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1 Which novel by Salman Rushdie led to Ayatollah Khomeini declaring a fatwa against him in 1989?
A The Satanic Verses
2 What is the name of the Bengal tiger in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling?
A Shere Khan
3 Who painted The Night Café in 1888?
A Vincent van Gogh (most Dutch people pronounce his surname along the lines of vun KHOKH, -v as in vet, -u as in bun, -kh as in Scottish loch)
4 Bert Weedon wrote a book entitled Play in a Day, which gave advice on how to play which musical instrument?
A Guitar
5 Who is the central character of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies?
A Thomas Cromwell
6 Which creatures is Gavin Maxwell’s book Ring of Bright Water about?
A Otters
7 What is the name of the second book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
A The Two Towers
8 Which French artist painted Dancer Lacing Her Shoe in 1878?
A Edgar Degas
9 At his own request, which American author’s autobiography was published in 2010, 100 years after his death?
A Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
10 The Pequod is a fictional ship that features prominently in what classic novel?
A Moby-Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)