101 Famous Author Trivia Questions If You're Ready To Shoot For The Moon

1. In what year was the novel 'The Code of the Woosters' first published?

2. In which novel is the protagonist called Winston Smith?

3. Wives and Daughters as well as Cousin Phillis were works by which author?

4. Holden Caulfield appears in which novel?

5. The 1969 novel 'The Godfather' was written by which author?

6. Which author would only write when facing north?

1. The Sandcastle is a major work by which author?

2. Published in 1900 and about a cycling tour in Germany, what was the sequel to Three Men in a Boat?

3. Which novel features a group of choirboys led by Jack Merridew?

4. The Stone Book Series is a series of novels by which author?

5. Which of these was a real 19th century author?

6. Who wrote the novel 'The Bourne Identity'?

1. Who co-wrote 'Peter and the Starcatchers' and 'Cave of the Dark Wind' with Ridley Pearson?

2. Which author wrote War and Peace?

3. The To The End of The Earth Trilogy is by which author?

4. In what year was 'A Dirty Job' first published?

5. Which novel is about a man believing he's having a heart-attack while watching football on TV?

6. Which author was actually two cousins using the same pen-name?

1. Which author wrote about Fagin and his gang of child thieves?

2. Who created the character Kenneth Widmerpool?

3. Terry Pratchett's Discworld is balanced on four elephants which stand on the back of which other creature?

4. Which author won the ú10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize in 2009 for their first novel 'Blackmoor'?

5. Which author wrote 'Lord of the Rings'?

6. Tom Holt's book 'Expecting Someone Taller' is very loosely based on whose operatic saga?

1. Which spy was brought up among the bombed-out ruins of WWII Berlin?

2. Bilbo Baggins is a character from which of these books?

3. Chingachoock is a character from which novel?

4. Which detective features in the stories 'The Nine Tailors' and 'Murder Must Advertise'?

5. Which fictional detective retired to become a beekeeper?

6. Which author was given the Freedom of the City of London in 2012?

1. The 1967 Disney film 'The Jungle Book' is based on a book by which author?

2. Which of these humour writers wrote columns for magazines 'Outdoor Life' and 'Field & Stream'?

3. Which book contains the line 'perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one'?

4. The Fudge Family in Paris is a key work by which author?

5. Who wrote the significant scientific book 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematical', published in 1687?

6. Which authors first novel was Alton Locke?

1. Which author created the character Leopold Bloom?

2. Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez wrote about Love in the Time of what?

3. Wise Children was a 1991 work by which author?

4. Four legs good, two legs bad' is a quote from which George Orwell classic novel?

5. Which American author's last words were: 'Is it not meningitis?'''

6. Which Stephen is the cosmologist and author of 'A Brief History of Time'?

1. Which infamous movie villain was originally created by American horror/thriller author Thomas Harris?

2. Who wrote the novel 'A Dirty Job'?

3. At what address did Sherlock Holmes live?

4. Jem Finch is a character from which novel?

5. Rosemary's Baby is based on a book of the same name by which author?

6. Jo March is a character originally from which novel?

1. Which classic novel opens with the line 'A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories'?

2. Joseph Anton: A Memoir was a 2012 work by which author?

3. Who wrote the story of Rip van Winkle?

4. In which novel do Carruthers and Davies discover a German plan to attack Britain while on a yachting holiday?

5. Which of these is the name of a real 19th Century author?

6. Which author introduced the phrase 'Beat Generation' to describe Beatniks?

1. Which classic novel opens with the line 'All this happened, more or less'?

2. Which author famously said 'Golf is a good walk spoiled'?

3. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a work by which author?

4. In which book do we meet the characters Old Major, Squealer and Clover?

5. How many books are there in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series?

6. Which authors final work was 'The Blue Flower'?

1. Which of these is a detective in three Agatha Christie stories?

2. Finish the title of the novel by Doris Lessing: 'The … Notebook'?

3. Who wrote the novel 'The Code of the Woosters'?

4. Shaun Tan wrote about 'Tales from Outer …' where?

5. My father gave me some advice which I've been turning over in my mind ever since,' is a line from which novel?

6. The Road was a James Tait Black Memorial prize winner by which author?

1. What was the sequel to Tom Sharpe's novel 'Porterhouse Blue'?

2. Janet Evanovich has written novels featuring Stephanie Plum, what is Stephanie's occupation?

3. The History of Tom Jones was written by which author?

4. Georges Marvelous Medicine is a famous work by which children's author?

5. White Teeth is a seminal work by which author?

6. Which novelist wrote the book 'Death in Venice'?

1. Which writer created 'The Brentford Trilogy', a series of novels featuring Jim Pooley and John Omally?

2. Which author wrote the novel 'Les Misérables'?

3. In which novel did Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first appear?

4. Which English author wrote The Canterbury Tales in the 14th Century?

5. What was the first James Bond novel?

6. Which of these is tied for most featured author in '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die'

1. Jean Valjean is a character from which classic novel?

2. Which was the first story to feature the character Sherlock Holmes?

3. Which former stand-up comedian wrote the best-sellers 'Dead Famous' and 'Chart Throb'?

4. The Bookshop and Offshore are key works by which author?

5. Against what is Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' set?

6. In which book did the Babel fish first appear?

1. Who created 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' novels?

2. Which classic novel opens with the line 'You better not never tell nobody but God'?

3. Which author wrote works including The Eve of St Venus and The Wanting Seed?

4. Who created the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey?

5. Which John Steinbeck novel revolves around the characters Lenny and George?

6. Jean Valjean is a character from which novel?

1. Who wrote the short story 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'?

2. Who wrote the novel 'Gorky Park'?

3. For which fictional hero did Alexander Selkirk provide a model?

4. Dymoke is the middle name of which author?

5. In what year was 'Pride and Prejudice' first published?

6. Molloy and Malone Dies are both novels by which author?

1. The Deserted Village (1770) is a seminal work by which author?

2. Which author is not like the others?

3. The Three Laws are rules governing the behaviour of robots written by which author?

4. Ingenious Pain was a James Tait Black Memorial prize winner by which author?

5. Whose first published novel was 'The Eyre Affair'?