08 March 2024
Quiz: How well do you know these famous literary destinations?
Can you remember these authors’ famous birthplaces, favourite writing spots and well-known novel settings? If you think you can, this quiz is for you…
Can you remember these authors’ famous birthplaces, favourite writing spots and well-known novel settings? If you think you can, this quiz is for you…
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Let's test your knowledge of some of the world’s great writers – of classic fiction, modern novels, beloved travelogues and poetry – and their most iconic destinations of note.
This includes famous birthplaces, literary hot spots around the world, and well-known novel settings. We’ve thrown in a couple of tricky questions just to make it extra difficult, too. You’d have to be a true travel nut AND extremely well-read to get every single question right, so we’ll be impressed if you can score even half.
Whatever your score, we hope the quiz inspires you to read some classics, pick up a travelogue or two and get the creative juices flowing for your own travel writing. Enjoy!
Jane Austen
Emily Brontë
Mary Shelley
Charlotte Brontë
Once, it was part of Pakistan
It’s a state in Mexico
On the border of Afghanistan
Nice try! Oxiana is a made-up destination
Cuba
Spain
France
USA
India
Indonesia
Italy
Ireland
The Tiger Café
The Elephant House
The Giraffe House
The Kangaroo Café
New Orleans, Louisiana
St Louis, Missouri
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oxford, Mississippi
Spindleruv Mlýn, Czech Republic
Eze, France
Neuschwanstein, Germany
Riegersburg, Austria
It’s a special ward of Tokyo
It’s a city in Hokkaido
It’s an island off coastal Kanto
Nice try! It’s not a real place
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Guernsey
Gone Girl
Keeper of Lost Causes
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Midnight Witness
Interzone by William S. Burroughs
Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles
Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Lullaby by Leila Slimani
Rabindranath Tagore, poet
Salman Rushdie, novelist
Sarojini Naidu, poet and activist called ‘the Nightingale of India’
Arundhati Roy, novelist
Santiago
La Serena
Valparaiso
Concepcion
Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire
Wylam, Northumberland
Stratford-upon-Avon, West Midlands
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire
Trieste, Italy
Zurich, Switzerland
Paris, France
Dublin, Ireland
Burmese Days
Arabian Sands
The Roads To Sata
Silk Road Nights
Haworth
Otley
Dewsbury
Calderdale
Tibet
Iraq
Turkmenistan
Bhutan
Republic of the Congo
Zambia
Mozambique
Gabon
Thebes
Memphis
Aswan
Kom Ombo
Australia and New Zealand
England and Scotland
Czech Republic and Hungary
France and Germany
Mexico
USA
Central America
Argentina
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