Literature Quiz #3 - Sunday Quiz

Round 1: Comedy

10 question about Literature around comedy.

"The World According to Garp", about a man, born out of wedlock to a feminist leader, who grows up to be a writer. Was written by which author, probably better known for "The Cider House Rules"?

"Bridget Jones's Diary", written in the form of a personal diary, chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. Who wrote it?

Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of ten short stories, is by which English author, one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century?

What World Fantasy Award-nominated novel was written as a collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman?

What is the fifth novel in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" the comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams?

Published in 1889, which book is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston?

Which novel by John Kennedy Toole was published eleven years after Toole's suicide through the efforts of writer Walker Percy and Toole's mother, Thelma, it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981?

Who wrote "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"" focusing on the worries and regrets of a teenager who believes himself to be an intellectual?

"I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan" is a 2011 mock autobiography as written by the British comedy character Alan Partridge. Who plays Alan Partridge?

What book did Bill Bryson write when he decided to take one final trip around Great Britain, using only public transport?

Round 2: Children's Books

Who wrote "Stig of the Dump" about a boy staying with his grandparents, who falls over the edge of an old chalk pit close to his grandparents' house and finds a caveman?

What is a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, with stories set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh?

Which Roald Dahl book features a character which gives good dreams to children all around the world?

Which series of twelve children's books, written by Cressida Cowell are set in a fictional Viking world and focus on the experiences of protagonist Hiccup?

Which children's book by Dr. Seuss ends with the line - "I do so like green eggs and ham. Thank you. Thank you, Sam-I-Am."?

With several stage and film adaptations made, which novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett is seen as a classic of English children's literature?

The Wind in the Willows, focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger, and was the first published book by which author?

What 1963 children's picture book by writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, focuses on a young boy named Max who wears a wolf costume?

Which E. B. White novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider?

A very popular children's book which features a caterpillar who eats his way through a wide variety of foodstuffs before pupating and emerging as a butterfly. Who wrote it?

Round 3: Science Fiction

10 questions about Science Fiction in literature.

Which novel, first published in 1987 by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture?

Which novel, written by Andy Weir, was his debut novel under his own name in 2011. It was later (2015) adapted into a film starring Matt Damon?

First serialised in 1897, what novel allegedly caused public panic among listeners of a dramatised 1938 radio programme?

Which novel by Neal Stephenson is based around the concept of the Sumerian language as the firmware programming language for the brainstem, which is supposedly functioning as the BIOS for the human brain?

Set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government dominated by a military elite, referred to as the Terran Federation. Which novel follows the story of Juan "Johnny" Rico?

Which Philip K. Dick novel follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is tasked with "retiring" six escaped Nexus-6 model androids?

An imperiled humankind faces an insectoid alien species they dub the "buggers" in which Orson Scott Card novel?

Set on the planet Arrakis, a sparsely populated desert wasteland which is the only source of melange, "Dune" is a novel by which author?

A cycle of five interrelated short stories, first published in 1951, what name is given to the first novel in the famous trilogy by Isaac Asimov?

Written by Michael Crichton, which novel is a cautionary tale about genetic engineering and features the collapse of an "amusement park"?

Round 4: High Fantasy

10 questions about High Fantasy literature.

What is the name of either of the two five-book fantasy epics written by David Eddings, following the journey of protagonist Garion and his companions?

"The Way of Kings" is the first novel in "The Stormlight Archive" and was written by which author?

What is the name of the saga written by Raymond E. Feist, of which the first book is "Magician: Apprentice"?

Which prolific authors' last works before passing away included his "Troy Trilogy", which started with "Lord of the Silver Bow"?

Who wrote "The Codex Alera", a series chronicling the coming-of-age of a young man named Tavi in the realm of Alera?

What is the name of the third novel in the Original "Shannara Trilogy" by Terry Brooks?

The Black Prism, the first entry in the five-volume "Lightbringer" Series, which follows the 'Prism' Gavin Guile, is by which author?

What is the first book in the "First Law" trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, which takes its name from a quote by Homer in The Odyssey?

"A Game of Thrones", first published in 1996 is the first in what series of novels by George R. R. Martin?

What is the first book in "The Inheritance Cycle" by Christopher Paolini, who wrote the novel while still in his teens?

Round 5: Ancient Greek Literature

10 questions all about Ancient Greek Literature...

Which poem, written in dactylic hexameter and Set during the Trojan War, is traditionally attributed to Homer?

Considered by many to be Plato's best-known work, what has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically?

Which work by Herodotus serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Greece, Western Asia and Northern Africa at that time?

What comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes was lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, and is notorious for its caricature of Socrates?

Who wrote "Medea", the plot of which centers on the actions of a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, who is the wife of Jason?

Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, a series of 48 biographies of famous men to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings was written by who?

Which epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC is the only surviving Hellenistic epic,and tells of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts?

In antiquity was attributed to Aeschylus, which tragedy is based on the myth of a Titan who defies the gods and gives fire to mankind?

Meaning "the beyond the physical" what one of the principal works of Aristotle and one of the first major works of the branch of philosophy with the same name?

Of the three Theban plays by Sophocles, which is the third in order of the events depicted in the plays, but the first that was written?

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