Big Star In The Big House Vol. 5 Quiz

Answer: Fanny Hill

Cleland was charged with "corrupting the King's subjects" and completely disavowed the book at the trial. As a result it was withdrawn and it would be 1970 before an uncensored version was published in UK, whilst in USA, the book was published in 1963 and the resulting legal battle over obscenity was concluded in 1966 when the United States Supreme Court ruled that Fanny Hill did not meet the standards for obscenity.

Although famed for being pornographic, the novel contains no vulgar descriptions or scientific terms for genitalia, instead using euphemisms to describe such areas.

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Wilde was arrested following the loss of a libel case he brought against the Marquess of Queensberry, at which the court found that Queensberry's accusation of Wilde being a sodomite was "true in substance and in fact". At sentencing the judge described the trial as "the worst case I have ever tried". Wilde served his time at prisons in Newgate, Pentonville and Wandsworth as well as Reading gaol, where events inspired his 1897 poem, "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol."

Answer: Egon Schiele

In 2013, Schiele's "Reclining Woman" from 1916 set the world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at an online auction, when it went for US $2.418 million and in 2011, a Schiele landscape "Houses With Colorful Laundry (Suburb II) " (1914) was sold at auction for $40.1 million.

Many examples of his work are housed in Vienna, with The Leopold Museum and the Albertina Graphic Collection both having extensive collections. The other possible answers are all famous Australian artists.

Answer: New York

Miyakawa had plastic bags emblazoned with "I heart NY", filled with battery operated LED lights, intending to celebrate a local design festival. However residents and NYPD saw plastic bags filled with wires and batteries dotted around the city and feared the worst.

He was arrested for reckless endangerment and placing "a false bomb or hazardous substance," and sentenced to 30 days in Rikers Island. He was released after five days but ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation .

Answer: The Man With The Golden Arm

Algren is also remembered for his Depression era novel, "A Walk On The Wild Side" (1956), which was turned into a 1962 movie starring Laurence Harvey and Jane Fonda. The Man With the Golden Arm (1949), won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1950 and although the movie was a commercial success, Algren always maintained that he hated the film. "The Man In The Brown Suit" was by Agatha Christie, Nathaniel Hawthorne gave us "The Scarlet Letter" and Dr. Seuss was responsible for "Green Eggs And Ham".

Answer: Krystian Bala

Bala revealed details in his work of fiction, that only the murderer could have known and his arrest, combined with the surrounding publicity certainly helped sales figures for "Amok". Chillingly, police also discovered, on his computer, plans for a second murder, which would form the basis of a new novel.

Answer: Tea Pavilion

Wharry was imprisoned at least eight times between 1910 and 1914, with sentences ranging from a week to 18 months, but she never actually completed a jail term. Under the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act of Asquith's government, a prisoner on hunger strike would be released as soon as the hunger strike began to affect their health, and so Wharry would go on hunger strike and gain early release. With regard to the Kew Gardens arson, she was released early due to the Government's amnesty of suffrage prisoners in 1914.

Answer: E.E. Cummings

Cummings was detained for over four months in a military detention camp due to the content of letters he had written to friends in which he admitted he held no feelings of hatred towards the Germans. Cummings is known more for his poetry than his novels, especially collections such as "Tulips and Chimneys" which contained "Puella Mea" and "1x1" which contained "pity this busy monster, manunkind".

Answer: The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke

"The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" is an extremely complex work, with much layering giving the painting an almost 3D effect. It took Dadd over nine years to paint, and he still considered it unfinished. Paintings by Dadd can be found in the Tate Gallery, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Yale Cantre for British Art as well as many that are on display at Broadmoor hospital.

The song by Queen was on their 1974 album "Queen II" and makes direct reference to characters found in the painting.

Answer: Jeffrey Archer

Archer, famed for novels such as "Kane and Abel" (1979), "A Matter Of Honour" (1986) and "Honour Among Thieves" (1993) was deputy chairman of the conservative party when a tabloid newspaper alleged in 1986 that he had paid a prostitute for sex. Archer sued the newspaper for libel and won the case along with £500,000 damages, but in 2000, was charged with perjury after his former personal assistant claimed Archer had invented an alibi for the trial.

As well as the four year sentence, of which he served half, Archer had to repay the £500,000 damages from the original case along with legal costs and interest of £1.3 million.