Statistics for British Literature # 2

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Question	Answer	% Correct
The Montague and Capulet families feature in which Shakespeare play?	Romeo and Juliet	96%
A Picture of Dorian Gray was whose only published novel?	Oscar Wilde	87%
Which book starts “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”?	A Tale of Two Cities	83%
Which American-born poet had the first names Thomas Stearns?	T. S. Eliot	81%
The character Willy Wonka first appeared in which 1964 book?	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	77%
Which is the only character to appear in all seven Chronicles of Narnia?	Aslan	72%
Who wrote the poems Gunga Din, Mandalay and If?	Rudyard Kipling	72%
Big Ears is the best friend of which End Blyton character?	Noddy	70%
In which 1953 novel did the character James Bond first appear?	Casino Royale	68%
What is the heroic alter ego of aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney?	The {Scarlet Pimpernel}	51%
What kind of animal was P. G. Wodehouse’s The Empress of Blandings?	A pig	47%
Thomas Hardy set many of his novels in which semi-fictional county?	Wessex	45%
Which author wrote the 1980s novels Money and London Fields?	Martin Amis	26%
Whose plays include Entertaining Mr Sloane and What the Butler Saw?	Joe Orton	19%
Who, in 2009, became the first woman to be appointed Poet Laureate?	Carol Ann Duffy	15%