Famous Authors Quiz

Question 1

Which author created the character Sherlock Holmes?

Accepted Answer

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Agatha Christie

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Wilkie Collins

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G.K. Chesterton

Question 2

Which author wrote 'The Lord of the Rings'?

Accepted Answer

J.R.R. Tolkien

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C.S. Lewis

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Philip Pullman

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Question 3

Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

Accepted Answer

Gabriel García Márquez

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Pablo Neruda

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Question 4

Which female author used the pen name 'George Eliot'?

Accepted Answer

Mary Ann Evans

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Mary Shelley

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Marian Halcombe

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George Sand

Question 5

Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in which decade?

Accepted Answer

1950s

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1930s

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1940s

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1960s

Question 6

Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

Accepted Answer

Harper Lee

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Flannery O'Connor

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Carson McCullers

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Truman Capote

Question 7

Which Irish author wrote 'Ulysses', considered one of the most important works of modernist literature?

Accepted Answer

James Joyce

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Samuel Beckett

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Oscar Wilde

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William Butler Yeats

Question 8

Which author created the character Hercule Poirot?

Accepted Answer

Agatha Christie

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Dorothy L. Sayers

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P.D. James

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Ruth Rendell

Question 9

Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?

Accepted Answer

J.D. Salinger

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John Updike

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Philip Roth

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Saul Bellow

Question 10

Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?

Accepted Answer

John Milton

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Edmund Spenser

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John Donne

Question 11

Which Russian author wrote 'The Brothers Karamazov'?

Accepted Answer

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Leo Tolstoy

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Ivan Turgenev

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Question 12

Which author wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?

Accepted Answer

Aldous Huxley

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George Orwell

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H.G. Wells

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Ray Bradbury

Question 13

Which poet wrote 'The Waste Land' (1922), a landmark of modernist poetry?

Accepted Answer

T.S. Eliot

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W.B. Yeats

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Ezra Pound

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W.H. Auden

Question 14

Which author, known for magical realism, wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate'?

Accepted Answer

Laura Esquivel

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Isabel Allende

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Octavio Paz

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Carlos Fuentes

Question 15

Which author wrote the 'Harry Potter' series?

Accepted Answer

J.K. Rowling

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Philip Pullman

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Roald Dahl

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Terry Pratchett

Question 16

Which American author wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?

Accepted Answer

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Washington Irving

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Herman Melville

Question 17

Which South African author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003?

Accepted Answer

J.M. Coetzee

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Nadine Gordimer

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Chinua Achebe

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Wole Soyinka

Question 18

Who wrote 'Don Quixote', generally considered the first modern novel?

Accepted Answer

Miguel de Cervantes

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Lope de Vega

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Francisco de Quevedo

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Tirso de Molina

Question 19

Which author wrote 'Things Fall Apart', a landmark of African literature?

Accepted Answer

Chinua Achebe

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Wole Soyinka

Question 20

Which poet is known for the collection 'Leaves of Grass', celebrating democracy and the human body?

Accepted Answer

Walt Whitman

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Henry David Thoreau

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Emily Dickinson