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A Quiz for History & Literature Obsessed Folk
30 Questions - Developed by:
Elanor
- Updated on:
2005-09-01
- Developed on:
2005-08-22
- 20,077 taken - 4 people like it
Tired of being losing out on all the Star Wars & Star Trek quizzes? Give your friends this one.
1
Which is the correct author and spelling for the novel "Persuasion?"
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austin
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte
2
Which Civil War battlefield was the site of two major battles, fought roughly a year apart?
Manassas/Bull Run
Gettysburg/Chambersburg
Vicksburg
Antietam
3
Which King of England was beheaded? (Hint: this was before the French Revolution)
Richard III
Charles II
Charles I
Henry VII
4
Mr. Rochester is the hero of which English novel?
Jane Eyre
The Professor
Vilette
Wuthering Heights
5
Which US President served two, non-consecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland
Harry S Truman
Andrew Johnson
George Washington
6
Which was the first US President to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
Bill Clinton
John Quincy Adams
7
"...my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe." Who said this?
Menno Simons
John Calvin
Martin Luther
William Penn
8
Choose one word to describe Thomas Hardy's books.
dramatic
poetry
mysteries
comic
9
June 6, 1944, D-Day... What happened?
Allies invaded France
Battle of Midway
Nazis surrendered
10
How did Alexander Hamilton die?
in a duel
in prison
he lived?
of old age
in a shipwreck
11
Which of these titles was not written by Charles Dickens?
Our Mutual Friend
Hard Times
Old Curiousity Shop
Daniel Deronda
12
"Rosemary, that's for remembrance." - which Shakespeare play is this from?
Twelfth Night
Richard III
Hamlet
King Lear
Much Ado about Nothing
13
Why is Richard III supposed to have been such a nasty person?
raising taxes to support an unpopular war
killing his uncle to overtake the throne
killing his nephews to overtake the throne
14
Who Wrote "Battle of the Books"
Charles Lamb
Virginia Woolf
Leo Tolstoy
Jonathan Swift
15
Who won the War of 1812?
the Canadians
Nobody
the Americans
the British
16
Alaska originally belonged to which country?
Britain
France
Russia
Germany
17
What does Britain's Trafalgar Square commemorate?
Nelson's Napoleonic victory
Churchill's Wartime speeches
Victoria's Crimean War
18
Use one word to describe P. G. Woodhouse's novels.
comic
historical
serious
mysteries
19
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife." - Opening line from what novel?
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield park
Vanity Fair
Emma
War and Peace
20
"If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England."
- Who wrote these lines?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rupert Brooke
Wilfred Owen
Daniel Deronda
Joyce Kilmer
21
Who is the "father of the essay?"
Locke
Pascal
Montaigne
Voltaire
Bacon
22
Shipwrecked Twins.
Viola/Cesario.
Count Orsino.
Malvolio.
--- which play?
Merchant of Venice
Cyrano de Bergerac
Twelfth Night
Midsummer Night's Dream
23
Grendel is the foe in which of the following works?
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Pearl
Song of Roland
Beowulf
24
Early in his reign, King Henry VIII published a defense of what?
the Catholic church
dancing
divorce
war with France
25
"Do not send for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee," - who said this?
Churchill
Milton
Hobbes
Donne
Bunyan
26
When was the Magna Charta signed?
in the 1200's
in the 1500's
in the 1300's
in the 1100's
27
In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we are told of several pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral. What famous event happened at Canterbury?
Thomas Becket's murder
first report of Virgin Mary's appearance in Britain
William the Conqueror's coronation
first royal British marriage ceremony
28
Who is the author of "Crime and Punishment?"
Dickens
Eliot
Dostoyevsky
Tolstoy
29
Two of the signers of the Declaration of the Independence died on the 50th anniversary of its signing. Who were they?
Charles Carroll, George Washington
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock, William Penn
James Madison, Samuel Adams
30
What is Northanger Abbey?
an abbey founded in the 1300's
an old religious house converted to castle
a painting
a book
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