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1
Who published the autobiography ‘Who Does She Think She Is?’ in 2000?
Anna Friel
Martine McCutcheon
Kylie Minnogue
Tracy Shaw
2
Who created the fictional private eye Philip Marlowe?
Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
Jim Thompson
Mickey Spillane
3
Which of these women is a main character in Thackeray’s’Vanity Fair’?
Becky Sharp
Catherine Earnshaw
Emma Woodhouse
Elizabeth Bennet
4
What was the surname of the American author whose first names were Edgar Allan?
Doe
Moe
Poe
Roe
5
In Greek mythology, who killed the Minotaur?
Adonis
Theseus
Apollo
Helen
6
Who based his philosophy on the maxim ‘Cogito ergo sum’ - I think therefore I am?
Erasmus
Descartes
Rousseau
Socrates
7
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the arch-enemy of which fictional character?
Sherlock Holmes
Bulldog Drummond
James Bond
Harry Potter
8
Which Ancient Greek is associated with shouting ‘Eureka’?
Aristotle
Socrates
Archimedes
Plato
9
Who wrote ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
Truman Capote
J.D. Salinger
Gore Vidal
10
Which Shakespeare character speaks the line: ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen...’?
Brutus
Mark Anthony
Cassius
Julius Caesar
11
The Artful Dodger appears in which Dickens novel?
David Copperfield
Barnaby Rudge
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
12
Which two words did Rudyard Kipling use to describe the stories in his book?
What if
And so
Just so
So what
13
Which of these Kings is not the title character of a Shakespeare play?
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VII
Henry VI
14
What was the surname of the English author whose first two names were David Herbert?
Lawrence
Chesterton
Bates
Hartley
15
Who wrote the novel Dracula?
D.H. Lawrence
H. Rider Haggard
Bram Stoker
16
Who wrote the play ‘Private Lives’?
Terrence Rattigan
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
Noel Coward
17
Which of these authors has the initials P D?
Stevenson
Barrie
Bates
James
18
‘Il met by moonlight, proud Titania’ is a line from which Shakespeare play?
Measure For Measure
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet
King Lear
19
Where did the ‘merry wives’ reside, according to the title of the Shakespeare play?
Wick ham
Walcot
Woburn
Windsor
20
In the famous novel, what was ‘Moby Dick’?
Shark
Squid
Octopus
Whale
21
What is the meaning of the word ‘eureka’?
That’s it
I have found it!
The penny’s dropped
It’s dawned
22
What did Edward Lear describe as ‘runcible’ in his poem Then Owl and the Pussycat’?
Turkey
Spoon
Quince
Sand
23
In which room were victims punished with their ultimate fear in Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’?
111
666
101
121
24
In Greek mythology, Morpheus was the god of what?
Clouds
Luck
Harvest
Dreams
25
In the novels by Helen Fielding, what is Bridget Jones’ favourite drink?
Chardonnay
Champagne
Cava
Prosecco
26
Who wrote The Snowman?
Ronald Briggs
Robert Briggs
Raymond Briggs
Rupert Briggs
27
Who wrote the Worst Witch series for children?
Julia Donaldson
Jill Murphy
Philip Pullman
Enid Bkyton
28
Who wrote the novel ‘Congo’ which became a feature film in 1995?
Michael Chrichton
Herman Melville
Truman Capote
Wilbur Smith
29
Which of the following is not a Bronte sister?
Anne
Charlotte
Emily
Jane
30
What was the name of Cyrano Bergerac’s love in the classic play by Rostand?
Rosalind
Rosanna
Rosalie
Roxanne