4th - 6th: Literature

Question 1

Name the author of Winne the Pooh

Answer 1

A.A. Milne

Question 2

Name the author who created The Cat in the Hat

Answer 2

Dr. Suess

Question 3

Name the author who created Peter Rabbit

Answer 3

Beatrix Potter

Question 4

Name the author who created Aslan

Answer 4

C.S. Lewis

Question 5

Name the author who created Alice in Wonderland

Answer 5

Lewis Carroll

Question 6

What was Dr. Suess’ real name?

Answer 6

Theodore Geisel

Question 7

Whose memoirs were recounted in book subtitles Diary of a Young Girl?

Answer 7

Anne Frank

Question 8

In what novel does a reclusive uncle named Archibald Craven take in his orphaned niece, Mary Lennox?

Answer 8

The Secret Garden

Question 9

Name the author who created characters including Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Count Olaf

Answer 9

Lemony Snicket

they are in his books: A Series of Unfortunate Events

Question 10

Identify the author who created the fictional setting Who-ville

Answer 10

Dr. Suess

Question 11

This cartoonist was from St. Paul, MN. He developed a series based on floppy-eared dog and a number of his friends. The dog’s name was Snoopy. Who was the cartoonist?

Answer 11

Charles Shultz

creator of the Peanuts Comics

Question 11

What Winnie the Pooh character frequently has a missing appendage?

Answer 11

Eeyore (his tail)

Winnie the Pooh written by Milne

Question 12

What is a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral

Answer 12

Fable

Question 13

In the legend of King Arthur, who was the old Celtic magician and seer?

Answer 13

Merlin

Question 14

Who wrote the Harry Potter series?

Answer 14

J.K Rowling

Question 15

Who is the author of Little House on the Prairie?

Answer 15

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Question 16

What is the name of Matilda’s teacher?

Answer 16

Miss Honey

Question 17

In the legend of King Arthur, what was the name of Arthur’s sword?

Answer 17

Excalibur

Question 18

What story has characters including Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail?

Answer 18

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Question 19

What series has characters including Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley?

Answer 19

Harry Potter series

Question 19

What series has characters including Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley?

Answer 19

Harry Potter series

Question 20

What series has characters including Greg, Rodrick and Manny Heffley

Answer 20

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Question 21

“Where’s Papa going with that axe?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast, is how what famous book begins?

Answer 21

Charlotte’s Web

Question 22

What creatures in the Harry Potter books have no eyes, a large hole where a mouth should be and grow like fungi in the darkest places, creating a dense and chilly fog

Answer 22

Dementors

Question 23

What melodramatic stock character often cackles and lears while twirling his mustache, rolling his eyes and rubbing his hands together

Answer 23

Villian

Question 24

Some books have so many pages that they are divided into two or more what?

Answer 24

Volumes

Question 25

What novel features characters such as Bob Cratchit and his son Tiny Tim? Written by Charles Dickens, it explores the actions and consequences of Ebenezer Scrooge>

Answer 25

A Christmas Carol

Question 26

What character from a short story by Washington Irving went hunting in the mountains of New York before falling asleep for 20 years

Answer 26

Rip Van Winkle