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| 1. | What is the name of the lawyer in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird? |
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Atticus Finch | |
| 2. | What series of travel books was founded in London in 1981 by ex-students Mark Ellingham and Martin Dunford? |
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Rough Guides | |
| 3. | What race of fictional beings from Gulliver's Travels lends its name to an internet search engine? |
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Yahoo | |
| 4. | 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 | |
| 5. | Who wrote the 1974 novel Jaws? |
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Peter Benchley | |
| 6. | Who, during the 19th century, wrote The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea and The Snow Queen? |
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Hans Christian Andersen | |
| 7. | What English author writes the Inspector Wexford mysteries? |
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Ruth Rendell | |
| 8. | The Lancet is a world-renowned journal for what profession? |
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Medical | |
| 9. | What is the name of the anonymous England-based street artist whose work includes "Well Hung Lover", or "Naked Man Hanging from Window" in Frogmore Street, Bristol, England? |
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Banksy | |
| 10. | What American cartoon character has the catchphrase, "good grief"? |
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Charlie Brown | |
| 11. | Author Clifford Irving was jailed for 30 months in 1972 for writing a fake autobiography of what millionaire? |
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Howard Hughes | |
| 12. | A pig named Wilbur features in what 1952 novel by American author E. B. White? |
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Charlotte's Web | |
| 13. | First published between 1946 and 1951, Malory Towers is a series of six novels by what English children's author? |
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Enid Blyton | |
| 14. | 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 | |
| 15. | According to the New Testament, who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after Jesus' crucifixion? |
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Joseph of Arimathea | |
| 16. | From the opening line of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, what is the cruellest month? |
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April (April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, ..) | |
| 17. | What Impressionist painter is famed for his Charing Cross Bridge series? |
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Claude Monet | |
| 18. | 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 | |
| 19. | What two animals did the owl and cat meet in Edward Lear's nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat? |
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Pig & Turkey | |
| 20. | What French Post-Impressionist painter's works include a series of five paintings called The Card Players? |
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Paul Cézanne | |
| 21. | First published in 1869, who wrote the epic novel War and Peace? |
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Leo Tolstoy | |
| 22. | Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2011) and Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! (2012) are novels by what best-selling author? |
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James Patterson (and Chris Tebbetts) | |
| 23. | Blind and deaf, whose best-selling autobiography, The Story of My Life, was first published in 1903? |
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Helen Keller | |
| 24. | A collection of letters for his children from Father Christmas between 1920 and 1943, what famous author published The Father Christmas Letters in 1976? |
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J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 25. | What term is commonly used for someone who writes books that are officially credited to another person? |
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Ghostwriter | |
| 26. | What is the name of Captain Hook's ship in the J.M. Barrie play Peter Pan? |
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Jolly Roger | |
| 27. | With sales of around 80 million, what 2003 novel remains the best-selling book of the 21st century to date? |
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Dan Brown|The Da Vinci Code | |
| 28. | Who is the author and subject of the 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter? |
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Loretta Lynn | |
| 29. | What is the name of Harry Potter's pet snowy owl? |
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Hedwig | |
| 30. | Who wrote the story that Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is based on? |
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Brothers Grimm | |
| 31. | Boo Radley, Scout Finch, and Tom Robinson feature in what 1960 best-selling novel? |
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) | |
| 32. | Who was married to William Shakespeare between 1582 and his death in 1616? |
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Anne Hathaway | |
| 33. | Who wrote the novels When Eight Bells Toll, Bear Island and Breakheart Pass? |
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Alistair MacLean | |
| 34. | In the Garfield comic strips, what is the name of Garfield's teddy bear? |
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Pooky | |
| 35. | Whose novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928)? |
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Virginia Woolf | |
| 36. | Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, two paintings stolen in December 2002 worth US$100 million, were recovered in Italy in September 2016. Who painted them? |
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Vincent Van Gogh | |
| 37. | Later turned into a Hollywood classic, what best-selling novel did Union general Lew Wallace publish in 1880? |
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Ben-Hur (Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) | |
| 38. | Killer Croc is a fictional DC Comics supervillain, commonly appearing as an adversary of what superhero? |
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Batman | |
| 39. | What 1945 Evelyn Waugh novel is subtitled The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder? |
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Brideshead Revisited | |
| 40. | First published in 1988, who wrote The Satanic Verses? |
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Salman Rushdie | |
| 41. | How many voyages did Sinbad the Sailor make? |
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Seven | |
| 42. | In the title of a 1996 novel by John le Carré, what is the character Harry Pendel known as? |
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The Tailor of Panama | |
| 43. | Whose best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978)? |
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Harold Pinter | |
| 44. | A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels, the first of which gave its name to what TV series? |
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A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin) | |
| 45. | Who was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri in 1835? |
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Mark Twain | |
| 46. | What is the surname of Wendy and her brothers in Peter Pan? |
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Darling | |
| 47. | Dated between 1875 and 1910, these are self-portraits by what French artist? |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | |
| 48. | In the title of a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, by what name is Dr. Griffin better known? |
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The Invisible Man | |
| 49. | What best-selling English author wrote The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man? |
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Julia Donaldson (illustrated by Axel Scheffler) | |
| 50. | First published in 1989, what is the name of this American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams? |
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Dilbert | |
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