Welcome to our Non-fiction Book Quizzes
Who wrote the following nonfiction books...
Quiz I
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- The Female Eunuch
- Roots
- The Naked Ape
- Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples
- A Year in Provence
- The Wealth of Nations
- Utopia
- Born Free
- Homage to Catalonia
- Notes from a Small Island
Answers:
- Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
- Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch)
- Alex Haley (Roots)
- Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape)
- John Gray (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus)
- Winston Churchill (A History of the English Speaking Peoples)
- Peter Mayle (A Year in Provence)
- Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)
- Sir Thomas Moore (Utopia)
- Joy Adamson (Born Free)
- George Orwell (Homage to Catalonia)
- Bill Bryson (Notes from a Small Island)
Nonfiction Books Quiz II
- The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- Das Kapital
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- The Descent of Man
- The Road to Wigan Pier
- Ecclasiastical History of the English Nation
- Travels With a Donkey in the Ceevennes
- Gallic Wars
- Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- The Compleat Angler
- Dreams From My Father
Answers:
- Dr Benjamin Spock (The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care)
- Karl Marx (Das Kapital)
- T. E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)
- Charles Darwin (The Descent of Man)
- George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier)
- Venerable Bede (Ecclasiastical History of the English Nation)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Travels With a Donkey in the CeĢvennes)
- Julius Caesar (Gallic Wars)
- Mungo Park (Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa)
- J. M. Keynes (The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money)
- Izaak Walton (The Compleat Angler)
- Barack Obama (Dreams From My Father)
Non-fiction Books III
- Which 1972 illustrated manual was edited by British author Alex Comfort?
- Which book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter in Fleet Street, London, in August 1954?
- The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World is a book by three Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Tenzin Gyatso and the 14th Dalai Lama are two, who was the third author?
- The Britannica, an English-language encyclopaedia, was first published between 1768 and 1771 in which British city?
- Which British explorer was first to publish the Kama Sutra in English?
- What is the title of Stephen Hawking's very popular-science book on cosmology, and the origin and evolution of the universe?
- In The Diary of Anne Frank, by what name does Anne Frank call her diary?
- Written by Dan Gookin and published in November 1991, complete the title of the book; "DOS For ..."?
- Writer Terry Deary is associated with which successful series of books?
- Fever Pitch, tells the story of author Nick Hornby's relationship with which football club?
- Alfred Wainwright's guidebook published between 1955 and 1966 has become the standard reference work to exploring which part of England?
- Bradshaw's Guide, by George Bradshaw, is a guide on which subject?
- A Room of One's Own is an extended essay, first published in September 1929, by which writer?
- Who wrote close to one million words in his 1614 prose work History of the World?
- John Wisden launched an alamanack about which sport in 1864?
Answers:
- The Joy of Sex
- The Guinness Book of Records
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Edinburgh
- Richard Burton
- A Brief History of Time (A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes)
- Kitty
- Dummies
- Horrible Histories
- Arsenal
- Lake District (also accept Cumbria)
- Railways (railway guides and timetables)
- Virginia Woolf
- Walter Raleigh
- Cricket