LITERATURE QUIZ BOWL REVIEWER
ENGLISH MONTH 2020 by?
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How many lines does a Shakespearean sonnet
have?
Who is the writer of the book 'Robinson Crusoe"
What is the world's longest novel?
Who is the author of the famous novel 'War and
Peace'?
Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry?
Who is known as the national poet of England?
Which one is the world's longest-running play?
The fictional detective character Sherlock Holmes is
the creation of?
Total how many numbers of detective novels
written by Agatha Christie?
Who is the author of the book 'Around the World in
Eighty Days'?
The female fictional detective character of Agatha
Christie's novel.
Who is the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize in
Literature?
Who is the first femal winner of the Nobel Prize in
Literature?
Which Booker Prize winning novel is chossen as the
'the best novel out of all the winners' on its 25th
and 40th anniversary?
Around the altar of which God were the early Greek
plays done?
Who was the last king of Troy killed by Achilles
son?
Mors is Roman God of what?
Who was the Egyptian goddess of rain?
What is the name of the Roman Goddess of
invention and wisdom?
Who was the son of Poseidon and Ampherite?
In Norse mythology, who was killed with mistletoe?
What is the name of the Greek God of the North
Wind?
What was the name of the Egyptian god of the
Moon?
According to Greek mythology, the women of
Lemnos did what to their husbands?
Saturn was the Roman god of what?
The jealous Athena turned who into a spider?
Who saved Andromeda from the sea monster?
What was the name of the Greek goddess of love?
Shu was the Egyptian God of what?
Chronos is the Greek God of what?
What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name?
For which book published in 1897, Bram Stoker is
famous for?
Who is known as the father of epic poetry?
From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains
in ISBN (International Standard Book Number)?
The national epic of Iran 'Shahnameh' was written
How many chapters are in the Qur'an?
Which one is the first novel of Charles Dickens?
Which one is the first science-fiction novel?
Who is the author of the book 'The Time Machine'?
What s the first tragedy play of Shakespeare?
What is the name of the storyteller of 'One
Thousand and One Nights'?
In which city the play of Shakespeare 'Romeo and
Juliet' is set in?
With which theatre in London Shakespeare was
associated with?
Total number of plays written by Shakespeare?
Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare?
Which two cities provide the setting for Charles
Dickens’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities’?
What are the names of the three ‘Darling’ children
in J.M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’?
Which book of the New Testament comes after the
four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?
In which century was the Florentine painter known
as Sandro Botticelli born?
Which cartoon animal is owned by Jon Arbuckle?
Who wrote the 1936 novel ‘Gone with the Wind’, on
which the 1939 film of the same name was based?
Which Shakespearean play features the characters
of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia?
What is the first name of Professor McGonagall in
the Harry Potter books?
A Banksy painting of ‘Girl with Balloon’ self-
shredded after selling at action in October. Where
did this take place?
Who wrote these famous works of literature?
1. Invisible Man (1952)
2. Mrs Dalloway (1925)
3. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864)
4. The Sound and the Fury (1929)
5. In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps
perdu – Also translated as ‘Remembrance of
Things Past – 7 volumes between 1871 and 1922)
6. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
7. The Trial (1925)
8. Beloved (1987)
9. Midnight’s Children (1981)
10. The Old Man and the Sea (1951)
What was the real name of George Eliot?
‘Celeste’ is a shade of which primary colour?
Which American relationship counsellor wrote the
hugely successful book ‘Men Are from Mars,
Women Are from Venus’?
‘The President is Missing’, ‘The 17th Suspect’ and
‘Along Came a Spider’ are all titles by which
American author?
Which is the last book of the Old Testament?
Which French post-impressionist painter produced
a series of paintings entitled ‘The Card Players’?
Which was the first James Bond novel to be
published by Ian Fleming?
What is defined by Collins Dictionary as “a speech
in a play in which a character speaks to himself or
herself and to the audience, rather than to another
actor”?
Who wrote ‘Don Quixote’?
In which country would you find the State
Hermitage Museum?
Who created the cartoon character ‘Garfield’?
In which modern-day country was Rembrandt
born?
A Bigger Splash’, ‘Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy’ and
‘Garrowby Hill’ are all paintings by which English
artist?
Published in 2017, ‘Only Fools and Stories’ is whose
second autobiography?
“Night is generally my time for walking.” This is
the opening line to which novel by Charles Dickens?
What is Frankenstein’s first name in Mary Shelley’s
novel?
Horror Quiz – Who wrote the following gothic and
horror novels/novellas?
1. Dracula
2. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
3. The Green Mile
4. Interview with the Vampire
5. World War Z
6. The Turn of the Screw
7. The Phantom of the Opera
8. The Haunting of Hill House
9. Something Wicked This Way Comes
10. The Woman in Black
The Greek Goddess Ephesus is the Goddess of
what?
What Norse God rode an eight legged horse called
Sleipner ?
Orpheus went into the underworld to rescue who?
Cyclops Polyphemus was blinded by whom?
According to Greek mythology, who rowed the
dead across the river Styx?
Freyr was the Norse god of what ?
Who, in Greek mythology, created man?
In Greek mythology what was the name of the wife
of Hercules?
Aegis belonged to Zeus, but what was it?
What was the name of the Goddess of the
rainbow ?
Polyphemus was the leader of what group of
mythical giants?
What was the name of Norse God Thor's hammer ?
Minerva is the Goddess of what?
In Norse mythology what was the name of Odin's
wife?
Who was the Roman Goddess of Fruit Trees?
Nemesis was the Greek goddess of what?
What was the name of the Greek Goddess of the
moon?
Who were the guardian spirits of the sea in Greek
mythology?
Nessus killed Hercules, but what was Nessus ?
Hebe was the goddess of what?
Who is the first woman to win the Man Booker
Prize?
Who is the youngest literature laureate to win
Nobel Prize?
On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was
first appeared?
'Anna Karenina' is the creation of?
Who wrote the fantasy novel 'The Lord of the
Rings'?
Who is the author of the book 'Gulliver's Travels'?
Which Revolution is the historical source of the
book 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
'The Diary of Anne Frank' was originally written in
which language?
Who believes that "poetry is the anti-thesis of
science"?
Which country does Shakespeare's Hamlet belongs
to?
Which character of Shakespeare has "the courtier's,
soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue and sword"?
Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" is based on?
Who said "Tragedy imitates men as better and
comedy as worse than they really are."?
The Chorus in T. S. Eliot's play "Murder in the
Cathedral", consist of?
Who is regarded as "The father of the English
Novel"?
Who is the writer of Decameron?
Who has been called "The true child of the
Renaissance"?
"For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of
writing a single sentence". Who said it?
Who wrote the book "Republic"?
The first tragedy written in English is?
"Saki" is the pen name of?
__________ is known as the father of detective
stories.
"A Tale of Two Cities" Novel state the fact in these
two cities
Who is the writer of the epic poems "Paradise Lost"
and "Paradise Regained"?
Who is the hero of Paradise Regained?
"Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation and
directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry"
Who said this?
Which country awarded the Pulitzer Prize?
Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in the year?
Who have written the book 'The Godfather'?
Maxim Gorky was a famous writer from?
Who is the first person to receive nobel prize in
literature?
Who wrote the first english dictionary?
Mark Twain is a famous author from?
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