A Year of Quizzes (part 1)

Which C was Scarlett O’Hara’s first husband?

At the beginning of The Mayor of Casterbridge, what does Henchard sell for five guineas?

Finish the quote from Oliver Twist: ‘If the law supposes that… the law is a ----!’

Who has ‘spring fever’ which ‘when you've got it, you want – oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so’?

Which novel ends with this line: ‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’

Which Roddy Doyle short story is about a delightfully dysfunctional soul band managed by Jimmy Rabitte, and coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan?

Four years after the publication of Peter Pan JM Barrie wrote a final chapter of the story, what is it called?

What profession does JK Rowling’s husband have?

What night of the year is The Little Match Girl set?

Which other famous Bronte novel was published in the same year as Jane Eyre?

Which Stephen King novel features Jack Torrance, the father and ‘caretaker’ and the stuff of all nightmares?

In which book does the lion fall ‘in love with the lamb?’

Which P is Noel Coward’s hilarious play about a self-obsessed actor?

Which novel begins: ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

At over 1.8 million words what is the longest poem ever written?

The heart breaking 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is set in which war torn country during World War Two?

Angela Carter’s last novel follows the fortunes of twin chorus girls, Dora and Nora Chance and their bizarre theatrical family. What is the name of the novel?

‘He is such a disagreeable man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.’ Which of Jane Austen’s marvellous mothers feels this way?

In which Steinbeck novel do characters spend much of their time in the Palace Flophouse and Grill?

What does Gilbert call Anne of Green Gables on their first meeting?

Which English county do the following books have in common; Rebecca, The Camomile Lawn and Notes From an Exhibition?

How many different words are used in Green Eggs and Ham?

EM Forster – what does the EM stand for?

Which female writer wrote: ‘I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.’

Ron Weasley has 5 brothers, where does he fit in to the age order?

Which novel’s title by John Green is borrowed from Julius Caesar?

Fill in the missing Welsh town in the titles of these two books by Malcolm Pryce; Last Tango in -, From – With Love.

‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’ Which Shakespeare play does this cry of a persecuted minority come from?

Which Pratchett novel tells the story of what happens when Death is made redundant and ends up working on a farm?