Test your knowledge of world literature, famous authors, novels, poetry, drama,
Shakespeare, mythology, Indian literature and literary classics.
Classics
1. Who wrote The Odyssey?
Answer: Homer
Classics
2. Who wrote The Iliad?
Answer: Homer
Classics
3. Who wrote Divine Comedy?
Answer: Dante Alighieri
Classics
4. Who wrote Don Quixote?
Answer: Miguel de Cervantes
Classics
5. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
Answer: John Milton
Shakespeare
6. Who wrote Hamlet?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Shakespeare
7. Which Shakespeare play features the characters Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare
8. Who is the tragic hero of Macbeth?
Answer: Macbeth
Shakespeare
9. Which Shakespeare play includes the character Othello?
Answer: Othello
Shakespeare
10. Who is the female protagonist of The Tempest?
Answer: Miranda
Novels
11. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
Answer: Jane Austen
Novels
12. Who wrote Jane Eyre?
Answer: Charlotte Brontë
Novels
13. Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
Answer: Emily Brontë
Novels
14. Who wrote Great Expectations?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Novels
15. Who wrote Oliver Twist?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Novels
16. Who wrote War and Peace?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Novels
17. Who wrote Crime and Punishment?
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novels
18. Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novels
19. Who wrote 1984?
Answer: George Orwell
Novels
20. Who wrote Brave New World?
Answer: Aldous Huxley
Poetry
21. Who wrote The Raven?
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry
22. Who wrote Leaves of Grass?
Answer: Walt Whitman
Poetry
23. Who wrote The Waste Land?
Answer: T. S. Eliot
Poetry
24. Who wrote Ode to a Nightingale?
Answer: John Keats
Poetry
25. Who wrote Daffodils?
Answer: William Wordsworth
Poetry
26. Who wrote The Tyger?
Answer: William Blake
Poetry
27. Who wrote If—?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Poetry
28. Who wrote Paradise Lost?
Answer: John Milton
Poetry
29. Who wrote Gitanjali?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
Poetry
30. Who wrote Howl?
Answer: Allen Ginsberg
Indian Literature
31. Who wrote Gitanjali?
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Literature
32. Who wrote Midnight’s Children?
Answer: Salman Rushdie
Indian Literature
33. Who wrote The Guide?
Answer: R. K. Narayan
Indian Literature
34. Who wrote Malgudi Days?
Answer: R. K. Narayan
Indian Literature
35. Who wrote Train to Pakistan?
Answer: Khushwant Singh
Indian Literature
36. Who wrote A Suitable Boy?
Answer: Vikram Seth
Indian Literature
37. Who wrote The God of Small Things?
Answer: Arundhati Roy
Indian Literature
38. Who wrote Untouchable?
Answer: Mulk Raj Anand
Indian Literature
39. Who wrote Kanthapura?
Answer: Raja Rao
Indian Literature
40. Who wrote The White Tiger?
Answer: Aravind Adiga
Drama
41. Who wrote Waiting for Godot?
Answer: Samuel Beckett
Drama
42. Who wrote A Doll’s House?
Answer: Henrik Ibsen
Drama
43. Who wrote Death of a Salesman?
Answer: Arthur Miller
Drama
44. Who wrote Pygmalion?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Drama
45. Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Drama
46. Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Sophocles
Drama
47. Who wrote Antigone?
Answer: Sophocles
Drama
48. Who wrote The Cherry Orchard?
Answer: Anton Chekhov
Drama
49. Who wrote The Glass Menagerie?
Answer: Tennessee Williams
Drama
50. Who wrote Mother Courage and Her Children?
Answer: Bertolt Brecht
Mythology
51. Who is the Greek god of the sea?
Answer: Poseidon
Mythology
52. Who is the Roman equivalent of Zeus?
Answer: Jupiter
Mythology
53. Who is the Greek goddess of wisdom?
Answer: Athena
Mythology
54. Who is the hero of The Odyssey?
Answer: Odysseus
Mythology
55. Who killed the Minotaur?
Answer: Theseus
Mythology
56. Who flew too close to the sun in Greek mythology?
Answer: Icarus
Mythology
57. Who was the father of Icarus?
Answer: Daedalus
Mythology
58. What creature had snakes for hair in Greek mythology?
Answer: Medusa
Mythology
59. Who opened Pandora’s box according to Greek mythology?
Answer: Pandora
Mythology
60. Who was the king of the Greek gods?
Answer: Zeus
Classics
61. Who wrote Les Misérables?
Answer: Victor Hugo
Classics
62. Who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
Classics
63. Who wrote The Three Musketeers?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
Classics
64. Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Classics
65. Who wrote Dracula?
Answer: Bram Stoker
Classics
66. Who wrote Frankenstein?
Answer: Mary Shelley
Classics
67. Who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Answer: Mark Twain
Classics
68. Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: Mark Twain
Novels
69. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Harper Lee
Novels
70. Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?
Answer: J. D. Salinger
Novels
71. Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Answer: Gabriel García Márquez
Novels
72. Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
Novels
73. Who wrote Ulysses?
Answer: James Joyce
Novels
74. Who wrote Mrs Dalloway?
Answer: Virginia Woolf
Novels
75. Who wrote The Hobbit?
Answer: J. R. R. Tolkien
Novels
76. Who wrote the Harry Potter series?
Answer: J. K. Rowling
Poetry
77. Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
Answer: Dante Alighieri
Poetry
78. Who wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
Answer: Thomas Gray
Poetry
79. Who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poetry
80. Who wrote Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?
Answer: Robert Frost
Indian Literature
81. Who wrote the epic Ramayana?
Answer: Valmiki
Indian Literature
82. Who is traditionally credited with writing the Mahabharata?
Answer: Vyasa
Indian Literature
83. Who wrote Godaan?
Answer: Munshi Premchand
Indian Literature
84. Who wrote Discovery of India?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian Literature
85. Who wrote Wings of Fire?
Answer: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari
Indian Literature
86. Who wrote My Story?
Answer: Kamala Das
Indian Literature
87. Who wrote The Namesake?
Answer: Jhumpa Lahiri
Indian Literature
88. Who wrote Interpreter of Maladies?
Answer: Jhumpa Lahiri
Drama
89. Who wrote King Lear?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Drama
90. Who wrote Julius Caesar?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Drama
91. Who wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Drama
92. Who wrote Much Ado About Nothing?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Classics
93. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
Classics
94. Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Answer: Jonathan Swift
Classics
95. Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
Answer: Daniel Defoe
Classics
96. Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Classics
97. Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Classics
98. Who wrote Moby-Dick?
Answer: Herman Melville
Classics
99. Who wrote The Call of the Wild?
Answer: Jack London
Classics
100. Who wrote Little Women?
Answer: Louisa May Alcott
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