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- Q: Who wrote a series of 12 books about Horatio Hornblower?
A: C. S. Forester (Cecil Scott Forester, born Cecil Louis Troughton Smith). - Q: Who was the most famous Greek writer of fables?
A: Aesop. A legendary storyteller from ancient Greece (c. 620–564 BCE) is credited with the countless “Aesop’s Fables” featuring animal characters with human traits to teach moral lessons. - Q: What is the title of the physicist Stephen Hawking’s famed cosmology book?
A: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. - Q: Which of Shakespeare’s plays contains the most words?
A: Hamlet, containing around 41,594 words. - Q: Which literary character’s home address is “4 Privet Road”?
A: Harry Potter, in Little Whinging, Surrey. - Q: Miss Felicity Lemon is the highly efficient secretary to which fictional detective?
A: Hercule Poirot. In the books, Poirot describes her as “unbelievably ugly and incredibly efficient” - Q: Who wrote the children’s novel “The Story of Doctor Dolittle”?
A: Hugh Lofting - Q: Which artist had the nickname “Jack the Dripper” because of his drip paintings?
A: Jackson Pollock, an American Abstract Expressionist known for pouring and splashing paint onto canvases on the floor to create his iconic works, a technique also called “action painting”. - Q: Who wrote nine novels about a retired spy named George Smiley?
A: John le Carré, his real name was David Cornwell. - Q: Who used an estimated 8,000 different words in his epic poem, “Paradise Lost”?
A: John Milton, showcasing an incredibly rich vocabulary to recount the biblical story of the Fall of Man, is a testament to his vast knowledge and linguistic skill.