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An Assortment of Books Trivia Quiz

Here's a quiz on all sorts of books... everything from Hemingway to Crichton and a few odd others. How well read are you?

A multiple-choice quiz by val9000. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
val9000

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
3,123

Updated
Feb 20 22

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
12 / 20

Plays
7236

Last 3 plays: Guest 47 (11/20), EKlebanov (15/20), slay01 (18/20).

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Question 1 of 20

1. Which book did Alex Haley describe as FACTION, somewhere between fact and fiction? Hint

2001: A Space Odyssey

Roots

The Red Badge of Courage

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Question 2 of 20

2. Which of Michael Crichton's books was first to top the New York Times bestseller list? Hint

Rising Sun

Timeline

Jurassic Park

The Andromeda Strain

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Question 3 of 20

3. Which 1988 Stephen Hawking book spent over two years on the New York bestsellers list? Hint

Black Holes and Baby Universes

A Brief History of Time

3000 Years of Gravity

General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey

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Question 4 of 20

4. Which Hemingway novel includes the line: 'Oh Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together'? Hint

The Sun Also Rises

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Old Man and The Sea

Death in the Afternoon

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Question 5 of 20

5. Who is the central character in Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'?

Answer: (Two Words, or just surname)

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Question 6 of 20

6. Which Italian astronomer wrote 'The Starry Messenger'? Hint

Hubble

Halley

Copernicus

Galileo

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Question 7 of 20

7. At which sporting event do terrorists explode a nuclear device, in Tom Clancy's 'The Sum of All Fears'? Hint

The Winter Olympics

The World Series

The Super Bowl

The Summer Olympics

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Question 8 of 20

8. Which of these Stephen King stories was written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman? Hint

Needful Things

Rose Madder

Thinner

Desperation

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Question 9 of 20

9. Which William Golding book was turned down by 21 publishers before its 1954 release? Hint

Everything You wanted to Know About Sex But were Afraid to Ask

Red Badge of Courge

Lord of the Flies

Death of a Salesman

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Question 10 of 20

10. Which was the first John Le Carre spy book about life after glasnost? Hint

The Russia House

From Russia with Love

Rubicon One

Hard Times

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Question 11 of 20

11. Complete this John Irving title... 'A Prayer for_______ '?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 12 of 20

12. Who wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath'? Hint

Ernest Hemingway

John Steinbeck

Edgar Allan Poe

William Faulkner

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Question 13 of 20

13. Which Daniel Keyes novel is about a mentally handicapped man who undergoes an operation to make him smarter? Hint

Where the Boys Are

Pride and Prejudice

The Cider House Rules

Flowers for Algernon

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Question 14 of 20

14. The J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy begins with 'The Fellowship of the Ring'. The second book is 'The Two Towers'. What's the third? Hint

The Hobbit

The Silmarillian

The Fall of Mordred

The Return of the King

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Question 15 of 20

15. Okay... who wrote 'The Amityville Horror'? Hint

Dean R. Koontz

Robert B. Parker

Jay Anson

James Dickey

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Question 16 of 20

16. Which famous book did J.D. Salinger write before disappearing? Hint

Jolly Roger

The Crucible

Deliverance

The Catcher in the Rye

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Question 17 of 20

17. Which 'Slaughterhouse Five' author said he wished he'd never been labelled a science-fiction writer? Hint

Carl Sagan

William Gibson

Kurt Vonnegut

Isaac Asimov

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Question 18 of 20

18. Which Bill Cosby book spent 26 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list in 1986? Hint

Bill Cosby: America's Father

I Started out as a Child

Fatherhood

Leonard Part 6

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Question 19 of 20

19. Which 1989 novel describes how June, Rose, Waverly and Lena learn about their mothers? Hint

Primary Colors

December Moon

The World According to Garp

The Joy Luck Club

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Question 20 of 20

20. Okay... not that I'm bible thumping here, but... Which came first, according to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken or the egg?

Answer: (answer either The Chicken or The Egg)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which book did Alex Haley describe as FACTION, somewhere between fact and fiction?

Answer: Roots

Originally, he claimed that the book as factual. It was only when a number of the details were shown to be historically inaccurate that he changed the description to indicate that it was fiction that was based on fact.

2. Which of Michael Crichton's books was first to top the New York Times bestseller list?

Answer: Rising Sun

Published in 1992.

3. Which 1988 Stephen Hawking book spent over two years on the New York bestsellers list?

Answer: A Brief History of Time

4. Which Hemingway novel includes the line: 'Oh Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together'?

Answer: The Sun Also Rises

Published in 1926, many consider this to be the book that established Hemingway as a literary force.

5. Who is the central character in Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'?

Answer: Howard Roark

Published in 1943, this is one of my favorite all time books. Ayn Rand understood men better than most men do!

6. Which Italian astronomer wrote 'The Starry Messenger'?

Answer: Galileo

Actually, Galileo is the only Italian astronomer you had to choose from. Hubble was American, Copernicus was Polish, and Halley was English.

7. At which sporting event do terrorists explode a nuclear device, in Tom Clancy's 'The Sum of All Fears'?

Answer: The Super Bowl

8. Which of these Stephen King stories was written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman?

Answer: Thinner

9. Which William Golding book was turned down by 21 publishers before its 1954 release?

Answer: Lord of the Flies

Duh... the only Golding book of the bunch.

10. Which was the first John Le Carre spy book about life after glasnost?

Answer: The Russia House

11. Complete this John Irving title... 'A Prayer for_______ '?

Answer: Owen Meany

12. Who wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath'?

Answer: John Steinbeck

Did you know Steinbeck studied marine biology at Stanford? Yep.

13. Which Daniel Keyes novel is about a mentally handicapped man who undergoes an operation to make him smarter?

Answer: Flowers for Algernon

14. The J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy begins with 'The Fellowship of the Ring'. The second book is 'The Two Towers'. What's the third?

Answer: The Return of the King

The J.R.R. stood for John Ronald Reuel.

15. Okay... who wrote 'The Amityville Horror'?

Answer: Jay Anson

16. Which famous book did J.D. Salinger write before disappearing?

Answer: The Catcher in the Rye

17. Which 'Slaughterhouse Five' author said he wished he'd never been labelled a science-fiction writer?

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

18. Which Bill Cosby book spent 26 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list in 1986?

Answer: Fatherhood

19. Which 1989 novel describes how June, Rose, Waverly and Lena learn about their mothers?

Answer: The Joy Luck Club

20. Okay... not that I'm bible thumping here, but... Which came first, according to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken or the egg?

Answer: The Chicken

The line: 'Then God said, Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens'. This is not necessarily the view of theologians and scientists, just a literal interpretation of the words of Genesis.

Source: Author val9000

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