history of the French invasion of Russia through the stories of five aristocratic families?
Vladimir Nabokov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Anton Chekov
19
Which book and author won the 2024 Book Prize?
James by Percival Everett
Stoneyard devotional by Charlotte Wood
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
The safe keep by Yael Van Der Wouden
20
Where would one arrive at the second star to the right, and straight on till morning?
Discworld
Neverland
Damogran
Deltora
21
Published in 2005,
The Book Thief
is a historical novel, narrated by Death, by which Australian author?
Trent Dalton
Markus Zusak
Helen Garner
Liane Moriarty
22
Which fictional book character has featured as a major character in more films than any other?
Winnie-the-Pooh
Dracula
Sherlock Holmes
Harry Potter
23
How many words are in the Dr. Seuss classic
The cat in the hat
?
315
201
236
155
24
What is the secret identity of the fictional superhero Batman?
Jack Napier
Anthony Stark
Peter Parker
Bruce Wayne
25
'Movable type' was invented in 1440. By whom?
Johann Bach
Joahnn Strauss
Johann Gutenberg
Johann von Goethe
26
In Shakespeare’s tragedy
Romeo and Juliet,
Romeo Capulet and Juliet Montague are in love.
False
True
27
In
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
, Alice shrinks down to a very small size and then swims through a river of what?
Sticky caramel toffee
Her own tears
Bubbly champagne
Frothy soap suds
28
In Mark Twain’s
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
, to which superstition does Huck attribute most of his bad luck?
Bathing in the river at dusk.
Eating raw chicken.
Riding a horse side-saddle.
Touching a rattlesnake skin.
29
The phrase: 'May the odds be ever in your favour' gained popularity in the
Divergent
series of books.
False
True
30
A Miles Franklin Award winner = "is of the highest literary merit & presents Australian life in any of of its phases."
False
True