ENGLISH TRIVIA

1. ENGLISH
ENGLISH
By Nurhannie Lomabao

2. Dante Alighieri
The author
of the DIVINE COMEDY

3. Victor Hugo
The author
of the LES MISERABLES

4. William Shakespeare
The author
of the JULIUS CAESAR

5. William Shakespeare
The author
of the HAMLET

6. William Shakespeare
The author
of the MACBETH

7. William Shakespeare
The author
of the KING LEAR

8. Virginia Wolf
The author
of the Mrs. Dalloway

9. John Milton
The author
of the Paradise Lost

10. Oscar Wilde
The author
of the famous novel “The
Picture of Dorian Gray”

11. Victor Hugo
The author
of THE HUNCHBACK OF
NOTREDAME

12. George Orwell
The author
of the ANIMAL FARM
and 1984

13. Chinua Achebe
The author
of the THINGS FALL APART

14. Rudyard Kipling
The author
of THE JUNGLE BOOK

15. JANE AUSTEN
The author
of the PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

16. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The author
of the UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

17. Walt Whitman
The author
of the O’ Captain! My Captain!

18. Edgar Allan Poe
Father of Detective Stories

19. Leo Tolstoy
The author
of the ANNA KARENINA

20. Confucious
The author
of the ANALECTS

21. Vergil/Virgil
The author
of the AENID

22. Robert Frost Jr.
Father of PASTORAL POETRY

23. Francis Bacon
Father of English Essay

24. Renaissance
The Golden Age of English
Literature

25. Gilgamesh
Oldest Epic

26. Mahabharata
Longest Epic

27. King James Bible
Most Influential Book in the
History of English Civilization

28. William Shakespeare
Father of English Drama

29. Zeus
He is known as the ruler of the
Olympians and is respected as
the protector of the Greeks

30. Prometheus
He stole “fire” and gave it to the
humans

31. Rabindranath Tagore
He holds the distinction of
being the first Asian to receive
the Nobel Prize for Literature

32. 1950
The Carlos Palanca Awards was
created in

33. Nick Joaquin
He has the pen name of
“Quijano de Manila” in his
writings

34. Legend
Malakas at Maganda

35. Folktale
Maria Makiling

36. Cuneiform
The early form of Sumerian
writing system

37. Cuneiform- Sumerian
Alibata/Baybayin- Philippines
Heiroglyphics- Egyptians
Sanskrit- Indian
Katakana- Japanese
WRITING SYSTEMS

38. Zeus
ROMAN COUNTERPART
JUPITER

39. Hermes
ROMAN COUNTERPART
Mercury

40. Aphrodite
ROMAN COUNTERPART
VENUS

41. Poseidon
ROMAN COUNTERPART
NEPTUNE