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Literary Facts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The best selling book of all time | the bible |
| second best selling book of all time | quotations of Mao Tse Tung |
| Bestselling continuously updated book of all time | The Guinness Book of World Records |
| The bestselling novel of all time | Valley of the Dolls |
| Storyteller from Thrace | Aesop |
| Virgil writes that this man is the ancestor of all Romans | Aeneas |
| First century satire of Roman Empire | Satyricon |
| 5th or 6th century Saxon saga | Beowulf |
| 8th century Anglo-Saxon monk and translator | Venerable Bede |
| Beowulf monster | Grendel |
| William I survey of England, 1085 | Domesday Book |
| Classic medieval morality plays | Everyman |
| 14th century “Father of English Literature” | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Wife of Bath appears in this work | The Canterbury Tales |
| Crystal City is in this work | Pilgrim’s Progress |
| 1653 book on fishing | The Compleat Angler |
| Dante’s love | Beatrice |
| Samuel Johnson biographer | James Bozwell |
| Milton work about the fall of Satan | Paradise Lost |
| Mephistopheles is the devil in this work | Dr. Faustus |
| Vlad the Impaler is the basis for this character | Count Dracula |
| cyrano de Bergerac’s love | Roxanne |
| Sir Galahad’s father | Lancelot |
| King Arthur’s island | Avalon |
| Edmond Dantes is this man | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Don Quixote’s squire | Sancho Panza |
| Count Vronsky’s love | Anna Karenina |
| Land in Lost Horizon | Shangri-La |
| Subject of The Agony and the Ecstasy | Michelangelo |
| Baroness Orczy’s hero | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Oscar Wilde’s never aging murderer | Dorian Gray |
| C. S. Forester’s naval hero | Captain Horatio Hornblower |
| Jules Verne’s captain | Captain Nemo |
| Captain Nemo’s submarine | Nautilus |
| Phileas Fogg is in this novel | Around the World in 80 Days |
| Fogg’s sidekick | Passepartout |
| Creator of the character Jean Valjean | Victor Hugo |
| Main characterin The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo |
| Quasimodo’s love | Esmeralda |
| Character Oliver Mellors was known as | Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
| Philip Nolan is this title character | the Man Without a Country |
| 19th century writer of dime novels | Ned Buntline |
| James Fenimore Cooper’s hometown | Cooperstown, NY |
| Cooper’s five-novel tales | The Leather-Stocking Tales |
| The first Leather Stocking tale | The Pioneers |
| Cooper’s scout in The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer | Natty Bumppo |
| Natty Bumppo’s nickname | Hawkeye |
| Cooper’s last Mohican | Uncas |
| First American man of letters, from Tarrytown, NY | Washington Irving |
| Ichabod Crane appears in this novel | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Irving’s Sleepy Hollow rider | The Headless Horseman |
| Mountains where Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years | The Catskills |
| Louisa May Alcott’s literary alter ego | Jo March |
| Salem, Massachusetts author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| She wore the scarlet letter | Hester Prynne |
| Hester Prynne’s daughter | Pearl |
| Vanity Fair lady | Becky Sharp |
| Albany, NY author | Herman Melville |
| Melville’s award-winning short story | Billy Budd |
| Moby-Dick captain | Captain Ahab |
| Moby-Dick story teller and sole survivor | Ishmael |
| Firstfemale writer in U.S. Writer’s Hall of Fame | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin villain | Simon Legree |
| Little girl from Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Little Eva |
| Sherlock Holmes’ address | 221B Baker Street |
| Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick | Dr. Watson |
| Sherlock Holmes’ arch villain | Professor Moriarty |
| Author and anthropologist raised in Samoa | Margaret Mead |
| Scottish author from Edinburgh | Sir Walter Scott |
| Scottish “Robin Hood” | Rob Roy |
| Innovative 20th century Irish novelist | James Joyce |
| Stephen Daedalus is a character in this novel | Ulysses |
| Humbert Humbert is a character in this novel | Lolita |
| Alexander Selkirk’s life is the basis for this novel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Author who saw the Alaska gold rush | Jack London |
| Jack London’s sea captain | Wolf Larson |
| Call of the Wild dog | Buck |
| Scottish author who lived in America and Samoa | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Boy in Treasure Island | Jim Hawkins |
| Treasure Island peg-legged pirate | Long John Silver |
| Author from Hannibal, Missouri | Mark Twain |
| Mark Twain title lawyer | Pudd’nhead Wilson |
| Tom Sawyer’s girlfriend | Becky Thatcher |
| Tom Sawyer’s aunt | Aunt Polly |
| Huckleberry Finn’s black friend | Jim |
| Mark Twain worked for this author | Bret Harte |
| He was pen-named Boz | Charles Dickens |
| Charles Dickens’s unfinished novel | The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities | London and Paris |
| Pip and Mrs. Haversham appear in this novel | Great Expectations |
| Uriah Heep appears in this novel | David Copperfield |
| Quilp appears in this novel | The Old Curiosity Shop |
| Ebeneezer Scrooge’s deceased partner | Jacob Marley (first ghost) |
| Bob Cratchit’s son | Tiny Tim |
| Lucy Manett and Sydney Carton are in this novel | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Hans Brinker appears in this novel | The Silver Skates |
| English novelist, wrote of social injustice and totalitarianism | George Orwell |
| Napoleon and Snowball appear in this novel | Animal Farm |
| Big Brother watched Winston Smith and Julia in this novel | 1984 |
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