1. Which city hold two Charles Dickens's festivals each year

   London

   Rochester

   Canterbury

   Oxford

2. What is the name of the awards for outstanding achievements in literature, drama, music and journalism that were established by a Hungarian-born American newspaper proprietor and awarded annually since 1917 by Columbia University?

3. Who wrote the "Pied Piper of Hamelin", a poem for children first published in Dramatic Lyrics in 1842

   The Brothers Grimm

   Roald Dahl

   Hans Christian Anderson

   Ludwick Von Hannover

4. Which of Ian Fleming's Bond novels when converted to film in 1967 starred David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen?

5. Name the English author, born in 1938, who is renowned for the meticulously researched novels "The Day of the Jackyll" and "The Odessa File"?

6. Name the English novelist, born in 1904, a former film critic for the 'The Spectator', whose novels such as "Orient Express", "The Third Man" and "Brighton Rock" are among the many that have been adapted for the silver screen?

   Graham Greene

   Ian Flemming

   John Grisham

   Stephn King

7. Against which author did the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran proclaim a 'fatwa', or death sentence, in February 1989?

8. Which Bengal-born author was commissioned in 1936 by the publisher Victor Gollancz to produce a documentary account of unemployment in the North of England for the 'Left Book Book' - the result of which was "The Road to Wigan Pier"?

   Grahem Greene

   George Orwell

   H G Wells

   Edgar Rice Burroughs

9. In which William Shakespeare comedy does Shylock, a Jewish money lender, demand a "pound of flesh" from Bassanio's friend, Antonio?

10. Name the American author, a founder member of the Beat Generation literary movement, whose 1959 novel 'Naked Lunch', based on his experience as a drug addict, was the subject of a 1966 court case which effectively ended censorship of literature in the United States?

11. Name the former National Hunt jockey who, on his retirement from the saddle in 1957, became a best-selling crime writer in which horse racing always formed the backdrop?

   Lester Piggot

   Dick Francis

   Jeffery Archer

12. In Greek mythology, who was the daughter of Cronus and wife of Zeus?

   Aphrodites

   Hera

   Dianna

13. Whose books includes the titles 'James and the Giant Peach' and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'?

   Rudyard Kipling

   Clive Barker

   Sue Townsend

   Roald Dahl