📖 Modern & Popular Trivia Questions

Who wrote the 'Harry Potter' series?

• J.R.R. Tolkien
• J.K. Rowling
• Philip Pullman
• Roald Dahl

Who wrote 'The Lord of the Rings'?

• C.S. Lewis
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Terry Pratchett

Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

• Harper Lee
• Flannery O'Connor
• Carson McCullers
• Eudora Welty

Who is the lawyer father in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

• Boo Radley
• Atticus Finch
• Tom Robinson
• Jem Finch

In George Orwell's '1984', which figure appears on the posters captioned 'IS WATCHING YOU'?

• The Party
• Big Brother
• The Thought Police
• O'Brien

Which Orwell novella features farm animals overthrowing their farmer?

• Animal Farm
• Burmese Days
• Coming Up for Air
• Down and Out in Paris and London

Who is the teenage narrator of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?

• Holden Caulfield
• Jay Gatsby
• Charlie Kelmeckis
• Augustus Waters

Who is the heroine of 'The Hunger Games'?

• Tris Prior
• Hermione Granger
• Katniss Everdeen
• Bella Swan

Which Dan Brown thriller features symbologist Robert Langdon and the Louvre?

• Angels & Demons
• Inferno
• The Da Vinci Code
• Origin

Who is the hacker heroine of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'?

• Lisbeth Salander
• Amy Dunne
• Clarice Starling
• Nancy Drew

Who wrote the 2012 thriller 'Gone Girl'?

• Paula Hawkins
• Gillian Flynn
• Tana French
• Ruth Ware

Who wrote 'The Handmaid's Tale'?

• Margaret Atwood
• Doris Lessing
• Alice Munro
• Ursula K. Le Guin

In 'The Handmaid's Tale', what is the name of the totalitarian republic?

• Panem
• Oceania
• Gilead
• Airstrip One

Which Toni Morrison novel won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

• Sula
• Song of Solomon
• Beloved
• Jazz

Which Gabriel García Márquez novel is set in the town of Macondo?

• Love in the Time of Cholera
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• The Autumn of the Patriarch
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' is set largely in which country?

• Iran
• Pakistan
• Afghanistan
• India

In 'Life of Pi', what is the name of the Bengal tiger?

• Richard Parker
• Shere Khan
• Rajah
• Bagheera

Who wrote the bestselling novel 'The Alchemist'?

• Isabel Allende
• Paulo Coelho
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Who wrote 'A Game of Thrones', the first book of 'A Song of Ice and Fire'?

• Brandon Sanderson
• Robert Jordan
• George R.R. Martin
• Patrick Rothfuss

In 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', what is the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything?

• 7
• 42
• 101
• 0