British Literature Trivia
From Shakespeare’s schemes to Paddington’s marmalade stash, prove your little grey cells can handle British literature.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
In Shakespeare’s tragedy, which Roman leader is warned by a Soothsayer, “Beware the Ides of March”?
Julius Caesar
Philippa Gregory’s historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl is set at the court of which English king?
Henry VIII
Rather than focusing mainly on physical evidence, what does Father Brown try to understand about a criminal to solve a mystery?
Their motives
The lines about treating “Triumph and Disaster” alike are inscribed above the players’ entrance to Wimbledon’s Centre Court. Which Kipling poem are they from?
“If—”
Who wrote the Victorian comedy *The Importance of Being Earnest*?
Oscar Wilde