50 Famous Characters in Literature

Question 1

Daisy Buchanan

Answer 1

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 2

Bathsheba Everdene

Answer 2

Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

Question 3

Patrick Bateman

Answer 3

American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

Question 4

Harry Angstrom

Answer 4

Rabbit, Run (first appearance), John Updike

Question 5

Vito Corleone

Answer 5

The Godfather, Mario Puzo

Question 6

James Bond

Answer 6

Casino Royale (first appearance), Ian Fleming

Question 7

Simon Legree

Answer 7

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 8

Long John Silver

Answer 8

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 9

Miss Havisham

Answer 9

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Question 10

Humbert Humbert

Answer 10

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Question 11

Andy Palmer

Answer 11

Generation X, Douglas Coupland

Question 12

Dr. Pangloss

Answer 12

Candide, Voltaire

Question 13

Captain Ahab

Answer 13

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Question 14

Colonel Aureliano Buendía

Answer 14

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question 15

Quasimodo

Answer 15

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

Question 16

Mr. Kurtz

Answer 16

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Question 17

Yossarian

Answer 17

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Question 18

Offred

Answer 18

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Question 19

Madame Defarge

Answer 19

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Question 20

Hester Prynne

Answer 20

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 21

Scarlett O’Hara

Answer 21

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Question 22

Nick and Nora Charles

Answer 22

The Thin Man (first appearance), Dashiell Hammett

Question 23

Leopold Bloom

Answer 23

Ulysses, James Joyce

Question 24

John Galt

Answer 24

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Question 25

Phillip Marlowe

Answer 25

The Big Sleep (first appearance), Raymond Chandler

Question 26

Captain Nemo

Answer 26

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (first appearance), Jules Verne

Question 27

Holly Golightly

Answer 27

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote

Question 28

Major Major

Answer 28

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Question 29

Hercule Poirot

Answer 29

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (first appearance but bet known for Murder on the Orient Express et al), Agatha Christie

Question 30

Gregor Samsa

Answer 30

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Question 31

Bigger Thomas

Answer 31

Native Son, Richard Wright

Question 32

Sherlock Holmes

Answer 32

A Study in Scarlet (first appearance), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 33

Sam Spade

Answer 33

The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

Question 34

Holden Caulfield

Answer 34

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Question 35

Elizabeth Bennet

Answer 35

Price and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Question 36

Phileas Fogg

Answer 36

Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne

Question 37

Ebenezer Scrooge

Answer 37

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Question 38

Tom Joad

Answer 38

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Question 39

Atticus Finch

Answer 39

To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Question 40

Jo March

Answer 40

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Question 41

Anne Shirley

Answer 41

Anne of Green Gables (first appearance), Lucy Maud Montgomery

Question 42

Lisbeth Salandar

Answer 42

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (first appearnce), Steig Larsson

Question 43

Lady Brett Ashley

Answer 43

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

Question 44

Dorothy Gale

Answer 44

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (first appearance), L. Frank Baum

Question 45

The Artful Dodger

Answer 45

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Question 46

Jean Valjean

Answer 46

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

Question 47

George Smiley

Answer 47

Call for the Dead (first appearance but best known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), John Le Carre

Question 48

Edmond Dantes

Answer 48

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Question 49

Becky Sharp

Answer 49

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Question 50

Ignatius J. Reilly

Answer 50

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole