Our Big Centenary Quiz: 100 Questions for 100 years!
This quiz poses a question for each of the 100 Centenary Collection books.
This quiz is hard! Some questions are multiple choice, some questions are easy and some questions are brutal!
The passing mark for this is just 50% so have a go by yourself or with a team the first time, and you have our permission to search the internet on your second attempt!
Good luck!
Results
The 1920s
#1. How much was the manuscript for ‘A Passage to India’ sold for in 1960 to raise money for the London Library?
#2. Which Spiderman played Nick Carraway in the 2013 film adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’?
#3. What game did Winnie the Pooh invent?
#4. How many canonical Sherlock Holmes short stories are there?
#5. In which country was ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ NOT banned for obscenity?
#6. What is the name of Woolf’s fictional sister of William Shakespeare?
The 1930s
#7. In which city is most of the novel ‘Vile Bodies’ set?
#8. What depressing thing happens to Babar’s parents at the beginning of the book?
#9. What is the name of the drug everyone takes in ‘Brave New World’?
#10. Which newspaper was ‘Thank You, Jeeves’ serialised in before publication?
#11. What star do the Banks children go Christmas shopping with?
#12. How many Father Brown mysteries are there?
#13. Which of the below was not married to Scarlett O’Hara?
#14. What animal does Lennie want to keep on his and George’s farm?
#15. Which of Greene’s other novels sets the events of Brighton Rock in motion?
#16. What Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is based on ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’, T. S. Eliot?
The 1940s
#17. In which country did Hemmingway write the majority of ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’?
#18. In which county is ‘Frenchman’s Creek’ set?
#19. How much did ‘Body in the Library’ cost when it was first published?
#20. Which of the below are not part of the Famous Five?
#21. Where is Jorge Luis Borges from?
#22. In which county is ‘Ross Poldark’ set?
#23. What is the name of the castle ‘Titus Groan’ is set in?
#24. How many volumes was Anne Frank’s diary written in?
#25. In which war was Churchill a prisoner of war?
#26. In 1984, what is the name of the leader of the Party?
The 1950s
#27. How many words are in the current US edition of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe?
#28. Which comic actor did JD Salinger’s ex-girlfriend go on to marry?
#29. Which Studio Ghibli film is based on The Borrowers?
#30. What is the name of the robot dog that burns houses down in Farenheit 451?
#31. Which two members of the Fellowship of the Ring die?
Select all that apply:
#32. Who directed the 1962 film adaptation of Lolita?
#33. What ITV comedy-drama is based on ‘My Family and Other Animals’?
#34. Despite being a Russian novel, what language was Doctor Zhivago originally published in?
#35. In ‘Things Fall Apart’ what is the name of Okonkwo’s tribe?
#36. What are the names of Hill House’s caretakers?
#37. Who played Atticus Finch in the 1962 film?
#38. What famous director, who is also in the Muppet Movie, plays a role in the 1970 film adaptation of Catch-22?
#39. Who directed the 1971 film adaptation of ‘A Clockwork Orange’?
#40. What did Sylvia Plath do to Ted Hughes when they first met?
#41. Which city’s campaign does ‘Why We Can’t Wait’ focus on?
#42. Who plays Paul in the new Dune films?
#43. What classic novel is ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ a prequel to?
#44. What genre did Gabriel Garcia Marquez help to popularize?
#45. Who directed the 1968 film adaptation of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’?
#46. How many things did the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat in total?
The 1970s
#47. In Blume’s novel, what is the name of the club Margaret forms with her friends?
#48. What real life political figure is subject of an assassination plot in Day of the Jackal?
#49. What channel shows the TV adaptation of ‘All Creatures Great and Small’?
#50. In ‘The Princess Bride’, how does Inigo Montoya identify the man who killed his father?
#51. Which city is James Baldwin from?
#52. What famous short story is in ‘The Wind’s Twelve Quarters’?
#53. Who plays Lestat in the 1994 film adaptation of ‘Interview With A Vampire’?
#54. Who directed the 1980 film adaptation of ‘The Shining’?
#55. What real life event do the events of ‘the Eye Of The Needle’ revolve around?
#56. According to Douglas Adams, what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
The 1980s
#57. Where does Name of the Rose take place?
#58. What major event features in Midnight’s Children?
#59. What spooky time does Sophie see the BFG?
#60. Which two Lord of the Rings actors are in the TV adaptation of the Colour of Magic?
Select all that apply:
#61. Which US president called ‘The Hunt For Red October’ “Unputdownable”?
#62. How many Booker prizes has Margaret Atwood won?
#63. ‘Maus 1’ was the first graphic novel to win which literature prize?
#64. What is the name of the enslaved woman ‘Beloved’ is based on?
#65. How many weeks did ‘A Brief History of Time’ spend on the Sunday Times best seller list?
#66. What literature prize did ‘Remains of the Day win?
The 1990s
#67. In ‘Good Omens’, what band does Crowley’s car radio play no matter what else he puts on?
#68. Who plays Patrick Bateman in the 2000 American Psycho film?
#69. How many novels had Grisham written before ‘The Pelican Brief’?
#70. How many copies of ‘Birdsong’ were sold in the first print run?
#71. How long did Nelson Mandela spend in prison?
#72. In ‘Northern Lights’ what animal is Lyra’s daemon Pan (mostly)?
#73. Which pop star wrote the music for the cancelled Bridget Jones musical?
#74. Which suburb of Bristol did J.K Rowling go to school in?
#75. In Naruto Vol 1, what is Naruto training to be?
The 2000s
#76. What London theatre produced the stage adaptation of ‘White Teeth’?
#77. What is the name of the tiger Pi gets shipwrecked with, in ‘The Life of Pi’?
#78. In ‘Kafka on the Shore’, what is Kafka’s alter ego’s name?
#79. What town in Iowa is Bill Bryson from?
#80. Which 2021 blockbuster did David Mitchell co-write?
#81. Which other author in our centenary collection beat Stieg Larsson to the best selling book of 2008?
#82. What is the name of Boyne’s 2022 sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
#83. In what year did Khaled Hosseini’s family to move from Afghanistan to the United States?
#84. Who spares and then saves Katniss and Peeta at the end of ‘The Hunger Games’?
#85. How many literary prizes has Hilary Mantel won?
#86. The 2010s
#87. Which awards was Donoghue’s screenplay for Room NOT nominated for?
#88. What is the pseudonym Julian Barnes uses for his crime novels?
#89. In what year did Malala Yousafzai become the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
#90. Which other author with a book in our Centenary Collection does Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie cite as an inspiration?
#91. Which actor links ‘All The Light We Cannot See’ and gamma radiation?
#92. Who plays the protagonist, Rachel, in the film adaptation of ‘The Girl on the Train’?
#93. Which other book in our Centenary Collection served as an inspiration for ‘The Power’?
#94. In ‘The Hate U Give’, what rapper does Thomas cite as an inspiration for her writing?
#95. What’s a crawdad?
#96. Which London university does Bernadine Evaristo teach creative writing at?
