Lit Quiz Bowl

Who is the author of Sherlock Holmes?

Name this man who had to perform 12 labors in order to make up for killing his wife & children.

Name this title character of plays by Sophocles, including one in which he is Rex, or The King.

Name this Roman leader who was assassinated by Brutus on the Ides of March.

Who wrote the play Julius Caesar?

Author of the story The Fantastic Mister Fox.

Who wrote The Hunger Games trilogy?

Author of "Rappaccini's Daughter" & 'The House of the Seven Gables' wrote 'The Scarlet Letter.'

Story about an animal who steals from the farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean

Name this teenager who battles a Portuguese man'o'war in the book Stormbreaker.

Edmond Dantes is the protagonist of The Count of Monte Cristo, which was written by who?

Who wrote 'Oliver Twist', 'A Tale of Two Cities' and 'Hard Times'?

Identify the author who wrote 'Number the Stars', 'Gathering Blue', and 'The Giver'.

Johanna first appears in this middle novel of the Hunger Games trilogy. What novel is it?

Name this detective faithfully accompanied by John Watson.

Name this novel that sees Jim & the friend of Tom Sawyer travel down the Mississippi River.

Name this figure who beheaded Medusa.

American Playwright who wrote "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman."

In this play, the Danish prince seeks revenge on his uncle Claudius and is in love with Ophelia

In this play, the treachery of Iago causes the Moor to smother his wife Desdemona.

Name this Italian epic consisting of the sections Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.

Name this Shakespeare tragedy of a doomed romance between the two title “star-crossed lovers.”

Name the epic by Homer that describes a man’s 20-year quest to get home after the Trojan War.

Author of 'The adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'

Who wrote the Alex Rider series?

Identify this American author of 'Of Mice and Men' and 'The Grapes of Wrath'.

'The View From Saturday' was written by this author of 'Silent to the Bone.' Who is the author?

Novel about the London underworld in which Mr. Brownlow adopts an orphan, teaches him to steal

This book ends with Jonah and Gabe fleeing the dystopian society they live in.

Play: the Thane of Cawdor conspires with his wife to kill the Scottish king, Banquo & MacDuff.