Not a Boring Book Quiz!

Mixed quiz about brilliant, bizarre books and best-sellers 12 Questions.

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Which book by Charles Dickens is regarded as the best selling fictional book of all time?

'Oliver Twist'
'A Christmas Carol'
'A Tale Of Two Cities'
'Great Expectations'

2

Match these genuine book titles with their authors?

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Left

'A False Start'
'Therefore Be Bold'
'The Ill-made Knight'
'The Flame And The Rose'

Right

Helena Grose
Hawley Smart
Herbert Gold
T.H. White

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Which was the first book to win the 'Booker Prize for Fiction' in 1969?

'Figures in a Landscape' by Barry England
'Impossible Object' by Nicholas Mosley
'Something to Answer For' by P.H. Newby
'The Public Image' by Muriel Spark

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Is 'The Sunny Side Of Bereavement' by Rev. Charles E. Cooledge a genuine book or did I make it up?

It's a genuine book !
You made it up !
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'The Gates of Paradise' was published in 1962 and was unusual for what reason?

It was written in phonetic spelling throughout
The first full stop did not appear until the last page
It was written in blood
Every sentence contained all 26 letters of the alphabet

6

Match these books, later made into films, with their authors?

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Left

'Ten Rillington Place'
'All The President's Men'
'Bravo Two Zero'
'Awakenings'

Right

Ludovic Kennedy
Andy McNab
Oliver Sacks
Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

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The 'Moonstone Edition' of J.K. Rowling's 'The Tales of Beedle The Bard' raised how much for charity when auctioned in 2007?

$1.26 million
$2.62 million
$3.98 million
$4.83 million

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Which of the following specialist books is NOT a genuine title?

'Wall Painting by Snake Charmers in Tanganyika'
'Truncheons: Their Romance And Reality'
'Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern California'
'A Study of Hospital Waiting Lists in Cardiff 1953-1954'

9

Match these book titles with their genuine authors?

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Left

'Chess Pieces'
'Anatomy Of The Brain'
'Natural History Of Birds'
'Illustrated History of Gymnastics'

Right

William W. Looney
Leonard William Wing
Norman Knight
John Goodbody

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Is 'Wind Breaks: Coming to Terms With Flatulence' the title of a genuine book or did I make it up?

It's a genuine title
You made it up
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Which of the following books is NOT a title by 'tartan noir' author, Christopher Brookmyre?

'One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night'
'All Fun and Games Until Someone Looses An Eye'
'A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away'
'Country of The Deaf'

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Which 'celebrity' chef has been eating 'Humble Pie' and 'Playing With Fire'?

James Martin
Marco Pierre White
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Gordon Ramsay