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1
Which famous English writer is often called the “Bard of Avon”?
J.R.R. Tolkien
Charles Dickens
George Orwell
William Shakespeare
2
Who told that: "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway
J.D. Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Virginia Woolf
3
Which American writer is known for his
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
and
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
?
Ernest Hemingway
Philip Pullman
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
4
Which English author wrote the classic novels
Pride and Prejudice
and
Sense and Sensibility
?
Emily Brontë
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
5
John Steinbeck and Vladimir Nabokov enjoyed using the____________ to write their novels.
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the Dixon pencil
the pencil with an attached eraser
6
Which famous American writer penned the short story
The Tell-Tale Heart
?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
H.P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allan Poe
7
Who is the British author of the
Harry Potter
series?
C.S. Lewis
J.K. Rowling
Philip Pullman
Neil Gaiman
8
Which British writer created the fantasy world of Narnia?
C.S. Lewis
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien
George MacDonald
9
Who is the author of the words: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oscar Wilde
10
Who is the author of the epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings?
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
George R.R. Martin
Philip Pullman
11
Who told that: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
12
Which writer is known for creating the character of James Bond?
Frederick Forsyth
Ian Fleming
John le Carré
Graham Greene
13
Who wrote the novel 1984, a dystopian work about totalitarianism?
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
H.G. Wells
Ray Bradbury
14
Which writer is credited with the famous phrase "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"?
Franz Kafka
George Orwell
·Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury
15
Urban myth credits Bodeguita del Medio bar in Havana with making the first Mojito, linked to one of the writers:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don DeLillo
Ernest Hemingway;
Mark Twain;
16
Who told the following: "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
Ernest Hemingway
Cicero
17
Which famous English writer created the detective Sherlock Holmes?
Edgar Allan Poe
Raymond Chandler
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
18
Which novelist wrote The Great Gatsby, a quintessential American novel?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
19
Which writer, known for his wit, famously said, “I can resist everything except temptation”?
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
P.G. Wodehouse
20
The shortest story written as a part of a bet: “
For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn
.” was created by:
Twain
Hemingway
Christy
Martin