1. Which 1851 novel was first published in Britain under the title The Whale?
Moby Dick
2. The Bennet family appear in which Jane Austen novel?
Pride and Prejudice
3. Which painter is associated with the Stour valley on the Essex/Suffolk border?
John Constable
4. Who wrote The Day of the Jackal about an attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle?
Frederick Forsyth
5. Who painted a number of paintings of water lilies in his garden at Giverney?
Claude Monet
6. About which otter did Henry Williamson write a 1927 novel?
Tarka
7. During the reign of which King of England was Hans Holbein the Younger a prominent painter?
Henry VIII
8. Which pottery form takes its name from the Italian for “baked earth”?
Terracotta
9. Who is the chief protagonist in John Buchan s The 39 Steps?
Richard Hannay
10. How long did Rip Van Winkle sleep for?
Twenty years