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A Little Night Reading Trivia Quiz

The questions in this quiz involve works of literature which contain the word "night" in the title.

A multiple-choice quiz by momonaco. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
momonaco

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
372,995

Updated
Feb 26 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
381

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Which country is the setting for Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? Hint

Italy

Greece

England

Spain

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the title of a Dorothy Sayers novel in which the detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, is asked to investigate a murder that takes place during celebrations at an Oxford College? Hint

Evil Stalks By Night

Night-time College Revels

Gaudy Night

A Dangerous Night for a Don

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Question 3 of 10

3. The title of Mark Haddon's novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" is a reference to a quotation from which much earlier work? Hint

"The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins

"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

"Silver Blaze" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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Question 4 of 10

4. There is an alternative title for the "Arabian Nights". What is this set of tales also known as? Hint

The "Thousand and One Nights"

The "Fifty-One Nights"

The "Hundred and One Nights"

The "Tales of Aladdin and Ali-Baba"

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Night Shift" is a collection of short stories by which author in the horror genre? Hint

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Stephen King

H. P. Lovecraft

Horacio Quiroga

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Night" by Elie Wiesel has which setting? Hint

Nazi concentration camps

ancient Egyptian pyramids

Roman catacombs

a haunted forest

7. Can you guess the name of this series of books from these clues? These bestsellers are written by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast. The setting is a boarding school for vampires in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The main character is Zoey Redbird. Hint

Night and Twilight

House of Night

Dracula Stalks at Night

Vampire Nighthawk

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Question 8 of 10

8. Can you choose the correct author of the book "Guardians of the Night", the second book in the Gideon and Sirius series? Hint

Jane Russell

Willy Russell

Russell Brand

Alan Russell

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Question 9 of 10

9. "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord is about the sinking of which ship? Hint

Lusitania

Titanic

Exxon Valdez

Cutty Sark

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Question 10 of 10

10. Complete the title of a children's book by Milan Trenc: "The Night at the ------". Hint

opera

zoo

ballet

museum

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which country is the setting for Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

Answer: Greece

The play is a very popular comedy set in Athens at the time of the marriage of Theseus, Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.

2. What is the title of a Dorothy Sayers novel in which the detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, is asked to investigate a murder that takes place during celebrations at an Oxford College?

Answer: Gaudy Night

The word "gaudy" originates from the latin word "gaudium" meaning "joy". "Gaudy night" is the name of an annual celebratory dinner held by a UK university college for its former students. Dorothy Sayers set her novel "Gaudy Night" at Shrewsbury College, a fictional women's college in Oxford.

3. The title of Mark Haddon's novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" is a reference to a quotation from which much earlier work?

Answer: "Silver Blaze" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Silver Blaze" is a Sherlock Holmes short story about a missing racehorse. Inspector Gregory, a Scotland Yard detective, asks Sherlock Holmes "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" and Sherlock Holmes replies "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time".

Sherlock Holmes means that the "very curious incident" is the fact that the dog did not bark in the night-time, when the racehorse was being stolen.

4. There is an alternative title for the "Arabian Nights". What is this set of tales also known as?

Answer: The "Thousand and One Nights"

The storyteller of the "Arabian Nights" or "Thousand and One Nights" is Scheherazade, a legendary Arabic queen who tells a story each night to her husband to prevent him from killing her. Before dawn breaks each day, she stops the story with a cliff-hanging ending so that the king will be anxious to hear the rest of the story the following night, and therefore manages to save her own life.

5. "Night Shift" is a collection of short stories by which author in the horror genre?

Answer: Stephen King

"Night Shift" was Stephen King's first collection of short stories published originally in 1978. It contains 20 scary and not so scary tales, considered by many readers to be among his best work.

6. "Night" by Elie Wiesel has which setting?

Answer: Nazi concentration camps

"Night" is about Elie Wiesel's own experiences in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. It was originally published in French in 1958 and then translated into English in 1960. It is the first book in a trilogy, "Night", "Dawn" and "Day". Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

Answer: House of Night

The "House of Night" series is written by a mother and daughter team who write about 16-year-old Zoey who is "marked" to become a vampire. She has to leave her family and move to the "House of Night" vampire boarding school.

8. Can you choose the correct author of the book "Guardians of the Night", the second book in the Gideon and Sirius series?

Answer: Alan Russell

The detective Michael Gideon and his German Shepherd partner Sirius were created by Alan Russell.

9. "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord is about the sinking of which ship?

Answer: Titanic

Walter Lord's book about the sinking of the Titanic was hugely successful when it was published in 1955 and was the basis for the 1958 British film "A Night to Remember" starring Kenneth More as Second Officer Charles Lightoller.

10. Complete the title of a children's book by Milan Trenc: "The Night at the ------".

Answer: museum

This is the book on which a successful comedy film starring Ben Stiller was loosely based. Ben Stiller plays a newly hired security guard at the museum who has some amazing adventures when the exhibits come to life.

Source: Author momonaco

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