Free Trivia Quiz Questions

 

Who is the narrator of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories?
A: Dr. Watson.

Which English writer married Anne Hathaway?
A: William Shakespeare.

Complete the title of Shakespeare's play: The Two Gentleman of ...
A: Verona.

What is the surname shared by the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays and the pet laureate appointed in 19084?
A: Hughes.

What nationality is the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
A: Colombian.

Who is the American author of Couples and The Witches of Eastwick?
A: John Updike.

For which other work than the Odyssey is Homer noted?
A: The Iliad.

Complete the title of this Ionesco play:  The Bald...
A: Prima Donna.

Which English poet planned a Communist colony in America with Robert Southey?
A: Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Who wrote Schindler's Ark?
A: Thomas Keneally.

Which American dramatist and novelist wrote A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947?
A: Tennessee Williams.

Who wrote A Brief History of Time?
A: Stephen Hawking.

Which English author, who sometimes wrote under the name 'Boz', portrayed the social and economic ills of Victorian England in his novels?
A: Charles Dickens.

Where were Chaucer's pilgrims bound?
A: Canterbury.

Which science-fiction pioneer wrote The Time Machine?
A: H G Wells.

Who hunted Moby-Dick?
A: Captain Ahab.

Which novel was set in a bureaucratic totalitarian state, 35 years ahead of the book's publication date?
A: Nineteen Eighty-four.

What was Oscar Wilde's only novel?
A: The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
A: Dante.

From which mythical creatures was Odysseus protecting his sailors when he stuffed their ears with wax?
A: Sirens.

Who wrote the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood and Youth?
A: Tolstoy.

Who wrote an elegy on Abraham Lincoln called When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'?
A: Walt Whitman.

Which was the home planet for the aliens in H G Wells' War of the Worlds?
A: Mars.

Which literary family lived at the parsonage in the village of Haworth on the Yorkshire Moors?
A: The Bronte family.

How far under the sea were Jules Verne's explorers?
A: Twenty thousand leagues.

Which English poet was the spouse of the novelist who created Frankenstein?
A: Percy Bysshe Shelley.

What nationality was the playwright Henrik Ibsen?
A: Norwegian.

What was W H Auden's first name?
A: Wystan.

Who wrote the plays The Wasps, The Birds, and The Frogs?
A: Aristophanes.

Whose plays include Anna Christie and Mourning Becomes Electra?
A: Eugene O'Neill.

Which 16th century English dramatist was imprisoned for murder, and was himself murdered in a tavern brawl?
A: Christopher Marlowe.

Which book by Robert Louis Stevenson featured a doctor who experimented with drugs?
A: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Who wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth?
A: Jules Verne.