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1 What was the title of John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel about a poor Midwest farming family driven from their land by drought, who moved to California during the Great Depression?
A The Grapes of Wrath
2 Which of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals did Richard Stilgoe write the lyrics?
A Starlight Express
3 Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
A Jane Austen – She published three other novels during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma
4 Which American writer and humourist quoted, ‘Familiarity breeds contempt – and children’?
A Mark Twain – Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
5 Who created the characters ‘Jeremy Fisher’ and ‘Peter Rabbit’?
A Beatrix Potter – Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist
6 Which visionary-thinker wrote “Das Kapital”?
A Karl Marx.
7 To which 19th-century art movement are painters Monet, Degas, and Renoir?
A They were all Impressionists
8 Which mischievous schoolboy was created by Richmal Crompton?
A (Just) William – thirty-eight books
9 By what name was the Greek artist Domenikos Theotokopoulos better known?
A El Greco – ‘The Greek’, he was born in Crete, which was then a Venetian possession
10 Who was the famous British diarist who often wrote after finishing a diary entry in his diary, “And so to bed”?
A Samuel Pepys – on 31 May, 1669, Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary and our intimate view of life in London in the 17th century was suddenly cut short