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- Q: Who wrote the multi-million 1946 best seller “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care”?
A: Dr Benjamin Spock. The book revolutionised parenting advice. - Q: Who wrote the poem that begins “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree”?
A: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Kubla Khan. - Q: Which author is widely regarded as the “Father of Science Fiction”?
A: H.G. Wells. While Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback are also recognised for their contributions, Wells’ early science fiction novels, such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, are seen as foundational to the genre. - Q: Which dystopian novel begins “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”?
A: Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. - Q: Who reigned Britain during the majority of Jane Austen’s writing career?
A: George III, who reigned from 1760 to 1820. - Q: What does the JRR stand for as in JRR Tolkien, author of “The Lord of the Rings”?
A: John Ronald Reuel. - Q: Published in 1973, what was Stephen King’s first full-length novel?
A: Carrie. It was a bestseller and inspired a movie of the same name. - Q: What is the name of the dragon in the Ivor the Engine stories?
A: Idris. He is a red Welsh dragon who lives in Smoke Hill, an extinct volcano, and is friends with Ivor and Jones the Steam. - Q: Which book’s title translates as “My Struggle”?
A: Mein Kampf (German: [maɪn ˈkampf]; lit. ‘My Struggle’) is a 1925 autobiographical and political manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. - Q: Which literary character arrived in England aboard a sailing ship and purchased a house at 347 Piccadilly?
A: Count Dracula from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. The ship was named the Demeter, and it carried Dracula in boxes of earth from Transylvania to Whitby.