The A-Z Quiz
The A-Z Quiz
Like many bookish people I have an obsession with things being in alphabetical order. So here are 26 questions – in the right order - on all things literary.
Like many bookish people I have an obsession with things being in alphabetical order. So here are 26 questions – in the right order - on all things literary.
Sebastian’s teddy bear in Brideshead Revisited.
Artistic set led by Virginia Woolf.
Scarlett O’Hara’s first husband.
The French setting for Noel Coward’s Private Lives.
Gloucester’s bad son in King Lear.
Tobias’ new name in the Divergent series.
A double G name for the author of Brighton Rock.
Lucy’s surname in Room with a View.
The country where book binding is believed to have originated.
Never begin a sentence with ‘and’, but William Blake did in this poem.
Ebook reader first developed in 2007.
The English county in which the Dedlock’s have their ‘place’ in Bleak House.
The idyllic house in du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Dickens’ first angry young man and eponymous hero.
The hotel of nightmares in Stephen King’s The Shining.
Famous British book publishers founded in 1935.
The brilliant Mr Blake, illustrator of the books of Roald Dahl.
The first – and most important – of the 3 R’s.
The country of playwright Strindberg’s birth.
Shakespeare’s bloodiest play.
The protagonist of Custom of the Country.
The gum chewing girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
An American state and the first name of the writer of Sleepy Hollow.
This place name opens Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan.
Dr Seuss’ famous reptile – king of the pond.
‘The first American flapper’ and Scott Fitzgerald’s other half.