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1.The first wife of the Daphne du Maurier character "Maxim" De Winter was called what?
2.Who wrote the 1974 best-seller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
3.What English artist's works include The Golden Calf (2008), an animal preserved in formaldehyde with 18-carat gold horns and hooves?
4.The Bill Hodges trilogy - Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch - is a crime fiction series by what author?
5.According to the Biblical story of David and Goliath, how many stones did David have?
6.Who wrote The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Kraken Wakes (1953), and The Chrysalids (1955)? (The latter two published in the U.S. as Out of the Deeps and Re-Birth.)
7.What 1977 novel by Jay Anson claims to be based on the paranormal experiences of the Lutz family at 112 Ocean Avenue in Suffolk County, New York?
8.Whose novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928)?
9.Unfinished at the time of his death, whose last novel was The Mystery of Edwin Drood?
10.What is the name of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a young peasant girl called Karen who cannot stop dancing?
11.In literature, who owns a cat called Crookshanks?
12.What is the Tin Woodman searching for in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
13.What is the name of Dorothy's dog in the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
14.Authors Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell and Peter Straub are best known for their novels in what genre?
15.In 1786, who composed the comedy opera The Marriage of Figaro?
16.Whose paintings were characterised as "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs"?

17.In Roald Dahl's 1982 children's novel The BFG, what does BFG stand for?
18.Originally published in 1959, what American author wrote Naked Lunch?
19.What American novelist, born in 1876, wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf?
20.Christopher Wren is a character in what Agatha Christie play?
21.First published in 1972, in what children's book do you meet the characters Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and Blackberry?
22.Who painted this self-portrait in 1910?
23.Who wrote the 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
24.What is the name of this Mr. Men character?
25.What book of the Bible immediately follows Deuteronomy?
26.Anne Elliot is the heroine of what Jane Austen novel?
27.What 'F' is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid plaster?
28.What is the pen name of British spy novelist David John Moore Cornwell?
29.Huevos verdes con jamón is the Spanish translation of what 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss?
30.What was Stephen King's first published novel in 1974?
31.Of what 2001 novel is Piscine Molitor Patel the protagonist?
32.Who wrote the novels The Odessa File, The Fist of God, and The Kill List?

33.Who wrote The Longest Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974)?
34.Who wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed?
35.In the Bible, who had Samson's hair cut off?
36.These are 1875 and 1910 self-portraits of what French artist?
37.What tree was used to make an unbeatable wand, one of the Deathly Hallows in the Harry Potter books?
38.What British author first published Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder in 1945?
39.What two books of the Old Testament begin with the letter 'P'?
40.Who wrote the 1719 classic Robinson Crusoe?
41.What famous bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen was unveiled on the 23rd August 1913?
42.In Oscar Wilde's only novel, published in 1891, what is the name of the character whose painted image aged instead of him?
43.Richard Bachman is a pen name used occasionally by what horror fiction author?
44.With sales of around 80 million, what 2003 novel remains the best-selling book of the 21st century to date?
45.The Innocent (1990), The Daydreamer (1994), Amsterdam (1998), Atonement (2001), and Saturday (2005) are best-selling novels by what English author?
46.The Kiss (Der Kuss) was painted by what Austrian symbolist painter between 1907 and 1908?
47.What is written on the tiny bottle that Alice finds in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
48.What fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium was originally known as Sméagol?
49.Re-published in 2004, who first published his memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance in 1995?
50.In the Hebrew Bible, who wore the coat of many colours?


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