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03/11/2010

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Who wrote the novel Ivanhoe?
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Sir Walter Scott
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"To be or not to be" is from what Shakespeare play?
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Hamlet
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Who wrote the Nancy Drew books?
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Carolyn Keene
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What are the character Ford Perfect & Arthur Dent from?
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Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Universe
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What author wrote crime novels featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta
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Patricia Cornwell
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Which Charles Dickens character is described as squeezing, wrenching, grasping…?
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Marely
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How many syllables are in a Haiku (a type of Japanese verse)?
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Seventeen
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The character Shylock appears in which Shakespeare play?
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The Merchant Of Venice
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Who wrote the novel Dracula?
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Bram Stoker
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Who wrote the novel Bonfire of the Vanities?
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Tom Wolfe
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Who wrote the novel, Treasure Island? Robert
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Louis Stevenson
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Who wrote the novel Gulliver's Travels?
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Jonathan Swift
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Who wrote the book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
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Washington Irving
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Who wrote the novel Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'?
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Hunter Thompson
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Who wrote the novel A Clockwork Orange?
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Anthony Burgess
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Who captained Jules Verne's submarine Nautilus?
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CAPTAIN NEMO
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What are the first names of writer J R R Tolkien?
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John Ronald Reuel
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Who wrote the book Lord of the Flies?
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William Golding
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In which novel was the character Holden Caulfield?
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The Catcher In The Rye
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Which American writer created Tarzan? Edgar
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Rice Burroughs
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What are the two cities in the Charles Dickens novel A Tale Of Two Cities?
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Paris and London
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Doctor Moriarty is the arch-enemy of which fictional detective?
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Sherlock Holmes (created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1886 - Moriarty was apparently the name of a real boy from Conan Doyle's college days)
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Who wrote the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name?
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Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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What famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus'?
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Frankenstein (by Mary Shelley)
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Who wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince?
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice which I've been turning over in my mind ever since," is the start of which novel?
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The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)
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Who wrote the books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
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Victor Hugo
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Who wrote the book Catch-22?
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Joseph Heller
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1991 – a perfect storm off the Grand Banks, name the fishing boat lost? -
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Andrea Gail
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Who wrote the Divine Comedy? -
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Dante Alighieri Aka – Dante
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1st lines to famous books - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
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- A tale of two cities
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1st lines to famous books - It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
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- Catch-22
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What is the name of little orphan Annie’s dog
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Sandy
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Who wrote the Great Gatsby? / Main Characters? -
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F. Scott Fitzgerald / Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby
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Who wrote Frankenstein?
Definition
Mary Shelley (1818)
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Who wrote the Grapes of Wrath? -
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John Steinbeck
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Who wrote ‘The Call of the Wild’? -
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Jack London
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Who wrote ‘For whom the bell tolls’ & ‘The Sun also Rises’? -
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Ernest Hemingway
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Who wrote ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’? -
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Edgar Award is given out for excellence in which field? -
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Mystery Writing
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What author wrote the 'Outsiders' at the age of sixteen? -
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S. E. Hinton
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Who wrote 'To Kill A Mockingbird'? -
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Harper Lee
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Who wrote ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’? -
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Ronald Dahl
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Who wrote ‘Moby Dick’?
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Herman Melville
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Who wrote Lord of the Rings?
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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What do the J. R. R. stand for in JRR Tolkien's name
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John Ronald Ruel
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what is the name of the Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice?
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Shylock
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From what Charles Dickens book will you find the character Miss Havisham?
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Great Expectations
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Name the author who created the character Hannibal Lecter?
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Thomas Harris
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