Authors
The author known as the “Queen of Crime”.
Agatha Christie
My moustache is well-kept, my logic bright, but honestly, I do think higher of myself. What’s my full name?
Hercule Poirot
The portrait Basil paints is a symbol of…
Dorian’s soul, vanity, sins, corruption etc.
“If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!”
Who says this quote?
Dorian Gray
Name the 4 Harry Potter houses in English.
❤️ Gryffindor 🦁
💙 Ravenclaw 🦅
💛 Hufflepuff 🦡
💚 Slytherin 🐍
Where did Rowling get the idea for Harry Potter?
On a delayed train ride from Manchester to London.
I am an imaginative orphan girl who arrives at a farmhouse. What’s my full name?
Anne Shirley
What does Anne’s red hair symbolize?
Her uniqueness, individuality, and struggle to accept herself.
“I know then who the real thief is. It was the imitation string which was stolen and returned—an imitation which you had previously substituted for the real necklace.”
Which book does this quote appear in?
Death on the Nile
Name of the fictional, idyllic village where Anne of Green Gables is set?
Avonlea
The author who promoted the idea of “art for art’s sake”.
Oscar Wilde
I am an aristocratic gentleman, quite persuasive, especially towards this young guy. What’s my name?
Lord Henry Wotton
The theme of responsibility for one’s morality and actions is explored in the book…
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Who finds the dead body?
The servants of Dorian Gray
Give at least one name of Rowling’s adult fiction books.
The Casual Vacancy, The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, Troubled Blood, The Ink Black Heart, The Running Grave
Which 2 authors had problems because of LGBT+ matters?
Rowling (transphobic) and Wilde (arrested for homosexuality)
A lady of a higher age, always up for knitting and solving our strange village situations. Nice to meet you, my name is…
Miss Jane Marple
Anne’s desire for puff-sleeved dresses represents…
Her desire for acceptance and femininity, also her growing confidence as she matures.
“Was it nice there?”
The boa constrictor jabbed its tail at the sign again and XY read on: This specimen was bred in the zoo. “Oh, I see — so you’ve never been to Brazil?”
Substitute XY for a full name.
Harry Potter
One-word name of the belief that art exists to be beautiful, not for moral teaching?
Aestheticism
What was the family/social background of Lucy Maud Montgomery?
Strict and lonely childhood, raised by grandparents, unsupportive husband.
A guy likes to call my best friend ”Carrots”, and she got me drunk on wine once. We have such different temperaments! But we met in school. Hi, I am…
Diana Barry
Which book deals with the unfair treatment of a distant relative by his foster family?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
“Eh bien! after the murder of XY, it is discovered that her pearls are missing. … For if you are working, as I suspect, with Mademoiselle Southwood … then substitution would be the method employed—not barefaced theft.“
Substitute XY with a name.
Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle
Dorian Gray wants to run away from his past. Which other literary character (from a different book) is doing the same?
Gatsby (runs away from his poverty to get Daisy, wants to relive the past)
Faust (bargains for unlimited knowledge, enjoys the pleasures of life)
Victor Frankenstein (wants to defeat death, creates a monster, rejects him, causing the death of his loved ones)
Holden Caulfield (doesn’t want to grow up into adulthood)
Dr Jekyll (creates the evil Mr Hyde, doesn’t accept responsibility for trampling a child or killing a gentleman)