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1.Who wrote "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and "Notes from a Small Island"?

2.According to Beatrix Potter, what type of animal was Mr Jeremy Fisher ?

3.What is thanatology the scientific study of?

4.What English military term translates as "little war" in Spanish?

5. According to the rhyme, what is/has Thursday's child ?

6. What was the name of William Wordsworth's Cottage in Grasmere?

7. In which H G Wells novel was humanity split into two groups whereby the Eloi live above ground, and the Morlocks below?

8. What is the official language of Brazil?

9. Greenmantle, dating from 1916, was the sequel to which other novel published in 1915?

10. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Where did Dracula come ashore in England?

11. Of what was the Vulgate a version?

12. Who wrote the novel "Ben Hur"?

13. Who wrote "Finnegan's Wake"?

14. In which publication would you find the columns Streets of Shame and Rotten Boroughs?

15. In literature, between people of which particular profession do ECLOGUES take place?
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1 Bill Bryson
2 A Frog
3 Death
4 Guerrilla
5 Far to Go
6 Dove Cottage
8 Portugese
9 The Thirty Nine Steps
11 Bible
12 Lew Wallace
13 James Joyce
14 Private Eye
15 Shepherds
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