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WorksheetsThe Super Tricky English Quiz
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Iago is the villain in which drama?
MacBeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
Voldemort is the villain in which story?
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Jaws
The Hunger Games
Bill Sikes is the villain in which classic Dickens novel?
Great Expectations
Bleak House
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver
Sauron is the villain in which fantasy trilogy?
The Lord of the Rings
The Hunger Games
Maze Runner
Discworld
Cardinal Richelieu is the villain in which novel?
The Three Musketeers
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
1984
Name the dog in 101 Dalmatians
Jasper
Perdita
Rex
Pop
Name the three-headed dog in Harry Potter
Fang
Fluffy
Aragog
Crookshanks
Name the dog in Jaws
Toto
Pippin
Sam
Bruce
Which dog appears in Enid Blyton’s novels?
Tilly
Ted
Thor
Timmy
Which dog accompanied Dorothy to Emerald City?
Toddy
Benji
Toto
Bob
R L Stevenson wrote this adventure novel that inspired film adaptations in 1950, 1972 and 1990.
The Princess Bride
Swiss Family Robinson
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Daniel Craig played which famous spy from an Ian Fleming novel?
Artemis Fowl
James Bond
Ethan Hunt
Jason Bourne
What was the first ever book-to-film adaptation, filmed in 1902?
The Legend of Zorro
Robinson Crusoe
Peter Pan
The Worst Witch
The author PL Travels made Walt Disney’s life difficult whilst making which 1964 Film?
Sleeping Beauty
Pete’s Dragon
The Fox and the Hound
Mary Poppins
What is the name of the poltergeist at Hogwarts which was left out of the film adaptations?
Peeves
Grimes
Innes
Harris
Name the author
Clive Barker
Steven King
Thomas Harris
R L Stine
Name the author
H P Lovecraft
Bram Stoker
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Burns
Name the author
Agatha Christie
Virginia Woolf
Dorris Lessing
Sylvia Plath
Name the author
Toni Morrison
Tayari Jones
Maya Angelou
Octavia Butler
Name the author
Ernest Hemmingway
George Orwell
James Joyce
John Steinbeck
Which classic novel was the inspiration for the TV show Big Brother?
Brave New World
Animal Farm
1984
White Noise
A monster travels from the Carpathian Mountains to London. Guess the novel!
Frankenstein
Dracula
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Lilith
Which book did Roald Dahl write first?
Esio Trot
The BFG
Matilda
James and the Giant Peach
Which man sells his soul to ensure his picture will age rather than himself?
Doctor Faustus
Jay Gatsby
Willy Loman
Dorian Gray
Which classic book begins: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife?’
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Little Women
What is the purpose of a simile?
Compare two things
State a fact
Describe the sound of a word
Bring an object to life
Which of these is a metaphor?
Her hair is as red as blood
Thomas walked slower than his dog
The moon gazed over the sea
My mouth dropped to the ground in shock
Which of these is an example of onomatopoeia?
Okay
Meow
Doll
Hey
Unscramble the letters to find an English teachers name: IMMMLALCSRN
Mrs Sloan
Mrs Hunter
Mr Allison
Mrs McMillan
How many lines does an Octave have in a sonnet?
6
8
16
18
Guess the character: “he was almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big to be allowed, and so wild - long tangles of bushy black hair and beard his most of his face.”
The Bloodbottler
Beorn
The Frost Giant
Hagrid
Guess the character: “the newcomer had shiny black hair, rather like a wooden Dutch doll. She was thin, with large feet and hands, and small, rather peering blue eyes.”
Mary Poppins
Miss Honey
Wendy
Mildred Hubble
Guess the character: “He was a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness.”
James Bond
Long John Silver
Doctor John Watson
Doctor Jekyll
Guess the character: “he had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey clock, a silver scarf over which a white beard hung down below his waist, and immense black boots.”
Albus Dumbledore
Gandalf
Merlin
Rincewind
Guess the character: “she was tiny, probably no more than four and a half feet tall. She looked quite young, I guessed about 25 or 26, and she was very pretty. She had on a rather long stylish black dress...”
The Grand High Witch
Mrs Coulter
Jadis
The Wicked Witch of the West
