Quarantine Quizzes: Art and literature round 1

QUARANTINE QUIZZES Literature round 1

1. Whose autobiography is entitled 'the long walk to freedom'? ​Nelson Mandela

2. Which Joseph Heller novel gave a new expression to English language? C ​ atch 22

3. What book features Bilbo Baggins as the central character? ​The Hobbit

4. Who wrote the Godfather? ​Mario Puzo

5. What was Louisa Mary Alcott's most famous book? ​Little Women

6. Who wrote the short story 'I Robot' in 1950? I​ saac Asimov

7. Which British prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?​ ​Winston Churchill. Churchill was awarded: ​"for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."

8. Who wrote the Vampire Chronicles? ​Anne Rice

9. Which novel begins with the line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"?​ "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.

10. What is the name of the first book written by J.K. Rowling after the final Harry Potter books, that was specifically aimed at adults? ​A Casual Vacancy