British Literature Trivia Round trivia quiz
A focused timed quiz from the British Literature Trivia Round question deck.
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About this quiz
Take a casual pub quiz round about British novelists, poets, and their best-known works in this text quiz. Three lives and fifteen seconds per question keep it easy-going, while the difficulty moves from beloved classics to harder literary details. A delight for bookworms and trivia night regulars.
Sample questions from this quiz
Here are 12 sample questions from the British Literature Trivia Round deck. Expand any of them to check the answer.
Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
Answer: Jane Austen
It opens with a famous Longbourn line.
Which Shakespeare play shows Hamlet meeting his father's ghost?
Answer: Hamlet
The ghost reveals the murder.
Who wrote the Harry Potter novels?
Answer: J.K. Rowling
Her first book came out in 1997.
Who wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost?
Answer: John Milton
It tells of the fall of Man.
Which Bronte sister wrote Wuthering Heights?
Answer: Emily Bronte
It was published in 1847.
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Answer: George Orwell
It imagines perpetual surveillance.
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
Pilgrims tell tales on the road.
Which author created the detective Sherlock Holmes?
Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes first appeared in a Study in Scarlet.
Who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Answer: Lewis Carroll
Carroll was a mathematician.
Who wrote the novel Frankenstein?
Answer: Mary Shelley
It began from a ghost-story contest.
Who wrote the poem starting I wandered lonely as a cloud?
Answer: William Wordsworth
The Daffodils celebrates spring.
Who wrote The Hobbit?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
It tells of Bilbo Baggins.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the British Literature Trivia Round quiz?
Each round selects up to ten timed questions from the playable topic deck.
Can I replay the British Literature Trivia Round trivia quiz?
Yes. Finish a round and start a fresh seeded set whenever you want.