BOOKS

1.In which merchant bank did P.G.Wodehouse work for two years?

Answer: The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

 

2. The letters that he wrote to his daughter from jail were published as a book 'Letters from a father to a daughter' . Name both.

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.

 

3. Who wrote the book "The God of Small Things' which won the Booker Prize last year?

Answer:Arundhati Roy.

 

4. Who wrote romantic novels under the pen name Mary Clarissa Westmacott?

Answer: Agatha Christie.

      

5. Who wrote "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" about summer in their classics

Answer: William Shakespeare.

6. Which Olympic gold medallist published her memoirs this autumn?

Answer: Kelly Holmes.

 

7. Which TV chat show host actually wrote his celebrity memoirs himself?

Answer: Graham Norton.

 

8. Which Booker prize short-listed novelist has a tattoo?

Answer: Sarah Hall.

 

9. Which writer had his novel dramatised twice at the National Theatre in 2004?

Answer: Philip Pullman.

 

10. How did Kate Winslet and Alexander Pope meet in Hollywood?

Answer: In The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

 

 


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