Basics Of Literature! Trivia Questions Quiz
These trivia questions quiz are on Basics of Literature! Books can be very interesting, an if you are a member of a book club or own a variety of books, you are in luck as the quiz below will test out just how many books you have read by showing you a line that is consistent with a certain book.
- 1.Who said "the meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights"?
- A.
J. Paul Getty
- B.
Andrew Carnegie
- C.
Howard Hughes
- D.
Donald Trump
- 2.Who said, "the mob has many heads but no brains"?
- A.
Mark Twain
- B.
Ernest Hemingway
- C.
William Shakespeare
- D.
Thomas Fuller
- 3.Who was quoted as saying "Get the facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please"?
- A.
Mark Twain
- B.
Al Capone
- C.
Bill Clinton
- D.
Will Rogers
- 4.Who wrote "advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't"?
- A.
Erica Jong
- B.
Steven King
- C.
Anne Rice
- D.
Suzanne Pulitzer
- 5.Who wrote "Appearances often are deceiving"?
- A.
Shakespeare
- B.
Aesop
- C.
Confucius
- D.
Mark Twain
- 6.Who wrote "art is a jealous mistress"?
- A.
William Shakespeare
- B.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- C.
Mark Twain
- D.
Vincent Van Gogh
- 7.Who wrote "communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work"?
- A.
Will Rogers
- B.
Ernest Hemmingway
- C.
Winston Churchill
- D.
Mark Twain
- 8.Who wrote "conscience does make cowards of us all"?
- A.
Ernest Hemingway
- B.
William Shakespeare
- C.
Charles Dickens
- D.
Mark Twain
- 9.Who wrote, "coward die many times, the valiant never taste death but once"?
- A.
Mark Twain
- B.
William Shakespeare
- C.
Douglas Macarthur
- D.
Ernest Hemingway
- 10.Who wrote "Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old"?
- A.
Jonathan Swift
- B.
Stephen King
- C.
Mark Twain
- D.
Thomas Jefferson
- 11.From whom did we get the quote "Hitch your wagon to a star"?
- A.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- B.
Mark Twain
- C.
Henry David Thoreau
- D.
William Shakespeare
- 12.Who wrote "Let's kill all the lawyers"?
- A.
William Shakespeare
- B.
Ernest Hemingway
- C.
Francis Bacon
- D.
Mark Twain
- 13.Who wrote "no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"?
- A.
Aristotle
- B.
Confucius
- C.
Aesop
- D.
Plato
- 14.Who wrote "The more things change, the more they stay the same"?
- A.
Benjamin Franklin
- B.
Alan Greenspan
- C.
Alphonse Karr
- D.
Steve Allen
- 15.Who wrote "The perception of beauty is a moral test"?
- A.
Henry David Thoreau
- B.
Percy Shelley
- C.
William Shakespeare
- D.
Mark Twain
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