Question 1
Which English playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth?
- William Shakespeare
- Oscar Wilde
- George Bernard Shaw
- Christopher Marlowe
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William Shakespeare
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Famous Authors trivia quiz
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Question 2
Which English novelist wrote Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility?
- Charlotte Brontë
- Jane Austen
- Virginia Woolf
- George Eliot
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Jane Austen
Question 3
Which writer created Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?
- H. G. Wells
- Thomas Hardy
- Charles Dickens
- Rudyard Kipling
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Charles Dickens
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