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Literary classics quiz

David Whitley, 27/11/202427/11/2024

This quiz is all about the geographical links in classic works of literature. That means you’ll flit from Shakespearean castles to river boats. Can you get 10/10?

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Literary classics quiz

This quiz is all about the geographical links in classic works of literature. That means you’ll flit from Shakespearean castles to river boats. Can you get 10/10?

1 / 10

Which 17th century Miguel de Cervantes novel about a self-ordained knight-errant is set in the largely rural Spanish region of La Mancha?

2 / 10

In which Central European city can you visit a museum by the Vltava River devoted to the dystopian author of the Metamorphosis, the Trial and the Castle?

3 / 10

Along which American river, which lends its name to a US state, is Mark Twain’s the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set?

4 / 10

In which 1908 L M Montgomery novel is an 11-year-old orphan sent to a farm in the fictional town of Avonlea in Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island?

5 / 10

In which Alexandre Dumas novel is the main character imprisoned on the Chateau d’If, a fortified island off the coast of Marseille, France?

6 / 10

Although not mentioned by name in the book, which major African river is the setting for Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness – later adapted for film as Apocalypse Now?

7 / 10

Which magical realism classic is largely set in the fictional town of Macondo, home to multiple generations of the Buendia family, and inspired by the author’s real-life birthplace of Aracataca in Columbia?

8 / 10

What is the name of the 718 metre-tall former volcano near Mt Macedon in Victoria, Australia, where three girls disappear in a classic 1967 pseudo-historical novel by Joan Lindsay?

9 / 10

Which fantastical 2001 novel about against-the-odds survival after a shipwreck, with a key character called Richard Parker, begins in the French-influenced Indian city of Puducherry?

10 / 10

Albeit renamed as an anglicised version of the town, the World Heritage-listed Kronborg Castle in Helsingor, Denmark, is the main setting for which Shakespeare play?

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Book recommendations

For more brain-teasers with a twist, I recommend the map-centric Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book and the lateral thinking-sparking GCHQ Puzzle Book.

For absolutely astonishing tales of mutiny, shipwreck and survival, Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash and The Wager by David Grann cover two of the most riveting true stories you’ve probably never heard of.

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