How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?
A: 24
Which of the following literary genre does Thackeray’s The History of Henry Esmond belong to?
A Novel
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
A28
With her first cheque, Virginia Woolf bought a/an
A Persian cat
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters of which
Children’s book?
Answer: Alice in Wonderland.
Who is the author of The Origin Of Species?
Answer: Darwin.
People of which religion consider ‘The Bhagavad Gita’ as
their sacred text?
Answer: Hinduism.
The abbreviated form of which book is NEB?
Answer: New English Bible.
Who invented the character, Robinson Crusoe?
Answer: Daniel Defoe.
Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are Macbeth, Othello,
Hamlet and __________?
Answer: King Lear.
Name the mega-selling writer who has written “Deception
Point”?
Answer: Dan Brown.
What is the meaning of the phrase ‘Mein Kampf’ in Hitler’s
autobiography of the same name?
Answer: My Struggle.
By what name was
Shakespeare’s mother known before her marriage?
Answer: Mary Arden.
In which Charles
Dickens’ novel we find the characters Bently Drummle, Joe Gargary, and Herbert
Pocket?
Answer: Great Expectations.
Mention the exact
number of sonnets written by William Shakespeare?
Answer: 154.
Name the only play
written by Shakespeare in which there is no song.
Answer: The Comedy Of Errors.
Mr. Freeze’ is the
arch-enemy of a famous superhero of a comic book. What is the name of that
superhero?
Answer: Batman.
In Which Book of the
Holy Bible did the death of Moses take place?
Answer: Deuteronomy.
“Bird of Paradise” is
a book written by a renowned psychiatrist. What is the name of him?
Answer: R.D. Laing. The ‘Almagest’ is a book written by a
Greek Astronomer. What is the name of him?
Answer: Ptolemy.
Who is the author of
the classic masterpiece “Anna Karenina”?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy.
Name the female
novelist who has authored ‘Sense and Sensibility’?
Answer: Jane Austen.
“Absolutely
Mahvelous” is the autobiography of a person who wrote it at the age of 21. Who
is he?
Answer: Billy Crystal.
Which novel of
William Peter Blatty written in 1971? It has been adopted in which epic Horror
Film?
Answer: The Exorcist.
Who is the author of
“Roots” that inspired a TV blockbuster?
Answer: Alex Haley.
In which novel of Roald Dahl, the character Willy Wonka can
be found?
Answer: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
Find the missing word in the Best Selling Book by Barak
Obama: ‘The Audacity Of _______.’
Answer: Hope.
Name the book that became the best-seller in 1794 in
America?
Answer: It was the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This
book had been published in England the year before – three years after his
death.
“Rites of Passage” is a novel written by?
Answer: William Golding.
Which short story writer and playwright composed the
works The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters?
Answer: Anton Chekhov.
“I, Robot” is written by an American who was born in Russia.
What is the name of him?
Answer: Isaac Asimov.
Who is the author of ‘The Alchemist’ (play)?
Answer: Ben Jonson.
Name the book rated
by Americans as their second favorite, only next to ‘The Bible’.
Answer: Sears Roebuck Catalog.
What was the name of
the first novelist to have his works serialized?
Answer: Charles Dickens.
In all the plays written by Shakespeare, only one contains
the name of an animal. Name the animal.
Answer: Shrew.
Name the pioneering novel which was typed on a Typewriter?
Answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
‘The War of The
World’s’ is a famous work of which author?
Answer: H.G. Wells.
Mention the year in
which the first free library of Britain opened?
Answer: 1852.
The story of a children’s book written by Richard Adams was
seen in a movie in the year 1978. What was the name of that book?
Answer: Watership Down.
(The Mousetrap) is an interesting play. Who wrote this play?
Answer: Agatha Christie.
Utilitarianism is written by a philosopher of
the 19th century. What is his name?
Answer: John Stuart Mill.
Who is the author of the popular novel “Three Men in a
Boat”?
Answer: Jerome K Jerome.
“Keeping it Simple”
is a cookery book. Who authored it?
Answer: Gary Rhodes.
Name the Italian
Astronomer who is the author of The Starry Messenger?
Answer: Galileo.
‘A Brief History of
Time’ is a famous book written in 1988. Who is its author?
Answer: Stephen Hawking.
Name the
Shakespearean character who had spoken the maximum number of lines?
Answer: Hamlet.
Who is the poet of The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner?
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Who is the author of “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”?
Answer: Agatha Christie.
In which book of Agatha Christi did the demise of Poirot
take place?
Answer: Curtain.
Scientists have
borrowed the term ‘Quark’ from a book written by a famous author. What is the
name of that author?
Answer: James Joyce.
Bram Stoker gave birth to a popular literary character in
one of his novels in the year 1897. What was the name of that character?
Answer: Count Dracula.
Name the book that
was banned in 1932 in Ireland.
Answer: Brave New World – Aldus Huxley.
Who is the author of
‘Without Ties’?
Answer: Gianni Versace.
‘Androcles And The Lion’ is an interesting play written by?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw.
Who is the author of The Wild Palms, The Sound And The Fury,
and As I Lay Dying?
Answer: William Faulkner.
What is the name of the city mentioned in the book of
Genesis? The name is still found.
Answer: Damascus.
Who was the writer of
‘My Life and Loves’ a 1926 book which was banned in the United States?
Answer: Frank Harris.
Who was the authoress
of “Pride and Prejudice”?
Answer: Jane Austen.
Who is the writer of
“There but for Fortune”?
Answer: Phil Ochs.
“Ozymandias” and “Ode
to the West Wind” are two widely read poems of which poet?
Answer: Shelley.
‘The Female Eunuch’
is the significant work of which Australian feminist?
Answer: Germaine Greer.
A- Lincoln
Which is John Keats’s first poem?
A- Stopping by Woods
When was Spensers ‘Faerie Queen’s first published?
A- 1591
How many Essays did the final volume of Bacon Essays contain?
A- 68
Sir Walter Scott wrote which classic?
A- Ivanhoe
“Crime and Punishment” is a novel by a Russian author. What
is his name?
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Name the best selling
or most-widely bought book in the USA, only next to The Bible.
Answer: Dr. Spock’s Baby And Child Care.
Oxford University’s which library is acclaimed for its
exclusive collection of rare manuscripts and books?
Answer: The Bodleian Library.
Who ended his writing
career with ‘The Last Tycoon’?
Answer: F Scott Fitzgerald.
What is the name of the third part in ‘The Lord of the Rings
Trilogy’?
Answer: The Return Of The King.
In ‘A Midsummer’s
Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare, who did the fairies worship as their
queen?
Answer: Titania.
Who is the author of
Lord Of The Flies?
Answer: William Golding.
What is the name of
the Bible’s fifth book?
Answer: Deuteronomy.
‘The English Roses’ is a children’s story written in 2003.
Who is the author of this book?
Answer: Madonna.
Name the play with
which Shakespeare’s started his career as a playwright.
Answer: Titus Andronicus.
Who was the founder of the pioneering public library in
London city?
Answer: Robert Ford.
Elmer Gantry is a
critique of ‘Evangelism’. Who wrote the book?
Answer: Sinclair Lewis.
‘West Side Story,’ a musical is based on a tragedy by
Shakespeare. Which tragedy is it?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet.
“Being Freddie” is the autobiography of which sportsman?
Answer: Andrew Flintoff.
“Satanic Verses” is a controversial work. Who wrote it?
Answer: Salman Rushdie.
Which book of the Old
Testament speaks about the miseries of one man?
Answer: Job.
Who is the author of
“The Napoleon of Netting Hill”?
Answer: G.K. Chesterton.
Name the person from Britain who wrote 30 books. A million
copies of 28 books were sold in Britain out of these 30 books.
Answer: Alistair Maclean.
Name the British
dramatist who wrote, “The Norman Conquests” – a trilogy?
Answer: Alan Ayckbourn.
Bedknobs And Broomsticks is a book for children. Who wrote
it?
Answer: Mary Norton.
Who wrote
Frankenstein?
Answer: Mary Shelley.
Name the book of the
Bible that follows Matthew?
Answer: Mark.
The three witches play a central role in which Shakespearean
tragedy?
Answer: Macbeth.
What was the name of
the fifth novel in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series which was released in
the June of 2003?
Answer: Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix.
Who is the author of
“The White Company”?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle.
What is the name of
the Old Testament’s fifth book?
Answer: Deuteronomy.
What is the name the
novel by George Orwell where we find the character ‘Napoleon’?
Answer: Animal Farm (the chief pig).
Which play is Shakespeare’s ‘swan song’?
Answer: The Tempest.
The Mousetrap is the
longest-running stage drama. Who wrote it?
Answer: Agatha Christie (First Performed In London’s
West-End In 1952, And Still Running There, As At 2006.
Whose lover has been
referred to by D. H. Lawrence in one of his books?
Answer: Lady Chatterley.
Charles Lamb is
famous as an author of
Answer A- Essays of Elia
Who became the best-selling author in the 2000s in Britain?
Answer: J.K. Rowling.
Which book of the Bible immediately follows Genesis?
Answer: Exodus.
“Lipstick on Your Collar” is a musical drama written for TV.
Who is the writer?
Answer: Dennis Potter.
‘With A Vampire’ is a
book interview. Who wrote it?
Answer: Ann Rice.
Name the novel on
Harry Potter which has the title with the word ‘Blood’ in it for the first
time.
Answer: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
The character of Mustardseed was found in which
Shakespearean play?
Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Name the first-ever book which was printed in 1456 from
movable type.
Answer: The Mazarin Bible.
What term do
novelists use for writing a novel that will be published under the name of
someone else who is not the author?
Answer: Ghosting.
‘What You Can Do To
Avoid AIDS’ is a brilliant book written by a basketball player. Name the
player.
Answer: Magic Johnson.
The Series Of Harry Potter Books was written by whom?
Answer: Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (J.K. Rowling).
Alfred Jingle is a character from which Charles Dickens’
novel?
Answer: Pickwick Papers.
Who is the author of ‘Kidnapped’?
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Which Violent Film of 1971 was An Adaptation of The Siege Of
Trencher’s Farm?
Answer: Straw Dogs.
The First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s play was printed
in?
A- 1623
Who is the movement poet?
A- Philip Karkin
Look Back in Anger was performed in the year
A-1956
Who was the first
recipient of the Sahitya Akademi award for English?
A- R.K Narayan
Who wrote Absalom Absalom?
A- William Faulkner
The novel No Name
(1862) was written by
A- Wilkie Collins
Who is the heroine in
Shakespeare ‘Temple ‘?
A- Miranda
Who is everyman?
A- A Morality Play
‘Light Breaks where no sun shines’ is written by
A-
Dylan Thomas.
Who wrote ‘Daffodils’
A-Wordsworth
When was Johnson’s Dictionary’ Published?
A- 1955
Who among the
following introduced sonnets?
A- Thomas Wyatt
The term ‘Negative Capability
is to associate with
A- John Keats
The Heroic Couplet as
first use by
A- Chaucer
Who said ‘Geography
is about Maps, but biography is about chaps’?
A-E.C Bentley
” They also serve who stand and wait” are opening lines by
A- Milton
What was the
Nationality of Famous English author Oscar Wilde?
A- Irish
”Frailty, thy name is
women” are from which famous Shakespeare play?
A- Hamlet
Who wrote Agnes Grey?
A-
Anne Bronte
The Origin of Species
was written in
A- 1859
Arnold mourns the untimely death of —– in ‘Thyrsis’ an
elegy.
A- Arthur Hugh Clough
Arnold wrote, ”With
him is born our real poetry” who does ‘him’ refer to?
A- Chaucer
Which version of the
Bible did Wycliff make use of for the translation?
A- Latin
The Authorised Bible
was dedicated to
A- James 1
The Beggar’s Opera
was written by
A-
Matthew Prior.
When as the Reform
Bill passed?
A- 1832
When did W.B Yeats
receive the Nobel prize for literature?
A-1923
What is Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’?
A-
A Play for the freedom of the press
Who wrote Sohrab and
Rustom?
A- Keats
Alexander Pope was
the undisputed master of:
A- Tragedy
Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four appears in
A-1949
What is Threnody?
A- Song Sung at Death
”Blow, Blow thou
winter wind” in As You Like it is sung by———–
A-Amiens
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