1. What is the name of Odysseus’s home island?

 
 
 
 
 

2. Who wrote the longest sentence in literature — 13,955 words long?

 
 
 
 
 

3. What was the name of the Scottish sailor who was marooned  on a remote Pacific island for 5 years and whose story inspired Daniel Defoe to write his novel Robinson Crusoe?

 
 
 
 
 

4. Which Dutch master painted “Girl with a Pearl Earring”?

 
 
 
 
 

5. Author Charles Dickens was editor of the newspaper The Daily News.  When was it first published?

 
 
 
 
 

6. In which year was the first book featuring the character Paddington Bear published?

 
 
 
 
 

7. Who wrote the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, about a society where books are banned?

 
 
 
 
 

8. In what year did the Guinness Book of Records go into the Guinness Book of Records as the most stolen book from libraries?

 
 
 
 
 

9. Thomas Hardy’s grave lies alongside Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey.  But which part of his body was taken to be buried in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in Dorset?

 
 
 
 
 

10. What is the title of the only novel written by Emily Brontë?

 
 
 
 
 

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