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15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Which work is by Brendan Behan? 'Playboy of the Western World' 'Juno and the Paycock' 'The Plough and the Stars' 'Borstal Boy'

2. Kenneth Keating was a prominent politician - but he's perhaps best remembered for a Senate race that he lost. Who defeated him? Barry Goldwater Strom Thurmond Richard Nixon Robert Kennedy

3. Lillie Langtry was an old-time entertainer. According to legend, which prominent person was infatuated with her? Doc Holliday Wild Bill Hickock Judge Roy Bean Bat Masterson

4. Edward Everett was an American statesman and orator of what period? Colonial Civil War Revolutionary World War II

5. Which novel is NOT by Hermann Hesse? 'Siddhartha' 'The Glass Bead Game' Demian 'The Red and the Black'

6. With what newspaper is Ben Bradlee associated? Washington Post Los Angeles Times New York Daily News New York Times

7. Little Johnnie Jones is a character in the play of the same name. Who wrote the play? Irving Berlin George M. Cohan Moss Hart Jerome Kern

8. Who is Stephen Spender? Poet Musician Artist Novelist

9. Which work is by Bertolt Brecht? 'Mother Courage' 'Uncle Vanya' 'An Enemy of the People' 'The Master Builder'

10. Which story by Daphne DuMaurier was adapted and became a Hitchock movie? 'Rebecca' 'Notorious' 'Saboteur' 'Suspicion'