Medieval
The name of Arthur’s illegitimate son, fathered with his half-sister Morgause.
Who is Mordred?
The name of the titular character in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.
Who is Gloriana?
The couple who are warmly complimented in the final paragraph of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Who are the Gardiners?
It was originally published in 1915 under the German title, “Die Verwandlung.”
What is “The Metamorphosis”?
The Scottish city in and around which Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting is set.
Where is Edinburgh?
This creature is "of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes.”
Who is Grendel?
The university from which Dr. Faustus earns his doctoral degree in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
What is the University of Wittenberg?
Oscar Wilde pioneered this type of play with comedies of manners like “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
What is the drawing room play/drama?
The university in which Virginia Woolf first delivered her influential feminist paper, “A Room of One’s Own.”
Where is Cambridge University?
The writing of this novel, the author’s first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984.
What is The Handmaid’s Tale?
This Welsh critic wrote the earliest full account of King Arthur’s life.
Who is Geoffrey of Monmouth?
The Shakespearean play in which “Under the Greenwood Tree” is sung.
What is As You Like It?
The town in which Victor Frankenstein creates the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus.
Where is Ingolstadt?
This American author wrote the short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in 1921.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The answer to Professor Julian Morrow’s question, “What is beauty?” in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.
What is terror?
The name of the titular knight in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
Who is Bertilak?
The comedy by Ben Jonson in which the central character is named “Face.”
What is The Alchemist?
The man that Agnes Gray’s pupil, Rosalie Murray, marries in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Gray.
Who is Sir Thomas Ashby?
The common names of the twin sons in James Joyce's “Finnegans Wake.”
Who are Shem and Shaun?
The devices that Intuitionists repair in Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist.
What are elevators?
The number of pilgrims on the journey to Canterbury in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, including the narrator, the host, and the Canon’s Yeoman?
What is 32?
Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare’s play titles, it is the only one not found in Europe.
Where is Tyre?
The substance used to give the Hound a fearful and supernatural appearance in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story, “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
What is phosphorus?
The name of the child who has not yet learned how to speak in Don Delillo’s White Noise.
Who is Wilder?
The small town in which Stevens has to stay because he runs out of gas in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.
Where is Moscombe?