Books & authors
The “Nobel laureates in literature” quiz — Books & authors. It has 25 questions in five categories: Who Wrote It?, Nobel Milestones, Literary Places, Characters & Books, Stage & Verse. 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 Nobel laureate wrote The Old Man and the Sea, about Santiago’s struggle with a marlin?
Whose 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude follows the Buendía family?
Which Nobel laureate won…
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In the gameWhich Nobel laureate became…
In the gameWhich singer-songwriter won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Which Canadian master of the short story won the 2013 literature Nobel?
Who became the first…
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In the gameWhich French poet received…
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In which city do literature laureates usually receive their Nobel medals?
In which city does Orhan Pamuk set The Museum of Innocence?
What fictional town is…
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In the gameGünter Grass’s The Tin…
In the gameRalph and Piggy are stranded with other boys on an island. Name William Golding’s novel.
Meursault attends his mother’s funeral at the start of which Albert Camus novel?
Sethe and Denver live…
In the gameFlorentino Ariza waits decades…
In the gameKathy H. remembers growing…
In the gameWhich Nobel-winning playwright wrote Pygmalion, the basis for My Fair Lady?
Vladimir and Estragon wait beside a tree in a play by which 1969 Nobel laureate?
Who wrote Twenty Love…
In the gameWhich Polish poet won…
In the gameWhich Saint Lucian Nobel…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.