Haha I’m still young enough to not be insulted by the question, turning 25 on Sunday.
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The Hobbit was written/published in 1937, and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was 1950. 
And Stig of the Dump was 1963.
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I’m 1963 vintage, so i grew up on them, i couldn’t really grow up on a book published when i was 26! 
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I only know the Bear Hunt one from reading it to my kids. And I probably would have picked a different Matilda one if I hadn’t read it quite as recently.
I’m hoping the GC one is cribbed from her dad’s book, but I don’t have any idea. Or the Faulty Stars ones.
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I don’t have kids, hence the huge gap in my children’s book knowledge!
Part of the reason there are more than 10 questions was because I wanted my friends to be scored fairly when I originally put the quiz together. I’d feel mean putting together a round knowing people would only be able to come away with 3 or 4 out of 10. I figured that with the spread of books, they’d average about 7, with people who did have a better general knowledge being able to make educated guesses.
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The GC one was definitely an educated guess!
I went with Genesis as I thought it was the most amusing.
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I have actually read Robinson Crusoe!
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Funnily enough, both you and @Ian_Chimp chose different answers to that one and both got the herrings.
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The monkeys definitely wrote her book then!
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How about these then?
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Le premier lundi du mois d’avril 1625, Le bourg de Meung où naquit l’auteur de Roman de la Rose, semblait être dans un révolution aussi entière qui si les huguenots en fussent venus faire une seconde Rochelle.
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En un lugar de La Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo, de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita.
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1, War and Peace?
2, Don Quixote?
3, No idea!
Extraplotated from key words i recognise!
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Love Captain Scarlet!
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To be honest, I thought that last one was by Green Day.
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I can translate number one from French into English but don’t recognise it at all! The others, can probably tell you the language (Spanish and Italian).
Would guess at: Les Mis, Don Quixote and Dante’s Inferno.
Everyone is pretty solid on Don Quixote, and Dante’s Inferno too. The French one is Dumas’ The Three Musketeers.
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On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the small town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the ‘Romance of the Rose’, appeared to be in a state of revolution, as complete as if the Huguenots were come to make a second seige of La Rochelle
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Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
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Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark;
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
(for some reason I thought Dante’s Inferno started with something like ‘a fork in the road’, but I was mistaken. The Green Day joke has failed )
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Literature Quiz Answers!
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Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, JK Rowling
a. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
b. The sound of footsteps thundering down the stairs above Harry’s head startled him awake.
c. Darkness settled over Little Whinging as the last of the streetlamps extinguished with a satisfying plink sound. -
Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell
a. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking one.
b. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
c. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking twelve. -
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
a. Without fail, the sound of crickets always reminded George of home. He smiled to himself. His happiest memories were of living on the farm with his aunt Martha and playing in the creek with his friends. He treasured those moments, hanging on to them during difficult times, times like these.
b. The first rains after the dry season came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth, but nourished it back to health. Green was returning to California after months of dust. The land was being reborn, starting afresh.
c. A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. -
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
a. Call me Ishmael.
b. Call me Isaac.
c. Call me maybe. -
The GC: How to be a Diva, Gemma Collins
a. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And that’s the way it stayed until God created Divas.
b. Hello babes and welcome to the best read of your lives! I am the GC and I am going to be your spirit guide on the journey to being the best version of you. Sit back, relax, and let me show you how to become a true Diva, Essex style.
c. Since the dawn of time, in the days of dinosaurs and the Ice Age movie franchise, before brow stencils, Samsung Galaxies and intimate waxes, there have always been women who are just a bit more fabulous than everyone else. -
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
a. Children, unlike adults, can believe wholeheartedly in all matter of absurdities.
b. All children, except one, grow up.
c. “There’s no such thing as fairies!” Wendy told Michael matter-of-factly. -
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
a. At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of Brandywine Bridge. An old man was driving it all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf.
b. When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
c. Hobbits, at their very core, are creatures of habit. A hobbit will live a peaceful life in the Shire, a land that is fertile and fruitful and untouched by wars; and that is just how they like it. -
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
a. If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.
b. Mr Poe coughed into his handkerchief as he carefully made his way over the pebbles at Briny Beach.
c. The Baudelaire children were not blessed with good fortunes and easy lives. -
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
a. Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I never left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
b. I leant against the wall at the end of my front yard and took a deep breath. There are 12 steps from my front porch to the road and just taking those had been a struggle. Some days are easier than others, but today was not going to be one of those.
c. Cancer. One word, six letters, endless connotations- none of them good. It’s THE label, and once you get stuck with it, nothing else about you matters. I’ve lived with the cancer label slapped across my forehead for nine miserable years now. -
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen
a. We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one. What a beautiful day! We’re not scared.
b. We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re carrying massive shot-guns. Getting a bear skin rug! We’re not scared.
c. We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to be best friends. Can’t wait to have tea parties! We’re not scared. -
Matilda, Roald Dahl
a. Children have a wondrous imagination. They can be anything they desire to be. A doctor, a teacher, a priest, a spaceman, Prime Minister, no dream is too big or too small.
b. In a small room in a small house in a small town lived a small girl. In fact, the only thing not small about Matilda was her love of reading.
c. It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. -
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
a. It was the best of times it was the worst of times.
b. Never have I ever seen such sweet sorrow.
c. There were stark differences between London and Paris in 1751. -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
a. My eyes focused on the grass. You learn from childhood that grass is green and that’s just how it is. Tonight, this particular patch of grass was red.
b. It was seven minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears’ house. Its eyes were closed.
c. Growing up I was one of those kids without friends. You might think that’s sad but honestly, friendship confused me anyway. I liked being alone, alone is easy.
Well done all 
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Ahh I don’t know how I’ve missed all these rounds! And I couldn’t resist opening all the answers so now it would be classed as cheating if I gave them a go 
Good job all though, some brilliant rounds there 
My eyes are peeled for the next one! 
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Work’s been manic the last couple of days. Only just got in but very gutted I completely missed this literature round 
. Used to play a very similar game at my cousins except my Aunt was a teacher and always won!
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