The Do You Read Me? Quiz: Eighth Edition

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The Do You Read Me? Quiz: Eighth Edition

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1.

Three of these titles are books that have been - or still are - commercially available. One of them is completely made up. Which one?
- A.
  
  Drummer Dick's Discharge
- B.
  
  Servants of The Wankh
- C.
  
  Stuffed Spatchcocks and Other Recipes for Game Birds
- D.
  
  Fanny Hill
2.

Which of these books is not on the 2010 Mann Booker longlist?
- A.
  
  The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
- B.
  
  Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
- C.
  
  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
- D.
  
  Room by Emma Donoghue
3.

Which of these authors is still alive?
- A.
  
  J.D. Salinger
- B.
  
  Dick Francis
- C.
  
  John Sandford
- D.
  
  Douglas Adams
4.

Which Newberry Award winning children's book relates the plight of a widowed field mouse who seeks the aid of a group of former lab rats in rescuing her home from destruction by a farmer's plow, and of the history of the rats' escape from the laboratory and development of a literate and technological society?
- A.
  
  Redwall by Brian Jacques
- B.
  
  Watership Down by Richard Adams
- C.
  
  TheTale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- D.
  
  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
5.

All of the Brontës died before they turned 40. Which of the siblings lived longest?
- A.
  
  Anne
- B.
  
  Patrick (Branwell)
- C.
  
  Emily
- D.
  
  Charlotte
6.

By which name is author Mary Westmacott better known?
- A.
  
  Agatha Christie
- B.
  
  Nora Roberts
- C.
  
  Anne Rice
- D.
  
  George Eliot
7.

What's the penultimate book of the bible?
- A.
  
  3 John
- B.
  
  Jude
- C.
  
  Ephesians
- D.
  
  Colossians
8.

How many syllables are there in a haiku written in English?
- A.
  
  14
- B.
  
  17
- C.
  
  22
- D.
  
  16
9.

In C.S. Lewis The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, which of the Pevensie children is the first to enter Narnia?
- A.
  
  Susan
- B.
  
  Lucy
- C.
  
  Edmund
- D.
  
  Peter
10.

What was Christopher Latham Scholes' significant invention of 1868?
- A.
  
  The biro
- B.
  
  Moveable type
- C.
  
  The typewriter
- D.
  
  Correction fluid