🏛️ Classics (19th & Early 20th C.) Trivia Questions

Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

• Charlotte Brontë
• Jane Austen
• George Eliot
• Elizabeth Gaskell

Which novel opens with the line 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?

• Great Expectations
• Oliver Twist
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Bleak House

Who is the obsessive captain hunting the white whale in 'Moby-Dick'?

• Captain Ahab
• Captain Nemo
• Captain Flint
• Captain Bligh

Who wrote 'Jane Eyre'?

• Emily Brontë
• Anne Brontë
• Charlotte Brontë
• Jane Austen

'Wuthering Heights' was written by which Brontë sister?

• Charlotte
• Emily
• Anne
• Maria

Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?

• Leo Tolstoy
• Anton Chekhov
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Ivan Turgenev

Which Russian author wrote both 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'?

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Leo Tolstoy
• Nikolai Gogol
• Maxim Gorky

Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?

• Ernest Hemingway
• John Steinbeck
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• William Faulkner

Who narrates 'The Great Gatsby'?

• Nick Carraway
• Tom Buchanan
• Jay Gatsby
• George Wilson

Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?

• Bram Stoker
• Mary Shelley
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Percy Shelley

Who wrote the 1897 gothic novel 'Dracula'?

• Bram Stoker
• Sheridan Le Fanu
• Mary Shelley
• H.G. Wells

Who wrote 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?

• George Bernard Shaw
• Oscar Wilde
• Thomas Hardy
• Henry James

Which author created the detective Sherlock Holmes?

• Agatha Christie
• Wilkie Collins
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• G.K. Chesterton

What is Sherlock Holmes's London address?

• 10 Downing Street
• 221B Baker Street
• 4 Privet Drive
• 12 Grimmauld Place

Who is the orphan protagonist of Charles Dickens's 'Great Expectations'?

• Pip
• David
• Nicholas
• Martin

Who wrote 'Les Misérables'?

• Alexandre Dumas
• Victor Hugo
• Émile Zola
• Gustave Flaubert

Who is the ex-convict at the centre of 'Les Misérables'?

• Javert
• Marius Pontmercy
• Jean Valjean
• Enjolras

Who wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?

• Mark Twain
• Jack London
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Herman Melville

How many March sisters are there in Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'?

• Three
• Four
• Five
• Six

James Joyce's 'Ulysses' takes place over a single day in which city?

• London
• Paris
• Dublin
• Trieste