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Marlborough LitFest 2011
Literary Quiz: Answers

1. In what year was the King James' Bible completed? (1611)

2. Name one biographical subject written about by Michael Holroyd apart from in The Book of Secrets. (Eliot, Shaw, Stachey, Augustus John)

3. For which novel did William Golding win the Booker Prize? (Rites of Passage)

4. What was George Orwell's real name? (Eric Blair)

5. ''Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.'' Who spoke these lines in which Shakespearean play? (Malvolio; Twelfth Night)

6. Fanny Price appears in which Jane Austen novel? (Mansfield Park)

7.Name the novels which start with the following opening lines:

''The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.'' (Lord of the Flies)

8. ''Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him. She decided six months later to return for the same reason.'' (The Bell)

9. ''It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.'' (1984)

10. '' I have been here before,'' I said. (Brideshead Revisited)

11. Who was Richard the Lionheart's mother? (Eleanor of Aquitaine)

12. Which novel by Charles Dickens features a chapter set at a pub based on the Waggon and Horses at Beckhampton near Marlborough? (Pickwick Papers)

13. Keira Knightly and Matthew Macfadyen star in which 2005 Jane Austen adaptation screen-written by Deborah Moggach? (Pride & Prejudice)

14. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, what was the name of the lawyer? (Atticus Finch)

15. What links Shakespeare and St George's Day? (Shakespeare's birthday)

16. Name four who lived in 100 Acre Wood. (Pooh, Owl, Rabbit, Eyore, Piglet, Tigger)

17. ''the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.'' Name the author and book. (Jerome K Jerome; Three Men in a Boat)

18. Who won the 2010 Booker Prize? (Howard Jacobsen, The Finkler Question)

19. According to WH Auden, what was '' Bringing the cheque and the postal order''? (The Night Mail)

20. What is the number of William Golding's house on The Green? (29 The Green)

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