Get everything you need for your Quiz Night in minutes,
save time, less hassle!

  • Over 5000 Questions
  • Add your own custom Questions
  • Team Answer sheets automatically created.
  • Slide Show to project Questions automatically created.
  • Quick and easy scoring.
  • Automatically generate reports on how teams went!
  • $40(USD) $40(AU) £25(UK) $55(NZ)
download trial
Buy Now
15 Quiz Questions on UK Authors

Here are 15 UK Authors Questions that are provided for your Quiz or Trivia Night at no cost. Scroll to the bottom to see the answers.





Question Number

In 2009 Hilary Mantel won much acclaim for her novel describing the machinations or Henry VIIIs court in the perion 1500 to 1535. The book was [W--- H---]

Question Number

Name the influential literary prize given each year for the best original full length novel written in English by a Commonwealth, Irish or Zimbabwean writer. [--- ------ P----]

Question Number

A Whole New World, Pushed to the Limit and You Only Live Once are all books by ... ? [J-----]

Question Number

Richard Adams heroic fantasy Watership Down is about a group of ... ? [R------]

Question Number

Time for a Tiger, 1985, The Pianoplayers and A Clockwork Orange are novels by ... ?

Ted Hughes
Anthony Burgess
Arthur C. Clarke
Neil Gaiman

Question Number

Homage to Catalonia is a personal account of the Spanish Civil War by ... [G----- O-----]

Question Number

I was born in 1864. I worked in India and South Africa, writing tales celebrating British imperialism. My short stories include The Man Who Would Be King, my most famous poem is "If.." Who am I ?

Question Number

In 1956 Science Fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke emigrated to ... ?

France
The United States
Egypt
Sri Lanka

Question Number

Samuel Beckett, Winston Churchill, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot have all ... ?

Served in the Royal Navy
Written novels in French
Won a Nobel prize for Literature
Destroyed complete manuscripts

Question Number

I was born in 1906 in Dublin. I am a bleak avant-garde writer. My theatre works include Eleutheria and Endgame. My novels include Murphy and Molloy. [------ -------]

Question Number

Complete these authors names... [G-----ey C---cer, John M----n, Jonathan S----, ------ Burns]

Question Number

Life of Pi by Yann Martel published in 2001 tells the story of a young boy stranded on a lifeboat with a ... ?

drunken Danish sea captain
bengal tiger
aging mathematician
series of great historical figures

Question Number

In 1997 Arundhati Roy won much acclaim with her novel The God of [S---- T-----]

Question Number

In 2000 Margaret Atwood published her tenth novel The Blind Assassin. True or False ?

True
False

Question Number

Salman Rushdies 1981 novel about Indias transition from colonial rule to independance is ... ?

Shame
The Satanic Verses
East, West
Midnights Children


  • Copyright Oak Focus Software / QuizNightChief 2012 (All Rights Reserved).