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1 Which crime writer created the Inspector Morse series of novels?
A Colin Dexter
2 Who wrote the book ‘A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes’ published in 1988?
A Stephen Hawking
3 Who wrote the children’s book The Old Man of Lochnagar in 1980?
A Charles Windsor (aka Prince Charles, now King Charles III)
4 In the Beatrix Potter stories, what sort of creature was Samuel Whiskers?
A A Rat
5 What is/was Britain’s longest-running stage comedy?
A No Sex Please, We’re British (a farce written by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott, which premiered in London’s West End on 3 June 1971 and has over 6,700 performances It ran until 5 September 1987)
6 Who wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland published in 1865?
A Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson born 27th January 1832 – died 14th January 1898)
7 Homer’s Iliad tells of the siege of which city?
A Troy (The Iliad is a poem about the final weeks of the siege of the city of Troy, and is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems)
8 Who composed the opera Fidelio?
A (Ludwig van) Beethoven
9 In which English holiday resort is Dracula said to have floated ashore?
A Whitby
10 Which long Lewis Carroll poem was turned into a musical on the London stage n the 1980s?
A The Hunting Of The Snark, composed by Mike Batt