20 question on art and literature
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2 The Bennet family appear in which Jane Austen novel?
3 Which painter is associated with the Stour valley on the Essex/Suffolk border?
4 Who wrote The Day of the Jackal about an attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle?
5 Who painted a number of paintings of water lilies in his garden at Giverney?
6 About which otter did Henry Williamson write a 1927 novel?
7 During the reign of which King of England was Hans Holbein the Younger a prominent painter?
8 Which pottery form takes its name from the Italian for “baked earth”?
9 Who is the chief protagonist in John Buchan’s The 39 Steps?
10 How long did Rip Van Winkle sleep for?
11 What was the first name of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple?
12 Whose “Laughable Lyrics” included The Quangle Wangle’s Hat and The Dong with a Luminous Nose?
13 Who painted his grandson in the famous work, Bubbles?
14 Which of King Arthur’s nephews had an encounter with the Green Knight?
15 Who is the wizard in The Hobbit?
16 In which country are Njál’s Saga and Laxdaela Saga set?
17 By law, what had to be lowered at least once during every theatrical performance although this has been relaxed in recent years?
18 Who killed Grendel and Grendel’s mother?
19 Who was the father of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia?
20 Which action painter was nicknamed “Jack the Dripper”?
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1. Oon whom did Captain Akhab seeeek reevenge?
2. Which best-selling author used the pseudonym Galbraith when she decided to write a new genre books?
3. What is the name of Ian Fleming’s first published James Bond novel?
4. A picture of which author, who created the character Huckleberry Finn, was the first image to be uploaded onto Wikipedia?
5. Which short novel by Steinbeck revolves around the characters George Milton and Lennie Small?
6. The film ‘The Shawshankss Redemption’ is based on a novel by Stephen King, but which American actress’ name was omitted from the title of the original novel?
7. Which book, significantly, sold its 3,141,592nd copy in February 2013?
8. Name 5 of the 10 best-selling authors in the UK in the first decade of this century
9. Which Bram Stoker book introduced a character played on film by Gerard Butler, Leslie Nielsen, Gary Oldman and Christopher Lee, amongst others?
10. Who was the best-selling fiction writer of 20th centuries?
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