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Which is NOT by Evelyn Waugh?
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5943 times (48.3%) |
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2574 times (20.9%) |
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Who wrote Atlas Shrugged?
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1643 times (90.4%) |
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107 times (5.9%) |
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"Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody."
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284 times |
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39 times (10.6%) |
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245 times (66.4%) |
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"One of the low, on whom assurance sits, as a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire"
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48 times (18.7%) |
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97 times (37.7%) |
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Which of these authors was once married to someone with the same Christian name as themself?
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133 times (45.9%) |
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82 times (28.3%) |
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Which book by Evelyn Waugh is not primarily about the Second World War?
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69 times (28.4%) |
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53 times (21.8%) |
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Whose first novel was called The Voyage Out?
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136 times |
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71 times (32.4%) |
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65 times (29.7%) |
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Herman Melville's last novel, Billy Budd, Sailor, was turned into an opera with music by Benjamin Britten in 1951. Which famous novelist helped turning the novel into a libretto; in fact, he originally inspired Britten to consider the Melville work for an opera?
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110 times |
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35 times (20.1%) |
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difficult |
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75 times (43.1%) |
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64 times (36.8%) |
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What Booker Prize-winning novelist wrote The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus?
   
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3324 times |
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1964 times (34.8%) |
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difficult |
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2315 times (41.1%) |
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The manor houses of Knole and Sissinghurst are (arguably) "must-sees" not only for those interested in English history and in landscaping but also for those interested in English literature, because they were both prominent stations in the life of ...
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84 times |
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34 times (26.2%) |
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50 times (38.5%) |
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46 times (35.4%) |
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Who wrote The Loved One?
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536 times |
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440 times (51.7%) |
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96 times (11.3%) |
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Which author, upon rereading one of his works a few years after it was written, declared himself "appalled" by it and, in the preface to a later edition, appended the explanation that the novel had been written during
"a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster — the period of soya beans and Basic English — and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful."
(Note: Notwithstanding the author's own assessment, the novel in question has long come to be considered a classic of British literature and is included, inter alia, in Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels.)
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121 times |
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76 times (47.5%) |
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45 times (28.1%) |
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39 times (24.4%) |
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Which work was not written by Evelyn Waugh?
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788 times |
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477 times (41.0%) |
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311 times (26.8%) |
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The chapter headings "Du Côté de Chez Beaver" and "Du Côté de Chez Tod" in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust are literary bows to ...
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100 times |
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59 times (36.4%) |
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difficult |
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41 times (25.3%) |
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62 times (38.3%) |
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Who commented on the 1945 Hiroshima bomb drop with the words:
"The papers are full of the atomic bomb which is going to revolutionize everything and blow us all to buggery. Not a bad idea."
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53 times |
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31 times (40.8%) |
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medium |
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22 times (28.9%) |
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23 times (30.3%) |
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Who remarked, upon having read Nicholas Nickleby (albeit on the eve of WWII):
"How unreal Dickens is! Jazz-band sentimentality."
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54 times |
| Correct: |
6 times (7.2%) |
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really really difficult |
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48 times (57.8%) |
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29 times (34.9%) |
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Which word connects the titles of books by Chinua Achebe, Albert Camus, Edward Gibbon, David Nobbs and Evelyn Waugh?
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111 times |
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89 times (67.9%) |
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medium |
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22 times (16.8%) |
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20 times (15.3%) |
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What eccentric family with numerous daughters strongly intertwined with the life of Evelyn Waugh?
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285 times |
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194 times (41.7%) |
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medium |
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91 times (19.6%) |
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180 times (38.7%) |
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