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Famous books quiz
How well do you really know Famous books? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Famous books questions for your group.
The questions
- Easy
A curious girl follows a rabbit into a topsy-turvy world: name her famous book and its author.
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- The book is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (also accepted: Alice in Wonderland).
- The author is Lewis Carroll.
- Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
- Easy
A wooden puppet dreams of becoming a real boy: name the book and its author.
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- The book is The Adventures of Pinocchio (also accepted: Pinocchio).
- The author is Carlo Collodi.
- The book was originally published in Italian.
- Easy
Who wrote Pride and Prejudice, what country was the author from, and in which century was the novel first published?
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- The author was Jane Austen
- She was English
- The novel was first published in the 19th century, in 1813
- Medium
At which school does Harry Potter study, and what are its four houses called?
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- Harry attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- The houses are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin.
- Students are sorted into one of the four houses.
- Medium
In The Hobbit, what kind of creature is Smaug, what does he guard, and where does he keep it?
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- Smaug is a dragon
- He guards a vast treasure or hoard
- He keeps it beneath the Lonely Mountain
- Medium
In The Great Gatsby, which major city is nearby, and on which real island is Nick’s new home?
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- New York City is nearby
- Nick’s home is on Long Island
- The fictional West Egg is on Long Island
- Medium
Ahab’s crew sails into literary legend: what is the name of the ship in Moby-Dick, and what kind of work does it do?
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- The ship is the Pequod.
- It is a whaling ship.
- Its crew hunts whales.
- Boss
Frodo needs a place to stop in The Lord of the Rings: what is the inn where he first meets Aragorn, and which town is it in?
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- The inn is the Prancing Pony.
- It is in Bree.
- Frodo first meets Aragorn there.
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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