Art & Literature50 randomly selected Art & Literature questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 24th August 2026 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | Introduced to the U.S. in 1940 as And Then There Were None and later appearing under the title Ten Little Indians, Agatha Christie's mystery novel was first published in the U.K. in 1939 as Ten Little... what? |
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Niggers (so named after the minstrel song, which serves as a major plot point) | |
| 2. | What American author's works include the Alex Cross series? |
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James Patterson | |
| 3. | In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what is Romeo's surname? |
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Montague | |
| 4. | What 'M' describes a style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels developed in Japan since the late 19th century? |
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Manga (Japanese: 漫画) | |
| 5. | Written around 1601-1602, the full title of a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare ends with |
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Twelfth Night | |
| 6. | What is the name of Long John Silver's pet parrot? |
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Captain Flint | |
| 7. | Based in California for most of her career, what American novelist is currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold? |
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Danielle Steel | |
| 8. | Published in 1929, what Dashiell Hammett novel first introduced Sam Spade? |
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The Maltese Falcon | |
| 9. | Born in 1920, what former British steeplechase jockey turned crime writer with novels centred on horse racing in England? |
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Dick Francis | |
| 10. | The daughter of a judge, what is the name of the schoolmate Tom Sawyer fell in love with from the first moment he sees her? |
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Becky Thatcher | |
| 11. | In what Shakespeare comedy does a man dressed as a woman fall in love with a woman dressed as a man at Christmas? |
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Twelfth Night | |
| 12. | "Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." are the last words of what literary character? |
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Romeo (William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet) | |
| 13. | "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." is the opening line to what 1951 novel? |
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J.D. Salinger|The Catcher in the Rye | |
| 14. | Complete the title of this 1815 painting by John Constable: Boat-Building near ________ Mill. |
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Flatford | |
| 15. | Published between 1993 and 2013, what series of children's books includes titles such as Measly Middle Ages, Ruthless Romans, Awful Egyptians, and Terrifying Tudors? |
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Horrible Histories (Terry Deary) | |
| 16. | First published in the Daily Express in 1920, for what famous children's character is English artist Mary Tourtel best known? |
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Rupert Bear | |
| 17. | What American playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947? |
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Tennessee Williams | |
| 18. | What former British Prime Minister's autobiography is titled A Journey? |
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Tony Blair | |
| 19. | What French artist's work includes "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette" and "Luncheon of the Boating Party"? |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | |
| 20. | What musician's second book, first published in 1965, was titled A Spaniard in the Works? |
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John Lennon | |
| 21. | First published in 1928, who wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover? |
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D. H. Lawrence | |
| 22. | How many lines are there in a sonnet? |
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14 | |
| 23. | Who is the Danish author of the 1937 classic novel Out of Africa? |
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Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen (Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke) | |
| 24. | Purporting to be a true account of the life of the eponymous character, detailing her exploits from birth until old age, who wrote the 1722 novel Moll Flanders? |
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Daniel Defoe | |
| 25. | What author of Saint Joan and Pygmalion also co-founded the London School of Economics? |
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George Bernard Shaw | |
| 26. | Complete this monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women _____ _____" |
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... merely players | |
| 27. | Who is the author of crime novels written under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith? |
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J. K. Rowling | |
| 28. | Who painted Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity in 1954? |
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Salvador Dalí | |
| 29. | What 1886 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett features Cedric Errol, a poor American boy from New York City who finds that he is the sole heir to a wealthy British estate? |
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Little Lord Fauntleroy | |
| 30. | Published in Graham's Magazine in 1841, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story that has been described as the first modern detective story. What famous author and poet wrote it? |
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Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 31. | First created in 1908 by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards, what overweight schoolboy features in stories set at Greyfriars School? |
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Billy Bunter | |
| 32. | In both the Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible, what book has the shortest title? |
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Job | |
| 33. | In the 19th century children's nursery rhyme, what did Solomon Grundy do on Wednesday? |
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Married (Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. That was the end of Solomon Grundy) | |
| 34. | Sancho Panza is squire to the title character of what 1605 novel? |
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Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) | |
| 35. | What was the name of the marooned mariner found by Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island? |
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Ben Gunn | |
| 36. | Published in 1971, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall was the first volume of the war memoirs of what comedian? |
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Spike Milligan | |
| 37. | What well known English author was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832? |
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Lewis Carroll | |
| 38. | First published in 1811, who wrote Sense and Sensibility? |
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Jane Austen | |
| 39. | The title character of what Old English poem killed Grendel and Grendel's mother? |
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Beowulf | |
| 40. | For what children's character is Italian novelist Carlo Collodi most famous? |
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Pinocchio | |
| 41. | First published in 1949, what novel opens with the line "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"? |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) | |
| 42. | What is the name of this Mr. Men character? |
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Mr. Bump | |
| 43. | A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain written by what Nobel Prize winner? |
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Sir Winston Churchill | |
| 44. | What Shakespeare play is set in the Italian city of Verona? |
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Romeo and Juliet (The Two Gentlemen of Verona is set in Milan) | |
| 45. | Whose early science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), and The Invisible Man (1897)? |
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H. G. Wells | |
| 46. | Anne of Avonlea is the 1909 sequel to what 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery? |
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Anne of Green Gables | |
| 47. | In literature, what extraordinary book was Ford Prefect researching? |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
| 48. | What is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the semi-legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey? |
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Homer | |
| 49. | In what dystopian novel, first published in 1932, are human embryos "hatched" from a bottle rather than being carried to term in a womb? |
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Aldous Huxley|Brave New World | |
| 50. | What American writer, and husband of film star Marilyn Monroe, had his conviction for contempt of Congress dismissed in 1958? |
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Arthur Miller | |
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