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2005 has been an eventful year for Penguin Classics - test your knowledge of some of our newest releases here.
1) Who - a 2005 addition to the Classics list - was voted 'Greatest Briton' in 2002?
Winston Churchill

William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens

Samuel Johnson

2) The Penguin Shakespeare series was re-launched in 2005. But which is the bestselling play in the series?
Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth

A Midsummer Night?s Dream

3) Which famous battle had its 200th anniversary year in 2005, and a Penguin Classic published featuring eyewitness accounts from it?
Trafalgar

The Somme

Antietam

Waterloo

4) Which Penguin Classic has not had a major film adaptation this year?
Oliver Twist

Pride and Prejudice

War of the Worlds

Bleak House

5) In November 2005, Penguin Classics published a new, previously unpublished novel by which author?
Leo Tolstoy

Truman Capote

Thomas Hardy

John Steinbeck

6) The Tibetan Book of the Dead includes an introduction by which spiritual leader?
The Pope

The Chief Rabbi

The Dalai Lama

The Archbishop of Canterbury

7) Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was new to Modern Classics this year. But which year was it first published?
1958

1960

1962

1970

8) Which famous British actor does not star in the BBC's new adaptation of Bleak House?
Timothy West

Judi Dench

Charles Dance

Pauline Collins

9) The Chinese masterpiece Fortress Besieged takes its title from a French proverb. Fill in the missing word. '_____ is like a fortress besieged. Those who are outside want to get in, and those who are inside want to get out'
Family

Employment

Marriage

Friendship

10) Which of the following is not a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen?
Rapunzel

The Red Shoes

The Little Mermaid

Thumbelina

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