Trivia Quiz: Famous Pseudonyms

Many famous authors are known only by their pseudonyms ... but many also wrote under multiple names. Below are ten pen names used by famous authors. Can you match the pseudonym to the writer who used it?


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Question 1: Dr. A. Paul French

 A: W.S. Gilbert
 B: Willa Cather
 C: Isaac Asimov
 D: Francis Bacon

Question 2: Edgar Box

 A: Gore Vidal
 B: Charles Babbage
 C: John Burroughs
 D: Marie Corelli

Question 3: Don Grile

 A: William Godwin
 B: H. Rider Haggard
 C: Thomas Hardy
 D: Ambrose Bierce

Question 4: Hyacinthe Phypps

 A: Jane Austen
 B: Edward Gorey
 C: Agatha Christie
 D: Edward Bulwer Lytton

Question 5: A.N. Roquelare

 A: Anne Rice
 B: Emily Dickinson
 C: Emily Bronte
 D: J.K. Rowling

Question 6: Boz

 A: Mark Twain
 B: Lewis Carroll
 C: Charles Dickens
 D: Thomas Hardy

Question 7: Mary Westmacott

 A: Jane Austen
 B: Emily Dickinson
 C: Oscar Wilde
 D: Agatha Christie

Question 8: Lord Charles Wellesley

 A: Charlotte Bronte
 B: Thomas Jefferson
 C: Mark Twain
 D: Jonathan Swift

Question 9: John Sedges

 A: John Milton
 B: Pearl Buck
 C: Mary Shelley
 D: George Eliot

Question 10: Marquis of Duoro

 A: Jules Verne
 B: Voltaire
 C: Charlotte Bronte
 D: Emily Dickinson