Quiz – A-Z of Characters’ Surnames
Quiz – A-Z of Characters’ Surnames
Neatly in alphabetical order, this quiz has 26 clues to 26 fictional characters – answers are by surname.
Neatly in alphabetical order, this quiz has 26 clues to 26 fictional characters – answers are by surname.
Haymitch, District 12’s only living victor of The Hunger Games.
The dashing Captain who becomes Ms O’Hara’s third husband.
If Romeo is a Montague, Juliet is a -?
Dick and Nicole, the glamorous characters central to Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night.
Bathsheba (1874) and/or Katniss (2008).
George MacDonald Fraser took this bully from Tom Brown’s Schooldays and gave him a series of novels of his own.
Samwise, Bilbo Baggins’ sidekick in Lord of the Rings.
Hans and Rosa, Liesel’s foster parents in The Book Thief.
Laura ? Wilder, author and protagonist of the Little House series.
The surname at the heart of Dickens’ Bleak House – it belongs to many characters and to the infamous court case.
Emma Woodhouse’s neighbour, friend and only critic. First name, George.
Hazel’s surname in The Fault in our Stars.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
Dickens’ family saga where the protagonist shares the same surname as his uncle, the villain.
‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The opening line of Anna Karenina is about which family?
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this character is the bookish one who writes the play performed by the ‘rude mechanicals’.
This character along with Guildenstern are Hamlet’s best friends. Their names were immortalised in a 1966 play by Tom Stoppard.
Bella, the protagonist of The Twilight series.
Will, the intelligent, witty, paralysed man at the centre of Me Before You.
Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, first name Dolores.
The cruel, calculating, seductive Vicomte at the dark heart of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Stephen King’s eponymous ‘heroine’, Carrie.
A Marvel character called Sharon, stepmother to the Juggernaut.
The protagonist of Joseph Heller's satirical novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time, first name John.
A character from Mann's 1924 novel The Magic Mountain, he is an honest, virtuous soldier who just wants to be heroic in battle.