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1 Which artist spent four years painting the Sistine Chapel?
A Michelangelo (apparently, he did not wash himself once during this time – phew!)
2 Who, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, said, ‘I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle’?
A Mr Darcy
3 What is the name of the monster killed by Beowulf in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem?
A Grendel (a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, 700–1000). He is one of the poem’s three antagonists, along with his mother and the dragon.
4 From which poem by Lord Tennyson do the following lines come? ‘Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die’?
A The Charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854 (The quotation originated in the 1854 poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ written by the UK Poet Laureate of the time, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92))
5 In fiction, what was the name of Mr Pickwick’s landlady?
A Mrs Bardell. The Pickwick Papers (1836), the first novel by Charles Dickens
6 What is the second book in E.L.James’ Fifty Shades trilogy?
A Fifty Shades Darker. The second instalment traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey.
7 Whose painting of Samson and Delilah, completed in 1610, hangs in the National Gallery?
A Peter Paul Rubens – completed around 1609-1610
8 Which musician, singer and songwriter’s 2016 autobiography is entitled Born to Run?
A Bruce Springsteen
9 Which City setting is Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet?
A Verona, a city in northern Italy.
10 Who wrote the novels King Rat, Tai-Pan and Shogun and also co-wrote the script for the film The Great Escape?
A James Clavell.