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| 1. | What author is best known for writing the Paddington Bear series of children's books? |
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Michael Bond | |
| 2. | What English crime writer disappeared for 10 days in 1926, making front page news around the world? |
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Agatha Christie | |
| 3. | Who buried the treasure on Treasure Island? |
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Captain Flint | |
| 4. | Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories, first published in 1914 by what author? |
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James Joyce | |
| 5. | What is the name of the donkey in the Winnie-the-Pooh children's stories? |
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Eeyore | |
| 6. | What best-selling English author wrote The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man? |
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Julia Donaldson (illustrated by Axel Scheffler) | |
| 7. | What two animals did the owl and cat meet in Edward Lear's nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat? |
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Pig & Turkey | |
| 8. | The fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin was created by what 19th century American writer? |
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Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 9. | What character stars in a collection of children's stories set in the fictional Hundred Acre Wood? |
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Winnie-the-Pooh | |
| 10. | Name the 1893 short story in which Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their deaths at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. |
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The Final Problem | |
| 11. | What 17th century artist is thought to have created nearly 100 self-portraits? |
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Rembrandt | |
| 12. | With what superhero is Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth most commonly associated? |
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Batman (Bruce Wayne's butler) | |
| 13. | In the Hebrew Bible, who wore the coat of many colours? |
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Joseph | |
| 14. | What English author's fictional characters include Rincewind, Death, and Granny Weatherwax? |
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Terry Pratchett (from the Discworld series) | |
| 15. | Whose bibliography includes Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and Nostromo (1904)? |
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Joseph Conrad | |
| 16. | Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? |
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Stephenie Meyer | |
| 17. | What 1813 romantic novel begins, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"? |
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) | |
| 18. | In Dodoe Smith's 1956 children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, what is the name of the male Dalmatian who lives with his partner Missis at the home of the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Dearly? |
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Pongo | |
| 19. | Wheatfield with Crows is a July 1890 painting by what artist? |
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Vincent van Gogh | |
| 20. | In Welsh culture, what 'E' describes a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance? |
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Eisteddfod | |
| 21. | In what month is Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns' birthday celebrated? |
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January (25th) | |
| 22. | For what 1930 painting is Iowan artist Grant Wood best known? |
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American Gothic | |
| 23. | In the Harry Potter books, who was born Tom Marvolo Riddle? |
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Lord Voldemort | |
| 24. | What play includes the line "... then clearly something is rotten in the state of Denmark"? |
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Hamlet (William Shakespeare - spoken by Marcellus) | |
| 25. | The Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six 19th century novels by what English author? |
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Anthony Trollope | |
| 26. | First published in 1952, what English author wrote The Borrowers series of children's fantasy novels? |
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Mary Norton | |
| 27. | What 19th century French author wrote The Man in the Iron Mask? |
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Alexandre Dumas | |
| 28. | What 1952 Ernest Hemingway novel tells the story of a battle between a fisherman, Santiago, and a large marlin? |
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The Old Man and the Sea | |
| 29. | In what country did the Pied Piper lure away the rats and the children? |
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Germany (Hamelin, Lower Saxony) | |
| 30. | Name the Dutch artist most famous for this 1624 painting, the Laughing Cavalier. |
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Frans Hals | |
| 31. | Whose novels include the Anne of Green Gables series and the Emily trilogy? |
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Lucy Maud Montgomery | |
| 32. | What British author wrote the Inspector Morse novels? |
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Colin Dexter | |
| 33. | Sing As We Go was the 1960 autobiography of what English actress, singer and comedienne, born in 1898? |
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Gracie Fields | |
| 34. | In 1804, who wrote the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud? |
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William Wordsworth | |
| 35. | First published in 1930 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock introduced what teenage amateur sleuth? |
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Nancy Drew | |
| 36. | What Scottish writer is probably best known for his two comic novels set in Scotland; The Monarch of the Glen (1941) and Whisky Galore (1947)? |
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Sir Compton Mackenzie | |
| 37. | Who painted "Irises" in 1889? |
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Vincent van Gogh | |
| 38. | The lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley are followed in what 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray? |
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Vanity Fair | |
| 39. | Who painted The Mystical Nativity in 1500? |
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Sandro Botticelli | |
| 40. | What 1831 novel begins, "Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal."? |
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Victor Hugo|The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | |
| 41. | What DC Comics character gets his strength from a 'power ring'? |
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Green Lantern | |
| 42. | How many Tate art galleries are there in the UK? |
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Four (Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St.Ives and Tate Modern) | |
| 43. | In 1833, what English novelist and poet wrote a novella, The Green Dwarf, under the pseudonym Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley? |
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Charlotte Brontë | |
| 44. | Which British author wrote the Famous Five and Secret Seven series of novels? |
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Enid Blyton | |
| 45. | What best-selling author is best known for his Discworld series of books? |
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Terry Pratchett | |
| 46. | In Conan Doyle's stories, what is the first name of Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy, Moriarty? |
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James | |
| 47. | First published in the UK in 1987, to what was Where's Wally? renamed for the North American market? |
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Where's Waldo? | |
| 48. | What is the name of Captain Hook's ship in the J.M. Barrie play Peter Pan? |
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Jolly Roger | |
| 49. | Published in 1953, what is the title of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel? |
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Casino Royale | |
| 50. | In Ancient Greek literature, what god of the sky fathered the Titans and the Cyclopes? |
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Uranus | |
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