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- Q: Elsinore Castle is the setting for which Shakespeare play?
A: Hamlet. Elsinore is the English name for Helsingør, a coastal town in Denmark. - Q: Eric Arthur Blair was the real name of which author?
A: George Orwell. He wanted to protect his family from embarrassment and start a new writing life. - Q: Which famous fictional character first appeared in “Meet the Tiger”, published in 1928?
A: Simon Templar, also known as “The Saint”. By Leslie Charteris. - Q: Which well-known artist and polymath painted with both his right and left hand?
A: Leonardo da Vinci. Born left-handed, he naturally used his left hand for mirror-writing and sketching. - Q: How many leagues under the sea is Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo?
A: 20,000. Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea has several major film and television adaptations, including at least four direct feature films or television movies with the exact title. - Q: Fingal O’Flaherty Vane is better known as which Irish poet and playwright?
A: Oscar Wilde. Best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890). - Q: For what genre of book is Isaac Asimov famous?
A: Science fiction. Considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers during his lifetime, alongside Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. - Q: What juts out of the fireplace in the painting “Time Transfixed” by René Magritte?
A: A steam locomotive (specifically an LMS Stanier 5MT “Black 5” 4-6-0 train). - Q: ‘Mockingjay’ and ‘Catching Fire’ are books from which series of young adult novels?
A: The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) - Q: Which famous painting of 1893 did the artist describe as “tongues of fire and blood stretched over a bleak black fjord”?
A: The Scream (Skrik) (Edvard Munch)