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The Journal Pub Quiz - Round 10

This week, books.
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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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