Books & authors
The “European literature of the 20th century” quiz — Books & authors. It has 25 questions in five categories: Modernist lives, Dark allegories, War and memory, Mysteries, Other worlds. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which Kafka novella begins when Gregor Samsa wakes up transformed into a giant insect?
In which Virginia Woolf novel does a London hostess buy flowers before her party?
Which James Joyce novel…
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In the gameWhich Orwell novel has Winston Smith watched by Big Brother?
What drug keeps people content in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World?
Which Golding novel has…
In the gameWhich José Saramago novel…
In the gameWhich Anthony Burgess novel…
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Which young diarist wrote while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam?
Which Remarque novel follows Paul Bäumer through the trenches of the First World War?
Which Italian chemist wrote…
In the gameIn which Bernhard Schlink…
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Which Belgian detective investigates a murder aboard Christie’s snowbound Orient Express?
Which Devon moorland is the setting for Sherlock Holmes’s Hound of the Baskervilles?
What is the surname…
In the gameWhich Italian novelist turned…
In the gameIn which Daphne du…
In the gameWhich Saint-Exupéry tale follows a boy who leaves his tiny planet and its rose?
Which Polish novelist created the monster hunter Geralt of Rivia?
What mountain must Frodo…
In the gameWhich boy reads The…
In the gameWhich Italo Calvino book…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.