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Every topic links to sample questions you can preview before you play — each one stocked from easy warm-ups through to expert-level stumpers.

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Sample Language & Literature Quiz Questions

A mix of easy, medium and hard — questions run from warm-up to expert, so there's a real challenge at every level. Think you know the answers? Play to find out.

1. 1.This author wrote the dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • George Orwell
   • Aldous Huxley
   • Ray Bradbury
   • H.G. Wells

   From 1984 by George Orwell Trivia →

2. 2.This young French woman is the daughter of Dr. Manette and becomes the moral center of the novel.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • Miss Pross
   • Madame Defarge
   • Madame Evrémonde
   • Lucie Manette

   From A Tale of Two Cities Trivia →

3. 3.This literary critic coined the term "anxiety of influence" to describe how poets struggle against their predecessors' overwhelming power.

   Difficulty: Hard
   • Harold Bloom
   • Lionel Trilling
   • Edmund Wilson
   • Leslie Fiedler

   From American Literature Trivia →

4. 4.This thinker, forced to drink hemlock in 399 BCE, never wrote down his teachings but influenced Western thought through his famous student's dialogues.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • Anaximander
   • Pythagoras
   • Socrates
   • Thales

   From Ancient Greek Philosophy Trivia →

5. 5.Before European contact, Australia was home to approximately this many distinct Aboriginal language groups.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • 50
   • 100
   • 250
   • 500

   From Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology Trivia →

6. 6.This logical treatise by Dignaga established Buddhist epistemology, distinguishing perception from inference as valid sources of knowledge.

   Difficulty: Hard
   • Abhidharmakosha
   • Pramanasamuccaya
   • Madhyamakakarika
   • Nyayabindu

   From Buddhism Trivia →

7. 7.This little pig's house of bricks was the only one that could withstand the Big Bad Wolf's huffing and puffing.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • The First Little Pig
   • The Second Little Pig
   • The Third Little Pig
   • The Fourth Little Pig

   From Children's Literature Trivia →

8. 8.This Confucian term describes a family's collective obligation to venerate deceased members through rituals and offerings.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • Earth worship (jidi)
   • Ancestor worship (jizu)
   • Nature spirits (shen)
   • Heaven worship (jitian)

   From Confucianism Trivia →