{"id":74,"date":"2026-09-16T02:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/literature-books-quiz-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T02:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:58:29","slug":"literature-books-quiz-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/literature-books-quiz-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature Quiz: 18 Questions on Books and Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Literature questions are kinder than people expect. You rarely need to have finished the book; you need to know who wrote it and roughly what happens, which is knowledge that leaks into everyone through films and conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easy literature questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?<\/strong> \u2014 William Shakespeare<\/li>\n\n
  2. Which boy wizard attends Hogwarts?<\/strong> \u2014 Harry Potter<\/li>\n\n
  3. Who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories?<\/strong> \u2014 Arthur Conan Doyle<\/li>\n\n
  4. In which book does a girl fall down a rabbit hole?<\/strong> \u2014 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/li>\n\n
  5. Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?<\/strong> \u2014 Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n\n
  6. What is a very long fictional story called?<\/strong> \u2014 A novel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Medium literature questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?<\/strong> \u2014 Jane Austen<\/li>\n\n
    2. Which novel begins ‘Call me Ishmael’?<\/strong> \u2014 Moby-Dick<\/li>\n\n
    3. Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?<\/strong> \u2014 Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/li>\n\n
    4. Which Russian author wrote War and Peace?<\/strong> \u2014 Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n\n
    5. Who created the character Hercule Poirot?<\/strong> \u2014 Agatha Christie<\/li>\n\n
    6. Which prize is the highest honour in literature?<\/strong> \u2014 The Nobel Prize in Literature<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Hard literature questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Who wrote the epic poem The Divine Comedy?<\/strong> \u2014 Dante Alighieri<\/li>\n\n
      2. Which Egyptian author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988?<\/strong> \u2014 Naguib Mahfouz<\/li>\n\n
      3. What is the oldest surviving epic poem?<\/strong> \u2014 The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/li>\n\n
      4. Who wrote Things Fall Apart?<\/strong> \u2014 Chinua Achebe<\/li>\n\n
      5. Which novel features the character Winston Smith?<\/strong> \u2014 Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/li>\n\n
      6. Who wrote the Muqaddimah?<\/strong> \u2014 Ibn Khaldun<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        Play on the Millionaire Trivia app<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

        Opening lines make excellent quiz questions because they are short, quotable and unambiguous \u2014 far better than plot questions, which invite arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Classic novels, authors, opening lines and prizes \u2014 eighteen literature questions with answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}