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Q: What Hans Christian Andersen story has a monarch bamboozled by a tailor?    A: The Emperor's New Clothes
Q: What Emily Bronte novel features Heathcliff?    A: Wuthering Heights
Q: What novel did Ian Fleming introduce James Bond in?    A: Casino Royale
Q: Who wrote "Around the World in Eighty Days"?    A: Jules Verne
Q: Who wrote "A Farewell to Arms"?    A: Earnest Hemingway
Q: Which private eye character did the author Raymond Chandler create?    A: Philip Marlowe
Q: Who wrote the novel "The Moneychangers"?    A: Arthur Hailey
Q: What year did Arthur Hailey publish the novel "The Moneychangers"?    A: 1975
Q: Who wrote the novels "Good as Gold" and "Closing Time"?    A: Joseph Heller
Q: Which novel did Joseph Heller write as a sequel to "Catch-22"?    A: Closing Time
Q: Who wrote the book "Gulag Archipelago"?    A: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Q: Who wasn't afraid to call James Joyce "a greasy undergraduate"?    A: Virginia Wolfe
Q: Which French composer wrote the symphonic poem "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?    A: Paul Dukas
Q: What Ray Bradbury novel is named for temperature at which paper catches fire?    A: Fahrenheit 451
Q: What year did Ray Bradbury publish the novel "Fahrenheit 451"?    A: 1953
Q: Who wrote the novel "Fahrenheit 451"?    A: Ray Bradbury
Q: What is banned in Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451"?    A: Books
Q: Who wrote the novel "The Moonstone"?    A: Wilkie Collins
Q: What year did Wilkie Collins publish the novel "The Moonstone"?    A: 1868
Q: Which 1868 novel is often considered the first full length, English language detective novel?    A: The Moonstone
Q: Which detective novel did Wilkie Collins publish in 1868?    A: The Moonstone
Q: Who wrote the novel "Across the River and into the Trees"?    A: Ernest Hemmingway
Q: Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?    A: John Milton
Q: What century did John Milton write the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?    A: 17th Century
Q: Who created the fictional character Tristram Shandy?    A: Laurence Sterne
Q: Who wrote the humorous novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"?    A: Laurence Sterne
Q: What century did Laurence Sterne publish the novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"?    A: 18th Century
Q: What Charles Dickens work features the character of Mr. Wardle?    A: The Pickwick Papers
Q: Who wrote the detective novel "The Maltese Falcon"?    A: Dashiell Hammett
Q: What year did Dashiell Hammett publish the novel "The Maltese Falcon"?    A: 1929
Q: What year did Robert A. Heinlein published the novel "The Number of the Beast"?    A: 1980
Q: Who wrote the 1980 novel "The Number of the Beast"?    A: Robert A. Heinlein


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