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- What word, extended from a more popular term, refers to a
fictional book of between 20,000 and 50,000 words?
- Who wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade?
- In 1960 the UK publishing ban was lifted on what 1928 book?
- In bookmaking how many times would an quarto sheet be folded?
- Who wrote the seminal 1936 self-help book How to Win Friends
and Influence People?
- Who in 1450 invented movable type, thus revolutionising
printing?
- Which Polish-born naturalised British novelist's real surname
was Korzeniowski?
- Which short-lived dramatist is regarded as the first great
exponent of blank verse?
- Who wrote the maxim 'Cogito, ergo sum' (I think, therefore I
am)?
- Who was the youngest of the three Brontë writing sisters?
- What is the Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy
dated around the year 1000, featuring its eponymous 6th century warrior from
Geatland in Sweden?
- What relatively modern school of philosophy, popular in
literature since the mid 1900s, broadly embodies the notion of individual
freedom of choice within a disorded and inexplicable universe?
- What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
- Who wrote Dr Zhivago?
- What term and type of comedy is derived from the French word
for stuffing?
- What term originally meaning 'storehouse' referred, and still
refers, to a periodical of various content and imaginative writing?
- Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ
Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
- What 16th century establishment in London's Bread Street was a
notable writers' haunt?
- Who wrote the 1845 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
- Which American poet and humanist wrote and continually revised
a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass?
- The period between 1450 and 1600 in European development is
known by what term, initially used by Italian scholars to express the
rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture?
- What is the main dog character called in Norton Juster's 1961
popular children's/adult-crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth?
- Who detailed his experiences before and during World War I in
Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?
- What significant law relating to literary and artistic works
was first introduced in 1709?
- Who wrote the 1891 book Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake
Zarathustra)?
- What word, meaning 'measure' in Greek, refers to the rhythm of
a line of verse?
- Cheap literature of the 16-18th centuries was known as 'what'
books, based on the old word for the travelling traders who sold them?
- What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name?
- Derived from Greek meaning summit or finishing touch, what word
refers to the publisher's logo and historically the publisher's details at the
end of the book?
- Japanese three-line verses called Haiku contain how many
syllables?
- Stanley Kubrick successfully requested the UK ban of his own
film based on what Anthony Burgess book?
- The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) code was
increased to how many digits from 1 January 2007?
- The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis asserts that people's perceptions
and attitudes are affected particularly by what: book covers, book price, or
words and language?
- What is the female term equating to a phallic symbol?
- James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel?
- What famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern
Prometheus'?
- Who wrote the 1947 book The Fountainhead?
- By what name is the writer François-Marie Arouet
(1694-1778) better known?
- Which pioneering American poet and story-teller wrote The Fall
of the House of Usher?
- According to Matthew 27 in the Bible what prisoner was released
by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
- What was the 1920s arts group centred around Leonard and
Virginia Woolf and the district of London which provided the group's name?
- What Japanese term (meaning 'fold' and 'book') refers to a book
construction made using concertina fold, with writing/printing on one side of
the paper?
- What were the respective family names of Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet?
- Who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking in 1953?
- Around 100AD what type of book construction began to replace
scrolls?
- What name for a lyrical work, typically 50-200 lines long,
which from the Greek word for song?
- Who wrote the 1866 book Crime and Punishment?
- Who wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The
Prince?
- William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
are commonly referred to as the 'what' Poets?
- In bookmaking, a sheet folded three times is called by what
name?
- What is the parrot's name in Enid Blyton's 'Adventure' series
of books?
- Who wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman?
- What word, which in Greek means 'with' or 'after', prefixes
many literary and language terms to denote something in a different position?
- "Reader, I married him," appears in the conclusion of what
novel?
- Philosopher and writer Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, is
associated with what school of thought?
- What influential American philosopher and author wrote the book
'Walden, or Life in the Woods'?
- The ancient Greek concept of the 'three unities' advocated that
a literary work should use a single plotline, single location, and what other
single aspect?
- Which statesman won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature?
- Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S
Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
- Who wrote the plays Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard?
- What technical word is given usually to the left-side
even-numbered page of a book?
- Which two writers fought a huge unsuccessful legal action in
2006-7 claiming that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code had plaguarised their work?
- What is the pen-name of novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-80)?
- What technical word is given usually to the right-side
odd-numbered page of a book?
- In what decade was the Oxford English Dictionary first
published?
- What simple term, alternatively called Anglo-Saxon, refers to
the English language which was used from the 5th century Germanic invasions,
until (loosely) its fusion with Norman-French around 12-13th centuries?
- Who wrote Brighton Rock (1938) and Our Man in Havana (1958)?
- Laurens van der Post's prisoner of war experiences, described
in his books The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970)
inspired what film?
- With which troubled son are parents Laius and Jocasta
associated?
- Which Russian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1970?
- The book Eunoia, by Christian Bok, suggests in its title, and
features exclusively what, in turn, in its first five chapters?
- Which great thinker collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write
the 1933 book Why War?
- Legal action by J K Rowling and Warner Brothers commenced in
2007 against which company for its plans to publish a Harry Potter Lexicon?
- Who wrote the 1939 book The Big Sleep?
- "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some
advice which I've been turning over in my mind ever since," is the start of
which novel?
- In the early 1900s a thriller was instead more commonly
referred to as what sort of book?
- Who wrote the books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame?
- In what decade were ISBN numbers introduced to the UK?
- In 1969, P H Newby's book Something to Answer For was the first
winner of what prize?
- Who established Britain's first printing press in 1476?
- The word 'book' is suggested by some etymologists to derive
from the ancient practice of writing on tablets made of what wood?
- What is the name of the first digital library founded by
Michael Hart in 1971?
- French writer Sully Prudhomme was the first winner of what
prize in 1901?
- Who wrote Naked Lunch, (also titled The Naked Lunch)?
- In Shakespeare's King Lear, which two daughters benefit
initially from their father's rejection of the third daughter Cordelia?
- What was Christopher Latham Scholes' significant invention of
1868?
- Which novel begins "It is a truth universally acknowledged that
a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife..."?
- Japanese author and playwrite Yukio Mishima committed what
extreme act in 1970 while campaigning for Japan to restore its nationalistic
principles?
- Which American philosopher, and often-quoted advocate of
individualism, published essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and
Manners in his Collections of 1841 and 1844?
- Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, printed in Bruges around
1475 is regarded as the first book to have been what?
- In what city does Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace begin?
- Which French writer declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1964?
- What controversial novel begins: "[a person's name], light of
my life, fire of my loins. My sin, My soul," ?
- Jonathan Harker's Journal and Dr Seward's Diary feature in what
famous 1897 novel?
- What is the technical name for a fourteen-lined poem in rhymed
iambic pentameters?
- "Make then laugh; make them cry; make them wait..." was a
personal maxim of which novelist?
- What is the land of giants called in Gulliver's Travels?
- What prolific and highly regarded American author, who became a
British subject a year before his death, wrote The Wings of the Dove;
Washington Square, and the Golden Bowl?
- What term for a short, usually witty, poem or saying derives
from the Greek words 'write' and 'on'?
- What was the original title of the book on which the film
Schindler's List was based?
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