Literature General Knowledge

Answer these questions about the world's most beloved fiction. Answers can be taken from children's books, plays or modern classics.
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What is the name of the human boy from A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh"?
Christopher Robin
What is the name of the youngest Bennet sister from in "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen?
Lydia
In "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, whose wife is killed by Lennie?
Curley's
According to Dante, perpetrators of what sin are found in the seventh circle of Hell?
Violence
What profession does Atticus Finch hold in Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Lawyer
In the final act of "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, what does Lady Macbeth hallucinate all over her hands?
Blood
What is the name of the horse from George Orwell's "Animal Farm"?
Mollie, Boxer or Clover
Who narrates the 2005 bestseller, "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak?
Death
How many ghosts visit Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"?
4
Who killed Patroclus by stabbing him in the stomach with a spear in "The Illiad"?
Hector
What is H.G. Wells full name?
Herbert George Wells
In "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce, Stephen nearly receives a beating by the Jesuits for breaking what item to avoid studying?
Glasses
What 1930s dystopian novel links characters, Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson and John the Savage?
Brave New World
What type of whale is Moby Dick in the Herman Melville classic?
Sperm Whale
What novel ends with the line: "He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance"?
Frankenstein
What prequel was oringally titled, "There and Back Again"?
The Hobbit
Who died while giving birth to a stillborn girl on Christmas day 1952 in a Vladamir Nobokov novel?
Lolita
What novel following Catherine Earnshaw and her lover was published under the pseudonum Ellis Bell?
Wuthering Heights
Who fought a group of men in England led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing?
Dracula
Who has been played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom and Douglas Booth?
Romeo Montague
In which Stephen King novel is a mother and her son trapped in a car by a rabid dog?
Cujo
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Level 39
Aug 29, 2018
Could you please accept Boxer as an answer for Animal Farm?
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Level 30
Aug 29, 2018
Yes, Boxer will work now