FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 8 Quiz

Answer: It was written before Titanic sank

The story was written in 1898, 14 years before Titanic sank. The story describes a state-of-the-art passenger liner named the Titan that sinks after colliding with an iceberg in the Atlantic during an April night. Massive casualties ensue due to an inadequate number of lifeboats.

The eerie similarity between the events of the story and the real Titanic disaster have kept interest in the novella alive.

Question by player H0lyAerith

Answer: Mark Twain

All are well-known authors and 19th century contemporaries of each other. Lewis Carroll was also a pen name. Mark Twain also wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", amongst many others.

Question by player suomy

Answer: Jules Verne

Auda, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout are characters in "Around the World in Eighty Days". Nemo is the captain in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". Jupiter is a tamed orangutan in "Mysterious Island" and Captain Hatteras is the main character of a novel of the same name.

Question by player Babilonia

Answer: J.K. Rowling

Rowling was the author of the Harry Potter books and is currently estimated to be worth over $1,000,000,000.

Question by player TNA189

Answer: Adrian Mole

The inimitable character of Adrian Albert Mole made his debut in "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 and 3/4". Published in 1982, the book details the thoughts, musings and emotions of the hapless hero via his personal diary entries. The first in the series, the book was both a critical and commercial success.

A number of sequels followed Adrian's life through adolescence and adulthood before Sue Townsend's untimely death in April 2014.

Question by player KayceeKool

Answer: New Orleans

Faulkner himself was born in Mississippi. His life and writing was greatly influenced by the American South, evidenced by his work's classification as specifically "Southern Gothic". "New Orleans" is but one of numerous short stories he has written, being less famous than others such as "A Rose for Emily" and "Red Leaves".

Question by player MacaroniPants

Answer: The Invisible Man

"A Tale of Two Cities" was written by Charles Dickens, "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" by Jules Verne and "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Harlan Ellison wrote a similarly-titled novel called "Invisible Man".

Question by player angikar

Answer: Two of Shakespeare's "King Henry" plays

"The game's afoot" originated as a term associated with hunting. The "game" does not refer to a contest but rather to animals being hunted or pursued. The term "afoot" refers to the prey breaking cover and running (on their feet, presumably). Shakespeare used it twice: in "King Henry IV Part I" (1597) -- "Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip" -- and in "King Henry V" (1599) -- "I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start.

The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge: Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'" Sherlock Holmes used it metaphorically in the short story "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (1904). "'Come, Watson, come!' he cried. 'The game is afoot.

Not a word! Into your clothes and come!'" It is also the title of a humourous play about Sherlock Holmes by Ken Ludwig called "The Game's Afoot; Or Holmes for the Holidays" (2012).

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: C. S. Forester

C. S. Forester was a prolific writer. His first published novel was "The Paid Piper" in 1924. He is best known today as the author of the twelve Horatio Hornblower novels. John Buchan was the author of "The 39 Steps", Anthony Hope wrote "The Prisoner Of Zenda", and Nicholas Monsarrat is best known for "The Cruel Sea".

Question by player Coriolanus

Answer: Charles Ryder

Charles narrates his memories of the past twenty years. They feature members of the Marchmain family, English aristocrats.

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