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Date of compilation	Title	Description	Links
18/09/2011	Novelists	30 multiple choice questions about British novelists.	Format index


Choose your question from the 30 novelists listed below by clicking the adjacent question number. Each question has 4 possible answers. Click the one you think is right. The answer will turn red if it's wrong and green if it's right.
1.	Kingsley Amis	2.	Julian Barnes	3.	H E Bates	4.	Enid Blyton	5.	Lewis Carroll	6.	Agatha Christie
7.	Arthur C Clarke	8.	Wilkie Collins	9.	Catherine Cookson	10.	Roald Dahl	11.	Charles Dickens	12.	Arthur Conan Doyle
13.	Daphne du Maurier	14.	John Galsworthy	15.	Graham Greene	16.	Thomas Hardy	17.	Rudyard Kipling	18.	John Le Carré
19.	George Orwell	20.	Terry Pratchett	21.	Arthur Ransome	22.	J K Rowling	23.	Walter Scott	24.	Muriel Spark
25.	Robert Louis Stevenson	26.	Anthony Trollope	27.	Evelyn Waugh	28.	H G Wells	29.	P G Wodehouse	30.	Virginia Woolf


1.	Kingsley Amis
The hero of Amis’s first book, Lucky Jim, about a lecturer at a provincial university, is supposed to have been inspired by which poet, one of Amis’s best friends at the time?

A	Seamus Heaney	B	Phillip Larkin	C	C Day Lewis	D	John Betjeman
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2.	Julian Barnes
Barnes’s collection of short stories published in 1989 was entitled A History of the World in…how many chapters?

A	8½	B	9½	C	10½	D	11½
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3.	H E Bates
The title of his most popular book, The Darling Buds of May, is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet number 18. In this sonnet what is it that “shakes the darling buds of May”?

A	"A maid's fair beauty"	B	"Wrath of God"	C	"The ravages of time"	D	"Rough winds"
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4.	Enid Blyton
Blyton wrote both the Famous Five and the Secret Seven series of children’s books. Only one name is shared by one of the Five and one of the Seven. What is it?

A	George	B	Anne	C	Julian	D	Pam
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5.	Lewis Carroll
Carroll’s nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark describes “the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature”. The name of each of the 10 crew members starts with a ‘B’. Which of these is NOT in the crew?

A	Bellman	B	Barrister	C	Butler	D	Banker
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6.	Agatha Christie
Which is Christie's best-selling book?

A	Curtain: Poirot's Last Case	B	Murder on the Orient Express	C	And Then There Were None	D	Death on the Nile
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7.	Arthur C Clarke
Following 2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke wrote a number of sequels. Which of the following was NOT a sequel?

A	2010: Odyssey Two	B	2050: The Sentinel	C	2061: Odyssey Three	D	3001: The FInal Odyssey
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8.	Wilkie Collins
Collins’ The Moonstone is reckoned to be the first British detective novel. What is the name of the chief investigator in The Moonstone?

A	Captain Hastings	B	Inspector Japp	C	Commander Dalgliesh	D	Sergeant Cuff
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9.	Catherine Cookson
Some of Cookson’s novels formed series about one specific fictional character. Which of the following were NOT subjects of one of these series?

A	Bill Bailey	B	Bella Seaton	C	Tilly Trotter	D	Kate Hannigan
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10.	Roald Dahl
In Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which character chews gum all day long?

A	Violet Beauregarde	B	Augustus Gloop	C	Veruca Salt	D	Mike Teavee
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11.	Charles Dickens
Which Dickens novel is based, in part, in the USA?

A	Barnaby Rudge	B	Bleak House	C	Martin Chuzzlewit	D	Dombey & Son
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12.	Arthur Conan Doyle
In the Sherlock Holmes stories what was the name of the housekeeper who looked after Holmes and Watson?

A	Mrs Baker	B	Mrs Bridges	C	Mrs Duke	D	Mrs Hudson
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13.	Daphne du Maurier
Which of the following films based on a Du Maurier novel won a Best Film Oscar?

A	Rebecca	B	Don't Look Now	C	The Birds	D	Jamaica Inn
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14.	John Galsworthy
The adaptation of Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga became a major drama hit for the BBC. Which of the four main stars of this BBC show was not born in the UK?

A	Kenneth More	B	Nyree Dawn Porter	C	Susan Hampshire	D	Eric Porter
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15.	Grahame Greene
Which of Greene’s novels is set largely in Argentina?

A	The Quiet American	B	The Third Man	C	The Heart of the Matter	D	The Honorary Consul
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16.	Thomas Hardy
The fictional town of Casterbridge which features in the title of Hardy’s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge is based on which real town?

A	Salisbury	B	Dorchester	C	Weymouth	D	Shaftesbury
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17.	Rudyard Kipling
In the Jungle Book what type of animal is Akela?

A	Tiger	B	Bear	C	Wolf	D	Lion
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18.	John Le Carré
Throughout Le Carré’s spy novels MI6 is referred to as ‘the Circus’. From what does this nickname derive?

A	First MI6 Head called Charles Barnum	B	Head of MI6 is known as ‘the Ringmaster’	C	Its HQ is near Cambridge Circus	D	Its agents are ‘all around the world’
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19.	George Orwell
In Orwell’s novel 1984 society is structured into 4 layers with Big Brother at the top, then the Inner Party followed by the Outer Party. What name did Orwell give to the 80% of the population in the bottom layer?

A	The Plebs	B	The Droids	C	The Proles	D	The Masses
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20.	Terry Pratchett
Pratchett’s comic fantasy Discworld novels are set in a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants perched on the back of what?

A	Giant turtle	B	Humpback whale	C	Tyrannosaurus Rex	D	Mammoth
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21.	Arthur Ransome
In the titles of Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series of children’s novels the names of four birds appear. Three of these are swallow, coot and duck. What is the fourth?

A	Puffin	B	Pigeon	C	Goose	D	Swan
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22.	J K Rowling
What does the 'K' stand for?

A	Kathleen	B	Keira	C	Nothing	D	Kelly
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23.	Walter Scott
Scott’s novel Ivanhoe is set at the time of the Crusades. One of the characters is called Locksley. On whom is this supposed to have been based?

A	Richard the Lionheart	B	Hereward the Wake	C	Prince John	D	Robin Hood
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24.	Muriel Spark
What was the name of the school featured in Spark’s best known novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?

A	Maria Blair	B	Marcia Blaine	C	Maggie Blythe	D	Martine Bredon
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25.	Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson's father made a living designing what?

A	Steam engines	B	Lighthouses	C	Gardens	D	Bridges
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26.	Anthony Trollope
In Trollope’s Barchester Towers the ‘baddie’ is called Slope but what is his first name?

A	Ebenezer	B	Ezra	C	Obadiah	D	Nehemiah
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27.	Evelyn Waugh
The theme music to the Granada TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited (which you can hear now) won a number of awards. Who wrote it? (click to play)

A	Barrington Pheloung	B	Ennio Morricone	C	Carl Davis	D	Geoffrey Burgon
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28.	H G Wells
Wells’s novel Kipps was turned into a stage musical. What was the title of the musical?

A	Salad Days	B	The Boyfriend	C	Half a Sixpence	D	My Fair Lady
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29.	P G Wodehoues
This symbol is used in Wodehouse’s Jeeves & Wooster series by a character called Roderick Spode. What is the name of the group he leads?

A	The Tiddlywinkers	B	The Blackshorts	C	The Drones	D	The Finknottles
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30.	Virginia Woolf
Woolf was a member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers, philosophers and artists. Which of the following was NOT a member of this Group?

A	John Maynard Keynes	B	E M Forster	C	William Morris	D	Lytton Strachey
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