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Q.1 What kind of animal is Ratty in Wind in the Willows?
Water Vole - pdurrant
Q.2 Who was Sir Percy Blakeney better known as?
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Shayne Parkinson
Q.3 “A screaming comes across the sky” is the first line to which novel?
Answer: Gravity’s Rainbow
Q.4 What was the name of Frodo’s mother in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?
Primula Brandybuck - Glorfindel
Q.5 What is the sequel to William Thackeray’s The History of Henry Esmond?
The Virginians - Shayne Parkinson
Q.6 Who said this about Jane Austen: “Every time I read her, I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin bone”?
Mark Twain - Shayne Parkinson
Q.7 To whom did Dorothy Parker say: “So you're the man who can't spell f***?”
Answer: Norman Mailer
Q.8 In the ladybird classic First Day of the Holidays, what illegal activity do the penguins Pen and Gwen get up to?
Joy riding - Bookpossum
Q.9 What connects Don Quixote, Pilgrim's Progress, Le Morte d'Arthur and The Pisan Cantos?
They were all written whilst their authors were in prison - Shayne Parkinson
Q.10 About which Shakespeare play did Samuel Pepys say: "it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life"?
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shayne Parkinson
5 to Shayne Parkinson
1 to pdurrant
1 to Glorfindel
1 to Bookpossum
As Shayne is in an unassailable position, I've given the missing two answers above, and it's over to you, Shayne.
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