Arts & Books Mixed Bag 13

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1. What was the occupation of Penrod 'Penny' Pooch, the alter ego of superhero Hong Kong Phooey? Nun Chef Janitor Teacher

2. Who was the Greek goddess of revenge? Eirene Nemesis Ananke Iris

3. Which prize-winning English novelist was born in Newquay, Cornwall in 1911? Dame Agatha Christie T.S. Eliot Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir William Golding

4. In the 'Animals of Farthing Wood' series of children's books, Bold, Charmer, Friendly and Dreamer are the offspring of which major character? Badger Fox Toad Owl

5. Which painter spent 1888-1889 in Arles in southern France, producing more than 300 paintings and drawings in his time there? Vincent Van Gogh Georges Seurat Pablo Picasso Paul Gauguin

6. Which novel begins with this sentence? "Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all." The Shining Rosemary's Baby Dune The Exorcist

7. Harper Lee's classic novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was set in the fictional Maycomb county in which US state? Mississippi Alabama Texas Louisiana

8. In Robin Jarvis's trilogy of fantasy novels for children, 'The Deptford Mice', the title characters fight an ongoing battle with the cat god who shares a name with which planet? Saturn Mercury Mars Jupiter

9. Which of these four 16th-Century poets/writers was born first? William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe Miguel de Cervantes Edmund Spenser

10. Published in 1980, 'A Liar's Autobiography' is a fictional account of his own life written by which member of the Monty Python team? Terry Jones Graham Chapman John Cleese Eric Idle