1 – Which author created the aggressive, lethal plants called Triffids?
A – John Wyndham
2 – Name the Scottish schoolteacher played by Maggie Smith in the film of a Muriel Spark’s novel?
A – Jean Brodie – Prime of
3 – Which character in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, always insisted that he was ‘very ‘umble’?
A – Uriah Heap
4 – Under what name is the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known?
A – Mark Twain
5 – Jeeves was the perfect butler. Who was his employer?
A – Bertie Wooster
6 – Who wrote ‘On Beauty’ and ‘White Teeth’?
A – Zadie Smith
7 – Detective Inspector John Rebus created by Ian Rankin works in which city?
A – Edinburgh
8 – What is the name of the fourth book in the Harry Potter series?
A – Goblet of Fire
9 – Name the first three books in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series.
A – The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass
10 – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the autobiography of which American writer and poet?
A – Maya Angelou