353 Mostly Asked Intermediate Level Arts And Literature Questions and Answers

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Question 1

Which book contains the character 'Arthur 'Boo' Radley'?

Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird

Question 2

Which book contains the character 'Humbert Humbert'?

Answer: Lolita

Question 3

The painting "The Persistence of Memory" by ‎Salvador Dalí is a part of which art movement?

Answer: Surrealism

Question 4

Who wrote "Far From The Madding Crowd"?

Answer: Thomas Hardy

Question 5

Which Shakespeare play opens with the 3 Witches?

Answer: Macbeth

Question 6

In which book does 'Jane Bennet' appear?

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Question 7

Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Comes from which of Shakespeare's plays?

Answer: Macbeth

Question 8

Which author wrote 'The Hunger Games'?

Answer: Suzanne Collins

Question 9

Which author wrote 'The Subtle Knife'?

Answer: Philip Pullman

Question 10

Which author wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

Answer: Jane Austen

Question 11

Which author wrote 'Lolita (2010 Penguin Classics ed.)'?

Answer: Vladimir Nabokov

Question 12

Which author wrote 'Ulysses'?

Answer: James Joyce

Question 13

Which author wrote 'Bleak House'?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question 14

Which author wrote 'A Storm of Swords'?

Answer: George R. R. Martin

Question 15

Which author wrote 'Oliver Twist'?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question 16

Which author wrote 'The Little Mermaid'?

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen

Question 17

Which author wrote 'Foundation series'?

Answer: Isaac Asimov

Question 18

Which author wrote 'I, Robot'?

Answer: Isaac Asimov

Question 19

Which author wrote 'The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'?

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 20

Which author wrote ''Salem's Lot'?

Answer: Stephen King

Question 21

Which author wrote 'The Stand'?

Answer: Stephen King

Question 22

Which author wrote 'As You Like It'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 23

Which artistic movement of the 1960's and 1970's emphasized the artistic idea over the art object?

Answer: Conceptual Art

Question 24

Which school of painting focused on transitory visual impressions with an emphasis on the changing effects of light and color?

Answer: Impressionism

Question 25

"The Diary of Anne Frank" was first published in English under what title?

Answer: The Diary of a Young Girl

Question 26

In which book series does 'Fleur Delacour' appear?

Answer: Harry Potter

Question 27

In which book series does 'Sirius Black' appear?

Answer: Harry Potter

Question 28

In which book does 'Elizabeth Bennet' appear?

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Question 29

Which novel, published in 1932, was a vision of the future as a sanitised society?

Answer: Brave New World

Question 30

What nursery rhyme includes a cow who jumps over the moon?

Answer: Hey Diddle Diddle

Question 31

In which year was the first Harry Potter book released?

Answer: 1997

Question 32

What was the title of the most famous broadcast of "The Mercury Theater on the Air," which aired on October 30, 1938 and caused panic across the United States?

Answer: War of the Worlds

Question 33

Which iconic Joseph Conrad novel has the initials H.O.D.?

Answer: Heart of Darkness

Question 34

Which literary character lives in West Egg, Long Island, and is known by the nickname 'the Great'?

Answer: Jay Gatsby

Question 35

What Shakespearean tragedy features Roderigo and Iago at the start of the play?

Answer: Othello

Question 36

What is the name of the ever-popular musical that features songs such as "Little Girls" and "You Won't Be an Orphan for Long"?

Answer: "Annie"

Question 37

Which author wrote 'Thunderball' and other James Bond novels?

Answer: Ian Fleming

Question 38

What term is used to describe the most important or best work that a writer or artist has produced?

Answer: Magnum Opus

Question 39

Which book is the 7th book of the Harry Potter series?

Answer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Question 40

Which famous artist went unnoticed during his life, and commited suicide aged 37 in 1890?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Question 41

In P.G. Wodehouse's novels, what is the job that Jeeves has?

Answer: Valet

Question 42

Which author is leaving audiences waiting for a sequel to his 2011 novel 'A Dance with Dragons'?

Answer: George R.R. Martin

Question 43

In the 'Harry Potter' series, which character has a ginger cat named Crookshanks?

Answer: Hermione Granger

Question 44

Which novel is set in East Egg, Long Island?

Answer: The Great Gatsby

Question 45

Which Roald Dahl character traveled around in a large fruit?

Answer: James

Question 46

Which book contains the character 'Eugene Henderson'?

Answer: Henderson the Rain King

Question 47

Which book contains the character 'Scout Finch'?

Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird

Question 48

Which artist painted "Guernica"

Answer: ‎Pablo Picasso

Question 49

Which artist painted "Starry Night"

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Question 50

The painting "Guernica" by ‎Pablo Picasso is a part of which art movement?

Answer: Cubism

Question 51

With what art movement was Salvador Dali associated?

Answer: Surrealism

Question 52

Who wrote the epic poem "The Iliad"?

Answer: Homer

Question 53

Who wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird"?

Answer: Harper Lee

Question 54

Which famous book begins with the line "On January 6, 1482, the people of Paris were awakened by the tumultuous clanging of all the bells in the city"?

Answer: The Hunchback Of Natre Damme

Question 55

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.'?

Answer: Animal Farm

Question 56

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the'?

Answer: Oliver Twist

Question 57

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he stayed up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.'?

Answer: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Question 58

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet drive'?

Answer: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Question 59

Who wrote the children's book 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas''

Answer: Dr Seuss

Question 60

Which author wrote 'Robinson Crusoe'?

Answer: Daniel Defoe

Question 61

Which author wrote 'The Godfather'?

Answer: Mario Puzo

Question 62

Which author wrote 'Breaking Dawn'?

Answer: Stephenie Meyer

Question 63

Which author wrote 'His Dark Materials trilogy'?

Answer: Philip Pullman

Question 64

Which author wrote 'Sense and Sensibility'?

Answer: Jane Austen

Question 65

Which author wrote 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'?

Answer: Douglas Adams

Question 66

Which author wrote 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'?

Answer: C. S. Lewis

Question 67

Which author wrote 'Candide'?

Answer: Voltaire

Question 68

Which author wrote 'The Importance of Being Earnest'?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question 69

Which author wrote 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'?

Answer: Philip K. Dick

Question 70

Which author wrote 'The Silmarillion'?

Answer: J. R. R. Tolkien

Question 71

Which author wrote 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'?

Answer: Jules Verne

Question 72

Which author wrote 'canon of Sherlock Holmes'?

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 73

Which author wrote 'Twelfth Night'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 74

Which author wrote 'Othello'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 75

What was the first name of the Spanish modernist and cubist painter Picasso?

Answer: Pablo

Question 76

Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?

Answer: J.D. Salinger

Question 77

What is the name of the account of the Trojan War written by the Ancient Greek poet Homer?

Answer: The Iliad

Question 78

Which author wrote Ulysses, Giacomo Joyce, Dubliners and Finnegans Wake?

Answer: James Joyce

Question 79

What is the word given to a printing process in which ink impressions are taken from a flat plate prepared with a greasy substance?

Answer: Lithography

Question 80

Which art movement explored the unconscious, often using images from dreams?

Answer: Surrealism

Question 81

What is a method of producing images or letters by painting over holes cut in a covering surface?

Answer: Stenciling

Question 82

Which artistic movement of the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century focused on emotion over reason, and on spontaneous expression.

Answer: Romanticism

Question 83

In which book series does 'Cedric Diggory' appear?

Answer: Harry Potter

Question 84

In which book does 'Huckleberry Finn' appear?

Answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Question 85

In which book does 'Humbert Humbert' appear?

Answer: Lolita

Question 86

In which book does 'Marmee March' appear?

Answer: Little Women

Question 87

In which book does 'Beth March' appear?

Answer: Little Women

Question 88

In 'A Christmas Carol'', what is Tiny Tim's surname

Answer: Cratchett

Question 89

In Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", how many different ghosts visited Scrooge?

Answer: 4

Question 90

What is the name of the bear in the collection of stories by A. A. Milne?

Answer: Winnie the Pooh

Question 91

In Harry Potter, what is the name of the magical sport that is played on broomsticks?

Answer: Quidditch

Question 92

Who wrote the famous play 'Hamlet'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 93

Which author wrote the 7 "Chronicles of Narnia" novels, which were published between 1950 and 1956?

Answer: C.S. Lewis

Question 94

Which 5-act Shakespearean tragedy was partially based on a history of Denmark written by Saxo Grammaticus?

Answer: Hamlet

Question 95

Which Spanish artist famously created a lobster telephone?

Answer: Salvador Dali

Question 96

What is the middle name of the Scottish author Robert Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island?

Answer: Louis

Question 97

What two words precede "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" in the title of Robert Pirsig's 1974 book?

Answer: Zen and

Question 98

What is the name of the long narrative poem that tells of the deeds and adventures of a hero?

Answer: Epic

Question 99

In which book did Roald Dahl tell the story of a boy's adventure in a giant piece of fruit?

Answer: James and the Giant Peach

Question 100

What type of dance is most likely to accompany the tune of "Hava Nagila"?

Answer: Hora

Question 101

What word refers to the rhythmic structure of a poem?

Answer: The meter

Question 102

Rubeus is the first name of which character in the Harry Potter books?

Answer: Hagrid

Question 103

In an early Stephen King novel, which titular character is a student at Ewen High?

Answer: Carrie

Question 104

Who wrote the Jungle Book?

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question 105

What type of position does Hamlet hold in the Shakespeare play?

Answer: Prince

Question 106

Who wrote three books under the title "Das Kapital"?

Answer: Karl Marx

Question 107

Who wrote "Gullivers Travels"?

Answer: Jonathan Swift

Question 108

Who wrote "Great Expectations"?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question 109

Who wrote "Animal Farm"?

Answer: George Orwell

Question 110

Who wrote "A Tale Of Two Cities"?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question 111

Who wrote "1984"?

Answer: George Orwell

Question 112

Who was Winnie the Pooh's neighbour?

Answer: Piglet

Question 113

Who is the author of "Brave New World"?

Answer: Aldous Huxley

Question 114

Who is associated with the address 221B Baker Street, London?

Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question 115

Which famous book begins with the line "Marley was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt about that"?

Answer: A Christmas Carol

Question 116

What story features flopsy, mopsy and cottontail?

Answer: Peter Rabbit

Question 117

Which Ancient Greek writer was famous for his Fables?

Answer: Aesop

Question 118

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's coat.'?

Answer: The Return of the King

Question 119

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”'?

Answer: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Question 120

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "the Riddle House" even though it has been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.'?

Answer: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Question 121

Which piece of written work starts with the line '“What's it going to be then, eh?” There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry.'?

Answer: A Clockwork Orange

Question 122

Who wrote the book 'The Shining' on which the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film was based?

Answer: Stephen King

Question 123

Who Wrote The Book 'Alice In Wonderland'?

Answer: Lewis Carrol

Question 124

Who was the first ghost appear to scrooge in the dickens classic 'a Christmas Carol'?

Answer: Marley's Ghost

Question 125

Which author wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?

Answer: Emily Brontë

Question 126

Which author wrote 'Little Women'?

Answer: Louisa May Alcott

Question 127

Which author wrote 'Don Quixote'?

Answer: Miguel de Cervantes

Question 128

Which author wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

Answer: Lewis Carroll

Question 129

Which author wrote 'The Lost Symbol'?

Answer: Dan Brown

Question 130

Which author wrote 'Eclipse'?

Answer: Stephenie Meyer

Question 131

Which author wrote 'Twilight'?

Answer: Stephenie Meyer

Question 132

Which author wrote 'Inferno'?

Answer: Dan Brown

Question 133

Which author wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

Answer: Gabriel García Márquez

Question 134

Which author wrote 'Treasure Island'?

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 135

Which author wrote 'The Famous Five'?

Answer: Enid Blyton

Question 136

Which author wrote 'A Dance with Dragons'?

Answer: George R. R. Martin

Question 137

Which author wrote 'The Time Machine'?

Answer: H. G. Wells

Question 138

Which author wrote 'A Clash of Kings'?

Answer: George R. R. Martin

Question 139

Which author wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities'?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question 140

Which author wrote 'David Copperfield'?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question 141

Which author wrote 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?

Answer: Victor Hugo

Question 142

Which author wrote 'Foundation’s Edge'?

Answer: Isaac Asimov

Question 143

Which author wrote 'Much Ado About Nothing'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 144

Which artistic style refers to the following of principles of Ancient Greek and Roman art?

Answer: Classicism

Question 145

Name the Shakespeare play from this plot summary: "Urged on by his wife, a man murders his king in order to take his place".

Answer: Macbeth

Question 146

In what film does the HAL 9000 appear?

Answer: 2001, A Space Odyssey

Question 147

How many holes are there on a traditional paint pallette?

Answer: 1

Question 148

Which artistic movement employed an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints?

Answer: Cubism

Question 149

Which 17th and early 18th century movement in painting is characterized by great drama, deep colour, intense light and dark shadows?

Answer: Baroque

Question 150

Which artistic style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries revived the order and harmony of ancient Greek and Roman art?

Answer: Neoclassicism

Question 151

What is the name given to a method of painting that uses dabs of pure color that were intended to mix in the eyes of viewers rather than on the canvas?

Answer: Pointillism

Question 152

In which book does 'Scarlett O'Hara' appear?

Answer: Gone with the Wind

Question 153

In which book series does Professor Moriarty appear?

Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question 154

In which of these books does 'Alice in Wonderland' appear?

Answer: Through the Looking-Glass

Question 155

In which book series does 'Peter Pettigrew' appear?

Answer: Harry Potter

Question 156

In which book does the character 'Gavroche' appear?

Answer: Les Misérables

Question 157

In which book series does 'Gilderoy Lockhart' appear?

Answer: Harry Potter

Question 158

In which book does 'The Hatter' appear?

Answer: Through the Looking-Glass

Question 159

In which book does The Queen of Hearts appear?

Answer: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Question 160

In which book does 'Lydia Bennet' appear?

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Question 161

In which book series does 'Bella Swan' appear?

Answer: Twilight

Question 162

Which series of horror movies were greatly influenced by a painting by Edvard Munch?

Answer: Scream

Question 163

Which Shakespeare play begins with 3 witches?

Answer: Macbeth

Question 164

Which architect designed The Whitehouse?

Answer: James Hoban

Question 165

Who was the author of Frankenstein?

Answer: Mary Shelley

Question 166

Which of these is a character in Harry Potter?

Answer: Neville Longbottom

Question 167

What nursery rhyme is about a child who eats a Christmas pie?

Answer: Little Jack Horner

Question 168

In Harry Potter, what is the name of the wizarding school that Harry attends?

Answer: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Question 169

Who killed King Duncan in Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth'?

Answer: Macbeth

Question 170

Which of the following is not a play by William Shakespeare?

Answer: Doctor Faustus

Question 171

Which novel tells the story of Ishmael, who goes to work on a whaler after feeling 'a damp, drizzly November' in his soul?

Answer: Moby Dick

Question 172

Which of these is a major order of ancient architecture?

Answer: Doric

Question 173

Which actor played the role of President Josiah Bartlet on "The West Wing"?

Answer: Martin Sheen

Question 174

Which Italian artist shocked 1485 Florence with his large nude painting of the birth of a goddess?

Answer: Botticelli

Question 175

Which 1925 classic is said to capture all the romance and glitter of the Jazz Age?

Answer: The Great Gatsby

Question 176

What term refers to a type of mural painting executed on freshly laid, still-wet plaster, with water-based pigments?

Answer: Fresco

Question 177

Which Dr. Seuss character heard a small noise in the Jungle of Nool?

Answer: Horton

Question 178

Which satirist wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?

Answer: Jonathan Swift

Question 179

In poetry, what is the name for a 4-line stanza?

Answer: A quatrain

Question 180

Which novel by Boris Pasternak, adapted into a film in 1965, tells the story of Yuri's passion for Lara amidst the backdrop of the Russian Revolution?

Answer: Doctor Zhivago

Question 181

Which author had a No. 1 bestseller in 2015 with his latest legal thriller 'Rogue Lawyer'?

Answer: John Grisham

Question 182

Along which river do the adventures of Tom Sawyer take place?

Answer: Mississippi

Question 183

Which book contains the character 'Holden Caulfield'?

Answer: The Catcher in the Rye

Question 184

Which artist painted "Mona Lisa"

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question 185

Which artist painted "The Scream"

Answer: ‎‎Edvard Munch

Question 186

Which artist painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Answer: Michelangelo

Question 187

Whose smile remained after the rest of it had vanished?

Answer: The Cheshire Cat's

Question 188

Who wrote the novel "Emma"?

Answer: Jane Austen

Question 189

Who wrote the epic poem "Odyssey"?

Answer: Homer

Question 190

Who wrote the "Discworld" series?

Answer: Terry Pratchett

Question 191

Who wrote "The Time Machine"?

Answer: H.G. Wells

Question 192

Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 193

Who killed Macbeth?

Answer: Macduff

Question 194

Who is the protagonist of Milton's Paradise Lost?

Answer: Satan

Question 195

In which book does 'Mr Bennet' appear?

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Question 196

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.'?

Answer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Question 197

In which book does 'Mr. Darcy' appear?

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Question 198

Which author wrote 'Oz series'?

Answer: L. Frank Baum

Question 199

Which author wrote 'Emma'?

Answer: Jane Austen

Question 200

Which author wrote 'The Communist Manifesto'?

Answer: Friedrich Engels

Question 201

Which author wrote 'The Handmaid's Tale'?

Answer: Margaret Atwood

Question 202

Which author wrote 'Lolita'?

Answer: Vladimir Nabokov

Question 203

Which author wrote 'Slaughterhouse-Five'?

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

Question 204

Which author wrote 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question 205

Which author wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Question 206

Which author wrote 'Anna Karenina'?

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Question 207

Which author wrote 'Around the World in Eighty Days'?

Answer: Jules Verne

Question 208

Which author wrote 'The Taming of the Shrew'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 209

Which author wrote 'Julius Caesar'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 210

Which author wrote 'The Merchant of Venice'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 211

Which author wrote 'King Lear'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 212

What are the names of the three Brontë sisters?

Answer: Charlotte, Emily, Anne

Question 213

In which book does 'Ali Baba' appear?

Answer: One Thousand and One Nights

Question 214

In which book does 'Mary Bennet' appear?

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Question 215

In which book does 'Amy March' appear?

Answer: Little Women

Question 216

What animal is Snowball in George Orwell's book Animal Farm?

Answer: A Pig

Question 217

Which of the following is a style of Islamic architecture?

Answer: Moorish

Question 218

What nursery rhyme includes a dish and a spoon running away together?

Answer: Hey Diddle Diddle

Question 219

Which of the following is NOT a famous Renaissance artist?

Answer: Gianluigi Buffon

Question 220

What style of dance does Solero de Jerez hold the world record for 16 heel taps per second?

Answer: Flamenco

Question 221

In which play is the Duke of Milan marooned, inspired by the 1609 wreck of an English ship off Bermuda?

Answer: The Tempest

Question 222

In DC comics, What is the secret identity of 'Dick Grayson'?

Answer: Robin

Question 223

In Michelangelo's scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which pair is depicted in the panel titled "Temptation and Expulsion"?

Answer: Adam & Eve

Question 224

What is another name for a single verse of a poem?

Answer: Stanza

Question 225

Which Spanish painter was known for his trippy paintings?

Answer: Salvador Dalí

Question 226

Which artist painted "The Persistence of Memory"

Answer: ‎Salvador Dalí

Question 227

The painting "Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo is a part of which art movement?

Answer: Renaissance

Question 228

Who wrote the play "The Mousetrap"?

Answer: Agatha Christie

Question 229

Which term refers to art that uses emphasis and distortion to communicate emotion?

Answer: Expressionism

Question 230

Which author wrote 'Mein Kampf'?

Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question 231

Which author wrote 'Angels & Demons'?

Answer: Dan Brown

Question 232

Which author wrote 'The Amber Spyglass'?

Answer: Philip Pullman

Question 233

Which author wrote 'The Raven'?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question 234

Which author wrote 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'?

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 235

Which author wrote 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'?

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 236

Which author wrote 'The Dark Tower'?

Answer: Stephen King

Question 237

According To "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" what number is the answer to everything?

Answer: 42

Question 238

Which British alternative band takes its name from a character from To Kill a Mockingbird ?

Answer: The Boo Radleys

Question 239

What is the name of Tiny Tim's father in the story, 'A Christmas Carol'?

Answer: Bob Cratchit

Question 240

Which of the following characters is not a part of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'?

Answer: Othello

Question 241

What Italian city is the setting for the opening of 'Romeo & Juliet'?

Answer: Verona

Question 242

Which setting would photographers adjust to prevent fast moving targets becoming blurred?

Answer: Shutter speed

Question 243

What is the ability possessed by Carrie in the novel by Stephen King?

Answer: Telekinesis

Question 244

In the novel Moby Dick, what do Ahab and Ishmael encounter?

Answer: Whale

Question 245

Which of these is NOT a work by Shakespeare?

Answer: Edward II

Question 246

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub‐variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature.'?

Answer: On the Origin of Species

Question 247

Which author wrote 'Catch-22'?

Answer: Joseph Heller

Question 248

Which author wrote 'New Moon'?

Answer: Stephenie Meyer

Question 249

Which author wrote 'War and Peace'?

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Question 250

Which author wrote 'It'?

Answer: Stephen King

Question 251

In what field of study would you find a flying buttresses?

Answer: Architecture

Question 252

What is the name of the miserly main character in A Christmas Carol?

Answer: Ebenezer Scrooge

Question 253

Which art movement emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic composition?

Answer: Minimalism

Question 254

In which book does the White Rabbit appear?

Answer: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Question 255

In which book does 'Meg March' appear?

Answer: Little Women

Question 256

Who wrote 'Oliver Twist'?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Question 257

What is the number missing from the Khaled Hosseini book title: 'A ___ Splendid Suns'?

Answer: Thousand

Question 258

Which book contains the character 'Lennie Small'?

Answer: Of Mice and Men

Question 259

Which book contains the character 'Toad'?

Answer: The Wind in the Willows

Question 260

Which book contains the character 'Scarlett O'Hara'?

Answer: Gone With the Wind

Question 261

Which book contains the character 'Atticus Finch'?

Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird

Question 262

Which artist painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

Answer: ‎‎Johannes Vermeer

Question 263

Which artist painted "Cafe Terrace at Night"

Answer: ‎Vincent van Gogh

Question 264

Which artist painted "Water Lilies"

Answer: Claude Monet

Question 265

The Sistine Chapel ceiling painting by Michelangelo is a part of which art movement?

Answer: Renaissance

Question 266

The painting "Water Lilies" by Claude Monet is a part of which art movement?

Answer: Impressionism

Question 267

Who's last words were "Thus with a kiss I die"?

Answer: Romeo

Question 268

Who wrote the book "A Brief History Of Time" in 1988?

Answer: Stephen Hawking

Question 269

Who wrote the "Canterbury Tales"?

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 270

Who wrote "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"?

Answer: Douglas Adams

Question 271

Which artist produced a lobster telephone?

Answer: Salvador Dali

Question 272

Which painter reputedly cut off his own ear?

Answer: Van Gogh

Question 273

Which author penned the Discworld Series of sci-fi novels?

Answer: Terry Pratchett

Question 274

What is the nationality of Picasso?

Answer: Spanish

Question 275

What Shakespearean play refers to the date of epiphany?

Answer: Twelfth Night

Question 276

Stephen King's: "Salem's _________".

Answer: Lot

Question 277

In the Dr Seuss books, which elephant hatched an egg?

Answer: Horton

Question 278

In "Romeo and Juliet", who said "I have a faint cold, fear thrills through my veins"?

Answer: Juliet

Question 279

What Irish playwright and author, wrote "The Importance of Being Ernest" and "A Picture of Dorian Grey" among others?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question 280

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'?

Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Question 281

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.'?

Answer: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Question 282

Which piece of written work starts with the line 'You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.'?

Answer: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Question 283

Who penned the words, 'Hubble, bubble toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 284

In The Charles Dickens Novel 'A Chrismas Carol' Who Was Scrooge's Dead Business Partner?

Answer: Jacob Marley

Question 285

Which author wrote 'Dracula'?

Answer: Bram Stoker

Question 286

Which author wrote 'Jane Eyre'?

Answer: Charlotte Brontë

Question 287

Which author wrote 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'?

Answer: Isaac Newton

Question 288

Which author wrote 'Atlas Shrugged'?

Answer: Ayn Rand

Question 289

Which author wrote 'Jabberwocky'?

Answer: Lewis Carroll

Question 290

Which author wrote 'The Da Vinci Code'?

Answer: Dan Brown

Question 291

Which author wrote 'In Search of Lost Time'?

Answer: Marcel Proust

Question 292

Which author wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?

Answer: Jonathan Swift

Question 293

Which author wrote 'Moby-Dick'?

Answer: Herman Melville

Question 294

Which author wrote 'Dune'?

Answer: Frank Herbert

Question 295

Which author wrote 'Northern Lights'?

Answer: Philip Pullman

Question 296

Which author wrote 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'?

Answer: George Orwell

Question 297

Which author wrote 'Inferno'?

Answer: Dante Alighieri

Question 298

Which author wrote 'The Divine Comedy'?

Answer: Dante Alighieri

Question 299

Which author wrote 'The Stranger'?

Answer: Albert Camus

Question 300

Which author wrote 'Complete Works of Voltaire'?

Answer: Voltaire

Question 301

Which author wrote 'Coraline'?

Answer: Neil Gaiman

Question 302

Which author wrote 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?

Answer: Alexandre Dumas

Question 303

Which author wrote 'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection'?

Answer: Charles Darwin

Question 304

Which author wrote 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?

Answer: Mark Twain

Question 305

Which author wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'?

Answer: Mark Twain

Question 306

Which author wrote 'Finnegans Wake'?

Answer: James Joyce

Question 307

Which author wrote 'A Game of Thrones'?

Answer: George R. R. Martin

Question 308

Which author wrote 'A Song of Ice and Fire'?

Answer: George R. R. Martin

Question 309

Which author wrote 'The War of the Worlds'?

Answer: H. G. Wells

Question 310

Which author wrote 'The Ugly Duckling'?

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen

Question 311

Which author wrote 'The Two Towers'?

Answer: J. R. R. Tolkien

Question 312

Which author wrote 'The Return of the King'?

Answer: J. R. R. Tolkien

Question 313

Which author wrote 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?

Answer: Jules Verne

Question 314

Which author wrote 'Foundation'?

Answer: Isaac Asimov

Question 315

Which author wrote 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 316

Which author wrote 'Carrie'?

Answer: Stephen King

Question 317

Which author wrote 'The Tempest'?

Answer: William Shakespeare

Question 318

Which of these is a novel by Stephen King?

Answer: Pet Semetary

Question 319

Which science fiction novel features Duke Leto Atreides & the Harkonnens?

Answer: Dune

Question 320

In which story does the schoolboy "Piggy" star?

Answer: Lord of the Flies

Question 321

Which architectural style employed refined, elegant, highly decorative forms?

Answer: Rococco

Question 322

From which London railway station does Harry Potter catch the Hogwart's Express?

Answer: King's Cross

Question 323

Which art movement aimed to create antiart and non art, employing a sense of the absurd?

Answer: Dadaism

Question 324

Which 1950's art movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture?

Answer: Pop art

Question 325

Which medieval architectural style is characterized by large semi-circular arches?

Answer: Romanesque

Question 326

In which book series does 'Minerva McGonagall' appear?

Answer: Harry Potter

Question 327

In which book does 'Charles Bingley' appear?

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Question 328

In which book does 'Mr. March' appear?

Answer: Little Women

Question 329

In which book does 'Aunt March' appear?

Answer: Little Women

Question 330

In which book does 'Jo March' appear?

Answer: Little Women

Question 331

In which book series does 'Lyra Belacqua' appear?

Answer: His Dark Materials trilogy

Question 332

In which book series would you find the character 'Jacob Black'?

Answer: Twilight

Question 333

Which novel opens and closes with the letters of Robert Walton?

Answer: Frankenstein

Question 334

What did Harry Potter get for Christmas in his first semester at Hogwarts School?

Answer: An Invisibility Cloak

Question 335

What pen name did the writer Samuel Clemens publish his novels under?

Answer: Mark Twain

Question 336

What is the name of the first book in the Harry Potter series?

Answer: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Question 337

Which master of Modernismo architecture designed Casa Mila, an iconic building in Barcelona?

Answer: Gaudi

Question 338

Which book published in 1952 features an unusual friendship between a spider and a pig?

Answer: Charlotte's Web

Question 339

Who wrote the famous dystopian novel which features the quote 'Big Brother is watching you'?

Answer: George Orwell

Question 340

Which famous group includes the characters Reed Richards, Sue Richards, The Human Torch, and The Thing?

Answer: The Fantastic Four

Question 341

Which iconic literary character spends his life searching for redemption after spending 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread?

Answer: Jean Valjean

Question 342

What surname did the writer, born Adeline Virginia Stephen, publish her novels under?

Answer: Woolf

Question 343

What novel written by Louisa May Alcott follows the lives of girls called Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy?

Answer: Little Women

Question 344

In which Agatha Christie novel does coroner Dr. Constantine help Poirot gather evidence on a train?

Answer: Murder on the Orient Express

Question 345

Which novel, intended to "induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses", was written by Anna Sewell?

Answer: Black Beauty

Question 346

In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories, which wizard gets promoted from "the Grey" to "the White"?

Answer: Gandalf

Question 347

From what country does the protagonist of the book 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' hail?

Answer: Sweden

Question 348

What is the name of the art style that literally means "rebirth" in French?

Answer: Renaissance

Question 349

What is the profession of Michael Flatley and Martha Graham?

Answer: Dancers

Question 350

Which Shakespeare character urges her husband to kill the king?

Answer: Lady Macbeth

Question 351

Which novel contains the line "'Toad Hall,' said the Toad proudly, 'is an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence'"?

Answer: The Wind in the Willows

Question 352

In which epic poem by John Milton does Satan plot against Adam and Eve?

Answer: Paradise Lost

Question 353

Who wrote "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes"?

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen