Statistics for British Literature # 4

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Ebeneezer Scrooge appears in which Charles Dickens story?	A Christmas Carol	100%
Who wrote the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four?	George Orwell	100%
Which Shakespeare play contains the ‘To be or not to be’ speech?	Hamlet	96%
In Arthurian legend, what is the name of King Arthur’s sword?	Excalibur	93%
Which writer created the fictional character James Bond?	Ian Fleming	87%
Which Welsh poet died, aged 39, in New York City in 1953?	Dylan Thomas	67%
What kind of animal is Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle?	Hedgehog	58%
Who wrote the 1898 poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol?	Oscar Wilde	56%
Who wrote 728 books, mostly romances, between 1925 and 2000?	Dame {Barbara Cartland}	51%
The Lord of the Rings is set in which fantasy world?	Middle-earth	47%
What was the name of Zadie Smith’s award-winning debut novel?	White Teeth	44%
Whose plays include Look Back In Anger and The Entertainer?	John Osbourne	29%
Who wrote The Gruffalo, first published in 1999?	Julia Donaldson	27%
Which playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005?	Harold Pinter	20%
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink” is the start of which 1948 novel?	I Capture the Castle	16%