A Year of Quizzes (part 2)
A Year of Quizzes (part 2)
It’s a year since I created my first quiz for For Reading Addicts. So this is a cornucopia of questions from some of those quizzes, lots of subjects, lots of authors and lots of lovely books!
It’s a year since I created my first quiz for For Reading Addicts. So this is a cornucopia of questions from some of those quizzes, lots of subjects, lots of authors and lots of lovely books!
At the end of Pride and Prejudice what two words does Austen wickedly use to show Mrs Bennet’s feelings at her daughters’ marriages?
Which one of these is NOT one of Mr Wonka’s inventions; Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight or Marvellous Marshmallow Mattresses?
‘Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.’ Which classic French novel, written in 1862, is this quote from?
Seven days in a Welsh cottage with two long estranged families – it isn’t long before the ghosts rise up in this Mark Haddon 2012 best seller.
In Jane Eyre which one of the two Ingram sisters does Rochester openly favour?
Which Canadian wrote this in 1915,
‘We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.’
From whose perspective does the reader first view Wuthering Heights?
What was Isabel Allende’s debut novel that details the life of the Trueba family, spanning four generations, and tracing the post-colonial social and political upheavals of Chile?
What is The First Miracle in Matilda?
In To Kill a Mockingbird whose idea was it to make Boo Radley come out?
Which scientific work was published in November 1859 and revolutionised the way we look at the world?
For which Sean Connery Bond film did Dahl write the screenplay in 1967?
In Rebecca where do Max and the narrator meet?
Which wizard is a member of the Istari order, the leader of the Fellowship of the Ring and of the army of the West?
In Gone with the Wind who says this to Scarlett: ‘I love you, your courage and your stubbornness and your fire and your utter ruthlessness.’
When Marley tells Scrooge he is to be visited by 3 ghosts, what is his first reaction?
Which short epistolary novel was Jane Austen’s first mature, finished work?
What was Anne Bronte’s first novel?
Finish this AA Milne line: ‘No brain at all, some of them, only grey --- that’s blown into their heads by mistake, and they don’t Think.’
We always know him as ‘Mr’ Darcy – but what is his first name?
JK Rowling – what does the JK stand for?
Which novel begins: ‘All this happened, more or less.’
Which novel ends: ‘An excellent year's progress.’
Who said: ‘It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.’
Which Dublin born playwright wrote such classics as Pygmalion, Man and Superman and St Joan?
Which of Hans Christian Andersen’s tales is called Den lille havfrue in Danish?
Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. From which family is Juliet?
Which epic poem, written between the 8th and 11th centuries, is seen as the beginning of English literature?
Which M is Deputy Headmistress, head of Gryffindor House, Transfiguration professor, and later Headmistress at Hogwarts?
Which N is Mr Detroit from Truman Capote’s delightful short story; he runs a floating crap game and has been engaged to Miss Adelaide for 14 years?