Fiction 140318

Fiction 140318 is a selection of 10 questions. Fiction 140318 is the filename to differentiate it from other Art and Literature quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.

1   Which book of the Christian bible mentions is the battle of Armageddon?
A   Revelations

2   In which book do the characters Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect make their first appearance?
A   Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (by Douglas Adams)

3   Which George Orwell book opens with the line ‘It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen’?
A   1984

4   In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie’s last name?
A   Bucket

5   Which classic novel published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, is set on the Yorkshire moors?
A   Wuthering Heights (by Emily Brontë)

6   Now a successful play and hit movie, in which book by Michael Morpurgo is the main protagonist named Joey?
A   War Horse

7   Who wrote the 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, which when adapted for the stage, won the best new play award in 2013?
A   Mark Haddon – draws its title from a line uttered by Sherlock Holmes in the short story “Silver Blaze,” where Holmes famously observes that the dog’s silence was the “curious incident”.

8   Who wrote the classic novel Brideshead Revisited?
A   Evelyn Waugh

9   Who published her 2013 crime novel The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith?
A   J.K. Rowling

10   In which fictional town did the witches live according to the title of John Updike’s novel of 1984?
A   Eastwick (on Rhode Island)