Books 120424

Books 120424 is a selection of 10 questions. Books 120424 is the filename to differentiate it from other Art and Literature quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.

1   Who wrote ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ on which the musical ‘Cats’ is based?
A   T S Eliot (an anagram of toilets)

2   Which company publishes the ‘Harry Potter’ books in the UK?
A   Bloomsbury (Publishing plc)

3   What was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writer of fantasy literature for children?
A   Lewis Carroll

4   What is the first name of Miss Marple in the books by Agatha Christie?
A   Jane

5   What type of snake does Cleopatra use to take her life in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra?
A   Asp

6   Which 18th Century author wrote the literary classic, Gulliver’s Travels?
A   Jonathan Swift (full title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships)

7   Which novel by Charles Dickens depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip?
A   Great Expectations

8   Richmal Crompton wrote a series of humorous books about which mischievous 11-year-old schoolboy and his gang?
A   William (Just William) (William’s gang was known as the Outlaws)

9   Whose ‘Letter to the Romans’, is the sixth book of the New Testament?
A   St. Paul’s (the sixth book of the Old Testament is ‘Joshua’)

10   What was the pen name of 19th Century author Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
A   Mark Twain (Of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn fame – his first book in 1885 was ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’)