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British Literature # 2

Can you answer these questions about English literature?
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In which 1953 novel did the character James Bond first appear?
Casino Royale
Which American-born poet had the first names Thomas Stearns?
T. S. Eliot
Big Ears is the best friend of which End Blyton character?
Noddy
Which author wrote the 1980s novels Money and London Fields?
Martin Amis
Which is the only character to appear in all seven Chronicles of Narnia?
Aslan
A Picture of Dorian Gray was whose only published novel?
Oscar Wilde
What kind of animal was P. G. Wodehouse’s The Empress of Blandings?
A pig
Whose plays include Entertaining Mr Sloane and What the Butler Saw?
Joe Orton
Thomas Hardy set many of his novels in which semi-fictional county?
Wessex
Who wrote the poems Gunga Din, Mandalay and If?
Rudyard Kipling
Which book starts “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”?
A Tale of
Two Cities
The Montague and Capulet families feature in which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and
Juliet
The character Willy Wonka first appeared in which 1964 book?
Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory
What is the heroic alter ego of aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney?
The
Scarlet Pimpernel
Who, in 2009, became the first woman to be appointed Poet Laureate?
Carol Ann Duffy
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