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| 1. | Killing Floor (1997), Die Trying (1998), and Tripwire (1999) are the first three novels by Lee Child, starring what protagonist? |
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Jack Reacher | |
| 2. | First published in 2013, Camp David is an autobiography by what British celebrity? |
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David Walliams | |
| 3. | 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? | |
| 4. | Which Ancient Greek wrote The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse? |
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Aesop (Aesop's Fables) | |
| 5. | In the 1974 novel Carrie by Stephen King, what is Carrie's last name? |
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White (Carrietta N. White) | |
| 6. | What is the emblematic animal of Hufflepuff house in the Harry Potter series? |
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Badger | |
| 7. | First appearing in 1919, for what fictional character is New York–based writer Johnston McCulley best known? |
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Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega) | |
| 8. | The word "behemoth" means "beast" in what language? |
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Hebrew (Hebrew: בהמות) | |
| 9. | What British adventurer published his autobiography, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know in 2008? |
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Ranulph Fiennes | |
| 10. | What magical plant did Harry Potter eat to assist him underwater in the second task of the 1994 Triwizard Tournament? |
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Gillyweed (when eaten, a witch or wizard grows gills, and webbing between the fingers and toes) | |
| 11. | Whose novels include If Only They Could Talk (1970), It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972), and Let Sleeping Vets Lie (1973)? |
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James Herriot | |
| 12. | Some of the best-known poems in the English language include The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943); all written by who? |
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T. S. Eliot | |
| 13. | Sing As We Go was the 1960 autobiography of what English actress, singer and comedienne, born in 1898? |
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Gracie Fields | |
| 14. | Released in September 2013, Doctor Sleep is the sequel to what classic 1977 horror novel? |
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The Shining (Stephen King) | |
| 15. | The first wife of the Daphne du Maurier character "Maxim" De Winter was called what? |
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Rebecca | |
| 16. | What is the name of the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice? |
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Shylock | |
| 17. | In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, what is Charlie's last name? |
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Buckett | |
| 18. | Richard Bachman is a pen name used occasionally by what horror fiction author? |
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Stephen King | |
| 19. | In literature, what extraordinary book was Ford Prefect researching? |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
| 20. | Composed one night after an opium-influenced dream in 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem Kubla Khan. From the opening line of the poem, what is the planned location of Kubla Khan's palace? |
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Xanadu (In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree) | |
| 21. | The first line of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice says "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ______" what? |
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Wife | |
| 22. | In the 19th century children's nursery rhyme, what did Solomon Grundy do on Wednesday? |
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Married (Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. That was the end of Solomon Grundy) | |
| 23. | According to the title of a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, what is the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns? |
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Fahrenheit 451 | |
| 24. | What were the first names of French painters Monet and Manet? |
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Claude and Édouard | |
| 25. | What English novelist is best known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty? |
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Anna Sewell | |
| 26. | What 1962 Ken Kesey novel, narrated by "Chief" Bromden, was adapted into a 1975 Academy Award-winning film? |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
| 27. | What 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald features the characters of Nick Carraway and Tom and Daisy Buchanan? |
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The Great Gatsby | |
| 28. | Artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were both born in what modern-day country? |
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Austria (Vienna) | |
| 29. | In what century did Leonardo da Vinci paint The Last Supper? |
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15th (1495-1498) | |
| 30. | Lobster Telephone (1936) is one of the most well known works by what artist? |
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Salvador Dalí | |
| 31. | What 1962 novel begins with the line, "They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."? |
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Ken Kesey|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
| 32. | Arthur Curry is the alter ego of what DC Comics superhero? |
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Aquaman | |
| 33. | What famous painter is the subject of the 1950 novel Moulin Rouge? |
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Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) | |
| 34. | Huevos verdes con jamón is the Spanish translation of what 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss? |
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Green Eggs and Ham | |
| 35. | According to the Book of Genesis, who lived to the ripe old age of 969? |
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Methuselah | |
| 36. | Name the 18th century English artist best known for his paintings of horses. |
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George Stubbs | |
| 37. | Introduced to the U.S. in 1940 as And Then There Were None and later appearing under the title Ten Little Indians, Agatha Christie's mystery novel was first published in the U.K. in 1939 as Ten Little... what? |
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Niggers (so named after the minstrel song, which serves as a major plot point) | |
| 38. | Portrayed in his best known work, what was the home city of Italian artist Canaletto? |
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Venice | |
| 39. | Name the American artist whose works include these. |
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Nelson Shanks | |
| 40. | Who wrote the Twilight series of novels? |
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Stephenie Meyer | |
| 41. | Mary Anne Evans was the real name of what 19th century British author? |
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George Eliot | |
| 42. | Whose novels include Jaws (1974), The Deep (1976), and The Island (1979)? |
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Peter Benchley | |
| 43. | Anne Elliot is the heroine of what Jane Austen novel? |
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Persuasion | |
| 44. | How many people are portrayed in Leonardo Da Vinci's mural The Last Supper ? |
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13 (Bartholomew - James, son of Alphaeus - Andrew - Judas Iscariot - Peter - John - Jesus - Apostle Thomas - James the Greater - Philip - Matthew - Jude Thaddeus - Simon the Zealot) | |
| 45. | Born in 1954, James Dover Grant CBE is a British author of thriller novels, primarily known by what pen name? |
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Lee Child | |
| 46. | What 1954 Dylan Thomas play is set in the quirky welsh village of Llareggub? |
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Under Milk Wood | |
| 47. | Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories, first published in 1914 by what author? |
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James Joyce | |
| 48. | Two months after the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what acclaimed author coined the term "Cold War" in an essay titled You and the Atom Bomb? |
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George Orwell | |
| 49. | Published in 1852, what is the title of the best-selling anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe? |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| 50. | Who wrote the original Mr. Men and Little Miss series of illustrated children's books? |
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Roger Hargreaves | |
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