Literary Trivia

Which one is NOT a name of one of the three Brontë sisters?

According to Guiness World Records, which author has the most published works?

Which Italian novel for children has been adapted in over 240 languages?

Who wrote many short stories and poems including 'The Raven' and 'The Cask of Amontillado'?

Which Shakespearean play is the quote 'to be or not to be, that is the question' taken from?

Percy Jackson & the Olympians features a boy who discovers he’s the son of _____________.

What is the most commonly used letter in the alphabet?

What Edgar Allen Poe poem is the basis for the Baltimore football team's name?

Katniss won the ______th Hunger Games after volunteering.

Theodor Geisel is the real name of which author?

Which of the following novels is a popular classic written by Jane Austen?

RACECAR reads the same backwards and forwards. This is an example of what literary device?

What musical, also a book, tells the story of a misunderstood girl with green skin?

Dr. Watson is the companion of which fictional detective?

"Call me Ishmael" is the opening line from what novel?

What does the acronym FOMO stand for?

"I wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of a _________.

The Imagination Library is a free children's book gifting program started by what famous singer in 1995?

Approximately how many characters die in King Lear?

What diary-writing middle-schooler is friends with Rowley Jefferson?

Who wrote the children's book Charlotte's Web?

Whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote many popular classic books?

What item did Shakespeare leave his wife in his will?

Which American author wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby", published in 1922?

Who is the author of The Outsiders?

In the children's books about a 25 foot tall red dog, what is the name of the dog?

Which "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" character was noted for his smile?

Which novel tells the travels of George and Lennie during the Depression Era?

The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning is:

Which of these is the correct order of the first three books in the Divergent series?

How many lines does a sonnet have?

Edward Cullen is a ___________? 

What is the term for a pair of rhyming lines?

What is the name of the lion in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"?

In The Giver, what is the name of the boy who is chosen to receive all the community’s memories?

To Kill a Mockingbird spent ________ weeks on the best seller list. 

In Washington Irving's legend, the Headless Horseman haunts what town?

What do you call two or more words that are mashed together to create a new word, like “brunch” or “smog”?

Who is Huckleberry Finn's best friend? 

What are Mrs. Heuchan's dogs' names?

________________ is the best-selling novel of all time, with over 500 million copies sold.

What word refers to a fictional book of between 20,000 and 50,000 words?

English is the ________ most spoken language in the world.

John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a ___________.

How many Harry Potter books are there in the original series?

In Flowers for Algernon, what first happens to Charlie after he undergoes the experimental surgery?

The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a ____________. 

In the title of a novel/movie about a fashion magazine,what brand of shoes does the devil wear?

Which Dickens character declares, "Bah, Humbug!"? 

Which is the correct word choice for the blank in this sentence: "I am borrowing _______ books"

Who is the author of The Fault in Our Stars? 

Who does Romeo fall in love with in Shakespeare's popular play?

Which book by George Orwell recently became very popular again after the presidential election?

What’s the name of the boy who never grows up in J.M. Barrie’s famous story?

Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?