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World Book Day Quiz
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27.- How many pages long is Stephen King's "It"?
1138
2035
500
376
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15.- Which author created the character, Hercule Poirot?
Oscar Wilde
Agatha Christie
Rudyard Kipling
Sir Arthur Connan Doyle
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30.- Anastacia Steele is the main protagonist in which series of books?
A Game of Thrones
The Dark Tower
Fifty Shades of Grey
The Chronicles of Narnia
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20.- Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli wrote which master piece?
The Decameron
The Divine Comedy
The Capital
The Prince
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24.- And what's the main character's name played by Tom Hanks in the three novels?
Forrest Gump
Norman Bates
Owen Grady
Robert Langdon
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29.- Which popular series of books, released in 2000s, begins with a teenage girl moving to the small town of Forks, W?
Twilight
Divergent
Vampire Academy
Harry Potter
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23.- Which actor stars "The Da Vinci Code", "Angels and Demons" and "Inferno", by Dan Brown?
Leonardo di Caprio
Liam Neeson
Robert de Niro
Tom Hanks
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2.- What is the famous opening line of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities"?
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
It was love at first sight.
Call me Ishmael.
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25.- Who stars "The Hunger Games"?
Amanda Seyfried
Alicia Vikander
Emma Watson
Jennifer Lawrence
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6.- Who's real-life experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver during W W I inspired his novel "A Farewell to Arms"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sarah Josepha Hale
Henry James
Ernest Hemingway
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3.- Which American author's real-life adventures inspired the character of Indiana Jones?
Mark Twain
Henry Adamas
H.G. Wells
Herman Melville
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19.- What nationality was author Hans Christian Andersen?
Danish
Swedish
German
Irish
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8.- Which American author wrote "The Color Purple", a novel about the life of an African American woman in the South?
Virginia Wolf
Thomas B. Thorpe
Alice Walker
Ernest Hemingway
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28.- Who controversially won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, making him one of only 2 songwriters to ever win it?
Salman Rushdie
Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Enrique Bunbury
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22.- The Brontë siblings are all believed to have died from what disease?
Typhus
Yellow fever
Influenza
Tuberculosis
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26.- And what's her character's name in "The Hunger Games"?
Hermione Granger
Claire Dearing
Katniss Everdeen
Sarah Connor
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4.- In "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, what happens to Dorian's portrait?
The painting changes its colours
It ages and reflects his sins while he remains youthful
The painting gradually changes the portrayed character to another person
It becomes increasingly blurred
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11.- Which famous author wrote 'The Shining'?
Stephen King
Dan Brown
Edgar Allan Poe
Ken Follett
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10.- What does the 'J' stand for in J. K. Rowling?
Jane
Jessica
Joanne
Josepha
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13.- Which famous author wrote 'The Hobbit'?
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
Lewis Carroll
J.K. Rowling
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17.- James and the Giant Peach' is a classic children's novel written by which author?
Roald Dahl
John Le Carré
Frederick Forsyth
Daniel Silva
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18.- Which author wrote the 'Millennium' trilogy?
Stieg Larsson
Paul Auster
Alice Munro
Alan Hollinghurst
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9.- The 'Winnie-the-Pooh' book series was written by which author?
William Shakespeare
A.A. Milne
Thomas Mann
Tom Sharpe
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12.- Dracula' was written by which author?
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Roald Dahl
Sir Arthur Connan Doyle
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5.- Who famously said in "Animal Farm", "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"?
James Joyce
Thomas Becket
J.R.R. Tolkien
George Orwell
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21.- Under which pseudonym did Eric Arthur Blair write?
Geoffrey Chaucer
George Orwell
Tom Sharpe
George Mikes
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14.- Which author wrote 'The Invisible Man'?
H.G. Wells
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Christopher Marlowe
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16.- The 'James Bond' series of spy novels were written by which author?
Stephen King
W. Somerset Maugham
Graham Greene
Ian Fleming
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7.- Who wrote, "A single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife?"
Jane Austen in "Pride and Prejudice"
Charlotte Brontë in "Jane Eyre"
Louisa May Alcott in "Little Women"
Emily Brontë in "Wuthering heights"
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1.- In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," what river do Huck and Jim journey down?
The Hudson river
The Missouri river
The Potomac river
The Mississippi river