Jane Austen could turn a dance, a dinner invitation, and one badly timed proposal into social fireworks.
These Jane Austen trivia questions center the six completed novels and documented author history, with screen adaptations labeled separately.
Jane Austen's Life and Writing
Begin with the author, her close family, her Hampshire homes, and the publication history behind six enduring novels.
- In what English county was Jane Austen born?
Answer: Hampshire - In what village was Austen born?
Answer: Steventon - In what year was Jane Austen born?
Answer: 1775 - Who were Jane Austen's parents?
Answer: George and Cassandra Austen - What was Jane's only sister's name?
Answer: Cassandra Austen - Was Jane Austen ever married?
Answer: No - What profession did Austen's father have?
Answer: Anglican clergyman - At what Hampshire village did Austen spend her most productive later years?
Answer: Chawton - Which brother provided the Chawton cottage where Jane lived?
Answer: Edward Austen Knight - Under what byline was Sense and Sensibility first published?
Answer: By a Lady - Which novel was the first Austen published?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility - In what year was Pride and Prejudice published?
Answer: 1813 - Which two novels were published together after Austen's death?
Answer: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion - In what city did Jane Austen die?
Answer: Winchester - Where is Jane Austen buried?
Answer: Winchester Cathedral
Pride and Prejudice
Enter Longbourn, Netherfield, and Pemberley for proposals, prejudices, embarrassing relatives, and a famously poor first impression.
- Who is the second-eldest Bennet daughter?
Answer: Elizabeth Bennet - Who is the wealthy owner of Pemberley?
Answer: Fitzwilliam Darcy - What is Mr. Darcy's first name?
Answer: Fitzwilliam - Who is Elizabeth's closest sister?
Answer: Jane Bennet - Who falls in love with Jane Bennet?
Answer: Charles Bingley - What estate does Bingley rent?
Answer: Netherfield Park - Who is the Bennet family's pompous clerical cousin?
Answer: Mr. Collins - Why is Mr. Collins important to Longbourn?
Answer: He is the estate's entailed heir - Whom does Mr. Collins marry?
Answer: Charlotte Lucas - Which officer charms Elizabeth with a false account of Darcy?
Answer: George Wickham - Who elopes with Wickham?
Answer: Lydia Bennet - Who is Darcy's younger sister?
Answer: Georgiana Darcy - Which formidable aunt hopes Darcy will marry her daughter?
Answer: Lady Catherine de Bourgh - What is Lady Catherine's estate called?
Answer: Rosings Park - What is the novel's famous opening topic?
Answer: The supposed need of a wealthy single man for a wife
Sense and Sensibility
The Dashwood sisters approach love and money differently, but both discover that first impressions can be painfully expensive.
- What are the first names of the two central Dashwood sisters?
Answer: Elinor and Marianne - Which sister is associated more with sense?
Answer: Elinor - Which sister is associated more with sensibility?
Answer: Marianne - Where do the Dashwood women move after leaving Norland Park?
Answer: Barton Cottage - Who offers them Barton Cottage?
Answer: Sir John Middleton - Whom does Elinor love?
Answer: Edward Ferrars - Whom does Marianne first love?
Answer: John Willoughby - Which older officer becomes devoted to Marianne?
Answer: Colonel Brandon - What secret engagement complicates Elinor's hopes?
Answer: Edward Ferrars and Lucy Steele's - Who is Edward Ferrars's sister?
Answer: Fanny Dashwood - Who inherits Norland Park?
Answer: John Dashwood - What is the name of the horse Willoughby offers Marianne?
Answer: Queen Mab - What does Willoughby return with his cold letter?
Answer: Marianne's letters and lock of hair - Which sister becomes dangerously ill at Cleveland?
Answer: Marianne - Whom does Marianne eventually marry?
Answer: Colonel Brandon
Emma
Highbury's confident young matchmaker is clever about nearly everyone except herself and her own heart.
- What is Emma's surname?
Answer: Woodhouse - What is Emma's home called?
Answer: Hartfield - In what village does Emma live?
Answer: Highbury - Who is Emma's close friend and former governess?
Answer: Anne Taylor, later Mrs. Weston - Whom does Mrs. Weston marry?
Answer: Mr. Weston - Which young woman becomes Emma's matchmaking project?
Answer: Harriet Smith - Whom does Emma initially hope Harriet will marry?
Answer: Mr. Elton - Whom does Mr. Elton actually propose to?
Answer: Emma - Which neighboring landowner frequently corrects Emma?
Answer: George Knightley - What is Mr. Knightley's estate called?
Answer: Donwell Abbey - Who is Frank Churchill's father?
Answer: Mr. Weston - With whom is Frank Churchill secretly engaged?
Answer: Jane Fairfax - Which talkative Highbury resident lives in reduced circumstances?
Answer: Miss Bates - Where does Emma insult Miss Bates during an outing?
Answer: Box Hill - Whom does Emma eventually marry?
Answer: Mr. Knightley
Mansfield Park
At Mansfield Park, money, amateur theatricals, social performance, and moral judgment complicate Fanny Price's quiet position in the family.
- Who is the heroine of Mansfield Park?
Answer: Fanny Price - Where is Fanny born and raised before moving?
Answer: Portsmouth - Which relatives take Fanny into their home?
Answer: Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram - What is the Bertram family estate called?
Answer: Mansfield Park - Which Bertram cousin is Fanny closest to?
Answer: Edmund Bertram - What profession does Edmund plan to enter?
Answer: The clergy - Who are the sophisticated siblings visiting the neighborhood?
Answer: Henry and Mary Crawford - Whom does Mary Crawford hope to marry?
Answer: Edmund Bertram - Who persistently courts Fanny?
Answer: Henry Crawford - What play do the young people rehearse?
Answer: Lovers' Vows - Who disapproves of staging the play?
Answer: Fanny, and later Sir Thomas - Which Bertram daughter marries Mr. Rushworth?
Answer: Maria Bertram - With whom does Maria later run away?
Answer: Henry Crawford - Who is Fanny's beloved brother?
Answer: William Price - Whom does Fanny eventually marry?
Answer: Edmund Bertram
Northanger Abbey
A fond parody of Gothic fiction sends imaginative Catherine Morland searching for sinister family secrets in a much more ordinary abbey.
- Who is the heroine of Northanger Abbey?
Answer: Catherine Morland - To which spa city does Catherine travel?
Answer: Bath - Who invites Catherine to Bath?
Answer: Mr. and Mrs. Allen - Which friend encourages Catherine's taste for Gothic novels?
Answer: Isabella Thorpe - Who is Isabella's brother?
Answer: John Thorpe - Who becomes Catherine's romantic interest?
Answer: Henry Tilney - What is Henry Tilney's sister's name?
Answer: Eleanor Tilney - Who is the Tilneys' father?
Answer: General Tilney - What family home gives the novel its title?
Answer: Northanger Abbey - Which Gothic novel does Catherine read?
Answer: The Mysteries of Udolpho - Who wrote The Mysteries of Udolpho?
Answer: Ann Radcliffe - What does Catherine wrongly suspect about General Tilney?
Answer: That he murdered or imprisoned his wife - Why does General Tilney initially welcome Catherine?
Answer: He mistakenly believes she is wealthy - Why does he later send Catherine away?
Answer: He learns she is not a rich heiress - Whom does Catherine marry?
Answer: Henry Tilney
Persuasion
A hard-earned second chance arrives years after Anne Elliot was persuaded to refuse the ambitious naval officer she loved.
- Who is the heroine of Persuasion?
Answer: Anne Elliot - What is Anne's father's title?
Answer: Baronet - What is Anne's family estate called?
Answer: Kellynch Hall - Who persuaded Anne to end her engagement years earlier?
Answer: Lady Russell - Whom did Anne refuse?
Answer: Frederick Wentworth - What rank has Wentworth achieved when he returns?
Answer: Captain in the Royal Navy - Who rents Kellynch Hall?
Answer: Admiral and Mrs. Croft - How is Mrs. Croft related to Wentworth?
Answer: She is his sister - Which seaside town is central to a major section of the novel?
Answer: Lyme Regis - Who falls from the Cobb at Lyme?
Answer: Louisa Musgrove - Which old school friend does Anne visit in Bath?
Answer: Mrs. Smith - Who is Anne's vain cousin and possible suitor?
Answer: Mr. William Elliot - What famous declaration does Wentworth write to Anne?
Answer: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. - Who overhears Anne discussing women's constancy?
Answer: Captain Wentworth - Whom does Anne ultimately marry?
Answer: Captain Wentworth
Adaptations, Famous Lines, and Austen Connections
This final round labels every screen version clearly, then returns to the books for working titles, unfinished fiction, and memorable language.
- Which 1995 BBC miniseries stars Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet?
Answer: Pride and Prejudice - Who plays Mr. Darcy in that 1995 BBC adaptation?
Answer: Colin Firth - Which 2005 film stars Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet?
Answer: Pride & Prejudice - Who plays Darcy in the 2005 film?
Answer: Matthew Macfadyen - Which 1995 film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility was written by its star Emma Thompson?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility - Who directed that 1995 film?
Answer: Ang Lee - Which 1995 film loosely updates Emma in Beverly Hills?
Answer: Clueless - Who plays Emma in the 2020 film Emma.?
Answer: Anya Taylor-Joy - Which 1999 film adaptation of Mansfield Park stars Frances O'Connor?
Answer: Mansfield Park - Which 2007 film dramatizes Jane Austen's early life and romance?
Answer: Becoming Jane - Who plays Austen in Becoming Jane?
Answer: Anne Hathaway - Which 2022 Netflix film adapts Persuasion with Dakota Johnson?
Answer: Persuasion - Which novel was originally drafted under the title First Impressions?
Answer: Pride and Prejudice - Which novel was first drafted as an epistolary work titled Elinor and Marianne?
Answer: Sense and Sensibility - Which unfinished Austen novel centers on the seaside resort of Sanditon?
Answer: Sanditon
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Sources and Further Reading
- Jane Austen's House
- British Library: Jane Austen
- Jane Austen Society of North America
- Project Gutenberg: Jane Austen books
- Encyclopaedia Britannica: Jane Austen
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