| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The Montague and Capulet families feature in which Shakespeare play? | Romeo and Juliet | 94%
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| A Picture of Dorian Gray was whose only published novel? | Oscar Wilde | 90%
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| The character Willy Wonka first appeared in which 1964 book? | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 85%
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| Which book starts “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”? | A Tale of Two Cities | 84%
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| Which American-born poet had the first names Thomas Stearns? | T. S. Eliot | 77%
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| Which is the only character to appear in all seven Chronicles of Narnia? | Aslan | 68%
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| Who wrote the poems Gunga Din, Mandalay and If? | Rudyard Kipling | 68%
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| Big Ears is the best friend of which End Blyton character? | Noddy | 64%
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| In which 1953 novel did the character James Bond first appear? | Casino Royale | 63%
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| What is the heroic alter ego of aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney? | The {Scarlet Pimpernel} | 44%
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| Thomas Hardy set many of his novels in which semi-fictional county? | Wessex | 44%
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| What kind of animal was P. G. Wodehouse’s The Empress of Blandings? | A pig | 42%
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| Which author wrote the 1980s novels Money and London Fields? | Martin Amis | 24%
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| Whose plays include Entertaining Mr Sloane and What the Butler Saw? | Joe Orton | 20%
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| Who, in 2009, became the first woman to be appointed Poet Laureate? | Carol Ann Duffy | 18%
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