| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Who wrote the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four? | George Orwell | 98%
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| Ebeneezer Scrooge appears in which Charles Dickens story? | A Christmas Carol | 97%
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| Which Shakespeare play contains the ‘To be or not to be’ speech? | Hamlet | 93%
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| In Arthurian legend, what is the name of King Arthur’s sword? | Excalibur | 92%
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| Which writer created the fictional character James Bond? | Ian Fleming | 78%
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| Which Welsh poet died, aged 39, in New York City in 1953? | Dylan Thomas | 62%
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| The Lord of the Rings is set in which fantasy world? | Middle-earth | 54%
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| What kind of animal is Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle? | Hedgehog | 53%
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| Who wrote the 1898 poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol? | Oscar Wilde | 51%
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| Who wrote 728 books, mostly romances, between 1925 and 2000? | Dame {Barbara Cartland} | 44%
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| What was the name of Zadie Smith’s award-winning debut novel? | White Teeth | 44%
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| Whose plays include Look Back In Anger and The Entertainer? | John Osbourne | 29%
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| Who wrote The Gruffalo, first published in 1999? | Julia Donaldson | 28%
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| Which playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005? | Harold Pinter | 18%
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| “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink” is the start of which 1948 novel? | I Capture the Castle | 16%
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