Classic Literature
What classic written by Homer relates the adventures and life of Odysseus?
The Odyssey
Who is Harry Potter’s best female friend?
Hermione
Who were the four sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women?
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
What authors first children’s story entitled The Gremlins, was published in 1943?
Roald Dahl
Which children’s book series takes place in “an old house in Paris that was covered in vines” where there “lived twelve little girls in two straight lines” and is famous for having the closing line “That’s all there is, there isn’t any more”?
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Who wrote the political satire also loved as a children’s book titled Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
Lewis Carroll
Who wrote Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little?
E. B. White
Veronica Roth’s Divergent book series is set in a post-apocalyptic version of which U. S. city?
Chicago
Which 20th Century author wrote, “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” and in what book?
George Orwell in Animal Farm
Who wrote the children’s book Where the Wild Things Are?
Maurice Sendak
What novel centers around marriage during the Victorian era, describing the fascination that a group of sisters have over one man?
Pride and Prejudice
Who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series?
C. S. Lewis
Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in which famous museum?
The Louvre
Which novel opens with the line, “The Mole had been working very hard all the morning spring cleaning his house”?
Wind in the Willows
What author penned the American realist novel The Grapes of Wrath which was published in 1939 and portrayed the life of migrant farmworkers?
John Steinbeck
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights tells of a tragic romance between two lovers. What are their names?
Catherine and Heathcliff
Which children’s story, begins with a boat being wrecked in the middle of nowhere during a sea storm and a family’s survival as they live on an island?
Swiss Family Robinson
Which story authored by Washington Irving has the character Ichabod Crane?
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
In what novel did Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes character first appear?
A Study in Scarlet
What is the name of Stephen King’s the first published novel?
Carrie
In which state do Mark Twain’s characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn live?
Missouri
Where did Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, a coming-of-age story, live and write about?
Prince Edward Island
In what fictional town is Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird set?
Maycomb, Alabama
What is the name of Charles Dickens’ last work, which was only half completed when he died?
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
What famous Russian novelist was also a physician?
Anton Chekhov