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| 1. | What is the name of Garfield's girlfriend? |
| 2. | Who wrote the play The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895? |
| 3. | In what Stephen King novel is Pennywise the titular character? |
| 4. | In The Adventures of Tintin, what is the surname of the Merchant Marine sea captain, Tintin's best friend? |
| 5. | In what city did the Wizard of Oz live? |
| 6. | Gryffindor, Slytherin, Fill in the blanks. |
| 7. | The term "sadism" is derived from the name of what 18th century aristocrat and novelist? |
| 8. | What is the surname of the author whose first names are Phyllis Dorothy? |
| 9. | Born in 1954, James Dover Grant CBE is a British author of thriller novels, primarily known by what pen name? |
| 10. | What character stars in a collection of children's stories set in the fictional Hundred Acre Wood? |
| 11. | First published in 1902, who wrote the Just So Stories for Little Children? |
| 12. | For what 1866 novel is Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky best known? |
| 13. | Later turned into a Hollywood classic, what best-selling novel did Union general Lew Wallace publish in 1880? |
| 14. | How many voyages did Sinbad the Sailor make? |
| 15. | In what land does Puff The Magic Dragon live? |
| 16. | What American artist who died in 1956 was famous for his 'action painting' method? |
| 17. | What 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel is subtitled The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder? |
| 18. | Who painted the Mona Lisa? |
| 19. | What is the first name of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple? |
| 20. | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 best-selling novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. What nationality is the title character? |
| 21. | One of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century, what is the name of this German and Swiss artist and printmaker? |
| 22. | The title of a 1905 novel by Baroness Orczy, by what name is the character of Sir Percy Blakeney better known? |
| 23. | In what city is the Museo Nacional del Prado? |
| 24. | Who was mainly known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951)? |
| 25. | What is the only Shakespeare play with an animal in its title? |
| 26. | What 2001 novel, significantly, sold its 3,141,592nd copy in February 2013? |
| 27. | How to Kill Your Husband: (and Other Handy Household Hints) (2006), To Love Honour and Betray (Till Divorce Us Do Part) (2008), and HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy (2020) are among novels by what Australian-British author? |
| 28. | Who painted The Hay Wain in 1821? |
| 29. | Originally published in 1959, what American author wrote Naked Lunch? |
| 30. | What 19th century French author wrote The Man in the Iron Mask? |
| 31. | The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by what French Post-Impressionist artist? |
| 32. | Who wrote the 1912 play Pygmalion? |
| 33. | Whose 1807 poem Daffodils begins I wandered lonely as a cloud… |
| 34. | What is known as the Scottish Play? |
| 35. | Who spent the last three years of his life, between 1897 and 1900, impoverished and in exile in France under the assumed name of "Sebastian Melmoth"? |
| 36. | In the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Dr. Watson first met Sherlock Holmes after returning from a war in what country? |
| 37. | Which of Shakespeare's plays begins with the line, "Now is the winter of our discontent"? |
| 38. | What phrase describes the biblical location of the Land of Nod where Cain was exiled? |
| 39. | What classic 1719 novel is thought to be based on the life of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk? |
| 40. | What American novelist, born in 1876, wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf? |
| 41. | What Wind in the Willows character escapes from prison disguised as a washerwoman? |
| 42. | What American author wrote The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), and Light in August (1932)? |
| 43. | What Nobel prize winning author wrote the 1952 novel East of Eden? |
| 44. | What 17th century artist is thought to have created nearly 100 self-portraits? |
| 45. | According to the nursery rhyme, who was born on a Monday, christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, took ill on Thursday, grew worse on Friday, died on Saturday and buried on Sunday? |
| 46. | Published in 1971, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall was the first volume of the war memoirs of what comedian? |
| 47. | Whose first published novel was The Hunt for Red October in 1984? |
| 48. | What tree was used to make an unbeatable wand, one of the Deathly Hallows in the Harry Potter books? |
| 49. | Name the French Impressionist artist best known for incorporating dance into much of his work. |
| 50. | In J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, what collective name is given to the children "who fall out of their prams when the nurse is looking the other way and if they are not claimed in seven days, they are sent far away to the Neverland"? |
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