Art & Literature pub quiz questions

1. Holden Caulfield is the anithero in which novel by J D Salinger?

   Catcher in the Rye

2. Lady Rosaline, Lady Maria and Lady Katherine are all characters in which Shakespeare play?

   Love's Labour's Lost

3. Who Wrote The Book 'Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang'?

   Ian Fleming

4. Which Literary Characters Set Out On A Journey From The Tabard Inn, Southwark?

   The Pilgrims In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

5. Trainspotting Is A Novel By Which Author?

   Irvine Welsh

6. Who Is Novelist Helen Fieldings Most Famous Character?

   Bridget Jones

7. Who Wrote The Novel "Silence Of The Lambs"?

   Thomas Harris

8. British novelist Zadie Smith won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction for which novel?

   On Beauty

9. Who are Vladimir and Estragon waiting for in a 1950's play by Samuel Beckett?

   Godot

10. 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

11. Which Brooklyn-born author had parents named Malachy and Angela?

    Frank McCourt

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

    Terry Jones

13. Which English playwright was the first person to use the word 'bloody' over the air at the BBC in his song 'Let's Not Be Beastly to the Germans'?

    Noel Coward

14. What were the first names of dramatist, poet and literary critic T.S.Eliot?

    Thomas Stearns

15. In the Shakespeare play 'King Lear', what is the name of King Lear's youngest daughter?

    Cordelia

16. Which actress, while dressed as the queen, left the Guilgud Theatre in London to shout at drummers outside who were disturbing the play?

    Helen Mirren

17. Home to many music publishing houses, what was West 28th Street in New York City called in the late 19th and early 20th century?

    Tin Pan Alley

18. Which Novel Features Perks The Station Porter?

    The Railway Children

19. Before he became pope, which Pope wrote a play called 'The Jeweller's Shop'?

    Pope John Paul II

20. In Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, What Was Mr Pickwick's First Name?

    Samuel

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