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1 What is the name of the house-elf that Harry Potter rescues and sets free?
A Dobby
2 Which science fiction novel of 1898 ends with the words “After all that Mankind had tried, the Earth was saved by the littlest things that God, in his wisdom, had put on this Earth”?
A The War of the Worlds
3 Which writer first came to prominence in 1963 with The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
A John le Carré (real name David John Moore Cornwell)
4 In Jane Austen’s book ‘Emma’, what is Emma’s surname?
A Woodhouse
5 What is the first name of the wife of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë?
A Isabella – Catherine is the main female character, and her love for Heathcliff is a central theme of the novel, but she marries Edgar Linton instead.
6 Tom Brown’s Schooldays is an 1857 novel by whom?
A Thomas Hughes
7 Written before her only other published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Go Set a Watchman is by which writer?
A Harper Lee
8 The Boy in the Dress and Mr. Stink are children’s books by which comedian?
A David Walliams
9 In Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’, what is the name of Scrooge’s late business partner?
A Jacob Marley
10 Who wrote the biography “The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw”, chronicling her life with her late husband, the actor John Thaw?
A Sheila Hancock