Book Land Flashcards
For which book did Paul Beatty win the Man Booker Prize in 2016?
The Sellout
Who is the author of the famous series featuring Robert Langdon, the fourth
of which is a mystery thriller called Inferno?
Dan brown
In which novel, by Jane Austen, is Anne Elliot the heroine?
Persuasion
In which book does a beautiful young man become the subject of a portrait by
a painter called Basil Hallward?
The picture of Dorian Gray
Which novel revolved around the life of US Army Air Force official John Yossarian?
Catch-22
Who is the author of the novel Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize in 1981?
Salman Rushdie
What is the London address of Sherlock Holmes?
221B Baker Street
Which fictional character is the narrator of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick?
Ishmael
Which detective series by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay involves
the adventures of a Bengali detective, who preferred being called
Satyamweshi?
Byomkesh Bakshi
Who wrote the book The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
RL setvenson
Holds the Guinness Word Record for the fastest selling
book of fiction in 24 hours.
Harry potter and the deadly hallows
Which famous author coined the term ‘cyberspace’?
William Gibson
The word ‘Yahoo’ comes from Jonathan Swiff’s novel ____
published in 1726.
Gulliver’s Travels
Name the folk tales’ collection whose famous characters include Alibaba,
Sindbad, and Aladdin.
The Arabian night
Two-and-a-half million unsold copies of ___ novels were pulped to bind the
asphalt with the tarmac. This material was used in making a 16 km stretch of the M6 Toll
road in the UK.
Mills
& Boom
