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30 Literature trivia questions

1. Who wrote 'Romeo and Juliet'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

2. What is the first book in the Harry Potter series?

Answer: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

3. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. What is the name of Sherlock Holmes' assistant?

Answer: Watson

5. Which dystopian novel features Big Brother?

Answer: 1984

6. Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

Answer: Jane Austen

7. What is the name of the lion in The Chronicles of Narnia?

Answer: Aslan

8. Which epic poem tells the story of Odysseus?

Answer: The Odyssey

9. Who wrote 'Moby-Dick'?

Answer: Herman Melville

10. What is the fictional language of the elves in The Lord of the Rings?

Answer: Elvish

11. Who wrote the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series?

Answer: George R.R. Martin

12. Which Shakespeare play is set in Denmark?

Answer: Hamlet

13. Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

Answer: Harper Lee

14. What is the name of the wizard in The Hobbit?

Answer: Gandalf

15. Which novel begins with 'Call me Ishmael'?

Answer: Moby-Dick

16. Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?

Answer: J.D. Salinger

17. What is the name of Dracula's castle?

Answer: Castle Dracula

18. Which author created the detective Hercule Poirot?

Answer: Agatha Christie

19. Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?

Answer: Mary Shelley

20. What is the subtitle of 'The Lord of the Rings'?

Answer: None

21. Which novel features the character Atticus Finch?

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

22. Who wrote 'The Hobbit'?

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

23. What is the name of the whale in Moby-Dick?

Answer: Moby Dick

24. Which Shakespeare play features the witches?

Answer: Macbeth

25. Who wrote 'Jane Eyre'?

Answer: Charlotte Brontë

26. What is the first book of the Bible?

Answer: Genesis

27. Who wrote 'The Hunger Games'?

Answer: Suzanne Collins

28. Which poem begins 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'?

Answer: Daffodils

29. Who wrote 'The Little Prince'?

Answer: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

30. What is the name of the monster in Beowulf?

Answer: Grendel

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