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.
15 questions · Published October 21, 2024
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What author based the visual distortions in his beloved book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" on his chronic migraine headaches?
English author Lewis Carroll suffered from severe migraines—and possible epilepsy—which often resulted in visually distorted images and shapes.
This particular symptom of migraines, aura, is now called "'Alice in Wonderland' syndrome" because its manifestation can resemble the sudden size-changes in the book.
- Fill In The Blank
2. Once a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark ________.
FUN FACT
Samuel Clemens's pen name Mark Twain originated from his time on Mississippi riverboats, where a river depth of two fathoms was known as a "mark twain."
- Multiple Choice
3. Whose sisters Charlotte and Anne were also well-known Victorian era authors?
FUN FACT
The Brontë sisters—Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—were all born within four years of each other.
- Multiple Choice
4. Famous for his 1949 dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," which author was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903?
FUN FACT
Born in British India, Eric Arthur Blair chose the pen name George Orwell after his favorite place, the River Orwell in Suffolk, England.
- Multiple Choice
5. Best known for his 1990s legal thrillers, who wrote the comedic 2001 holiday novel "Skipping Christmas"?
Topping The New York Times Best-Seller List in 2001, John Grisham's "Skipping Christmas" was adapted into the 2004 film "Christmas with the Kranks."
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