| 1) Which is the best-selling book of all time? |
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The Bible
The Odyssey (Homer)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Valley of the Dolls (Jacqueline Susann)
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| 2) Which is the largest individual bookshop in the world? |
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Foyles, London
Blackwell's, Oxford
Barnes & Noble, New York
The Book Depot, Detroit
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| 3) Who is the most prolific writer of all time? |
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The humorist P.G. Wodehouse
The poet, critic, essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson
The novelist Alexandre Dumas
The creator of the Billy Bunter stories Frank Richards
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| 4) In which year was the first Penguin book published? |
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1925
1935
1945
1955
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| 5) Which of the following writers' names is not a pseudonym? |
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Voltaire
Balzac
Stendhal
George Sand
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| 6) How many novels did the Bronte sisters write? |
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Five
Six
Seven
Eight
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| 7) What nickname does Pip's friend Herbert Pocket give him in Dickens's Great Expectations? |
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Handel
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
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| 8) What natural phenomenon, 'said to portend all manner of horrors and the end of the world', does Pierre Bezuhov see in the sky at the end of Book 2 of War and Peace? |
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A rainbow
A comet
An eclipse
A thunderstorm
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| 9) 'Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.' In which Jane Austen novel does this line appear? |
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Emma
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
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| 10) What do Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens) and Weir of Hermiston (Robert Louis Stevenson) have in common? |
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They are all set in the same town
They are all based on the same historical event
They all open with almost identical first sentences
They are all incomplete
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