Литературная викторина на английском языке

Литературная   викторина « My favourite books and authors.”

1)    Who wrote “Treasure Island?

2)    Who had a servant name Man Friday? How did he come to work with his master?

3)    Here  are  the  names  of  some  characters from books you are likely to have read:

           Black Beauty, Shere Khan, White Fang, Winnie-Pooh.  Who are they?

4)    Who wrote “Around the World in 80 Days?

5)    Who was the wife of  King Arthur,  and who of  Robin Hood?

6)    Who wrote the “Just So Stories”?

7)    Can you fill in the titles of these books with numbers?  Who wrote the books?           a) “Round the World  in  …  Days”;                                                                              b) “  …Men in a Boat”;                                                                                                c) “The Sign of  …”.

8)    a) What was the name of  King Arthur’s capital?                                                      b) What was the name of  his  sword?                                                                           c) How did  he obtain his sword?                                                                        d) Did Kind Arthur ever really live?

9)    Who is not a British write?                                                                                       a) Charles Dickens,                                                                                            b) William Makepeace Thackeray,                                                                               c) Alan Milne,                                                                                                    d) Enid Blyton,                                                                                                          e) Ernest Hemingway.

10)In  what languages did these men write?                                                       Aesop,  Hans Andersen, Cervantes, Chaucer, Dante, Goethe, Homer, Voltaire.

11) Which famous writer’s  name  is Samuel Clemens?

12) What is the name given to the group of  three  soldiers – Parthos, Athos, Aramis?      Who was their companion? What novel was written about them?  By whom?

13) Who wrote the book called Gulliver’s Travels?

14) Who wrote a story about the Elephant’s child? What was his great fault?

15) Do you know any plays by Shakespeare  in which a ghost appears?

KEY:

        1) Robert Louis Stevenson.

        2) Robinson  Crusoe,   in  the  story by    D. Defoe. Man Friday was brought to Crusoe’s  island by cannibals who wanted to  kill and eat him.  

        3) Black Beauty is a horse (“Black Beauty” by A. Sewell); Shere Khan is a tiger (“The Jungle Book” by R. Kipling);  White Fang is a dog (“White Fang”  by J. London);  Winnie-Pooh is a teddy bear  (“Winnie-the-Pooh” by  A. Milne).

       4) Jules Verne.

       5) King’s Arthur’s wife was Queen Guinevere, and Robin Hood’s wife was Maid Marian. 

       6) R. Kipling.

        7)   a)    “Round the World in 80 Days” (J. Verne)                                                                 b)  “Three Men in Boat”  (Jerome K. Jerome

               c)  “The Sign of Four”  (A. Conan   Doyle

         8)  a) King Arthur’s capital was Camelot.                                                                                       

               b) He had two swords, both called   Excalibur.                                                                                                  

               c) The first he drew out of a stone in  St. Paul’s Church-yard; the other he                          received from the Lady of Lake.

               d) The stories told about King Arthur and his knights are legendary.                                                                  

9)     E.Hemingway was an American writer.

10)                       Aesop wrote in Greek, H. Andersen in Danish, Cervantes in Spanish, Chaucer in   English, Dante in Italian, Goethe in German, Homer in Greek, Virgil in Latin, Voltaire in French.

11)                       Mark Twain.

12)                       They were called The Three Musketeers ( in the novel by A. Dumas).  Their companion was d’Artgnan.

13)                       Jonathan Swift.

14)                       R.Kipling wrote in one of his “Just –So-Stories” about the  Elephant’s child whose great fault was his curiosity.

15)In “Hamlet” there is the ghost of Hamlet’s Father, in “ Julius Caesar” the ghost of Banquo.