Another Bookish Trivia Quiz
By popular demand, I've devised another trivia quiz for those who love literary minutiae.
Answers at the end.
1. Which novelist, born in 1828, wrote this famous first line?
“Happy families are all alike: every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
And can you name the novel?
2. Which of the following fictional detectives was not created by an Australian author?
A) Phryne Fisher
B) Jack Spratt
C) Cliff Hardy
D) Jack Irish
3. 'Tomorrow is Another Day' was one of the early, abandoned titles of which bestselling novel published in 1936?
4. This Australian novel was written in 1977 and made into a mini-series in 1982. It’s said to be one of the top 50 bestselling novels of all time. What is its title?
5. ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’
This is the first line of which novel by Charles Dickens?
6. Nick Carraway is the narrator of which iconic American novel?
7. Which novelist, born Mary Ann Evans, said: ‘It’s never too late to be what you might have been’?
8. Before they became novelists, which career did the following authors have in common?
Marcus Clarke, Michael Robotham, Geraldine Brooks, Susan Duncan
9. Which of these houses does not appear in a Jane Austen novel?
A) Thrushcross Grange
B) Netherfield
C) Donwell Abbey
D) Pemberley
10. 'Schindler's List' is the film made by Steven Spielberg from Thomas Keneally’s Booker Prize-winning novel. But what is the title of the book?
11. Name the classic Ray Bradbury novel about the burning of books, which was made into a film by François Truffaut in 1966.
12.Which of these fictional detectives was created by novelist Peter Robinson?
A) DCI Jane Tennison
B) DCI John Barnaby
C) DCI Alan Banks
D) DCS Christopher Foyle
ANSWERS
1.Leo Tolstoy, 'Anna Karenina
2. B) Jack Spratt created by Jasper Fforde
3. 'Gone with the Wind
4. 'The Thorn Birds'
5. 'A Tale of Two Cities'
6. 'The Great Gatsby'
7. George Eliot
8. Journalism
9. A) Thrushcross Grange, the home of the Lintons, from 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontё
10. 'Schindler's Ark'
11. 'Fahrenheit 451'
12. C) DCI Alan Banks
Deborah O’Brien
First written for Random House website June 2015