1. Teshoo Lama, Mahbub Ali, Kimball O'Hara, Colonel Creighton and Lurgan Sahib are characters in which 1901 novel?
From Quiz Which Book Are They In? (2)
Answer:
Rudyard Kipling's "Kim"
Published in 1901, "Kim" was the last of the four novels written by the Indian-born British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, although his famous short story collection, "Just So Stories", was first published the following year. He became the first British winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
Set in India in the late 19th century, the novel follows the title character ('Kim' is the nickname of Kimball O'Hara), an Irish vagabond living in India as he joins the aging Tibetan Lama, Teshoo Lama, on his quest to find the legendary 'River of the Arrow'. On the way, they encounter Mahbub Ali, a horse trader and also a British spy, Colonel Creighton, a British ethnologist and spy, and Lurgan Sahib, a gem trader and, you've guessed it, also a spy.