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Which was the first novel written by Charles Dickens?
The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club). It was published in monthly instalments beginning in 1836. The publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions for a series of illustrator Robert Seymour’s comic ‘cockney sporting plates’ and to connect them into a novel.
In fiction, at what address did housekeeper Mrs Hudson live?
221C Baker Street – she rents rents 221B to Holmes & Watson.
What name did Conan Doyle give to Sherlock Holmes’ older and smarter brother?
Mycroft Holmes. He was a government official and a founding member of the Diogenes Club.
In Richmal Crompton’s Just William books, what is the name of William’s gang?
The Outlaws. The gang members typically include Ginger, Henry, and Douglas.
What is the title of A. A. Milne’s stage adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel “The Wind in the Willows”?
Toad of Toad Hall, produced in 1929 when the novel was in its 31st printing.
Which Dutch artist created the oil painting titled ‘The Potato Eaters’?
Vincent van Gogh, painted in April 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands. It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Which gang of street children did Sherlock Holmes sometimes employ as his ‘eyes and ears’ on the streets of London?
The Baker Street Irregulars. They first appeared in Conan Doyle’s first novel, A Study in Scarlet.
Which satirical novelist wrote the Wilt series, Porterhouse Blue, and Blott on the Landscape?
Tom Sharpe. The BBC adapted Blott on the Landscape into a television series starring David Suchet and George Cole.
Inspector Japp is a fictional character who appears in several novels by which private detective?
Hercule Poirot, a Belgian private investigator created by Agatha Christie.
Which novel did Emily Brontë publish as her only work of fiction?
Wuthering Heights. It was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.