50 Art and Literature Quiz Questions and Answers (Questions only)

1. What is a bibliophile?

2. Which famous author who died in 1998 was born in County Durham?

3. The character ?Clara Peggoty? appears in which book by Charles Dickens?

4. In which Shakespeare play do three witches appear?

5. Who wrote the wistful line ?Oh to be in England now that April?s here ....??

6. Who wrote the 1937 novelette ?Of Mice and Men??

7. Under what name did JB Morton write his regular column in the Daily Express from 1924-1975?

8. What was the name of the dog in Enid Blyton?s Famous Five stories?

9. Who was the fat, good-humoured braggart in Shakespeare's Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor?

10. In which Shakespeare play would you find Bottom?

11. Which firm's security warehouse at Heathrow Airport was robbed in November 1983?

12. Which word means "salary", particularly when applied to a clergyman?

13. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

14. Which pop artist predicted that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes?

15. Which poet wrote ?Sonnets from the Portuguese ??

16. Whose first novel is A Parliamentary Affair?

17. Who wrote Blott on the Landscape?

18. Which heroine, a member of an outlaw family, falls in love with John Rudd in a famous novel?

19. What was the European nationality of Titian?

20. In which century did the pre-Raphaelite painters flourish?

21. Who created George Smiley?

22. What Leon Uris novel deals with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising?

23. How many Dalmatians are there in the children?s book which was made into a film by Walt Disney?

24. Which animal in Alice in Wonderland is able to disappear, its grin being the last thing that is left visible?

25. Which American novelist was a descendant of the Lauren Broom Brewery and published a book relating to a group called the super girls?

26. Which English crime writer disappeared for 2 weeks in 1926?

27. Whose autobiographies included "The Moons a Balloon"?

28. Which titled detective features in the stories "The Nine Tailors" and "Murder must advertise"?

29. Which writer wrote a book about bullfighting entitled Death in the Afternoon?

30. Which fictional character apparently plunged to his death at the Reichenbach falls?

31. What kind of Dog is Marmaduke?

32. What artist was the subject of the book The Agony and The Ecstasy?

33. Who illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

34. I which English resort would you find the oriental style Royal pavillion?

35. In Chaucers Canterbury Tales, how many tales are told? (3, 13, 24, 52 or 1001)

36. In Gullivers travels what is the name of the land of the Giants?

37. According to the Harry Potter books, what is the full name of Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?

38. What was the name of the house that the sorting hat wanted to place Harry in?

39. According to Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte D'Arthur', what did Lancelot become after renouncing his Knighthood?

40. Which Australian born novelist, known for his 'Asian Saga' series of novels, wrote the screenplays for 'The Great Escape' and 'To Sir, With Love'?

41. Stephano and Trinculo are characters in which Shakespeare play?

42. What is the only Shakespeare play with an animal in the title?

43. In Wuthering heights, what ?s the name of the Waif adopted by the Earnshaw family?

44. Who wrote the books Squirrel Nutkin?

45. What was the first name. Of sculptor Epstein?

46. Of which school of painting was Claude Monet a leading exponent?

47. Poets Sometimes Use the Name Cathay to Refer to Which Country of the Far East?

48. What Is Meant By the Spanish phrase "Que Sera Sera"?

49. In which Shylock appeared

50. Name the warring families in Romeo and Juliet?