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Book Trivia
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In 'Charlotte's Web', what type of animal is Charlotte?
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What author wrote 'The Name of the Rose', a medieval mystery novel published in 1980?
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What type of creature is Bilbo Baggins in 'The Hobbit'?
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In what year was the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) system introduced?
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Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
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What is the longest novel ever published by word count, recognized by Guinness World Records?
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What is the name of the boy raised by wolves in Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book'?
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Who wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are'?
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Who wrote 'The Handmaid's Tale'?
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Who wrote '1984'?
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Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?
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What is the name of the magical nanny in P.L. Travers' book?
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What ancient writing material, made from animal skin, largely replaced papyrus scrolls?
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Which novel by Harper Lee was published as a sequel to 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in 2015?
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Who wrote 'Little Women'?
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What prize is considered the most prestigious award for fiction in the United States?
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Which dystopian novel features a society that burns books?
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In 'Don Quixote', what does the title character mistake for giants?
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What genre of fiction did Hugo Gernsback help popularize with his magazine 'Amazing Stories'?
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What is the name of Captain Hook's ship in 'Peter Pan'?
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What Louis Sachar novel features boys digging holes at a juvenile detention camp?
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What is the record for most books typed backwards, held by Michele Santelia of Italy?
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In what year was the Library of Alexandria believed to have been founded?
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What children's book features a bear who gets his head stuck in a honey jar?
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Who is the author of 'Goodnight Moon'?
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What kind of animal is Babar?
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What fairy tale features a girl with extremely long hair locked in a tower?
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What is the term for a book published under a false date or place of publication to avoid censorship?
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What is the record price paid for a single printed book at auction, set by a copy of the Bay Psalm Book in 2013?
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What fictional land is the setting for 'The Hobbit'?
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In 'Green Eggs and Ham', what is the persistent character's name?
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What is the name of the fictional school in the 'Divergent' series?
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What was the pen name of the Brontรซ sisters' brother-free publications?
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Who wrote 'Beloved', a novel about the aftermath of slavery?
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In what decade was 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy first published?
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In what year was the first Booker Prize awarded?
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Who wrote the 'Goosebumps' series?
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How many plays are attributed to William Shakespeare?
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Who is the villain in '101 Dalmatians'?
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In what year was 'Ulysses' by James Joyce first published in full?
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Who wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'?
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What binding technique, used since the 2nd century, involves folding sheets and sewing them together?
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Who wrote 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
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What was Ernest Hemingway's famous six-word story?
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Which novel by James Joyce was banned in the United States until a 1933 court ruling?
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What is the first book of the Bible?
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Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?
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What pseudonym did Stephen King use to publish several novels in the 1970s and 1980s?
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How many words are in Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time', making it the longest novel recognized by Guinness?
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What book by Antoine de Saint-Exupรฉry features a boy who lives on an asteroid?
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Who ghostwrote 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'?
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In what year was 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published?
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What novel by Mary Shelley is considered the first science fiction novel?
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What is the real name of the author known as Lemony Snicket?
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What real-life author wrote novels while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp?
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What Russian novel by Mikhail Bulgakov was banned in the Soviet Union and not published until 1967?
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What is the oldest known surviving work of literature?
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What author wrote 47 novels in the 'Discworld' series?
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What country has the most public libraries per capita in the world?
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What author holds the Guinness record for most published works, with over 1,000 titles?
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What is the best-selling book of all time?
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Who wrote 'The Cat in the Hat'?
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What mythical island is described in Plato's writings?
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What was the first book sold on Amazon.com in 1995?
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Who wrote 'The Giving Tree'?
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What was the first novel to be written on a typewriter?
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How many times was the first 'Harry Potter' manuscript rejected by publishers before being accepted?
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Who is credited with writing 'The Tale of Genji', often considered the world's first novel?
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What Japanese author wrote 'Norwegian Wood' and 'Kafka on the Shore'?
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What type of animal is Winnie-the-Pooh?
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What is the name of the fictional language created by J.R.R. Tolkien that is spoken by the Elves?
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What classic children's book was written by E.B. White and features a mouse born to a human family?
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Who wrote 'The Kite Runner'?
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What is the name of the main antagonist in 'The Lord of the Rings'?
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In what year was the first Gutenberg Bible printed?
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What groundbreaking dictionary took James Murray and other editors 70 years to complete?
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In what year was the Dewey Decimal Classification system first published?
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Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
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What Stephen King novel takes place at the Overlook Hotel?
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What is the name of the library classification system used by the US Library of Congress?
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How many copies has 'Don Quixote' sold, making it the best-selling novel of all time?
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In which language was 'The Diary of Anne Frank' originally written?
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In what language was Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' originally written?
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In 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', what animal leads Alice down the hole?
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Who wrote the children's book series 'Captain Underpants'?
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What is the real name of the author George Orwell?
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What is the name of the lion in 'The Chronicles of Narnia'?
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In what year did the Nobel Prize in Literature begin?
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What novel by Salman Rushdie led to a fatwa being issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989?
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In 'Fahrenheit 451', what temperature in Fahrenheit does paper supposedly ignite?
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What book by Yann Martel features a boy stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger?
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What was the first mass-produced paperback book published by Penguin Books in 1935?
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What author's unfinished final novel, 'The Original of Laura', was published posthumously in 2009?
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What color is the fish in 'One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish'?
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What is the name of the land in 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'?
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What fictional detective lived at 221B Baker Street?
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Who wrote the Harry Potter series?
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In 'James and the Giant Peach', what fruit does James travel inside?
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Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
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How many novels did the Brontรซ sisters publish in total during their lifetimes?
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Who was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1983?
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Who wrote 'The Da Vinci Code'?
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What is the first Harry Potter book called?
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What is the name of the pig in 'Charlotte's Web'?
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In 'Moby Dick', what is Captain Ahab obsessed with hunting?
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What magical wardrobe leads to the land of Narnia?
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What is the name of the first commercially successful e-reader, launched by Amazon in 2007?
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In what country was the author of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', Stieg Larsson, from?
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Who wrote 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'?
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What book series by Lemony Snicket follows the Baudelaire orphans?
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What is the name of the manuscript written in an undeciphered script, dating to the early 15th century?
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What is the shortest novel ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, at under 200 pages?
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In 'The Chronicles of Narnia', which child first enters the wardrobe?
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Which novel opens with the line 'It is a truth universally acknowledged'?
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In what century was 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes first published?
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What was the original title of 'Pride and Prejudice' before Jane Austen changed it?
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In 'The Wizard of Oz', what color are Dorothy's slippers in the book?
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What book by Lois Lowry features a community where all memories are held by one person?
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Who was the youngest author to have a book published, at age 4 in 1964?
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In Agatha Christie's novels, what is Miss Marple's first name?
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Who is the author of 'The Alchemist', one of the best-selling books in history?
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What country is 'Anne of Green Gables' set in?
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What is the only book that Charles Dickens wrote in first person?
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Which author wrote 'Infinite Jest', a 1,079-page novel published in 1996?
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In 'Treasure Island', what is the young protagonist's name?
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What is the name of the oldest known printed book, a Chinese Buddhist text dated 868 AD?
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Who wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
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Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
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Who is the author of 'The Hunger Games'?
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What does the title 'To Kill a Mockingbird' refer to?
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What Roald Dahl book features a character who inherits a chocolate factory?
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What young wizard attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
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What was the first novel published by a computer-generated author using AI in 2018?
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What was the first book printed in English by William Caxton in 1473?
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What was Agatha Christie's best-selling novel, with over 100 million copies sold?
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Who wrote 'Romeo and Juliet'?
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Who wrote the 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series?
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In 'The Lord of the Rings', what must be destroyed in Mount Doom?
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Who wrote the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series that inspired 'Game of Thrones'?
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Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
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Who wrote 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'?
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In 'The Jungle Book', what type of animal is Shere Khan?
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Which author created the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha?
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In what year did Toni Morrison win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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In what year was 'Don Quixote' Part One first published?
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What is the name of the bookstore in the novel 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafรณn?
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Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
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What is Hermione Granger's middle name in the Harry Potter series?
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What was the original print run of the first Harry Potter book in the UK in 1997?
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What classic novel was originally published in serial form in a magazine from 1859 to 1860?
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