| 1) What is the next line in this verse: 'They dined on mince and slices of quince' |
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'In a lovely hot-air balloon'
'In overstuffed chairs covered in chintz'
'And the cow jumped over the moon'
'Which they ate with a runcible spoon'
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| 2) In the midst of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay is almost lost to his beloved wife, the former Lucie Manette. Who is the character in Dickens's Tale of Two Cities who goes to the guillotine in Darnay's place? |
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Arthur Grenby
Sydney Carton
James Oliver
Richard Dawkins
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| 3) Which Tennessee Williams play opens on Christmas Eve? |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Rose Tattoo
Period of Adjustment
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| 4) Who was the 1976 Nobel Laureate for Literature? |
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Octavio Paz
Saul Bellow
Isaac Bashevic Singer
Pablo Neruda
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| 5) Which Sherlock Holmes story is the following quote taken from? 'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.' |
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The Lost World
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Yellow Face
The Stark Munro Letters
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| 6) Which classic children's character celebrates his 75th birthday in 2001? |
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Peter Rabbit
Madeline
Tin Tin
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| 7) Which fellow actor(s) did Shakespeare remember in his will? |
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Thomas Pope, Will Sly and William Beeston
Mary, Queen of Scots
Will Kempe
Richard Burbage, John Heminges and Henry Condell
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| 8) Which of these novels takes its name from a song by the Velvet Underground? |
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Deadkidsongs by Toby Litt
All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
Birthday Girls by Annabel Giles
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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| 9) What famous poet of the Romantic era wrote the following lines: 'Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.' |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Blake
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| 10) What is the name of Will Self's third collection of journalism and selected writings? |
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My Idea of Fun
Perfidious Man
Feeding Frenzy
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
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