The Big Book Quiz

Some friends and I started writing quizzes for each other during lockdown, but I got a bit carried away and ended up writing a whole quiz based on books! There are 5 rounds: General Knowledge; Opening Lines; Characters; Adaptations; and a picture round. Good luck!

(Answers can be found below – no peeking!)

ROUND 1: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1.   For the first time, two authors won the Booker Prize in 2019. Name either of them. (Bonus point if you can name both!)

2.   Eric Arthur Blair is the real name of which famous author?

3.   This year celebrates 100 years of Agatha Christie novels. What was her first book called?

4.   How many novels did Roald Dahl write?

5.   Stephenie Meyer has announced she's releasing Midnight Sun, a previously leaked retelling of Twilight from the point of view of which character?

6.   Nineteen Eighty-Four was released in which year?

7.   The Mirror and The Light is the final book in which trilogy?

8.   A prequel book to The Hunger Games was released on 19th May. What is it called?

9.   How many books make up The Chronicles of Narnia?

10. Which Sally Rooney book has recently been adapted into a BBC series?

ROUND 2: FIRST LINE

Name the books that open with the following lines.

1.   It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,…

2.   In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

3.   Call me Ishmael.

4.   Two households, both alike in dignity/ In fair Verona, where we lay our scene/ From ancient grudge break to new mutiny/ Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

5.   When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

6.   It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

7.   The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.

8.   Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy.

9.   Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.

10. Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

  

ROUND 3: CHARACTERS

Name the books in which these characters appear.

1.   Marvin the Paranoid Android, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect

2.   Napoleon, Clover, Mr Jones

3.   Slightly, Curly, Nibs

4.   Haymitch Abernathy, Effie Trinket, Rue

5.   Ralph, Jack, Piggy

6.   Carlisle, Rosalie, Edward

7.   Buttercup, Fezzik, Prince Humperdinck

8.   King Duncan, Banquo, Fleance

9.   Jean Valjean, Cosette, Javert

10. Miss Havisham, Pip, Estella

  

ROUND 4: ADAPTATIONS

The following films are (loose) retellings of a classic novels. Name the books/plays that inspired them.

1.   Oliver and Company (1988)

2.   Clueless (1995)

3.   Warm Bodies (2013)

4.   The Lion King (1994)

5.   Easy A (2010)

6.   She's the Man (2006)

7.   Material Girls (2006)

8.   Basil, The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

9.   Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)*

10. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

 *I know this was originally a book, but the story is based on another classic!

PICTURE ROUND

Name the book given the visual clues.

End of quiz. Hope you had fun!

(Disclaimer: I did take some inspiration from the internet. Also, the research levels didn't stretch beyond the first page of Google searches!) 

Answers:

ROUND 1: 1) Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo 2) George Orwell 3) The Mysterious Affair at Styles 4) 19 5) Edward Cullen 6)1949 7) Wolf Hall 8) The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 9) 7 10) Normal People

ROUND 2: 1) A Tale of Two Cities 2) The Hobbit 3) Moby Dick 4) Romeo and Juliet 5) To Kill a Mockingbird 6) Pride and Prejudice 7) The Wind in the Willows 8) Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 9) Alice in Wonderland 10) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

ROUND 3: 1) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2) Animal Farm 3) Peter Pan 4) The Hunger Games 5) Lord of the Flies 6) Twilight 7) The Princess Bride 8) Macbeth 9) Les Miserables 10) Great Expectations

ROUND 4: 1) Oliver Twist 2) Emma 3) Romeo and Juliet 4) Hamlet 5) The Scarlett Letter 6) Twelfth Night 7) Sense and Sensibility 8) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 9) Pride and Prejudice 10) The Taming of the Shrew

ROUND 5: 1) Charlotte's Web 2) Mansfield Park 3) David Copperfield 4) Robinson Crusoe 5) Don Quixote 6) Catch 22 7) Black Beauty 8) Alice in Wonderland 9) Little Women 10) Fifty Shades of Grey