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Oct 21, 2024
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Famous Authors

We put pen to paper ahead of November's National Novel Writing Month with this trivia game featuring some of the most famous authors of all time.

Q1

What author based the visual distortions in his beloved book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" on his chronic migraine headaches?

MuLtiple Choice
fill in the blank
A
C. S. Lewis
C
Lewis Carroll
B
Jules Verne
D
J.R.R. Tolkein
Player must type in the correct answer.
Q2

Once a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark ___?___.

MuLtiple Choice
fill in the blank
A
Twain
C
B
D
Player must type in the correct answer.
Q3

Whose sisters Charlotte and Anne were also well-known Victorian era authors?

Multiple Choice
fill in the blank
A
Mary Shelley
C
George Eliot
B
Emily Brontë
D
Jane Austen
Player must type in the correct answer.
Q4

Famous for his 1949 dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," which author was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903?

MuLtiple Choice
fill in the blank
A
Aldous Huxley
C
Frank Herbert
B
George Orwell
D
Isaac Asimov
Player must type in the correct answer.
Q5

Best known for his 1990s legal thrillers, who wrote the comedic 2001 holiday novel "Skipping Christmas"?

MuLtiple Choice
fill in the blank
A
Harlan Coben
C
Michael Crichton
B
John Grisham
D
Michael Connelly
Player must type in the correct answer.

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