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| 1. | The first wife of the Daphne du Maurier character "Maxim" De Winter was called what? |
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Rebecca | |
| 2. | Who wrote the 1974 best-seller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy? |
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John le Carré | |
| 3. | What English artist's works include The Golden Calf (2008), an animal preserved in formaldehyde with 18-carat gold horns and hooves? |
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Damien Hirst | |
| 4. | The Bill Hodges trilogy - Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch - is a crime fiction series by what author? |
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Stephen King | |
| 5. | According to the Biblical story of David and Goliath, how many stones did David have? |
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5 | |
| 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.) |
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John Wyndham | |
| 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? |
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The Amityville Horror | |
| 8. | Whose novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928)? |
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Virginia Woolf | |
| 9. | Unfinished at the time of his death, whose last novel was The Mystery of Edwin Drood? |
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Charles Dickens | |
| 10. | What is the name of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a young peasant girl called Karen who cannot stop dancing? |
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The Red Shoes | |
| 11. | In literature, who owns a cat called Crookshanks? |
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Hermione Granger (from the Harry Potter stories) | |
| 12. | What is the Tin Woodman searching for in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? |
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A heart | |
| 13. | What is the name of Dorothy's dog in the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? |
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Toto | |
| 14. | Authors Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell and Peter Straub are best known for their novels in what genre? |
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Horror | |
| 15. | In 1786, who composed the comedy opera The Marriage of Figaro? |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
| 16. | Whose paintings were characterised as "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs"? |
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L. S. Lowry | |
| 17. | In Roald Dahl's 1982 children's novel The BFG, what does BFG stand for? |
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Big Friendly Giant | |
| 18. | Originally published in 1959, what American author wrote Naked Lunch? |
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William S. Burroughs | |
| 19. | What American novelist, born in 1876, wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf? |
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Jack London | |
| 20. | Christopher Wren is a character in what Agatha Christie play? |
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The Mousetrap | |
| 21. | First published in 1972, in what children's book do you meet the characters Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and Blackberry? |
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Richard Adams|Watership Down | |
| 22. | Who painted this self-portrait in 1910? |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | |
| 23. | Who wrote the 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? |
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Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 24. | What is the name of this Mr. Men character? |
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Mr. Bump | |
| 25. | What book of the Bible immediately follows Deuteronomy? |
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Joshua | |
| 26. | Anne Elliot is the heroine of what Jane Austen novel? |
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Persuasion | |
| 27. | What 'F' is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid plaster? |
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Fresco | |
| 28. | What is the pen name of British spy novelist David John Moore Cornwell? |
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John le Carré | |
| 29. | 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 | |
| 30. | What was Stephen King's first published novel in 1974? |
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Carrie | |
| 31. | Of what 2001 novel is Piscine Molitor Patel the protagonist? |
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Life of Pi | |
| 32. | Who wrote the novels The Odessa File, The Fist of God, and The Kill List? |
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Frederick Forsyth | |
| 33. | Who wrote The Longest Day (1959), The Last Battle (1966), and A Bridge Too Far (1974)? |
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Cornelius Ryan | |
| 34. | Who wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed? |
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E. L. James (Erika Leonard) | |
| 35. | In the Bible, who had Samson's hair cut off? |
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Delilah | |
| 36. | These are 1875 and 1910 self-portraits of what French artist? |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir | |
| 37. | What tree was used to make an unbeatable wand, one of the Deathly Hallows in the Harry Potter books? |
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Elder | |
| 38. | What British author first published Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder in 1945? |
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Evelyn Waugh (Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh) | |
| 39. | What two books of the Old Testament begin with the letter 'P'? |
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Psalms and Proverbs | |
| 40. | Who wrote the 1719 classic Robinson Crusoe? |
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Daniel Defoe | |
| 41. | What famous bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen was unveiled on the 23rd August 1913? |
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The Little Mermaid (Langelinie, Copenhagen) | |
| 42. | In Oscar Wilde's only novel, published in 1891, what is the name of the character whose painted image aged instead of him? |
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Dorian Grey | |
| 43. | Richard Bachman is a pen name used occasionally by what horror fiction author? |
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Stephen King | |
| 44. | 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 | |
| 45. | The Innocent (1990), The Daydreamer (1994), Amsterdam (1998), Atonement (2001), and Saturday (2005) are best-selling novels by what English author? |
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Ian McEwan | |
| 46. | The Kiss (Der Kuss) was painted by what Austrian symbolist painter between 1907 and 1908? |
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Gustav Klimt | |
| 47. | What is written on the tiny bottle that Alice finds in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? |
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Drink Me | |
| 48. | What fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium was originally known as Sméagol? |
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Gollum | |
| 49. | Re-published in 2004, who first published his memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance in 1995? |
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Barack Obama | |
| 50. | In the Hebrew Bible, who wore the coat of many colours? |
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Joseph | |
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