Art & Literature 119878

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1. Q: What is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything in Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”?
   A: 42. Ultimately, the supercomputer Deep Thought calculated this answer after processing for seven and a half million years.
2. Q: Who wrote “The Adventures of Tintin” comic series?
   A: Hergé. A Belgian comic artist.
3. Q: Which Shakespearean play features the line “Now is the winter of our discontent”?
   A: Richard III. The line is the opening of a famous soliloquy by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, in Act 1, Scene 1, where he expresses his dissatisfaction and ambition to seize the throne.
4. Q: What type of creature is Aragog in the “Harry Potter” books?
   A: Spider, a massive, giant Acromantula, a species of gigantic, poisonous, and sentient spiders that are believed to be wizard-bred. Like other Acromantulas, Aragog possessed a leg span of up to fifteen feet and could communicate with humans.
5. Q: In L. Frank Baum’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, if Elphaba is the wicked witch of the west, who is the good witch of the South?
   A: Glinda. While in the musical Wicked and the 1939 film, Glinda is the Good Witch of the North.
6. Q: What was the fictional address of Sherlock Holmes?
   A: 221B Baker Street, London, which is the location of the Sherlock Holmes Museum today.
7. Q: Which writer’s autobiography was published in 2010, 100 years after his death, as instructed in his will?
   A: Mark Twain. Although Mark Twain left roughly 5,000 unedited pages following his death in 1910, the University of California, Berkeley finally released these extensive memoirs in November 2010.
8. Q: Which Shakespeare play is the only one that has an animal’s name in the title?
   A: The Taming of the Shrew. Specifically, the title employs the word “shrew” to label the protagonist, Katharina. Furthermore, Shakespeare characterises her throughout the play as a sharp-tongued and quarrelsome woman who defies social expectations.
9. Q: In which 1873 novel is the chief character pursued by Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard?
   A: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Notably, Detective Fix of Scotland Yard relentlessly pursues the protagonist, Phileas Fogg, across the globe. Specifically, Fix chases him because he mistakenly identifies Fogg as a notorious bank robber.
10. Q: Which fictional schoolboy is the subject of a series of children’s books by Francesca Simon?
    A: Horrid Henry. She has written over 45 books and won the Children’s Book of the Year in 2008.