This document contains a literature and comics quiz with 28 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of famous novels, poems, comic book characters and creators. The questions cover works by authors like Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, John Milton, Ernest Hemingway, Salman Rushdie and more. They also include questions about comic book characters like Superman, Batman, Tintin, Wolverine and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as the origins of Comic-Con and Amar Chitra Katha comics.

2. the literature and comics quiz

4. • The first set of questions gives you the
opening lines of novels and poems. Just
identify the fictional work. Identify all to get
a point extra.

5. Q1
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune,
must be in want of a wife.

6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

7. Q2
• Happy families are all alike; every unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way.

8. Anna karenina by Leo Tolstoy

9. Q3
•
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our
woe.

10. Paradise Lost by John Milton

11. Q4
• He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff
in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-
four days now without taking a fish.

12. The old man and the sea by Ernest
Hemingway

13. Q5
• "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta
tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to
die."

14. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

15. GENERAL QUIZZING

16. Q6
• After much contemplation, X could not decide on
a name for the attack, so he asked his wife. His
wife came up with the name and the stances
used during the attack. She also told X that it
would be easy to remember the name of the
attack if he used the name of the famous
Hawaiian King named Y. X agreed, and the
_______ attack was born.
The pic below shows the Hawaiian King
mentioned above.

18. Kamehameha

19. Q7

20. X claims to be India’s sole collector of original comic-book
art.A comic-book art is a comic book’s original
sketchwork..something like a blueprint for a comic-book.
A comic book’s original sketch work, after it’s been
scanned for reproduction, is returned to its artist;
companies such as Marvel and DC Comics only own the
rights of reproduction, not the originals themselves.
Hergé sketch for the cover ofTintin in America sold for
$1.22 million. A month later, one dealer said to The New
York Observer: “People who bought this stuff in the 1970s
got a better return than anything else on the market, with
the exception of something like Microsoft.”X is surely
putting his money in the bank!!!!

21. Satyajit Chetri

22. Q8

23. • In this issue of Batman he encountered X, an
iconic personality .

24. Adolf Hitler

25. Q9

26. • In Tintin Comics…there was a famous trip
named Operation Ulysses…What was it all
about?

27. Tintin’s trip to Moon

28. Q10
• X was founded by Detroit, Michigan-born
comics fan Y. When he moved to San
Diego, California in 1970, he organized a one-
day convention on March 21, 1970 "as a kind
of 'dry run' for the larger convention he hoped
to stage." Y went on to be associated with the
convention as president or manager, variously,
for many years until becoming estranged from
the organization. Identify X.

29. Comic Con

30. Q11
• This comic book character made his debut in
January 1983. Unlike other characters in the
magazine, this character was not originally
conceptualized by the creators of the
magazine. He grew out of three stories sent to
the magazzine by a certain Sameer
Salman.Artist Ram Wareekar illustrated the
stories and continued drawing this character
until 2003.Identify.

31. Suppandi

32. Q12)4 painters during the Italian Renaissance
Their 1st names led to the naming of the protagonists of
the strip/movie.

33. Teenage Mutants Ninja Turtle

34. Q13
• X is the largest land-
dwelling species of the
family Mustelidae (weasels).
It is referred by many
names such
as glutton(Gulo
Gulo), carcajou, skunk bear,
or quickhatch.
The state of Michigan is, by
tradition, known as "The X
State", and the University of
Michigan takes the X as its
mascot. Why in a comics
quiz ?

35. Wolverine

36. Q14)Name it..

37. TURBOKAT

38. Q15
• In “Asterix and the Magic Carpet” , a fakir
brings Asterix to India. What’s his name?

39. Whatiznehm

40. Q16
• The X comic series was started by Y in an attempt
to teach Indian children about their cultural
heritage. He was shocked that Indian students
could answer questions on Greek and Roman
mythology, but were ignorant of their own
history, mythology and folklore. It so happened
that a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in
February 1967, in which participants could easily
answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology,
but were unable to reply to the question "In
the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?"

41. Amar Chitra Katha

42. Q17)Give me X..
• I'm Popeye the Sailor Man,
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm strong to the finich
Cause I eats me X.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm one tough Gazookus
Which hates all Palookas
Wot ain't on the up and square.
I biffs 'em and buffs 'em
And always out roughs 'em
But none of 'em gets nowhere.
If anyone dares to risk my "Fisk",
It's "Boff" an' it's "Wham" un'erstan'?
So keep "Good Be-hav-or"
That's your one life saver
With Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man,
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm strong to the finich
Cause I eats me X.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.

43. Spinach

44. Q18
• The site has become a face of freedom and a face of India's liberals. The
site is censored by the Indian government. Initially the creator of the site
have chosen to remain anonymous, going under the assumed collective
name _____________. However in July 2009, Puneet Agarwal , the creator
of the site revealed his identity.
It was criticized for portraying a charcter very similar to that of Amitabh
Bachchan in one of its issues. On 3 June 2009 the government of India
banned the site. Blogger's across the country criticized the move of the
Indian government. There were efforts on the internet to reverse the ban.
The site continues to be popular in India. According to Alexa, it's currently
among the 100 most popular sites in India, and over 80% of the traffic to
the site comes from there. It is printed in 10 different Indian languages,
not counting English. Pluggd.in, a startup blog from India even did a case
study on their growth and strategy.
What is being talked about here?

46. Q19)Some believe he picked it
after the name of a character
in a set of Persian poems.
Others think that it is a
reference to this monkey, a
description of which appears
in his story "The Remoulding of
Groby Lington"
Which famous pseudonym?

47. Saki (H.H Munro)

48. Q20

49. Jingle Bells
• Written by James Lord Pierpont, it was actually
written and sung for Thanksgiving. Jingle Bell is
is commonly taken to mean a certain kind of
bell

50. •Q21)This is the “first”
Amar Chitra Katha
that came out.
However there is
something strange
about its numbering.
• What and why?

51. • #1 – 10 were
reproductions of
popular Western
fairy tales in Indian
languages.

52. Q22
On March 1, 1928, a freckled, snub-nosed
15-year-old boy scout Palle Huld left Copenhagen
and circled the globe. Winner of a competition
run by a Danish newspaper Politiken, Huld was re-
enacting the Phileas Fogg adventure.
What newspaper appearance the following year
suggests that Huld was a wholesome influence?

54. Q23
• Born in Jorhat, X studied sociology at
the Dibrugarh University, and journalism at
the Birla Institute of Liberal Arts and
Management Sciences, Kolkata. She gained
popularity with her column in Letters from
Kolkata in Asom Bani weekly and fame with
her novel HRIDAY EK BIGYAPAN. X?

55. Anuradha Sharma Pujari

56. • The final set of questions will give you the
closing lines of a few poems and novels.
Identify them. Identify all to get a point
extra.

57. Q24
• He was soon borne away by the waves and
lost on darkness and distance.

58. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

59. Q25
‘Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih’

60. The Waste Land by T.S Elliot

61. Q26
• I am thinking of the aurochs and angels, the
secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets,
the refuge of art. And this is the only
immorality you and I may share, my
_________.

62. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

63. Q27
• “Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him
back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”

64. Gone With the Wind by Margaret
Mitchell

65. Q28
• The scar had not pained ______ for nineteen
years. All was well.

66. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K Rowling