QUESTIONS
- Which character travelled around the work in 80n days with Passe Partout?
- What was the girl's school created by Ronald Searle and portrayed in several comedy films?
- Which author created the aggressive, lethal plants called triffids?
- Name the Scottish schoolteacher played by Maggie Smith in the film of Muriel Spark's novel?
- According to Aesop's Fable, which animal did the tortoise beat in a race?
- Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?
- Name the young hero of Treasure Island.
- In which book by William Golding are Piggy and Ralph shipwrecked?
- Victor Hugo wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame. What was his other famous book, the story of an escaped convict, Jean Valjean?
- Which character in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, always insisted that he was 'very 'umble'?
- In what London street did Sherlock Holmes live?
- Under what name us the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known?
- In which novel does the heroine finally marry Mr. Rochester?
- Whom did Minniehaha marry in Longfellow's poem?
- Peter Ustinov has portrayed Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in films. What nationality was Poirot?
- In a 17th-century novel, Don Quixote decides to become a knight. What does he begin attacking because he mistakes them for a row of giants?
- By what romantic name was Sir Percy Blakeney known in Baroness Orczy's novel?
- Which novelist wrote of a farm run by pigs and of the imaginary world of 1984?
- Name the character who visits Lilliput and Brobdingnag.
- Carrie and The Shining were both successful films. Who wrote the novels on which they were based?
- Which character lived at Sunnybrook Farm?
- Which best-selling novelist was the youngest member of the British House of Commons in 1969?
- Two novels by Alan Sillitoe were filmed in the 1960s. One was The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. What was the other?
- Jeeves was the perfect butler. Who was his employer?
- In 1991 the sequel to Gone with the Wind, written by Alexandra Ripley, was published. What was the title?
ANSWERS
- Phileas Fogg
- St. Trinian
- John Wyndham
- Miss Jean Brodie
- A hare
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Jim Hawkins
- Lord of the Flies
- Les Misérables
- Uriah Heap
- Baker Street
- Mark Twain
- Jane Eyre
- Hiawatha
- Belgian
- Windmills
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- George Orwell
- Gulliver
- Stephen King
- Rebecca
- Jeffrey Archer
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Bertie Wooster
- Scarlett