Art & Literature pub quiz questions

1. Which Shakespeare play contains the line "if music be the food of love play on"?

   Twelfth Night

2. Which dashing fictional character rode a jet black horse named Toronado?

   Zorro

3. Which female, London-born author has younger brothers, rapper and comedian Doc Brown and rapper Luc Skyz?

   Zadie Smith

4. The Pomegranate Theatre is in which English town?

   Chesterfield

5. Which member of the Monty Python Team wrote children's books about "Erik The Viking"?

   Terry Jones

6. What Are The Christian Names Of JK Rowling Author Of The Harry Potter Books?

   Joanne Kathleen

7. Trainspotting Is A Novel By Which Author?

   Irvine Welsh

8. According To George Orwell, Who Is Watching Us?

   Big Brother

9. Who wrote the novels "Orlando" and "To The Lighthouse"?

   Virginia Woolf

10. Who is Rosalind disguised as in the Shakespeare play 'As You Like It'?

    Ganymede

11. Eveline Hanska was married to which French novelist?

    Honore de Balzac

12. Lord Peter Wimsey is a fictional character created by which author?

    Dorothy L Sayers

13. Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin was created by which author?

    Fydor Dostoyevsky

14. Which Ray Bradbury book was expanded and had the original title 'The Fireman'?

    Fahrenheit 451

15. The plot of Robert Greene's prose romance 'Pandosto: The Triumph of Time' is said to be the inspiration for which Shakespeare play?

    The Winter's Tale

16. Who Wrote The Famous Book "A Brief History Of Time" In 1988?

    Stephen Hawking

17. What was the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"?

    Little Men

18. Which US singer/actress produced the Broadway production of 'Priscilla Queen of the Dessert'?

    Bette Midler

19. What Famous Character Did Edgar Rice Burroughs Create?

    Tarzan

20. Which South African author, born in 1905, was a reporter for London's Daily Express, a World War II BBC broadcaster and wife of a British Admiral?

    Joy Packer

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