Literature in Spanish trivia questions and answers
The Quickfire pack has 50 Literature in Spanish questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.
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In 'Don Quixote', what is the name of the knight's faithful squire?Very easy
Answer: Sancho Panza (Sancho)
Which poet wrote 'Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair' and 'Canto General'?Very easy
Answer: Pablo Neruda (Neruda)
Which literary style, associated with 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', presents fantastical events as an ordinary part of everyday life?Very easy
Answer: Magical realism (magic realism)
Which Peruvian novelist, author of 'The Time of the Hero' and 'The Feast of the Goat', won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature?Easy
Answer: Mario Vargas Llosa (Vargas Llosa)
What name is given to the flowering of Spanish arts and letters in the 16th and 17th centuries, the era of Cervantes and Lope de Vega?Easy
Answer: The Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro)
Which novel opens: 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon...'?Easy
Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Which Spanish Romantic poet wrote the 'Rimas' and the prose 'Leyendas', including the poem 'Volverán las oscuras golondrinas'?Intermediate
Answer: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Bécquer)
Which anonymous 16th-century Spanish novel, about a boy who serves a blind man and other masters, founded the picaresque genre?Intermediate
Answer: Lazarillo de Tormes (La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes)
Which Nicaraguan poet, author of 'Azul...' (1888), led the Spanish-language modernismo movement?Intermediate
Answer: Rubén Darío (Darío)
Which Spanish Golden Age writer wrote the picaresque novel 'El Buscón' and the satirical sonnet 'To a Nose' ('Érase un hombre a una nariz pegado')?Hard
Answer: Francisco de Quevedo (Quevedo)
Which Chilean writer wrote 'The Savage Detectives' and the posthumous novel '2666'?Hard
Answer: Roberto Bolaño (Bolaño)
Which Spanish novelist from Valladolid wrote 'Five Hours with Mario' and 'The Holy Innocents' (Los santos inocentes)?Hard
Answer: Miguel Delibes (Delibes)
Which Argentine writer, a close friend and collaborator of Borges, wrote 'The Invention of Morel' (1940)?Very hard
Answer: Adolfo Bioy Casares (Bioy Casares)
Which Cuban novelist coined the term 'lo real maravilloso' in the prologue to his 1949 novel 'The Kingdom of This World'?Very hard
Answer: Alejo Carpentier (Carpentier)
In Juan Rulfo's 'Pedro Páramo', what is the name of the ghostly town to which Juan Preciado travels in search of his father?Very hard
Answer: Comala
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