Question 1

Name the William Butler Yeats poem in which the line “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold” appears.

Accepted Answer

“The Second Coming”

Question 2

Of the seven heroines in Jane Austen’s novels, how many had accepted a marriage proposal by the end of the novel? (Counting both Marianne and Elinor from Pride and Predjudice)

Accepted Answer

7

Question 3

What is the name for a word combining two words like “brunch?”

Accepted Answer

Portmanteau

Question 4

Which novel features the character Atticus Finch?

Accepted Answer

To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 5

Who wrote the essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence?”

Accepted Answer

Adrienne Rich

Question 6

Of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, whose prologue is much longer than her tale?

Accepted Answer

The Wife of Bath

Question 7

What are the names of the three sisters in Little Women?

Accepted Answer

Jo, Meg, Beth

Question 8

Which Shakespearean King was determined to be a villain?

Accepted Answer

Richard III

Question 9

Name the 1838 novel written by Charles Dickens and often referred to as the “Parish Boy’s Progress”

Accepted Answer

Oliver Twist

Question 10

What is the name for a word spelled the same backwards and forwards?

Accepted Answer

Palindrome

Question 11

Who is the protagonist in George Orwell’s “1984?”

Accepted Answer

Winston Smith

Question 12

Which English author wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

Accepted Answer

Lewis Carroll

Question 13

Who wrote The Sun Also Rises, a novel that captures the spirit of “the lost generation?”

Accepted Answer

Ernest Hemingway

Question 14

What is the name of the dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?

Accepted Answer

Smaug

Question 15

Who is the author of The Grapes of Wrath, a novel depicting the struggles of the Joad family during The Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

John Steinbeck

Question 16

What is the process of making a word past tense by adding “d” or “ed” called?

Accepted Answer

Inflection

Question 17

Who wrote the poem The Waste Land?

Accepted Answer

T.S. Eliot

Question 18

Who is the speaker in the final episode of James Joyce's Ulysses?

Accepted Answer

Molly Bloom

Question 19

Who is considered the father of English literature?

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 20

Who wrote "My Life had Stood-a Loaded Gun"

Accepted Answer

Emily Dickinson

📖 Literary Trivia Night 💡

2) Of the seven heroines in Jane Austen’s novels, how many had accepted a marriage proposal by the end of the novel? (Counting both Marianne and Elinor from Pride and Predjudice)

3) What is the name for a word combining two words like “brunch?”

4) Which novel features the character Atticus Finch?

5) Who wrote the essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence?”

6) Of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, whose prologue is much longer than her tale?

7) What are the names of the three sisters in Little Women?

8) Which Shakespearean King was determined to be a villain?

9) Name the 1838 novel written by Charles Dickens and often referred to as the “Parish Boy’s Progress”

10) What is the name for a word spelled the same backwards and forwards?

11) Who is the protagonist in George Orwell’s “1984?”

12) Which English author wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

13) Who wrote The Sun Also Rises, a novel that captures the spirit of “the lost generation?”

14) What is the name of the dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?

15) Who is the author of The Grapes of Wrath, a novel depicting the struggles of the Joad family during The Great Depression?

16) What is the process of making a word past tense by adding “d” or “ed” called?

17) Who wrote the poem The Waste Land?

18) Who is the speaker in the final episode of James Joyce's Ulysses?

19) Who is considered the father of English literature?

20) Who wrote "My Life had Stood-a Loaded Gun"