Trivia Quiz on 20th Century Fiction

1. Patricia Holm is the girlfriend of what famous fictional character

A) Dorian Gray

B) Simon Templar The Saint

C) James Bond

D) Sherlock Holmes

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2. Who wrote The Ipcress File

A) John le Carré

B) Ian Fleming

C) Len deighton

D) Robert Ludlum

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3. Who wrote 'The Camomile Lawn'

A) Daphne du Maurier

B) Mary Wesley

C) Margaret Drabble

D) Iris Murdoch

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4. What was the title of the novel which won the 1998 Booker prize

A) The God of Small Things

B) Midnight's Children

C) Amsterdam

D) Disgrace

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5. Who wrote "the french lieutenant's woman"

A) John Fowles

B) Graham Greene

C) Aldous Huxley

D) Ian McEwan

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6. Who wrote Last Tango in Brooklyn his third novel

A) Mario Puzo

B) Kirk Douglas

C) Harold Robbins

D) James Ellroy

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7. Writer who created Hannah Massay Maggie Rowan Tillie Trotter

A) Elizabeth Gaskell

B) Catherine Cookson

C) Daphne du Maurier

D) Barbara Cartland

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8. Who wrote the novel The French Lieutenants Woman

A) John Fowles

B) Henry James

C) Margaret Atwood

D) Ian McEwan

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9. Who wrote the thrillers, "Sheba" and "Year of the Tiger"

A) Jack Higgins

B) Ian Fleming

C) Ken Follett

D) Tom Clancy

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10. Who wrote A Farewell to Arms

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) Ernest hemingway

C) John Steinbeck

D) George Orwell

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11. Who wrote Goodbye Mr Chips

A) Charles Dickens

B) George Orwell

C) Jane Austen

D) James hilton

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12. Who wrote _Dido_ and _Pa

A) Agatha Christie

B) Philip Pullman

C) Joan aiken

D) Dorothy L. Sayers

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13. Who was the author ofn the novel 'The Crow Road'?

A) Ian Rankin

B) Iain Banks

C) Alasdair Gray

D) Robert Louis Stevenson

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14. Who wrote the novel Cakes And Ale?

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) George Bernard Shaw

C) W. Somerset Maughan

D) Daphne du Maurier

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15. Who wrote "Animal Farm"?

A) Aldous Huxley

B) Ray Bradbury

C) George Orwell

D) Jane Austen

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