Literature quiz
Opening lines, authors, idioms and the origins of everyday words.
Literature is an extra category. The questions on this page are free to play; inside a duel it belongs to the paid part — six other categories stay free forever.
What is the name of the boy wizard in the books by Joanne K. Rowling?
More Literature questions
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What does 'BookTok' mean?
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- a book community on TikTok
- a publishing house
- a library app
- an e-book reader
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Which creature in Paul Maar's book wishes for things using blue dots?
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- The Sams
- The Gruffalo
- The Urmel
- The Little Dragon Coconut
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What does the word 'lapidary' mean?
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- Brief and terse
- Detailed
- Furious
- Mysterious
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Which literary era immediately followed the Sturm und Drang?
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- Weimar Classicism
- Baroque
- Naturalism
- Expressionism
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From which play does the quote 'Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast' come?
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- Goethe's Faust
- Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Lessing's Nathan the Wise
- Schiller's William Tell
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Who won the very first T. S. Eliot Prize in 1993?
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- Ciaran Carson
- Seamus Heaney
- Ted Hughes
- Carol Ann Duffy
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What does it mean to 'pull someone's leg'?
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- To tease or trick them in a harmless, joking way
- To ask them for a big favor
- To physically restrain them
- To insult them seriously
True or false?
Same material, different game — in a duel this one runs without a clock, but with an explanation after every reveal.
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Pippi Longstocking was invented by Astrid Lindgren.
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True.
The Swedish author Astrid Lindgren created Pippi Longstocking in 1945.
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Umberto Eco wrote 'The Name of the Rose'.
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True.
Umberto Eco's novel 'Il nome della rosa' appeared in 1980.
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Alliteration refers to the same initial sound of consecutive words.
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True.
In alliteration such as 'Peter Piper picked', several words begin with the same sound.
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In the fairy tale, Goldilocks visits the house of three wolves.
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False.
Goldilocks visits the house of the three bears.
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