Book trivia for readers
1. The Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in which famous museum?
2. In Stephen King‘s 11/22/63, a high school English teacher hurtles back in time to 1963 and attempts to stop what monumental event?
3. Veronica Roth’s Divergent book series is set in a post-apocalyptic version of which U. S. city?
4. What is the best-selling novel of all time?
5. Who was the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
6. What novel is set on a desert planet inhabited by giant sandworms?
7. What was the working title of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone With the Wind?
8. How many of Ernest Hemingway’s ten novels were published posthumously?
9. What is the name of the poem John Keats wrote to a singing bird?
10. What dystopian novel by George Orwell told of life in a future totalitarian state dominated by “Big Brother”?
11. Which Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the fictional Overlook Hotel?
12. What author wrote his last novel in crayon?
13. In what language was Don Quixote written?
14. What names did Charles Dickens consider for his character in A Christmas Carol before settling on “Tiny Tim”?
15. What word did Robert A. Heinlein introduce into the English language in his book Stranger in a Strange Land?
16. Who is probably the father of Caddy’s child in The Sound and the Fury?
17. What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship?
18. What do the initials J. D. stand for in author J. D. Salinger’s name?
19. The book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen takes place in what era?
20. Which actor played the role of Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, adapted from the book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
ANSWERS
1. The Louvre.
2. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
3. Chicago.
4. Don Quixote.
5. Gao Xingjian.
6. Dune.
7. Ba! Ba! Black Sheep.
8. Three.
9. Ode To A Nightingale.
10. Nineteen Eighty-Four.
11. The Shining.
12. James Joyce.
13. Spanish.
14. “Small Sam” and “Puny Pete”.
15. Grok.
16. Dalton Ames.
17. Pequod.
18. Jerome David.
19. 1930’s.
20. Leonardo DiCaprio.