Who wrote it?
Which writer is it?
World Literature
Which book is it?
Etymology Trivia
100

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

100

This British author created the boy wizard Harry Potter.

J.K. Rowling

100

Don Quixote was written by this Spanish author.

Miguel de Cervantes

100

The narrator spends the book trying to find out if Capitu cheated on him.

Dom Casmurro

100

The word “novel” comes from the Latin novus, meaning what?

New

200

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen
200

This playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon was born in 1564 and wrote Hamlet and Macbeth.

William Shakespeare

200

The Alchemist is a novel by this Brazilian author.

Paulo Coelho

200

Two young lovers die due to a fatal misunderstanding.

Romeo and Juliet

200

The word “genre” comes from French, ultimately from Latin genus, meaning what?

Kind or type

300

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

300

This British novelist fought in the Spanish Civil War and later wrote 1984 and Animal Farm.

George Orwell (Eric Blair)

300

This French author wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Victor Hugo

300

The “monster” tells his side of the story, revealing that he was made, not born evil.

Frankenstein

300

The word “poetry” comes from the Greek poiein, meaning what?

To make or create

400

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

400

This American author and poet was known for his dark tales and for dying mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849.

Edgar Allan Poe

400

The Tale of Genji, often called the world’s first novel, originated in this country.

Japan

400

A futuristic society that seems perfect is revealed to be a totalitarian nightmare.

1984

400

The term “tragedy” originally meant “goat song” in this ancient language.

Greek

500

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

500

This Russian novelist was exiled to Siberia before writing The Brothers Karamazov.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

500

The Kite Runner takes place primarily in this country.

Afghanistan

500

The “detective” we’ve been following turns out to be the murderer.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

500

The word “encyclopedia” comes from Greek roots meaning what phrase?

A circle of learning