UK Literature

Question 1

British, Old;
Beowulf (Denmark), The Wanderer/Seafarer

Answer 1

Unknown

Question 2

British, Gaelic;
Ulster Castle (Deirdre)

Answer 2

Unknown

Question 3

British, 1066-1485;
Canterbury Tales

Answer 3

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 4

British, 1066-1485;
King Arthur

Answer 4

Thomas Malory

Question 5

British, 1066-1485;
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Answer 5

Pearl Poet

Question 6

British, 1066-1485;
Robin Hood

Answer 6

Unknown

Question 7

British, Renaissance 1485-1660;
Utopia

Answer 7

St. Thomas More

Question 8

British, Renaissance 1485-1660;
Paradise Lost

Answer 8

John Milton

Question 9

British, Renaissance 1485-1660;
Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine

Answer 9

Christopher Marlowe

Question 10

British, Renaissance 1485-1660;
Comedy, Tragedy, Historical plays

Answer 10

William Shakespeare

Question 11

British, Restoration 1600s;
Treatises on Government

Answer 11

John Locke

Question 12

British, Restoration 1600s;
Am Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Answer 12

David Hume

Question 13

British, Restoration 1600s;
Leviathan

Answer 13

Thomas Hobbes

Question 14

British, Restoration 1600s;
The Compleat Angler

Answer 14

Izaak Walton

Question 15

British, Restoration 1600s;
Principia (The Motion of Bodies)

Answer 15

Isaac Newton

Question 16

British, Restoration 1600s;
Pilgrims Process

Answer 16

John Bunyan

Question 17

British, 1700s;
“To err is human, to forgive divine”

Answer 17

Alexander Pope

Question 18

British, 1700s;
Gulliver’s Travels (Lilliput)

Answer 18

Johnathan Swift

Question 19

British, 1700s;
Robinson Crusoe

Answer 19

Danial Defoe

Question 20

British, Romantic Age 1780-1837;
Tintern Abbey

Answer 20

William Wordsworth

Question 21

British, Romantic Age 1780-1837;
Ivanhoe

Answer 21

Sir Walter Scott

Question 22

British, Romantic Age 1780-1837;
Don Juan

Answer 22

Lord Byron

Question 23

British, Romantic Age 1780-1837;
Ozymandias, Prometheus Unbound

Answer 23

Percy Bysshe Shelly

Question 24

British, Romantic Age 1780-1837;
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus

Answer 24

Mary Shelly

Question 25

British, Romantic Age 1780-1837; Eve of St. Agnes, Ode to a Nightengale

Answer 25

John Keats

Question 26

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; The Lotus Eaters, The Charge of the Light Brigade

Answer 26

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 27

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901;

Answer 27

Robert and Elizabeth Browning

Question 28

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park (Fanny Price), Pride and Prejudice

Answer 28

Jane Austin

Question 29

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Oliver Twist (Jack Dawkins = Artful Dodger, Fagin), David Copperfield, Great Expectations (Pip), Tale of Two Cities, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol (Scrooge, Marley, Cratchit, Tiny Tim)

Answer 29

Charles Dickens

Question 30

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Angie’s Gray

Answer 30

Anne Bronte

Question 31

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Withering Heights

Answer 31

Emily Bronte

Question 32

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Jane Eyre

Answer 32

Charlotte Bronte

Question 33

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, Though the Looking Glass

Answer 33

Lewis Carrol

Question 34

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island

Answer 34

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 35

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; The Man Who Would Be King, The White Man’s Burden, Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book

Answer 35

Rudyard Kibling

Question 36

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim

Answer 36

Joseph Conrad

Question 37

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; The War of Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man

Answer 37

HG Wells

Question 38

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; The Devil’s Disciple, Pygmalion

Answer 38

George Barnard Shaw

Question 39

British, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Black Beauty

Answer 39

Anna Sewell

Question 40

Irish, Victorian Era 1837-1901; Dracula

Answer 40

Bram Stoker

Question 41

Irish, Victorian Era 1837-1901; The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Answer 41

Oscar Wilde

Question 42

Irish, 20th century; Brave New World

Answer 42

Alford Huxley

Question 43

Irish, 20th century; A Study on Scarlett, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson)

Answer 43

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 44

Irish, 20th century; Death On the Nile, And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express (Detective Hercule Perot)

Answer 44

Agatha Christie

Question 45

Irish, 20th century; 1984 (Big Brother), Animal Farm

Answer 45

George Orwell

Question 46

Irish, 20th century; A Room with a View, A Passage to India

Answer 46

EM Forster

Question 47

Irish, 20th century; The African Queen

Answer 47

CS Forester

Question 48

Irish, 20th century; Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Answer 48

DH Lawrence

Question 49

Irish, 20th century; Dublineses, Ulysses

Answer 49

James Joyce

Question 50

Irish, 20th century; To the Lighthouse

Answer 50

Virginia Woolf

Question 51

Irish, 20th century; The Lord of the Flies

Answer 51

William Golding

Question 52

Irish, 20th century; The Tower, the Countess

Answer 52

William Butler Yeats

Question 53

Irish, 20th century; A History of the English Speaking Peoples

Answer 53

Winston Churchill

Question 54

Irish, 20th century; The Waste Land, The Hollow Men

Answer 54

TS Elliot

Question 55

Irish, 20th century; The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings

Answer 55

JRR Tolkien

Question 56

Irish, 20th century; The Chronicles of Narnia

Answer 56

CS Lewis

Question 57

Irish, 20th century; Peter Pan

Answer 57

JM Barrie

Question 58

Irish, 20th century; Waiting for Godot

Answer 58

Samuel Beckett

Question 59

Welsh, 20th century; “Do not go gentle into that good night”

Answer 59

Dylan Thomas