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1. In what Ray Bradbury novel do we learn that "it was a pleasure to burn?"

A Graveyard for Lunatics

Farewell Summer

Fahrenheit 451

Dandelion Wine

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2. Which of the following plays was not written by Shakespeare?

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hamlet

Memphis

As You Like It

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3. Captain Ahab slowly slipped ever deeper into madness aboard the Pequod in which classic novel by Herman Melville?

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Robinson Crusoe

Treasure Island

Moby Dick

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4. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, then part of British India. From which language did he borrow the names for the characters Baloo and Bagheera in the novel 'The Jungle Book'?

Spanish

Chinese

Hindi

French

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5. Which of these was the co-author of "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male"?

Alfred Nobel

Alfred Molina

Alfred Sisley

Alfred Kinsey

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6. You know that author who wrote "The Cat in the Hat" and "Horton Hears a Who" and "Green Eggs and Ham"? How do you spell his name?

Dr Suse

Dr Seuss

Dr Seus

Dr Soose

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7. The Overlook Hotel is the main setting for which novel?

Room 13

The Shining

Evil Under the Sun

Bad Kitty

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8. Who wrote "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers"? Don't be bugged by the answer.

Flora Fraser

Alison Weir

Mary Roach

Lucy Worsley

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9. British author Anna Sewell wrote her only novel, "Black Beauty", to denounce what pressing social issue of Victorian England?

child labour

alcoholism

prostitution

animal abuse

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10. Which famous children's book features a character named Mr. McGregor, a farmer who tries to keep a mischievous rabbit out of his garden?

Winnie-the-Pooh

The Wind in the Willows

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Charlotte's Web