Books 150317

Books 150317 is a selection of 10 questions. Books 150317 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   What is the nationality and rank of the soldier that features in the title of a famous 1969 John Fowles novel?
A   French Lieutenant (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)

2   In a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, what is the better-known name of the main character John Clayton?
A   Tarzan (Lord Greystoke)

3   Of whose schooldays did Thomas Hughes write in an 1857 novel?
A   Tom Brown’s Schooldays

4   Which actor-writer penned the best-selling children’s novels ‘The Boy in The Dress’, and Gangsta Granny’?
A   David Walliams

5   In what language was ‘Babar the Elephant’ first published in 1931?
A   French (by Jean de Brunhoff)

6   Who wrote the novels ‘The Fog’, ‘The Dark’, and ‘The Rats’?
A   James Herbert

7   Who wrote the Mallen series of books?
A   Catherine Cookson (The Mallen Streak (1973), The Mallen Girl, (1974), The Mallen Litter (1974))

8   In a famous adventure novel by Emma Orczy, how is the main character Sir Percy Blakeney, otherwise known?
A   The Scarlet Pimpernel

9   Whose autobiography, My Autobiography, was the best selling non-fiction book the UK in 2013?
A   Alex Ferguson

10   Who was Skimbleshanks in T S Eliot’s book of Cats?
A   The railway cat