Literature Trivia #3

Questions

1. Who wrote the 2012 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Bring Up the Bodies, part of a trilogy detailing the life of Thomas Cromwell?

2. Dan Brown’s novel Origin, the fifth instalment of his Robert Langdon series, is partly set in which European city, famous for the Sagrada Família?

3. Which Jane Austen character became an iconic figure after emerging from a lake dripping wet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice?

4. Nineteen Minutes, a Jodi Picoult novel which often appears on lists of the most commonly banned books in the US, tells a story about what type of controversial event?

5. “Reader, I married him” are the words spoken by which eponymous heroine?

6. Guerra y paz is the Spanish title of which Tolstoy novel?

7. Which American singer-songwriter won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature?

8. Robert Galbraith is the pen name of which best-selling author?

9. We the Living, first published in 1936, is a semi-autobiographical work by which Russian-American writer and philosopher?

10. What is the name of Michelle Obama’s 2018 memoir, followed later by another non-fiction work titled The Light We Carry?

Answers

1. Hilary Mantel

2. Barcelona

3. Mr Darcy

4. A school shooting

5. Jane Eyre

6. War and Peace

7. Bob Dylan

8. J.K. Rowling

9. Ayn Rand

10. Becoming