The best and most fiendishly difficult literature quiz – can you answer all the questions?
We’ve put together an interesting literature quiz – and we think it’s the best literature quiz around (but then we would say that). It might be considered a long-awaited sequel (long-awaited by whom we’re not sure) to our ‘true or false’ quiz compiled for April Fools’ Day in 2014. Below are 20 questions, each of which is accompanied by three possible answers. There, it’s a multiple-choice quiz – surely it can’t be that difficult! But beware: there may be a few traps waiting for the unsuspecting book fan. Indeed, virtually every question is potentially a trick question, so tread carefully…
The answers to the quiz can be found here.
1. The word ‘trilby’, ultimately derived from the name of the title character of an 1894 novel, originally referred to which of these?