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1. I am an Australian officer in the Boer War, known for my poetry and my infamous court-martial by the British. My story was immortalized in a novel written by Kit Denton.
2. This savvy former street urchin is the hero of a Rudyard Kipling novel, where he is often known by the nickname "The Friend of All the World". What is his real name?
3. What is the name of John Buchan's Scottish adventure hero, who features in novels such as "The Thirty Nine Steps" and "Greenmantle"?
4. Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" tells of the comic adventures of the Pickwick Club. The club was made up of four members: Mr Pickwick himself, and his companions Mr Augustus Snodgrass and Mr Nathaniel Winkle. Who was the fourth member of the Pickwick Club?
5. What is the name of the estate bought by the wealthy Mr. Bingley in Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice"?
6. Karin Blixen is best known as the author of "Out of Africa", a collection of stories about life in Kenya. But the book was originally published under what pen-name?
7. Rodrigo, Count of Vivar, is better known as the legendary Spanish warrior "El Cid", whose story is told in an epic poem. But an important role is also reserved for the Cid's wife, who keeps faith in her husband through hell and high water. What is her name?
8. This young man lives with his eccentric scientist uncle in Hamburg. It is through his eyes that we discover the passage through a crater in Iceland which leads to hidden pre-historic world. Who is this young man, who narrates Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"?
9. This Walter Scott novel centres around Jeanie Dean, a poor young woman who embarks on an heroic walk from Scotland to London. Jeanie is trying to get an audience with the Queen in order to beg for mercy on behalf of her imprisoned sister.
10. This poet and political activist is perhaps best known for his poem "Cultivo uno Rosa Blanca". He was exiled from Spain and ended his life on the battlefields of Cuba, where he is revered as a cultural icon and patriot.
11. In Leo Tolstoy's epic "War and Peace", which young man does the heroine, Natasha Rostov, marry?
12. "Tom Brown's Schooldays", by Thomas Hughes, is a classic English public school tale. What school does Tom Brown go to?
13. The American novelist and wit, Mark Twain, took his name from his experiences as a pilot on the Mississippi river. What was his real name?
14. In 1791, James Boswell wrote a biography of which British literary giant?
15. Which poet was the author of the Australian song "Waltzing Matilda"?
16. Paul Scott's "The Raj Quartet" was a highly acclaimed set of novels dealing with the last years of British colonialism in India. Two of the four novels deal with the love affair between an English girl, Daphne Manners, and a young Indian man who was brought up in England. Who is he?
17. The main love story in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is that of the merchant, Antonio, and the heiress, Portia. But one of Antonio's friends becomes the lover of Jessica, daughter of Shylock the Jew, and eventually elopes with her. Who is this forward young man?
18. This Nigerian writer is best known for his book "Things Fall Apart", which is described as a seminal work of African literature. The book depicts the gradual unravelling of native culture in an Ibo village after British colonials arrive. Who is this writer?
19. Dick Francis is renowned for his mystery novels set against a horse-racing background. Francis first shot to fame with his novel "Dead Cert", about a jockey named Alan York who investigates his best mate's death in a fall from which champion horse?
20. P.G. Wodehouse is the author of a series of humorous novels about Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves. Bertie is afflicted with several fearsome aunts - the one he considered the "jolliest" is also the editor of a women's magazine called "Milady's Boudoir". Who is she?
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