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Quiz about A Little Night Reading
Quiz about A Little Night Reading

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.
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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
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which country is the setting for Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? Hint


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


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


Question 4 of 10
4. There is an alternative title for the "Arabian Nights". What is this set of tales also known as? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. "Night Shift" is a collection of short stories by which author in the horror genre? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "Night" by Elie Wiesel has which setting? Hint


Question 7 of 10
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


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


Question 9 of 10
9. "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord is about the sinking of which ship? Hint


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



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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.
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.

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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