FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 1 Quiz

Answer: Huckleberry Finn

Holden Caulfield is a character in "Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger. Howard Roark is from "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. "The Cat in the Hat" is a children's book by Dr. Seuss.

Question by player Rizeeve

Answer: Paddington

Paddington Bear was found at Paddington railway station in London, which is how he got his name. The stories about Paddington by Michael Bond have entertained children for many years and spawned a TV series and even a movie.

Question by player emiloony

Answer: Limerick

A five line limerick, with a rhyming scheme a-a-b-b-a, is one of the easiest poems to write. Popularized in 1845 from "The Book of Nonsense" by Edward Lear, the rhyming scheme is catching, easy to master and fun to create.

Question by player Cece1952

Answer: Oliver Twist

Jules Verne is known as the "Father of Science Fiction" along with H.G. Wells.

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Answer: Lord of the Flies

"And if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your people drive them out?" (Matthew 10:25).

Golding's "Lord of the Flies" was his first novel and was an allegory tale that explored the ideas of contemporary morality, group dynamics and individual ambition.

Beelzebub, or Beelzeboul, is used as another name for Satan in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. A definitive translation of Beelzebub is not agreed upon but one suggestion is that the name comes from the Hebrew words "ba'al" and "zebûb" meaning "lord" and "group of flies".

Question by player Snowman

Answer: R.K. Narayan

R.K. Narayan is the Indian author of the book "Swami and Friends". His novels and short stories were mostly based on South India. Some of his novels are "The Dark Room", "The English Teacher", "Talkative Man", etc., and one his short stories is "Malgudi Days".

Question by player AarushLuthra

Answer: ABBA

The rhyme scheme for a limerick is AABBA. That might have been why ABBA chose their name -- but of course it wasn't. They named themselves after the first letters of the first names of the four singers: Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frid. Would they have had as much success as 'The Limericks'? We will never know.

Question by player garrybl

Answer: Oscar Wilde

This is from "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Wilde said and wrote so many quotable things.

Question by player vinovino

Answer: Bill Clinton

Published around three years after Clinton left Office, the memoirs chronicle Clinton's early years in Arkansas, through his school years, the quest for the Governorship of the State and, ultimately, the Presidency of the United States. At 1,008 pages in length, the book is not a short read but it did become a best seller, provided Clinton with a whopping US$15 million as an advance and had earned for him in excess of US$30 million by the end of 2008.

Question by player pollucci19

Answer: Nero Wolfe

Created by Rex Stout, the irascible, overweight character of Nero Wolfe made his debut in 1934. An agoraphobic who rarely leaves his New York brownstone home with its huge collection of orchids, Wolfe, the consummate armchair detective, is ably aided by his confidential assistant, the streetwise and smartmouthed Archie Goodwin, to whom it is left to do the actual legwork involved in solving their cases and who is the narrator of the stories. All three of the other detectives mentioned have their own "Archie", Poirot with Captain Hastings, Holmes and the inimitable Dr Watson and Perry Mason's Della Street.

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