Literature

Question 1

Authors from which countries are considered for the Man Booker Prize?

Answer 1

Commonwealth
Ireland
Zimbabwe

Question 2

Who was Seamus Heaney?

Answer 2

Irish poet

Question 3

What year was the first Man Booker Prize awarded?

Answer 3

20th century

1968

Question 4

Which award recognises the best fiction novel written by an author from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe?

Answer 4

The Man Booker Prize

Question 5

Who wrote Lord of the Rings

Answer 5

JRR Tolkien

Question 6

Who was Harold Pinter

Answer 6

Playwright

Question 7

Name 3 past winners of the Man Booker Prize

Answer 7

Hilary Mantel
Ian McEwan
Julian Barnes

Question 8

Name 3 British winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Answer 8

Sir William Golding
Seamus Heaney
Harold Pinter

Question 9

Name a globally famous female writer of detective stories?

Answer 9

Agatha Christie

Question 10

Who wrote the Bond books

Answer 10

Ian Flemming

Question 11

What novel was voted the country’s favourite in 2003?

Answer 11

Lord of the Rings