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Know your Kafka from your Kerouac? Your Dickens from your Dickinson? Hopefully you kept good notes in English class because you'll need some novel ideas to answer these questions.

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. PINKED PAD

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Kidnapped

What was the name of William Shakespeare’s mother? Juliet, Anne, Elizabeth, Mary

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Mary

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. A BANBURY DREG

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Barnaby Rudge

What is the name of Billy Bunter’s sister? Belinda, Bunty, Brenda, Bessie

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Bessie

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel….FRODO NIGHT SHELTER

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Lord of the Rings

Who wrote The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason?

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Thomas Paine 90

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. UNREAL DISASTER

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Treasure Island

Who wrote “Jaws”?

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Peter Benchley

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. LOST MEALS

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Salem’s Lot

What single word is missing in the titles of the following book series? …, Run, … Redux, … Is Rich, … At Rest, … Remembered.

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Rabbit All works of John Updike, of course

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. COMMEND A FINE

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Of Mice and Men

Which famous author was portrayed by Paul Bettany in A Knight’s Tale?

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. LARGE LADS ALL SCATTER MANURE

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All Creatures Great and Small

Which 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Jean Rhys acts as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre?

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Wide Sargasso Sea It was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. SAD HERMIT

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Hard Times

What was the name of George’s dog in the Enid Blyton “Famous Five” stories? Clue — it begins with T.

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Timmy

Point Clue: My first book, a collection of children’s fairy stories entitled Flower Fables was published when I was twenty-three years of age. Who am I?

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I am Louisa May Alcott

In literature, what type of novel is a ‘roman a clef’?

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A novel describing real-life events behind a facade of fiction

Point Clue: I penned my first children’s story in 1943 entitled The Gremlins. Who am I?

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I am Roald Dahl

To which gentleman’s club did Jules Vern’s fictional character Phileas Fogg belong?

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The Reform

Point Clue: I wrote the popular children’s stories Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Who am I?

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I am Roald Dahl

Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?

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Jonathon Swift 64

Which classic novel opens with the line, “Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo”?

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Little Women

In a Mid summer nights Dream, who was ‘King of the Fairies’?

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Oberon

Who penned the children’s story How the Grinch Stole Christmas?

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Dr Seuss

What T was the name of George’s dog in the Enid Blyton “Famous Five” stories?

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Timmy

Who wrote the story A Child’s Christmas in Wales?

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Dylan Thomas

Who wrote the book “the guns of Navarone”?

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Alistair McClaine

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel….PAPER NET

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Peter Pan

Four calling birds — Who wrote the novel The Birds?

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Daphne Du Maurier

Which novel opens with the line ” The Mole had been working very hard all the morning spring cleaning his house”?

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Wind in the willows

Unravel the anagram to give the title of the novel…. NEED TINY LESBIAN SIS

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Sense and Sensibility

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet what is the name of Hamlet’s mother? Gertrude, Gladys, Geraldine, Guinevere

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Gertrude

What was the occupation of the Shakespearean character “Shylock”?

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A money lender

Which of Tolkien’s fantasy characters inhabit the world of Middle Earth?

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The Hobbits.

When R.L. Stevenson wrote the classic Treasure Island, he based the character of Long John Silver on which friend of his who wrote the poem Invictus?

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William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

What was the name of Dick and Jane’s baby sister in elementary school primers of old?

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Sally.

What do the initials J. D. stand for in author J. D. Salinger’s name?

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Jerome David.

Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?

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Arthur Hailey.

Which 20th Century author wrote ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’?

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George Orwell

Which book had the longest stay on the New York Times paperback bestsellers list?

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A Life Less Ordinary (M Scott Peck).

Which sport are Dick Francis’ novels about?

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Horse racing

Who went with Alice to Buckingham Palace?

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Christopher Robin

What was the occupation of the Shakespearean character “Shylock”?

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A money lender

What author moved some 56 times in the six months after he was issued a death threat?

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Salman Rushdie.

According to some sources, the title of which Somerset Maugham book comes from a review of his other novel Of Human Bondage in which the novel’s protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as “so busy yearning for X that he never saw the Y at his feet”?

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The Moon and Sixpence Based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin, it is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged English stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly in order to pursue his desire to become an artist. Presumably Strickland’s “moon” is the idealistic realm of Art and Beauty, while the “sixpence” represents human relationships and the ordinary pleasures of life.

Michael Bond wrote about which famous animal in a series of books for children?

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Paddington Bear

To whom did Helen Keller dedicate her autobiography, The Story of My Life?

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To inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who helped direct her education and considered himself, first and foremost, a teacher of the deaf.

Who wrote The Da Vinci Code?

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Dan Brown

Which Shakespearian role does Lady Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) get in Shakespeare in Love?

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Romeo
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