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Quiz! A- Z General Knowledge

A short series to give you a little taster of the For Reading Addicts Big Book of Literary Quizzes.

This quiz (adapted for the website) has 26 literary questions, each answer being its respective letter of the alphabet.

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  • Question of

    The central figure in Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient?

    • Alicia
    • Amilie
  • Question of

    Artistic set led by Virginia Woolf?

    • Belgravia
    • Bloomsbury
  • Question of

    Author of The Nickel Boys – surname Whitehead?

    • Colson
    • Charles
  • Question of

    The French setting for Noel Coward’s Private Lives?

    • Dijon
    • Deauville
  • Question of

    Which Austen heroine says: ‘There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others’?

    • Elizabeth Bennet
    • Emma Wodehouse
  • Question of

    How many different words are used in Green Eggs and Ham?

    • Forty
    • Fifty
  • Question of

    Surname of JK Rowling’s pseudonym?

    • Galbraith
    • Greenwood
  • Question of

    The protagonist in The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates?

    • Hiram
    • Hannah
  • Question of

    What is the title of James Patterson’s 2020 bestseller?

    • Into the air
    • (The) Inn
  • Question of

    Never begin a sentence with ‘and’, but William Blake did in which poem?

    • Jerusalem
    • Jealousy
  • Question of

    Who wrote the 2019 bestseller The Institute?

    • King
    • Knightly
  • Question of

    The Aunt at the centre of Atwood’s Testaments?

    • Lydia
    • Laura
  • Question of

    The idyllic house in du Maurier’s Rebecca?

    • Manderley
    • Mannerly
  • Question of

    What is the City of Girls in Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2019 novel?

    • New Orleans
    • New York
  • Question of

    The eponymous character of Elizabeth Strout’s novels?

    • Olive
    • Olivia
  • Question of

    Famous British book publishers founded in 1935?

    • Penguin
    • Puffin
  • Question of

    Candice Carty-Williams’ 2020 bestseller?

    • Queenie
    • Quincie
  • Question of

    Which Shakespeare play begins with the line: ‘Two households, both alike in dignity…’?

    • Romeo and Juliet
    • Richard III
  • Question of

    The country birth of playwright Strindberg?

    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
  • Question of

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown by Jeff Kinney is what number in the series?

    • Thirteen
    • Twelve
  • Question of

    Barbara Kingsolver’s 2019 bestseller?

    • Unsheltered
    • Unearthed
  • Question of

    The Eugenides’ novel that centres around the five Lisbon sisters?

    • Virgin Suicides
    • Violent
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Owens’ best seller: — the Crawdads Sing.

    • Where
    • When
  • Question of

    A minor character in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, surname Lovegood?

    • Xenophilius
    • Xerxes
  • Question of

    What was the name given to the cheap novels published in Britain in the 19th century?

    • Yellowbacks
    • Yellowbooks
  • Question of

    Author of Swing Time – surname Smith?

    • Zadie
    • Zoey

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