LITERALLY LOGICAL

1 Which novel by Richard Hooker was adapted into a critically acclaimed film and an award winning TV series?

2 Which novel features Perks the station porter?

3 Which Kiefer Sutherland film took its title from a gang that resided in Never Never Land?

4 Which two initials connect the creators of Horatio Hornblower and Narnia?

5 In which Alistair MacLean thriller sees Captain Swanson skippering a nuclear sub called the USS Dolphin?

6 What did the Sunday Pictorial change its name to in 1963?

7 Which female writer was murdered in Africa in 1985?

8 According to JM Barrie who was the only person that Long John Silver was afraid of?

9 The title of which Shakespeare play is an allusion to January 6th?

10 Who was Ian Fleming describing when he wrote “she might have been desirable if her eyes hadn’t been so hard and quizzical”?

11 Which book, a humorous account of British history was penned by WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman had its title partly inspired by the Battle of Hastings?

12 Whose first novel was The Big Sleep?

13 Which fictional character is a Benedictine monk and herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey?

14 Who fell asleep under a shady tree in the Catskill Mountains?

15 Which criminal penned the autobiography Odd Man Out?

16 Which detective owned a pet bloodhound called Pedro?

17 Which character in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, shares his name with a popular British wrestler of yesteryear?

18 Life In The Jungle is the title of the memoirs of which politician?

19 Whose novel Clear and Present Danger was the best selling work of fiction in the USA in the 1980s?

20 Which literary hero joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 at the tender age of 17?

21 In which town was Charles Dickens born?

22 On June 12, 1942 who was given a diary for her 13th birthday?

23 Which character in the Bible has a name that means Father of the Multitude?

24 Which literary captain has a surname that means, “nobody” in Latin?

25 Whose parents owned the Admiral Benbow Inn?

26 What is the surname of the Parish Beadle in Oliver Twist?

27 Which popular novel by HE Bates gleaned its title from a quotation in Shakespeare’s Sonnet No 18?

28 Which best selling work by Graham Greene is set in the capital of Cuba?

29 Whose first names are Charles de Batze-Castelmore Comte?

30 What is the last name of Adrian Mole’s first love Pandora?
 

Answers
 

1 MASH

2 The Railway Children

3 The Lost Boys

4 CS for CS Forester and CS Lewis

5 Ice Station Zebra

6 The Sunday Mirror

7 Joy Adamson

8 Captain Hook

9 Twelfth Night

10 Miss Moneypenny

11 1066 And All That

12 Raymond Chandler

13 Brother Cadfael

14 Rip Van Winkle

15 Ronnie Biggs

16 Sexton Blake

17 Big Daddy

18 Michael Heseltine

19 Tom Clancy

20 Biggles

21 Portsmouth

22 Anne Frank

23 Abraham

24 Nemo

25 Jim Hawkins

26 Bumble

27 Darling Buds of May

28 Our Man in Havana

29 D’Artagnan

30 Braithwaite