This quiz brings together celebrated writers, iconic fictional settings, tragic heroes, and memorable works that have shaped literature and culture. Moving from medieval-inspired fantasy and wizarding schools to American classics and English drama, it offers a broad but carefully balanced challenge. The result is a quiz set that rewards both general reading knowledge and attention to famous literary detail.
Category: Literature
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
1. In the literary world of Game of Thrones, King’s Landing becomes the centre of a powerful religious uprising whose followers adopt the name of a very common bird. Under their influence, the sect soon comes to dominate the city. What bird gave this movement its name?
Sparrow
Category: Literature
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
2. In the world of Harry Potter, Hogwarts School is organised into four houses. Alongside Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw, which house completes the set?
Hufflepuff
Category: Literature
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
3. In whose house in Key West, Florida — today a museum — does a large population of cats still live, about half of them polydactyl, meaning that they have more toes on their paws than usual, like their ancestor Snow White?
Ernest Hemingway
Category: Film
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
4. What is the title of Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Donald Westlake’s novel The Ax, released last year and starring Lee Byung-hun in the central role?
No Other Choice
Category: Literature
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
5. In July 1961, Ernest Hemingway, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, took his own life with a shotgun. Nearly a decade earlier, in 1952, he had published the short novel that earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, while the following year he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. What was the title of that final major work published in his lifetime?
The Old Man and the Sea
Category: Literature
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
6. The Forsyte Saga secured a lasting place in English literature for a writer who later received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 and whose name is also linked with the founding of PEN. Who is being described?
John Galsworthy
Category: Literature
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
7. In the great Shakespearean tragedy Othello, much of the action and emotional force of the play is concentrated around one female character. Othello, a military leader, becomes fatally jealous of his wife, and that jealousy leads to catastrophe for both husband and wife alike. What was the name of Othello’s unfortunate spouse?
Desdemona