Shakespeare
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Shakespeare was born in … .

a) London

b) Stratford-on-Avon

c) Oxford

B) Stratford-on-Avon

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... was famous for writing murder mysteries.

a) O. Henry

b) Agatha Christie

c) Jack London

d) Theodore Dreiser

b) Agatha Christie

100

... wrote his famous novel “The Great Gatsby” in 1925.

a) Jack London

b) Conan Doyle

c) F. Scott Fitzgerald

d) Charles Dickens

c) F. Scott Fitzgerald

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She started to write because desparately needed money. Soon after became a mother to a wizarding world.

J.K.Rowling

100

There are _____ books about Harry Potter. How many?

7

200

Who said "To be or not to be, that is the question”?

a) Othello

b) Romeo

c) Hamlet

C) Hamlet

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Bombay is the birthplace of the famous English writer:

a) O. Henry

b) Mark Twain

c) Rudyard Kipling

d) Jack London

c) Rudyard Kipling

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“Tom Sawyer” is a well-known novel written by ...

a) Jerome K. Jerome

b) B. Shaw

c) Jack London

d) Mark Twain

d) Mark Twain

200

He is the father of the modern fantasy literature. He has created the language for his characters.

J.R.R. Tolkien

200

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was from_____. Name the country.

Scotland

300

 How many lines does a sonnet have?

a) 10

b) 12

c) 14

C.14

300

“The Happy Prince and Other Tales” is by ...

a) Hans Christian Andersen

b) Oscar Wilde

c) Charles Dickens

d) Walter Scott

b) Oscar Wilde

300

“The Grapes of Wrath” was written by ...

a) John Steinbeck

b) Jack London

c) Theodore Dreiser

d) Jerome K. Jerome

a) John Steinbeck

300

He was a smart mathematician from Oxford who has created a magic world for a girl. 

Lewis Carroll

300

Mary Shelley was best known for her Gothic Novel about unusual man created creature. Name the book or the creature.

Frankenstein or Frankenstein's Monster

400

The name of the theater for which the famous playwright wrote his plays.

The Globe

400

He wrote the famous novel “Oliver Twist”.

a) Hans Christian Andersen

b) Oscar Wilde

c) Charles Dickens

d) Walter Scott

c) Charles Dickens

400

He is the author of the book “The Old Man and the Sea”.

a) Jack London

b) Ernest Hemingway

c) H. G. Wells

d) Mark Twain

b) Ernest Hemingway

400

He was a British writer, naval intelligence officer and a journalist. He has created one of the most popular characters of all the times, James Bond.

Ian Fleming

400

C.S. Lewis was from Ireland. He wrote about a magical wardrobe. Name one of his books.

The Chronicles of Narnia.


500

How many plays did Shakespear write? Name the number.

38 plays

500

Is an English writer whose most famous novel is “Robinson Crusoe”

a) Daniel Defoe

b) Jonathan Swift

c) Agatha Christie

d) Walter Scott

a) Daniel Defoe

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"The catcher in the rye" was written in 1951 by ...

a) Mark Twain

b) Theodore Dreiser

c) J. D. Salinger

d) William Cuthbert Faulkner 

c) J. D. Salinger

500

He was an English author best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh.

A.A. Miln

500

Robin Hood lived in … Forest.


Sherwood

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