English-speaking literature

Question 1

All that glisters isn't gold is a quotation made by...

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare

Question 2

Mr Darcy is a famous character from...

Accepted Answer

Pride and Prejudice

Question 3

I can resist everything but temptation is a quotation made by...

Accepted Answer

Oscar Wilde

Question 4

Who has written the novel Wuthering Heights?

Accepted Answer

Emely Brontë

Question 5

Gulliver's Travels was written by...

Accepted Answer

Jonathan Swift

Question 6

The novel Dracula was written by...

Accepted Answer

Bram Stoker

Question 7

Who has written the novel Jane Eyre?

Accepted Answer

Charlotte Brontë

Question 8

The American writer Edgar Allan Poe has mostly written...

Accepted Answer

Horror stories

Question 9

Which of the following writers has not been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature?

Accepted Answer

J.R.R. Tolkien

Question 10

The books about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes were written by...

Accepted Answer

Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 11

How many lines do Shakespeare's sonnets always consist of?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 12

Which of the following novels is not written by Charles Dickens?

Accepted Answer

Moby Dick

Question 13

Emily Dickinson was a poet. From what country was she?

Accepted Answer

The USA

Question 14

Geoffrey Chaucer was the writer of...

Accepted Answer

The Canterbury Tales

Question 15

Who has written the famous novel Ulysses that was written without any punctuation marks?

Accepted Answer

James Joyce

Question 16

Why was the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde put in prison?

Accepted Answer

He had had a love affair with a man.

Question 17

Who has written Frankenstein?

Accepted Answer

Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft

Question 18

The novel Moby Dick was written by...

Accepted Answer

Herman Melville

Question 19

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Accepted Answer

154

Question 20

Who has written Robinson Crusoe?

Accepted Answer

Daniel Defoe

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