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| 1. | Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories, first published in 1914 by what author? |
| 2. | Collectively known as the Millennium Trilogy, who wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005), The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006), and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007)? |
| 3. | What 1954 Dylan Thomas play is set in the quirky welsh village of Llareggub? |
| 4. | In Conan Doyle's stories, what is the first name of Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy, Moriarty? |
| 5. | Commonly used in the English language today, what 'A' is the Latin word for "elsewhere"? |
| 6. | What are the names of these two Winnie-the-Pooh characters? |
| 7. | What is the surname of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women? |
| 8. | What is the only Shakespeare play to have an English place name in its title? |
| 9. | Who published his most influential book, The Interpretation of Dreams, in 1899? |
| 10. | What Irish novelist is best known for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939)? |
| 11. | Whose artworks include My Bed, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, and Hate and Power Can Be a Terrible Thing? |
| 12. | Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? |
| 13. | According to the title of a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, what is the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns? |
| 14. | What is the surname of Susan, Edmund, and Lucy in C.S. Lewis' Narnia book series? |
| 15. | In Mary Shelley's novel, what is Frankenstein's first name? |
| 16. | About what otter did Henry Williamson write a 1927 novel? |
| 17. | What 2010 prison memoir by Piper Kerman was adapted into a TV series of the same name, first broadcast in 2013? |
| 18. | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a three-act play written in the early 1950s by who? |
| 19. | Created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, what comic character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939? |
| 20. | Who wrote the 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls? |
| 21. | What children's author wrote about characters such as Benjamin Bunny, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and Tom Kitten? |
| 22. | The 2013 Disney film Frozen is loosely based on what Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale? |
| 23. | In the A. A. Milne book Winnie–the–Pooh what are the names of the female kangaroo and her young son? |
| 24. | In the English nursery rhyme, who killed Cock Robin? |
| 25. | What is the name of the game played on broomsticks by Harry Potter and his team mates? |
| 26. | What well known English author was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1832? |
| 27. | What is the name of the remote Yorkshire farmhouse in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights? |
| 28. | Still in common use today, what Latin phrase translates literally as "course of life"? |
| 29. | Sancho Panza is squire to the title character of what 1605 novel? |
| 30. | What British author created the character of Miss Jane Marple? |
| 31. | Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of what 1922 novel by James Joyce? |
| 32. | The Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six 19th century novels by what English author? |
| 33. | What series of novels by Sir Walter Scott lend their name to a train station in Edinburgh, Scotland? |
| 34. | Adapted into film by Peter Jackson in 2009, what 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold tells the story of a teenage girl who comes to terms with her own death after being raped and murdered? |
| 35. | In the Hebrew Bible, who wore the coat of many colours? |
| 36. | "Do not go gentle into that good night" is the title and first line of a poem written in 1947 by who? |
| 37. | By what name is 16th century painter, sculptor and architect Doménikos Theotokópoulos better known? |
| 38. | In what city is the Museo Nacional del Prado? |
| 39. | What sci-fi universe was first created by Frank Herbert in 1965? |
| 40. | What is known as the Scottish Play? |
| 41. | Published in 1938, Brighton Rock is a novel by what British author? |
| 42. | 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"? |
| 43. | What best-selling author is best known for his Discworld series of books? |
| 44. | American author and lawyer Erle Stanley Gardner is best known as the creator of what character? |
| 45. | Whose autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, was published in 1994? |
| 46. | A pig named Wilbur features in what 1952 novel by American author E. B. White? |
| 47. | What Brontë novel features Heathcliff and Catherine? |
| 48. | Who painted The Mystical Nativity in 1500? |
| 49. | For what 1900 novel is American author L. Frank Baum best known? |
| 50. | What is the first name of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple? |
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