The Written Word
1 Which disease claimed the lives of Anne and Emily Bronte?
2 Orthanc and Barad-dur are the actual names of what in a famous literary work?
3 Which Shakespearian trio are known as the Weird Sisters?
4 Which Enid Blyton character was renamed White Beard to appease the politically correct market?
5 Which book of the Bible includes a quintet of dirges bemoaning the destruction of the city of Jerusalem?
6 What is Romeo’s surname in Romeo and Juliet?
7 What did Sherlock Holmes store in the toe of his Persian slipper?
8 In which novel did Bathsheba Everdene tie the knot with Sergeant Troy?
9 Which Ian Fleming novel features a dog called Edison?
10 Which king was portrayed by Shakespeare as a murderous hunchback?
11 Which comic was founded by Chris Donald in 1979?
12 According to the Bible who in his will left the whole world to his three sons?
13 What is a Firebolt in the Harry Potter tales?
14 What was the pen name of Phyllis White?
15 In which novel is a language called Newspeak spoken?
16 What is the name of Othello’s wife?
17 Which series of books was inspired by a young boy called Adam who asked his father what a tickle looked like?
18 According to the rhyme which child works hard for a living?
19 Which fictional doctor was wounded at the Battle of Maiwand?
20 Which novel by Thomas Mann sees the character of Adrian Leverkuhn sell his soul to the Devil in exchange for 24 years of creative genius?
21 Which novel by Keith Waterhouse is said to have gained its inspiration from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?
22 What is the seven letter first name of Miss Marple’s nephew?
23 In which prison was the father of Charles Dickens incarcerated?
24 What is the four letter name of the dog in the Jack London novel The Call of the Wild?
25 Edward Murdstone is the stepfather of which eponymous Dickens character?
26 In which novel did Michael Henchard sell his wife for a price of five guineas?
27 In the Bible who wrote the majority of the Epistles?
28 Who created Andy Capp?
29 Who penned the novel The Go Between?
30 In which fictional school is Mr Quelch the form master of the Remove?
31 What is the name of Phileus Fogg’s valet in Around the World in Eighty Days?
32 Which novel was first published in serial form under the title of The Sea Cook?
33 What is the name of the wife of Fungus the Bogeyman?
34 Which comic book hero was known as the Pilot of the Future?
35 Which children’s book features the Green Men of Gorm?
36 Who murdered Sir Danvers Carew?
37 Who fell in love with Rowena in a Walter Scott novel?
38 What animal was Winston Smith tortured with in 1984?
39 What is the last name of Rosie in Cider With Rosie?
40 Elinor and Marianne was the original
working title for which novel?
Answers
1 Tuberculosis
2 The Two Towers in The Lord of the Rings trilogy
3 The three witches in Macbeth
4 Big Ears
5 Lamentations
6 Montague
7 Pipe tobacco
8 Far From the Madding Crowd
9 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
10 Richard III
11 Viz
12 Noah
13 An ultra fast broomstick
14 PD James
15 1984
16 Desdemona
17 Mr Men
18 Saturday’s child
19 Dr Watson
20 Dr Faustus
21 Billy Liar
22 Raymond
23 Marshalsea
24 Buck
25 David Copperfield
26 The Mayor of Casterbridge
27 St Paul
28 Reg Smythe
29 LP Hartley
30 Greyfriars
31 Passepartout
32 Treasure Island
33 Mildew
34 Dan Dare
35 The Old Man of Lochnagar
36 Mr Hyde
37 Ivanhoe
38 Rats
39 Burdock
40 Sense and Sensibility