What is the first name of Mr Marner in the title of a George Eliot novel?
2 In Animal Farm (1945), what type of animal is Clover?
3 Which author created the character of Horatio Hornblower?
4 Which of Wilkie Collins’ novels is often considered to be the first detective novel?
5 Who is the heroine of Jane Austen’s Persuasion?
6 Who wrote the 1961 novel Catch-22?
7 Clara Peggotty is a character from which Dickens novel?
8 Which Devon village is named after a Charles Kingsley novel?
9 Who is the narrator in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick?
10 In The Hobbit, what is the name of the dragon?
11 What is the name of the girl in the Just William stories?
12 Who wrote the novel Tom Brown’s Schooldays?
13 Which Scottish adventurer was the inspiration for the character of Robinson Crusoe?
14 What is the surname of Henry James’ heroine Isabel in the novel The Portrait of a Lady?
15 The 1915 novel The Voyage Out was written by which author?
16 From which London club in Pall Mall does Phileas Fogg set off in Around the World in Eighty Days?
17 What is the title of the 1886 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about a man called David Balfour?
18 Which food and drink items form the title of a Somerset Maugham novel?
19 In Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, to which charitable institution is Jane sent as a child?
20 Who was the author of The Railway Children (1905)?
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1 What type of bird is a garganey?
2 Alphabetically, who is the first of the New Testament apostles?
3 In which country was the French Foreign Legion founded, in 1831?
4 For which play was Arthur Miller awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1949?
5 What is the RAF equivalent of the Royal Navy rank of vice-admiral?
6 What is the English title of the TV series Bron/Broen?
7 In the game of bingo, what is the traditional call for the number 61?
8 Which famous songwriting duo wrote the music and lyrics to the musical Promises, Promises?
9 What was Barry McGuigan’s nickname?
10 The stately home of Wilton House is near which English city?
11 Who was the first player to score a maximum 147 break in World Championship snooker?
12 Bathophobia is a fear of what?
13 Which English county cricket club did Jos Buttler join in 2014?
14 Who said “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on”?
15 In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of the dawn?
16 Hydroponics is the growing of plants without what?
17 Which Roman road ran from London to York via Lincoln?
18 Of what is philology the study?
19 Which Shakespeare play includes the character of Lancelot Gobbo?
20 Who starred in the 2014 film Noah?
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QUIZ 168 – Makers and Collectors
1 A horologist is a maker of what items?
2 What does a phillumenist collect?
3 A cordwainer is a maker of what items?
4 What is the term for a maker of boats or ships?
5 What does a fletcher make?
6 What is the term for someone who collects stamps?
7 What does a deltiologist collect?
8 A velologist is a collector of what items?
9 What does a cartographer create?
10 What is the term for a maker of candles?
11 What does a milliner make?
12 What does a luthier make?
13 A tegestologist is a collector of what items?
14 What is the term for someone who collects coins and banknotes?
15 In what profession does a maker of fitted clothing work?
16 What does an arctophile collect?
