Art & Literature50 randomly selected Art & Literature questions for quizmasters. New random selection made weekly. Next update: Monday 8th September 2025 (Please note: Questions are taken from our database of previous quizzes. Some questions and answers may be outdated.) |
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| 1. | "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) | |
| 2. | What 1954 novel features an overweight, bespectacled schoolboy nicknamed "Piggy"? |
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding) | |
| 3. | Who wrote Little Women? |
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Louisa May Alcott | |
| 4. | "Call me Ishmael" is the opening sentence to what 1851 novel? |
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Herman Melville|Moby-Dick | |
| 5. | What 19th century author's scary short stories include The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum? |
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Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 6. | What English author wrote The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative and The Fist of God? |
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Frederick Forsyth | |
| 7. | How many voyages did Sinbad the Sailor make? |
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Seven | |
| 8. | What is the title of Michelle Obama's best-selling memoir, first published in November 2018? |
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Becoming | |
| 9. | In the Harry Potter books, who was born Tom Marvolo Riddle? |
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Lord Voldemort | |
| 10. | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a three-act play written in the early 1950s by who? |
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Tennessee Williams | |
| 11. | The title character of what Dickens novel takes a job as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall? |
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Nicholas Nickleby | |
| 12. | Gioconda is the Italian name of what work of art? |
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Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) | |
| 13. | Born in London to Jamaican parents, what author is best known for the novels Small Island (2004) and The Long Song (2010)? |
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Andrea Levy | |
| 14. | What American writer is best known for his series of suspense novels about Hannibal Lecter? |
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Thomas Harris | |
| 15. | Who wrote The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare? |
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Alistair MacLean | |
| 16. | Which famous book begins with the line 'Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.'? |
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A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) | |
| 17. | The author of more than 130 novels, histories, children's books and westerns, some under the pen name of Nye Tredgold, what Scottish author died in January 2000, aged 90? |
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Nigel Tranter | |
| 18. | Born around 620 BC, what 'A' is the name of the Greek writer famous for his fables? |
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Aesop | |
| 19. | What 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel begins "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since"? |
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The Great Gatsby | |
| 20. | What is the surname of the Inspector featured in a popular series of Ruth Rendell novels? |
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Wexford (Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford) | |
| 21. | Whose 1807 poem Daffodils begins I wandered lonely as a cloud… |
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William Wordsworth | |
| 22. | What armless statue was discovered in 1820 by a peasant on the Aegean island of Melos? |
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Venus de Milo / Aphrodite of Milos | |
| 23. | What nationality was Rembrandt? |
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Dutch | |
| 24. | Who wrote the 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha? |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| 25. | What 1908 children's novel begins with Mole meeting Rat? |
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Kenneth Grahame|The Wind in the Willows | |
| 26. | Whose 'alphabet series' of novels, featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone, began in the 1980s with A is for Alibi and B is for Burglar? |
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Sue Grafton | |
| 27. | His best known work, what is the title of the futuristic novel by Aldous Huxley first published in 1932? |
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Brave New World | |
| 28. | Who is the author of crime novels written under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith? |
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J. K. Rowling | |
| 29. | Considered a classic of children's literature, what best-selling novel did Eleanor H. Porter publish in 1913? |
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Polyanna | |
| 30. | What Englishman kept a famous diary between 1660 and 1669? |
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Samuel Pepys | |
| 31. | What American author wrote From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running and The Thin Red Line? |
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James Jones | |
| 32. | First published in 1989, what is the name of this American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams? |
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Dilbert | |
| 33. | What 1933 novel by James Hilton first described the fictional Tibetan mountain retreat of Shangri-La? |
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Lost Horizon | |
| 34. | Named for the actress on the first poster Andy Dufresne places above his bed, the full title of Stephen King's 1982 novella is ______ ______ and Shawshank Redemption. (fill in the blanks) |
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Rita Hayworth | |
| 35. | In the 19th century English nursery rhyme, on what day did Solomon Grundy die? |
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Saturday (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.) | |
| 36. | The hippogriff in Harry Potter was half-griffin and half what? |
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Horse | |
| 37. | What former Spice Girl wrote the Ugenia Lavender series of children's books? |
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Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) | |
| 38. | What famous mural can be found on the convent refectory wall at the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy? |
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The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) | |
| 39. | What is the surname of the family that Paddington Bear lives with? |
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Brown | |
| 40. | How many nights make up the the Arabian Nights? |
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1001 | |
| 41. | For what 1900 novel is American author L. Frank Baum best known? |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
| 42. | Professor McGonagall is Head of Gryffindor House in the Harry Potter series. What is her first name? |
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Minerva | |
| 43. | The title of an 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy, who drunkenly sold his wife and baby daughter to a sailor for five guineas? |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
| 44. | First published in 1996, and adapted into a 1999 film of the same name, what Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Irish-American author Frank McCourt chronicled his impoverished childhood and early adulthood in Brooklyn, New York? |
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Angela's Ashes | |
| 45. | What is the first name of Charlie Brown's blanket-toting best friend? |
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Linus (Linus van Pelt) | |
| 46. | Complete the last word in this statement with just four letters: A person who knows and is able to use more than three languages is a poly___ what? |
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.. glot | |
| 47. | What 1898 science fiction novel begins with an unusual incident at Horsell Common near Woking in Surrey? |
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The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells) | |
| 48. | What American novelist wrote the Rabbit tetralogy? |
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John Updike (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest) | |
| 49. | In what country did the Pied Piper lure away the rats and the children? |
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Germany (Hamelin, Lower Saxony) | |
| 50. | Huevos verdes con jamón is the Spanish translation of what 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss? |
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Green Eggs and Ham | |
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