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101 Book Quote Trivia Questions for Extreme Bibliophiles

Ok.“Call me Ishmael.” “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” If you know the origins of any or all of these quotes, you probably have the smarts to ace a book quotes quiz!

Books give us the pleasure of language. They have great stories, but we can get those from movies and podcasts. Books, however, take our imaginations to different worlds and allow us to live outside our experiences. If you’re an avid reader, take a peek at these book quotes trivia questions and answers to test your knowledge.

Want to focus your knowledge to even more specific areas? Check out our quizzes on Charles Dickens, Lord of the Rings, and even children’s literature for those young at heart! 

Which John Steinbeck novel features this line, ‘Trouble with mice is you always kill ’em.’?

Viva Zapata

East of Eden

The Grapes of Wrath

Of Mice and Men

Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning’ are the directions to where?

Darkest Peru

Wonderland

Mount Doom

Neverland

Complete the famous line from a JRR Tolkein classic: ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a ….’?

elf

hobbit

dwarf

orc

What is the first name of the character in The Sixth Sense who utters the quote ‘I see Dead People’?

Connor

Carl

Callum

Cole

According to Jane Austen, a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of what?

Wife

Horse

Mansion

Carriage

Complete the title of the Judy Blume book – ‘Are you there God? It’s me, …’

Margaret

Susan

Judy

Carol

Whose book The God Delusion contains the line ‘We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in.’

Bill Bryson

Richard Dawkins

Stephen Hawkins

Ian Rankin

How many parts were there to the Shakespeare play Henry VI?

4

2

1

3

Which John Grisham thriller has the line ‘Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected’?

The Testament

The Firm

The Pelican Brief

A Time to Kill

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation’ is a line from which book, which shares its name with a famous singer?

Tom Jones

Taylor Swift

Madonna

Shirley Bassey

Complete the line from Green Eggs and Ham: ‘I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, …’

not a bit

Sam I Am

Cat in the Hat

I prefer chocolate

Lashings of ginger beer’ is often wrongly given as a quote from which children’s adventure series?

Alex Rider

Tracey Beaker

Secret Seven

Famous Five

Fill the blank in the Wizard of Oz quote: ‘Some people without … do an awful lot of talking, don’t you think’

ideas

tongues

hearts

brains

How many parts were there to the Shakespeare play Henry IV?

3

2

4

1

Complete the 1984 slogan : ‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is …’

bliss

freedom

peace

strength

Which teenager writes ‘My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.’

Phileas Fogg

Ginny Weasley

Adrian Mole

Hermione Granger

Who said at the end of the Wizard of Oz ‘Aunt Em! I’m so glad to be at home again!’

Lion

Dorothy

Scarecrow

Tin Man

Four legs good, two legs bad’ is a quote from which George Orwell classic?

Animal Farm

Burmese Days

1984

Coming up for air

To sleep, perchance to dream’ is a line from which work by William Shakespeare?

Macbeth

Taming of the Shrew

All’s Well That Ends Well

Hamlet

Complete the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory quote: ‘Rainbow drops – suck them and you can … in six different colors’

sleep

laugh

spit

sing

Complete the famous quote from a Clint Eastwood character ‘Go ahead, make my…’?

Life

Evening

Night

Day

Mrs. Lando, when your husband enrolled Mathilda at Spencer, he told us she had ‘problems’. Name the film?

Seven

Leon

Pulp Fiction

Fight Club

Which two-faced character says, ‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way’ in a Stevenson novel?

Lord Voldemort

Frankenstein

Dr Jekyll

Dracula

When Alice in Wonderland comes to a fork in the road and asks ”Which road do I take?’, who answers?

Mad Hatter

Cheshire Cat

Nobody

White Rabbit

In the The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the bunnies are told ‘Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there.’ What happened?

He got lost

The children kept him as a pet

He was put in a pie

He was chased by the cat

Complete the Les Miserables quote: ‘He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with ….’

food

two

another

it

Fill in the blanks of a famous quote from a Cher movie ‘_____ out of it’?

Leave

Get

Go

Snap

Shakespeare’s quote ‘there never was a story of more woe’ is about which of his works?

Macbeth

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

Othello

Which book contains, ‘Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one’?

1984

Cujo

The Hunger Games

Killing Floor

The great fish moved silently through the night water’ is the first line of what book?

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

Jaws

Moby Dick

The lady doth protest too much, methinks’ is often quoted, but what Shakespeare work is it from?

Richard III

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Othello

Hamlet

Finish the following quote from The Great Gatsby: ‘that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little….’?

friend

sister

fool

companion

Who ‘ate someone’s liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone’?

Hannibal Lecter

Dracula

Vito Corleone

Lord Voldemort

In the Three Musketeers, Dumas says which is ‘the most selfish of all the passions’?

love

jealously

anger

bitterness

Da-da da-da da da. I am your singing telegram’ comes from which film?

Tricks

Moonstruck

Gladiator

Clue

Which Lord of the Rings character refers to a valuable item as ‘My Precious’?

Gollum

Frodo

Gimli

Bilbo

What race of being says ‘Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.’ to Frodo in Lord of the Rings?

Elf

Dwarf

Human

Orc

Complete the famous quote from Jaws ‘You’re gonna need a bigger…’?

Rod

Boat

Gun

Wire

Complete the last line of Cecelia Ahearn’s novel P.S. I Love You: ‘In the meantime, she would just …’?

dream

make a cup of tea

live

go to sleep

What is the first name of the character in Jerry Maguire who says the famous line ‘Show me the money’?

Tod

Brad

Clive

Rod

How old was Shakespeare when he married Anne Hathaway?

15

31

18

21

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need’ is a line from which watery book?

Three Men in a Boat

Swallows and Amazons

Jaws

Titanic

Complete the famous quote from the Marathon Man ‘Is it…’?

Today

Here

Safe

Now

Who wrote that there was ‘no place like home’ in the Wizard of Oz?

C S Lewis

Charles Dickens

Frank L Baum

A A Milne

Who wrote the line in the Godfather ‘Great men are not born great, they grow great ‘?

Mario Puzo

J J Connolly

Iain Parke

Graham Greene

Which singer writes in his autobiography ‘There are lots of things I really like besides girls’.

Ronan Keating

George Michael

Harry Styles

Justin Bieber

Fill in the blanks of this famous movie quote ‘I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little ____ too’?

Friends

Lion

Dog

Cat

Complete the famous quote from ‘The Sixth Sense’: ‘I see ____ people’?

Real

Invisible

Dead

Many

According to Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island, ‘dead men don’t…’

carry treasure

tell secrets

bite

sail ships

Two rights don’t equal a ..’ what, according to Roald Dahl’s BFG?

another right

chicken

left

wrong

Beatrix Potter writes ‘Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and …?’

Susan

Bobby

Jimmy

Peter

Who is described as ‘the girl who was on fire’ in The Hunger Games?

Katniss

Effie

Peeta

Primrose

As well as plays, Shakespeare wrote many sonnets. How many lines are there in a sonnet?

7

4

21

14

The quote ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ is from a book written by which author?

John Dalberg

John Stuart Mill

Tony Blair

Karl Marx

Which author wrote, ‘Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.’?

Alice Sebold

George Orwell

Harper Lee

Stephanie Meyer

Finish the quote from Wuthering Heights ‘Honest people don’t hide their ….’

deeds

thoughts

family

money

What kind of beans are mentioned in the famous Hannibal Lector quote regarding a census takers liver?

Runner

Fava

Baked

Green

How far does big nut brown hare say she loves little nutbrown hare in ‘Guess How Much I Love You’?

Over the fields

To the stars

As far as I can reach

To the moon and back

The line ‘All morons hate it when you call them a moron’ is from Catcher in the Rye by which author?

Holden Caulfield

Jane Austen

Charlotte Bronte

JD Salinger

What ‘drowns out all but the brightest stars?’ according to Lord of the Rings?

sunshine

moonlight

fear

darkness

Fill in the blanks of this famous quote ‘Nobody puts ___ in the corner’?

Baby

Them

Us

Lady

Which spell are the Hogwarts’ students learning when they are told to ‘Swish and flick’?

Lumos

Accio

Wingardium leviosa

Avada Kedavra

Complete the famous movie quote: ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing…’?

Soon

Ever

Yet

As Good

The line from Treasure Island is ‘yo ho ho and a bottle of…’ what?

rum

beer

gin

whisky

One you are real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.’ Who wrote this book?

J. K. Rowling

Margery Williams

Jodi Picoult

Roald Dahl

To be, or not to be: that is the question’ is the most famous line in which Shakespeare work?

Othello

Macbeth

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

Complete the title of the play by William Shakespeare- As You ??? It

Wish

Like

Saw

Want

Which author wrote, ‘When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.’?

Stephen Chbosky

John Green

Annabell Pitcher

Yann Martel

Which book contains the line ‘All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’?

Animal Farm

Love in the Time of Cholera

1984

Brave New World

Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash’ is a quote from which J G Ballard novel?

The Burning World

Hig Rise

Crash

Empire of the Sun

Who wrote ‘The universe doesn’t allow perfection’ in ‘A Brief History of Time’?

Charles Darwin

Stephen Hawking

Albert Einstein

Isaac Newton

Which scientist logically argues, ‘If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?’

Isaac Newton

Stephen Hawking

Albert Einstein

Bill Gates

Which sport is referred to in the quote ‘Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion’?

Cricket

Polo

Tennis

Gold

In Animal Farm, George Orwell says which animal ‘is the only creature which consumes without producing’?

man

pigs

ducks

dogs

What book is this quote from: ‘what a slut time is. She screws everybody’?

The Fault In Our Stars

Game of thrones

Life of pi

The hunger games

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre says ‘I would always rather be happy than ….’?

married

lonely

dignified

selfish

Which author wrote in Anna Karenina, ‘if you look for perfection, you’ll never be content’?

Solzhenitsyn

Nabokov

Tolstoy

Brodsky

Which character in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is told: ‘you’re turning into a penguin. Stop it.’

Arthur

Marvin

Trillian

Ford

What is the first name of the character who utters the line ‘I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse’?

Dito

Nito

Tito

Vito

One plus two plus two plus one’ is a famous line from which movie?

Gladiator

Moonstruck

Tricks

Clue

Which author wrote, ‘Maybe okay will be our always.’?

John Grisham

John Green

Irvine Welsh

Andy McNab

Complete the quote from Girl With A Pearl Earring ‘I did not mind the … so much when he was there’.

house

company

cold

summer

According to the title of the book. ‘Highly Successful People’ have how many habits?

18

7

5

10

Complete the Samuel Becektt quote: ‘Let’s go.’ ‘We can’t.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘We’re waiting for….’

a bus

Susan

Christmas

Godot

Who wrote the oft quoted lines ”He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.’

Enid Blyton

W H Auden

Agatha Christie

JB Priestley

Which Stephen King horror novel has the line ‘High school isn’t a very important place. When you’re going you think it’s a big deal, but when it’s over nobody really thinks it was great’?

Misery

It

The Shining

Carrie

Fill in the blank in the quote from the novel Cloud Atlas ‘What is a BLANK, but a multitude of drops’

waterfall

river

ocean

stream

Everyone loves a …’ what, according to the Da Vinci Code?

winner

conspiracy

holiday

good story

What book is this quote from: ‘I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free’?

Wuthering Heights

Animal Farm

Pride and Prejudice

To Kill A Mockingbird

Fill in the blanks in this famous movie quote ‘This is another fine _____ you’ve gotten me into’?

Mess

Fight

Blunder

Scrap

Snap out of it’ appears in Moonstruck. Who is the popstar actress who says this line?

Cher

Etta James

Beyonce

Madonna

According to Douglas Adams, what is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?

42

68

19

35

The quote ‘All children, except one, grow up’ refers to which character?

Winnie the Pooh

Peter Pan

Heidi

Harry Potter

Which teenager says ‘Pandora! My lost love! Now I will never stroke your treacle hair!’?

Winston Smith

Adrian Mole

Ron Weasley

Katniss Everdeen

Who tells Charlie ‘I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true’ in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Augustus Gloop

Veruca Salt

Grandpa Jo

Willie Wonka

Nothing captures human interest more than human ________ ‘ in ‘Angels and Demons’?

love

friendship

compassion

tragedy

Something is rotten in the state of ….’ where, according to William Shakespeare?

France

Scotland

Denmark

England

Complete the famous quote ‘Forget it ____, Its Chinatown’?

Jake

Jack

James

Jimmy

Complete the famous line from Casablanca’ ‘Here’s looking at you…’?

Lover

Darling

Doll

Kid

What season is said to be like ‘sun shining on the rain and rain falling on the sunshine’ in The Secret Garden?

winter

autumn

spring

summer

What career is mentioned in Oliver Twist with: ‘We won’t make …. of you, while there’s an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to’

a teacher

a policeman

an author

a politician

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