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Which Author Made This Character? Quiz
Here's how this quiz works: I give you a character with an interesting name, and you tell me which author created him or her. Have fun!
A multiple-choice quiz by
peptidoglycan
. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
peptidoglycan
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
33,860
Updated
Apr 30 24
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
16 / 25
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Question 1 of 25
1.
Frodo Baggins
Hint
C. K. Chesterton
Charles Dickens
J.R.R. Tolkien
Emily Bronte
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Question 2 of 25
2.
Duddy Kravitz
Hint
Bernard Malamud
Woody Allen
Mordecai Richler
Saul Bellow
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Question 3 of 25
3.
Uriah Heep
Hint
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
William Wordsworth
Charles Dickens
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Question 4 of 25
4.
Kilgore Trout
Hint
John Irving
Dorothy Parker
e.e. cummings
Kurt Vonnegut
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Question 5 of 25
5.
Sir Toby Belch
Hint
Stephen Leacock
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
W.S. Gilbert
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Question 6 of 25
6.
Silas Marner
Hint
D.H. Lawrence
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
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Question 7 of 25
7.
Owen Meany
Hint
Saul Bellow
John Updike
Don DeLillo
John Irving
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Question 8 of 25
8.
Montana Wildhack
Hint
Hunter S. Thompson
Dorothy Parker
Kurt Vonnegut
Bernard Malamud
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Question 9 of 25
9.
Dorian Gray
Hint
G.B. Shaw
Oscar Wilde
Joseph Conrad
Dylan Thomas
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Question 10 of 25
10.
Sancho Panza
Hint
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
W.S. Gilbert
John Steinbeck
Miguel de Cervantes
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Question 11 of 25
11.
Henry Higgins
Hint
W.S. Gilbert
G.B. Shaw
Oscar Wilde
C.K. Chesterton
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Question 12 of 25
12.
Prince Myskin
Hint
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Nabokov
Anton Chekov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Question 13 of 25
13.
Billy Budd
Hint
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Kurt Vonnegut
William Faulkner
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Question 14 of 25
14.
Walter Mitty
Hint
Ring Lardner
James Thurber
Jean Stafford
Dorothy Parker
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Question 15 of 25
15.
J. Alfred Prufrock
Hint
Eudora Welty
Gertrude Stein
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
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Question 16 of 25
16.
Jay Gatsby
Hint
William Faulkner
Sherwood Anderson
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Question 17 of 25
17.
Dunstan Ramsay
Hint
J.K. Rowling
Charles Dickens
Robertson Davies
Thomas Hardy
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Question 18 of 25
18.
The Artful Dodger
Hint
G.B. Shaw
W.S. Gilbert
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
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Question 19 of 25
19.
Algernon Montcrieff
Hint
G.B. Shaw
Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens
Noel Coward
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Question 20 of 25
20.
Jeeves
Hint
G.B. Shaw
Sir Thomas Mallory
Ian Fleming
P.G. Wodehouse
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Question 21 of 25
21.
Professor Moriarty
Hint
Ian Fleming
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Joseph Conrad
P.G. Wodehouse
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Question 22 of 25
22.
Ralph Drinkwater
Hint
e.e. cummings
Wally Lamb
Kurt Vonnegut
James Thurber
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Question 23 of 25
23.
Solomon Gursky
Hint
Mordecai Richler
Charles Dickens
Bernard Malamud
e.e. cummings
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Question 24 of 25
24.
Sam Spade
Hint
J.K. Rowling
Jack London
Dashiell Hammett
Ian Fleming
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Question 25 of 25
25.
Samuel Pickwick
Hint
Charles Dickens
Samuel Johnson
Oscar Wilde
Ben Jonson
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Frodo Baggins
Answer:
J.R.R. Tolkien
'The Lord Of the Rings' Trilogy.
2. Duddy Kravitz
Answer:
Mordecai Richler
'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'. (He also appears in 'St. Urbain's Horseman'.)
3. Uriah Heep
Answer:
Charles Dickens
From the novel, 'David Copperfield'.
4. Kilgore Trout
Answer:
Kurt Vonnegut
Several books, including 'Slaughterhouse-Five' and 'Breakfast of Champions'.
5. Sir Toby Belch
Answer:
William Shakespeare
'Twelfth Night'.
6. Silas Marner
Answer:
George Eliot
The short novel, very beautiful, has the same name.
7. Owen Meany
Answer:
John Irving
'A Prayer for Owen Meany'.
8. Montana Wildhack
Answer:
Kurt Vonnegut
From 'Slaughterhouse-Five'. Vonnegut makes up the most interesting names!
9. Dorian Gray
Answer:
Oscar Wilde
'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Very frightening and disturbing novel.
10. Sancho Panza
Answer:
Miguel de Cervantes
This was Don Quixote's sidekick.
11. Henry Higgins
Answer:
G.B. Shaw
From 'Pygmalion', which later became 'My Fair Lady' on the stage.
12. Prince Myskin
Answer:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
From 'The Idiot', one of the few books I started but never finished.
13. Billy Budd
Answer:
Herman Melville
From the short novel, 'Billy Budd'. Very interesting psychological profile.
14. Walter Mitty
Answer:
James Thurber
'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' is an entertaining and enlightening read.
15. J. Alfred Prufrock
Answer:
T. S. Eliot
From his masterpiece, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'.
16. Jay Gatsby
Answer:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
'The Great Gatsby'.
17. Dunstan Ramsay
Answer:
Robertson Davies
He was the hero of Davies' best book, 'Fifth Business'.
18. The Artful Dodger
Answer:
Charles Dickens
He was the best friend of Oliver Twist.
19. Algernon Montcrieff
Answer:
Oscar Wilde
From 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.
20. Jeeves
Answer:
P.G. Wodehouse
Wodehouse wrote several very popular and entertaining Jeeves books.
21. Professor Moriarty
Answer:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This was Sherlock Holmes' nemesis.
22. Ralph Drinkwater
Answer:
Wally Lamb
Kind of a tricky question, because it's not really a literary classic. But this is from his novel: 'I Know This Much is True'.
23. Solomon Gursky
Answer:
Mordecai Richler
Sorry, I had to put one more Mordecai Richler question in here.
24. Sam Spade
Answer:
Dashiell Hammett
He's from Halifax, Nova Scotia!
25. Samuel Pickwick
Answer:
Charles Dickens
'The Pickwick Papers' was Dickens' first novel.
Source: Author
peptidoglycan
This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor
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