| How many ghosts visit Scrooge in A Christmas Carol? | 4 |
| How many tasks did Hercules have to fulfill? | 12 |
| How many rode into Tennyson’s ‘valley of death’? | 600 |
| Winston Smith is the central character in which book? | 1984 |
| How old was Adrian Mole? | 13 and 3 quarters |
| How long did Robinson Crusoe spend on the island? | 28 years, 2 months and 19 days |
| What was the name of inn in Treasure Island? | Admiral Benbow |
| Who wrote “don’t count your chickens before they are hatched”? | Aesop |
| Which of the following is the second best-selling fiction author of all time? | Agatha Christie |
| Who wrote ‘The Count of Monte Christo’? | Alexandre Dumas |
| Which female novelist wrote the book Black Beauty? | Anna Sewell |
| Who wrote ‘a clockwork orange’? | Anthony Burgess |
| Who was ‘The Once and Future King’? | Arthur |
| Which sport is referred to in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’? | Billiards |
| What was the name of Roy Rogers’ pet dog? | Bullet |
| Which name is not a Steven King book? | Cacy |
| Who is not one of King Lears daughters? | Celia |
| Which book begins with the line “These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket…”? | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was banned in which country? | China |
| Which of the following is not visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels? | China |
| Which book begins with the line “Most motorcars are conglomerations….” ? | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| Which book begins with the line “Not too long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock…” ? | Cujo |
| Who wrote ‘Moll Flanders’? | Daniel DeFoe |
| In Which Dickens Novel Does Mr Micawber Appear? | David Copperfield |
| Who wrote the book The Moons A Balloon? | David Niven |
| Who wrote In The Beginning I Used To Be An Animal But I’m Alright Now? | Eric Burdon |
| What is the complete title of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? | Frankenstein or The modern Prometheus |
| Who wrote ‘Pygmalion’? | G B Shaw |
| Which of these writers died in 1400? | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| What was Mary Ann Evans pen name? | George Eliot |
| What was Eric Blair’s pen name? | George Orwell |
| What was Casanova’s first name? | Giacoma |
| What was the name of the dog of Dennis the menace? | Gnasher |
| In which book would one find the character named ‘Pip’? | Great Expectations |
| Which novel begins with the line “My father’s family name being Pirrip….”? | Great Expectations |
| What is the name of the cat in Shakespeare’s Macbeth? | Greymalkin |
| Which is the longest of Shakespeare’s plays? | Hamlet |
| Which of the following is not a Romance author? | Harold Robbins |
| What John Spyri story is about a girl who lives in the Alps? | Heidi |
| Who wrote ‘Tom Jones’? | Henry Fielding |
| Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World was banned in which country? | Ireland |
| Who wrote ‘I Robot’? | Isaac Asimov |
| Who was Rowena’s husband? | Ivanhoe |
| Who wrote ‘Peter Pan’? | J M Barrie |
| Who wrote the book The Last Of The Mohicans? | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Who wrote ‘Finnegan’s Wake’? | James Joyce |
| What are the names of the two main characters in Diana Gabaldon’s highland saga novels? | Jamie and Claire |
| In which month did Samuel Pepys begin his famous diary? | January |
| Which book begins with the line ” The great fish moved silently…” ? | Jaws |
| Who wrote ‘The Spy Who Came In From The Cold’? | John le Carre |
| Who wrote The Day of the Triffids? | John Wyndam |
| Mother Raksha is a character in which childrens book? | Jungle Book |
| Which book begins with the line “I will begin the story of my adventures….” ? | Kidnapped |
| Uther Pendragon was which mans father? | King Arthur |
| At which railway station does one board the ‘Hogwarts Express’? | Kings Cross |
| Oliver Mellors is a central character in which novel? | Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
| Totally Frank is which Frank’s autobiography? | Lampard |
| Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code was banned in which country? | Lebanon |
| Who wrote the popular Simon Templar books? | Leslie Charteris |
| What were the cities in Dickens’s A Tale Of Two Cities? | London and Paris |
| Who is a bat in Jungle Book? | Mang |
| Who wrote ‘The Mists of Avalon’? | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens pen name? | Mark Twain |
| What was the name of the paranoid android in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy? | Marvin |
| The Count of Monte Christo was in love with which woman? | Mercedes |
| Which of the following is not a childrens author? | Michael Crichton |
| Which book begins with the line “Even in high summer, Tintagel was a haunted place…” ? | Mists of Avalon |
| What are the cannibalistic beasts called in H.G. Wells book The Time Machine? | Morlocks |
| Who lives at Number Four Privat Drive? | Mr and Mrs Dursley |
| What was the name of Sherlock Holmes house keeper? | Mrs Hudson |
| Whose autobiography was entitled ‘The Long Walk To Freedom’? | Nelson Mandela |
| Who does Mr Brownlow rescue? | Oliver Twist |
| Michael Bond was the creator of which bear? | Paddington |
| What is the name of the man servant in ‘Around the world in 80 days’? | Pas Partout |
| What is the name of the ship in ‘Moby Dick’? | Pequod |
| Which book begins with the line “All children except one, grow up….” ? | Peter Pan |
| Carlo Collodi created which famous children’s character? | Pinocchio |
| Whose nose grew when he told a lie? | Pinocchio |
| Which nationality is best-selling author Paulo Coelho? | Portuguese |
| Mr Darcy is an arrogant gentleman in which novel? | Pride and Prejudice |
| What is comic book hero Roy of the Rovers’ surname? | Race |
| Which novel begins with the line “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again….” ? | Rebecca |
| Which Adams wrote Watership Down? | Richard |
| Which king said “A horse, a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”? | Richard III |
| Who wrote the poem A Red Red Rose? | Robert Burns |
| Who wrote the book ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’? | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Who wrote ‘Treasure Island’? | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| What is Dick Grayson better known as? | Robin |
| What Was the Title Of Alex Haleys Most Famous Work? | Roots |
| Which novel begins with the line “Early in the spring of 1750….” ? | Roots |
| What is the name of Don Quixote’s horse? | Rosinate |
| What school does Tom attend in Tom Brown’s school days? | Rugby |
| Who wrote the play ‘Waiting for Godot’? | Samuel Beckett |
| Who wrote the poem The Lady of the Lake? | Sir Walter Scott |
| The jealous Athena turned Arachne into which kind of animal? | spider |
| What was the title of George Bernard Shaw’s play about Joan of Arc? | St Joan |
| In which town did Tom Sawyer live? | St Petersburg |
| Which of the following authors are not in the top ten best-selling literature authors of all time? | Stephen King |
| Which cartoonist created Spider Man? | Steve Ditko |
| Where was William Shakespeare born? | Stratford Upon Avon |
| Which novel begins with the line “It was the best of times….” ? | Tale of Two Cities |
| What is the subtitle of Peter Pan? | The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up |
| Holden Caulfield is the main character in which book? | The Catcher In The Rye |
| Which book begins with the line “The summer my father bought the bear…” ? | The Hotel New Hampshire |
| Which book begins with the line “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy….”? | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| Which book begins with the line “Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony….” ? | The Maltese Falcon |
| Shylock is a character in which Shakespeare play? | The Merchant Of Venice |
| Which book begins with the line “The Duchy of Grand Fenwick…” ? | The Mouse that Roared |
| The title of which Pink Floyd album is also a chapter in ‘The Wind In The Willows’? | The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn |
| In The Lord of the Rings, what is the name of the inn in Bree? | The Prancing Pony |
| Which book begins with the line ” “Hello, ship” Jake Holman said under his breath…” ? | The Sand Pebbles |
| Which book begins with the line “The American handed Leamus another cup of coffee….” ? | The Spy Who Came In From The Cold |
| Which book begins with the line “For many days we had been tempest tossed….” ? | The Swiss Family Robinson |
| Which novel begins with the line “On December 8th, 1915, Maggie Cleary had her fourth birthday….” ? | The Thorn Birds |
| In which book would one find the childlike human species named Elois? | The Time Machine |
| In which book would one find the trog like human species named Morlocks? | The Time Machine |
| Which book begins with the line “Dorothy lived in the midst….” ? | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Who wrote ‘Utopia’ in 1516? | Thomas More |
| In which book is there an inn called Admiral Benbow? | Treasure Island |
| In the book The Last Of The Mohicans what was the name of Chingachgook’s only son? | Uncas |
| In which Italian city do Romeo and Juliet live? | Verona |
| Who wrote ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’? | Victor Hugo |
| Who wrote ‘Mrs Dalloway’? | Virginia Woolf |
| Which two men are waiting for Godot? | Vladimir and Estragon |
| Who wrote ‘The Lord of the Flies’? | William Golding |
| Which former conservative leader wrote a biography on William Wilberforce in 2007? | William Hague |
| Which of the following is the best-selling fiction author of all time? | William Shakespeare |
| Which Prime Minister won a Nobel prize for literature? | Winston Churchill |