| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Which fictional detective lodged at 221b Baker Street, London? | Sherlock Holmes | 99%
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| Which natural product is Winnie the Pooh’s favourite food? | Honey | 95%
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| Which Shakespeare work is known by actors as ‘The Scottish Play’? | Macbeth | 92%
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| Poets Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke both died in which war? | World War One | 79%
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| What kind of animals are Hazel & Fiver in the novel Watership Down? | Rabbits | 71%
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| Whose final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood was left unfinished? | Charles Dickens | 60%
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| Who won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel Midnight’s Children? | Salman Rushdie | 58%
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| Which novel begins ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’? | Rebecca | 56%
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| Who wrote poems ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ & ‘To the Skylark’? | William Wordsworth | 55%
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| Which position was held by Ted Hughes from 1984 to 1998? | Poet Laureate | 54%
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| Which pen name was used by writer Mary Ann Evans? | George Eliot | 52%
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| How are Julian, Dick, Anne, George & Timmy collectively known? | The Famous Five | 52%
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| Elinor & Marianne Dashwood are characters in which 1811 novel? | Sense and Sensibility | 50%
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| Which fictional world was the setting for 41 Terry Pratchett books? | Discworld | 45%
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| Brick Lane was the debut novel of which Pakistani-born writer? | Monica Ali | 15%
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