Okay, here's a reasonably easy literary quiz for you:
1 In 1960 the UK publishing ban was lifted on which book published in 1928?
2 Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
3 James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel?
4 Which famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus' and who wrote it?
5 By what name is the writer François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) better known?
6 Around 100AD what type of book construction began to replace scrolls?
7 "Reader, I married him," appears in the conclusion of what novel?
8 Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
9 What is the pen-name of novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-80)?
10 In what decade was the Oxford English Dictionary first published?
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