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pub quiz
The Journal Pub Quiz - Round 10
This week, books.
PHONES AWAY (UNLESS you’re reading on it), funny team names in.
This week we go to our final round on the subject of: literature.
If you want to see how you get on in our previous rounds – general knowledge, history, Ireland, sport, pictures, music, TV, geography and movies - try rounds one to nine here.
What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll
CS Lewis
DH Lawrence
In the 1997 Maeve Binchy novel Evening Class, what language is being studied?
Italian
Spanish
Irish
French
Which statesman won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Harry Truman
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Which novel opens:
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice which I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
The Catcher In The Rye
The Great Gatsby
On The Road
The Bell Jar
In To Kill A Mockingbird, what is the name of the black man defended in court by Atticus Finch?
Boo Radley
Bob Ewell
Tom Robinson
Dolphus Raymond
How many novels did Oscar Wilde publish?
0
1
2
3
How many Irish writers have won the Booker Prize?
2
3
4
5
In Harry Potter, who was the Half-Blood Prince?
Harry
Draco
Snape
Voldemort
Which Roddy Doyle book centre around a character called Bimbo?
The Snapper
The Commitments
The Van
The Guts
"Reader, I married him," appears in the conclusion of what novel?
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Mansfield Park
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