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It is the best of quizzes, it is the worst of quizzes.
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Question of
In the first line of Crow Road (Iain M. Banks), what relative of the narrator explodes?
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His Brother
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HIs Mother
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His Grandmother
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Question of
On the subject of recently-deceased female relatives, whose mother, ‘died, today, or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure’?
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Oliver Twist
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The Outsider
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Tarka the Otter
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‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’, so began which Russian masterpiece?
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Anna Karenina
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The Brothers Karamazov
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War & Peace
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Question of
Who wrote the following opener, ‘The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation’.
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Anita Brookner
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Donna Tartt
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Jean Rhys
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‘The human race, to which so many of my readers belong….’, introduces which Napoleon?
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Napoleon of Animal Farm
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Napoleon of Notting Hill
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Question of
What hour were the clocks striking in the first sentence of 1984?
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Thirteen
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Nineteen
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Twenty-five
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Question of
What, according to ‘go-between’ L.P. Hartley, is a foreign country?
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Dreams
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Love
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The Past
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Question of
‘My suffering left me sad and gloomy’, opens which book?
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Life of Pi
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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Question of
‘When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city — which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was’.
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Brian Aldiss – Hothouse
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William Gibson – Neuromancer
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John Wyndham – The Chrysalids
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Question of
‘The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new’, commenced which Irish writer?
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Samuel Beckett
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James Joyce
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George Bernard Shaw
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