Books 150825

Books 150825 is a selection of 10 questions. Books 150825 is the filename to differentiate it from other Art and Literature quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.

1   In which literary classic is the protagonist Philip Pirrip?
A   Great Expectations (called Pip – by Charles Dickens)

2   Which book begins the adventures of the hapless Arthur Dent?
A   Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (by Douglas Adams)

3   In which novel is the storyteller’s nemesis the bully Flashman?
A   Tom Brown’s School Days (by Thomas Hughes)

4   Which hard-drinking wisecracking private eye did Raymond Chandler create in 1939 for a series of short stories and novels?
A   Philip Marlowe (Chandler continued to write them until his death in 1959)

5   Who is the idiosyncratic fat chap in glasses whose adventures Frank Richards wrote about in a long-running series of stories?
A   Billy Bunter (schoolboy from Greyfriars School)

6   In which Thomas Hardy novel are the protagonists Bathsheba Everdene and Gabriel Oak?
A   Far from the Madding Crowd (first published anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine in 1874)

7   Who created the Eton educated idle rich English Gentleman and
A   P G Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse)

8   Which novel by Graeme Greene is set in Cuba and involves James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner retailer recruited into MI6?
A   Our Man in Havana (Greene was an MI6 operative in WW2 as was his sister. Kim

9   Which novel by John Steinbeck tells the story of the Joad family?
A   The Grapes of Wrath

10   In which series of romance novels by Jilly Cooper, is Rupert Campbell-Black a recurring character?
A   The Rutshire Chronicles (nine novels beginning in 1996 with Riders and possibly ending with Jump!, published 2010)