September Quiz Questions

Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

Literature

  1. Which Tolstoy novel begins “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”?
  2. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
  3. Who wrote A Child’s History of England?
  4. Who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in Nov 1850?
  5. Apart from his novels, what is Anthony Trollope remembered for?
  6. Which two-word term was popularised by a 1948 Robert Heinlein novel of the same name, which inspired a science fiction franchise centring on a character named Tom Corbett?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

4 thoughts on “September Quiz Questions”

  1. @kcm Did you just forgot to delete the answer in #3 ?

      1. @kcm I hope it really is, because I still can see the original version with the answer on my end!

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