Literature Trivia
Literature is one of Sumbo's trivia packs — a multiplayer quiz on books, authors and characters. Race your friends to tap the right answer about novels old and new.
Play the Literature quiz →How the Literature pack plays
Each round shows a literature question — an author, a character, a famous opening line, a Booker or Nobel winner — with four answers. Tap the right one fast: the quicker you lock in, the more points you score.
Every question is multiple choice, so there's no typing, no spelling, just a tap. Ten seconds a question, ten questions a match.
What's in the pack
The classics (Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky), the 20th-century landmarks (Hemingway, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Orwell, Camus, García Márquez), modern fiction (Atwood, Ishiguro, McCarthy, Tartt, Mantel), Shakespeare and the plays, poetry, sci-fi and fantasy (Tolkien, Asimov, Le Guin, Pratchett, Martin), and the children's and YA canon.
A pack you can also slice into themed sub-packs — see "Pick a specific theme" below for tighter quizzes on classics, Shakespeare, sci-fi & fantasy, and more.
A book-club kind of party game
The pack works for book clubs, English-degree groups and casual readers alike. Multiple choice keeps a half-remembered Dickens title in play, and the breadth of the canon means everyone has an era they own.
Create a room, share the code, and up to six people play from their own devices — no accounts, no downloads.
Pick a specific theme
Want a tighter focus than the full pack? Each of these is its own themed quiz, with questions drawn from that topic only.
Frequently asked questions
Is the literature pack free?
Yes — Sumbo is free to play, with no account or download.
How modern is the canon?
It covers classics through modern fiction, including recent Booker and Nobel winners.
Do I need to have read the books?
No — questions test facts (author, character, plot, year), not reading-comprehension depth.
How many people can play?
Up to six players, each on their own device.