Literature

Question 1

Agatha Christie

Answer 1

Devon, England. Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, And Then There Were None, Poirot (eg The ABC Murders), Miss Marple, The Murder of Roger Akroyd, The Murder at the Vicarage, The Mousetrap (play)

Question 2

Charles Dickens

Answer 2

England. Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, The Haunted Mansion, The Pickwick Papers.

Question 3

Roald Dahl

Answer 3

Wales. Flying ace/spy. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox.

Question 4

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 4

USA/Spain/Cuba. The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea.

Question 5

Ayn Rand

Answer 5

Russia/USA. Objectivism. Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead.

Question 6

John Steinbeck

Answer 6

California. Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Cannery Row.

Question 7

Stephen King

Answer 7

Maine. The Shining, The Green Mile, Under the Dome, Pet Sematary, It, Misery, The Stand, The Dark Tower series, Carrie, Cujo.

Question 8

Dr Suess

Answer 8

MAssachusetts. Theodor Seuss Geisel. Political cartoons. Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Oh The Places You’ll Go, Horton Hears a Who, How the Gring Stole Christmas, 1 Fish 2 Fish, The Lorax.

Question 9

Charlotte Bronte

Answer 9

England. Jane Eyre, Vilette, The Professor, Shirley.

Question 10

Emily Bronte

Answer 10

England. Wuthering Heights (Heathcliff).

Question 11

Herman Melville

Answer 11

USA. Moby Dick, Typee.

Question 12

Jules Verne

Answer 12

France. Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, The Mysterious Island.

Question 13

JM Barrie

Answer 13

England. Peter Pan.

Question 14

Hans Christian Andersen

Answer 14

Denmark. The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Match Girl.

Question 15

JD Salinger

Answer 15

USA. The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories.

Question 16

Ray Bradbury

Answer 16

USA. Fahrenheit 451 (world where books are outlawed), Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles.

Question 17

Joseph Heller

Answer 17

USA. Catch-22.

Question 18

Alice Walker

Answer 18

Georgia, USA. The Color Purple.

Question 19

William Faulkner

Answer 19

Mississippi (classy looking guy). The Sound and the Fury (two brothers in civil war obsessed w/ sister).

Question 20

Toni Morrison

Answer 20

USA. Beloved, Songs of Solomon, Tar Baby.

Question 21

Frank Herbert

Answer 21

USA. Dune.

Question 22

Leo Tolstoy

Answer 22

Russia. War and Peace, Anna Karenina.

Question 23

George Orwell

Answer 23

England. 1984, Animal Farm, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia.

Question 24

Jane Austen

Answer 24

England. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Lazy Susan, Northanger Abbey.

Question 25

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Answer 25

Russia. Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot.

Question 26

Miguel de Cervantes

Answer 26

Spain. Don Quixote.

Question 27

Alexandre Dumas

Answer 27

France, Haitian mom. The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers. Cardinal Richelieu, D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis.

Question 28

F Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 28

USA, bad divorce/financial ruin, jazz age. Great Gatsby.

Question 29

CS Lewis

Answer 29

England. Narnia (LWW, Prince Caspian, The Last Battle)

Question 30

Tolkein

Answer 30

England. Hobbit, LOTR, The Silmarillion.

Question 31

Brothers Grimm

Answer 31

Germany. Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Frog Prince.

Question 32

HG Wells

Answer 32

England. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine.

Question 33

Mary Shelly

Answer 33

England. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Mother is Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 34

Bram Stoker

Answer 34

Ireland. Dracula.

Question 35

Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer 35

Scotland. Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde.

Question 36

Aldous Huxley

Answer 36

England. Brave New World.

Question 37

Virginia Woolf

Answer 37

England. Mrs Dalloway

Question 38

Jonathan Swift

Answer 38

Ireland. Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal.

Question 39

Vladimir Nabokov

Answer 39

Russia. Lolita.

Question 40

Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 40

England. Sherlock Holmes (Hounds of Baskerville etc), The Lost World. 221B Baker St, Sherlock, John Watson, Moriarty, Mycroft Holmes, Mrs Hudson.

Question 41

Joseph Conrad

Answer 41

Polish/English. Heart of Darkness.

Question 42

Kurt Vonnegut

Answer 42

USA. Slaughterhouse-Five.

Question 43

Isaac Asimov

Answer 43

Russia/USA. I Robot, Foundation series.

Question 44

HP Lovecraft

Answer 44

USA. Cthulu

Question 45

Harper Lee

Answer 45

USA. To Kill a Mockingbird.

Question 46

Aesop

Answer 46

Ancient Greece. Fables.

Question 47

AA Milne

Answer 47

England/Canada. Winnie the Pooh

Question 48

Astrid Lindgren

Answer 48

Sweden. Pippi Longstocking.

Question 49

Albert Camus

Answer 49

France. The Stranger.

Question 50

Arthur C Clarke

Answer 50

England. 2001 A Space Odyssey

Question 51

EB White

Answer 51

USA. Charlotte's Web.

Question 52

Douglas Adams

Answer 52

USA. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Question 53

L Frank Baum

Answer 53

USA. Wizard of Oz.

Question 54

Margaret Atwood

Answer 54

Canada. The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Alias Grace.

Question 55

Jack London

Answer 55

USA. Magazine fiction, beauty ranch The Call of the Wild.

Question 56

Dashiell Hammett

Answer 56

USA. Hard-boiled detective novels, The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade).

Question 57

Franz Kafka

Answer 57

Germany. The Metamorphosis (salesman turns into giant insect), The Trial, The Castle.

Question 58

Stephen Crane

Answer 58

USA. Red Badge of Courage (civil war desertion/courage). War correspondent. scandal where acquaintance was prostitute.

Question 59

Hunter S Thompson

Answer 59

USA. Suicide, big drug guy. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hells Angels.

Question 60

David Foster Wallace

Answer 60

USA, suicide. Infinite Jest, The Pale King.

Question 61

Thomas Harris

Answer 61

USA. Silence of the Lambs.

Question 62

JK Rowling

Answer 62

UK. Harry Potter, Comoran Strike (under Robert Galbraith pseudo)

Question 63

Suzanne Collins

Answer 63

Hunger Games.

Question 64

Stephanie Meyer

Answer 64

Twilight

Question 65

Dan Brown

Answer 65

The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Angels and Demons, Inferno

Question 66

EL James

Answer 66

UK. 50 Shades of Gray

Question 67

John Grisham

Answer 67

USA lawyer. The Firm, The Rainmaker.

Question 68

Truman Capote

Answer 68

USA. Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, Other Voices Other Rooms.

Question 69

John Irving

Answer 69

The World According to Garp

Question 70

Thomas Mann

Answer 70

Germany. Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks.

Question 71

Washington Irving

Answer 71

Rib Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question 72

Rachel Carson

Answer 72

Silent Spring