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1. In which palace would you expect to see the famous Hall of Mirrors?
2. Anyone who looked at the face of the snake-haired Gorgon, Medusa, turned to stone. Who slew her by looking only at her reflection?
3. According to the Greek myth, a young man caught sight of his own reflection in the mirror-like surface of a forest pool. He was so entranced by his own beauty that he stared at the image until he pined away and died. The flower named after him sprang up on that spot. Who was this young egotist?
4. What happens when Dracula looks in a mirror?
5. George Smiley, John le Carre's protagonist from the Karla spy trilogy ("The Honourable Schoolboy", "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People"), also appears in several of Le Carre's other spy novels, including one with a mirror-related title. What book is this?
6. "They Do It with Mirrors" is a mystery novel in which amateur sleuth, Miss Marple, solves a dastardly murder committed during a weekend house party in an old Victorian mansion. Which "Queen of Crime" wrote it?
7. Which of these objects does not contain mirrors?
8. "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" is Lewis Carroll's sequel to "Alice in Wonderland". Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a highly respected Oxford academic. What was his subject?
9. Three of these famous paintings each has a mirror in it. Which one has not?
10. What is the difference between a one-way mirror and a two-way mirror?
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