quiz 1348 – literature quiz (QA)

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1	Which Ray Bradbury book was expanded and had the original title 'The Fireman'?
2	Which 1851 novel has the alternative title 'The Whale'?
3	Holden Caulfield is the anithero in which novel by J D Salinger?
4	Charlotte Bronte wrote the novel Jane Eyre under which pen name?
5	British novelist Zadie Smith won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction for which novel?
6	What was the middle name of American author Ernest Hemingway?
7	What is the name of the fictional forensic psychologist in the series of novels by US author James Patterson?
8	Wife of Bath, Manciple, Man of Law and Nun's Priest are all stories in which collection?
9	'Light a Penny Candle' was the debut novel of which Irish author?
10	Which novel by Charles Dickens has sold the most copies?
11	'What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays' is the opening line of which book by Roald Dahl?
12	Which 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy is subtitled 'The Life and Death of a Man of Character'?
13	In the 1876 novel 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain, what is the name of Tom's half brother who lives with Tom and his aunt Polly?
14	Which British author wrote the 1928 novel 'Orlando: A Biography'?
15	What is the first name of Gatsby in the novel 'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald?
16	What does Holly Golightly name the 'unnamed' narrator in the 1958 Truman Capote novel 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'?
17	Which US author has published seven novels under the pen name Richard Bachman?
18	Which 2002 novel by Alice Sebold was adapted into a film by director Peter Jackson?
19	Which of Agatha Christie's novels was the first to feature Miss Marple?
20	Dolphin and Star are the daughters of Marigold in which novel by Jacqueline Wilson?