Poetry
Which poet (from Amherst, MA) was famously prolific, though primarily unpublished during her lifetime?
Emily Dickinson
In what language was Don Quixote written?
Spanish
Which author can be attributed to the creation of the words 'galumphing' and 'slithy'?
Lewis Carroll
Who is credited with the first mystery novel?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who is considered to have the biggest influence and popularization of high fantasy genre?
J.R.R. Tolkien
Name one of two centuries in which Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales were written?
13th and/or 14th
Name five fiction novels who have been transformed into popular musicals.
Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music (The Story of the Trapp Family Singers), Wicked, Legally Blonde, Peter Pan, Matilda, Oliver! (Oliver Twist), Into the Woods (Grimm's), Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye's Daughters), Cabaret (The Berlin Stories), Mary Poppins, The Color Purple, and many more!
Which author wrote The Great Gatsby?
...for bonus points, name the author who also worked on this book
F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda
Which of her own characters did Agatha Christie call “a detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep”?
Hercule Poirot
What novel is set on a desert planet inhabited by giant sandworms?
Dune
"This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper," is written by which author?
T.S. Eliot
"It is a truth universally acknowledged..." is the beginning of what novel?
Pride & Prejudice
Which author is credited with the creation of science fiction as a genre?
Mary Shelley
What character made his first appearance in a 1939 issue of Detective Comics?
Batman/Bruce Wayne
What defining characteristic do the people in the dystopian novel The Giver by Lois Lowry have?
They cannot see color
Who wrote Paradise Lost?
John Milton
Which novel or novelist does this political slogan come from: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past”?
1984
Mary Ann Evans is a pen name for which author?
George Eliot
What is the name of the brother of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes?
Mycroft Holmes
What is the name of the fantasy book series on which "Game of Thrones" is based?
A Song of Ice and Fire
At the end of the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, the students stand on their desk reciting "O Captain! My Captain!" in support of fired teacher John Keating. Keating taught the students the famous poem, which was written by what poet upon the death of President Abraham Lincoln?
Walt Whitman
Which iconic mid-19th century revenge story ends with the lines “All human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope'”?
The Count of Monte Cristo
Name the two most best-selling fiction authors of all time.
William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie
Which character was created in 1930 and became one of the most popular mystery heroines of all time?
Nancy Drew
Which collection of folktales is most well-known for two stories that are actually falsely attributed to it?
Bonus points: name these two stories
The Arabian Nights
Aladdin and the Magical Lamp & Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves