Statistics for British Literature # 1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which fictional detective lodged at 221b Baker Street, London?	Sherlock Holmes	100%
Which natural product is Winnie the Pooh’s favourite food?	Honey	96%
Which Shakespeare work is known by actors as ‘The Scottish Play’?	Macbeth	91%
Poets Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke both died in which war?	World War One	83%
What kind of animals are Hazel & Fiver in the novel Watership Down?	Rabbits	72%
Whose final novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood was left unfinished?	Charles Dickens	64%
Who won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel Midnight’s Children?	Salman Rushdie	63%
Which position was held by Ted Hughes from 1984 to 1998?	Poet Laureate	59%
Which novel begins ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’?	Rebecca	59%
How are Julian, Dick, Anne, George & Timmy collectively known?	The Famous Five	53%
Who wrote poems ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ & ‘To the Skylark’?	William Wordsworth	52%
Which pen name was used by writer Mary Ann Evans?	George Eliot	51%
Elinor & Marianne Dashwood are characters in which 1811 novel?	Sense and Sensibility	47%
Which fictional world was the setting for 41 Terry Pratchett books?	Discworld	43%
Brick Lane was the debut novel of which Pakistani-born writer?	Monica Ali	19%

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