The Book Set
1 Who has been the subject of works by George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare and John Dryden?
2 April 2nd is the anniversary of whose birthday, celebrated in Denmark?
3 Which author created the character of CIA operative Jack Ryan?
4 What type of books were Moody and Sankey famed for publishing in the 19th century?
5 In which county is the novel Cider with Rosie set?
6 In 2005 who penned the book Confessions of an Heiress?
7 For what genre of novels is the Hugo Prize awarded?
8 According to a novel published in 1897, who arrived in Whitby on a vessel called the Demeter?
9 The final chapter of which novel opens with the words, “Reader I married him”?
10 Which literary creation of Robert E Howard was played on film by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
11 The Camels are Coming published in 1932 marked the literary debut of which heroic character?
12 What is the main output of the publishing company Bartholomew’s?
13 Which novel was a sequel to Little Women?
14 Whose diaries were infamously forged by Konrad Kajau?
15 In which novel did Ada Doom “see something nasty in the woodshed”?
16 Which Dickens novel opens with the line “Now what I want is facts”?
17 Which novel later filmed starring Robert Redford opens with the line” In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since”?
18 Who was the intended target of the assassin in The Day of the Jackal?
19 Who refused the title of Poet Laureate in 1813?
20 What was the first published novel of Charles Dickens?
21 In which range of mountains does Heidi live?
22 Who did Sherlock Holmes describe as the Napoleon of Crime?
23 Which literary character proclaimed “I am the master of all I survey”?
24 Which novel was inspired by the sinking of the SS Politician off the coast of Scotland?
25 Which amateur sleuth made a final appearance in the 1976 story Sleeping Murder?
26 Which Jules Verne novel became the basis of a concept album by Rick Wakeman?
27 Which creature can Harry Potter converse with when speaking Parseltongue?
28 Who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962?
29 Who penned his most famous work in Seething Lane, London?
30 Which novel by Michael Ondaatje won the Booker Prize and went on to be adapted into an Oscar winning film?
31 Which actor is the son of a Poet Laureate who held the title from 1967 to 1972?
32 Who wrote under the nom de plume of Acton Bell?
33 What is the first surname to be mentioned in the first line of the first Harry Potter novel?
34 Which two Shakespeare plays have an Italian city in the title? (Not including ROMEo and Juliet)
35 Which outlaw the subject of a novel by Sir Walter Scott was played on film by Liam Neeson?
36 Who wrote the book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
37 Which Shakespeare character speaks the most lines, 1422 in total?
38 Which novel contains no named female characters after the author followed the instructions of his stepson Lloyd Osbourne who wrote a note that read “No women in the story”?
39 The first name of which Harry Potter character was chosen by JK Rowling after one of the characters in The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare?
40 Name the four novels of Dan Brown that
were simultaneously in the Top Ten Best Sellers List in 200
Answers
1 Cleopatra
2 Hans Christian Andersen
3 Tom Clancy
4 Hymn books
5 Gloucestershire
6 Paris Hilton
7 Sci-fi
8 Dracula
9 Jane Eyre
10 Conan
11 Biggles
12 Maps and atlases
13 Good Wives
14 Hitler
15 Cold Comfort Farm
16 Hard Times
17 The Great Gatsby
18 Charles de Gaulle
19 Sir Walter Scott
20 The Pickwick Papers
21 Alps
22 Professor Moriaty
23 Robinson Crusoe
24 Whiskey Galore
25 Miss Marple
26 Journey to the Centre of the Earth
27 Snakes
28 John Steinbeck
29 Samuel Pepys
30 The English Patient
31 Daniel Day Lewis, son of Cecil
32 Anne Bronte
33 Dursley
34 Verona and Venice, Two Gentlemen of and Merchant of
35 Rob Roy
36 Washington Irving
37 Hamlet
38 Treasure Island
39 Hermione
40 The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Deception Point, Digital Fortress