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1 Who is the main character in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit?
A Bilbo Baggins
2 Which 18th-century poet was known as the Bard of Ayrshire?
A Robert Burns
3 What is the better-known pen name of author Barbara McCorquodale?
A Barbara Cartland (McCorquodale was her married name)
4 Who wrote the 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World?
A Aldous Huxley
5 What was the surname of siblings Jacob and Wilhelm, the well-known 19th-century cultural researchers and authors?
A Grimm (Brothers Grimm)
6 Who wrote about herself, her husband, and a lioness called Elsa in the book Born Free?
A Joy Adamson (first published 1960)
7 Which 1898 novel begins with a strange incident on Horsell Common, near Woking in Surrey?
A The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
8 What colour was Velvet’s surname in Enid Bagnold’s 1935 novel National Velvet?
A Brown (the horse she rides is named The Piebald because it is piebald colour)
9 According to Longfellow’s 1855 poem, The Song of Hiawatha, who was Hiawatha’s lover?
A Minnehaha
10 Which British adventurer published his autobiography, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know in 2008?
A Ranulph Fiennes (Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet)