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1 Which imaginary creature did Lewis Carroll describe with “jaws that bite and claws that catch” in his 1871 novel?
A The Jabberwocky – appears in Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
2 Which town is associated with Count Dracula’s arrival in England?
A Whitby, North Yorkshire. Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, visited Whitby in 1890 and drew inspiration from the town’s coastline, abbey ruins, and shipwreck for his novel.
3 Who wrote the 1990 science fiction novel, “Jurassic Park”?
A Michael Crichton. Michael Crichton wrote the original Westworld and later directed the feature film.
4 How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?
A 14 – they are divided into three ‘stanzas’ of four lines each, then a ‘couplet’ – two lines which bring the poem to a close.
5 Which author created the fictional Detectives Tommy and Tuppence?
A Agatha Christie. Their full names are Thomas Beresford and his wife, Prudence (née Cowley).
6 Call me Ishmael are the opening words of which work of literature?
A Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Critics and readers widely rank these lines among the most famous and memorable openings in literature.
7 In which country is the setting for Graham Greene’s 1955 novel “The Quiet American”?
A Vietnam. During the 1950s, the United States channelled billions of dollars in military aid to France to support its colonial war in Indochina. Following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, President Eisenhower dispatched the first military advisors to Saigon to bolster the newly formed South Vietnamese government. By the early 1960s, President Kennedy escalated this commitment, increasing the number of American “Green Berets” to train South Vietnamese forces in counterinsurgency tactics against the Viet Cong.
8 Which fictional all-girl boarding school was created by cartoonist and author Ronald Searle in 1941?
A St Trinian’s Boarding School. He drew inspiration from his childhood memories and observations, particularly the Perse School for Girls and Cambridge High School for Girls in Cambridge.
9 In the 1961 novel by Muriel Spark, which title character taught at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Scotland?
A Miss Jean Brodie. In 1930s Edinburgh, six ten-year-old girls—Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice—begin their education under Miss Jean Brodie, a teacher who famously claims she is “in [her] prime.”
10 What name do art historians give to the technique of mural painting on wet plaster?
A Fresco. The term “fresco” derives from the Italian word for “fresh” because artists apply pigments directly onto freshly laid, wet plaster.