Shakespeare
Shakespeare was born in … .
a) London
b) Stratford-on-Avon
c) Oxford
B) Stratford-on-Avon
... was famous for writing murder mysteries.
a) O. Henry
b) Agatha Christie
c) Jack London
d) Theodore Dreiser
b) Agatha Christie
... 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
She started to write because desparately needed money. Soon after became a mother to a wizarding world.
J.K.Rowling
There are _____ books about Harry Potter. How many?
7
Who said "To be or not to be, that is the question”?
a) Othello
b) Romeo
c) Hamlet
C) Hamlet
Bombay is the birthplace of the famous English writer:
a) O. Henry
b) Mark Twain
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) Jack London
c) Rudyard Kipling
“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
He is the father of the modern fantasy literature. He has created the language for his characters.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was from_____. Name the country.
Scotland
How many lines does a sonnet have?
a) 10
b) 12
c) 14
C.14
“The Happy Prince and Other Tales” is by ...
a) Hans Christian Andersen
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Charles Dickens
d) Walter Scott
b) Oscar Wilde
“The Grapes of Wrath” was written by ...
a) John Steinbeck
b) Jack London
c) Theodore Dreiser
d) Jerome K. Jerome
a) John Steinbeck
He was a smart mathematician from Oxford who has created a magic world for a girl.
Lewis Carroll
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
The name of the theater for which the famous playwright wrote his plays.
The Globe
He wrote the famous novel “Oliver Twist”.
a) Hans Christian Andersen
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Charles Dickens
d) Walter Scott
c) Charles Dickens
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
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
C.S. Lewis was from Ireland. He wrote about a magical wardrobe. Name one of his books.
The Chronicles of Narnia.
How many plays did Shakespear write? Name the number.
38 plays
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
"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
He was an English author best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh.
A.A. Miln
Robin Hood lived in … Forest.
Sherwood