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Which English monarch commissioned the Authorised Version of the Bible?
James I
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Which English philosopher wrote a book on history of Henry VII?
Sir Francis Bacon
3
Who is best known for writing satirical plays, such as Epicœne, or The Silent Woman and the Alchemist?
Ben Jonson
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Which Ben Jonson's play has remained as the most-performed one?
Volpone, or the Fox
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Which English poet is best known for their epic poem Paradise Lost?
John Milton
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Who is the author of the Pilgrim's Progress?
John Bunyan
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What is Daniel Defoe's most famous novel?
Robinson Crusoe
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The True-born Englishman, Roxana and Moll Flanders are ____ works.
Daniel Defoe's
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Who is the author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
Thomas Grey
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What is Jonathan Swift's best known full-length work?
Gulliver's Travels
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Which English poet translated Homer works?
Alexander Pope
12
When did a movement of sentimentalism emerge in England?
In the mid- to late 18th century
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Which English writer is best known for writing such novels as Pamela; or, Virtue Rewardednd Clarissa, or the History of A Young Lady?
Samuel Richardson
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Who wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience?
William Blake
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Who is the author of The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great?
Henry Fielding
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Who wrote a dictionary of the English language in 18th century?
Samuel Johnson
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Who is the author of a biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson?
James Boswell
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Which Scottish poet is regarded as the national poet of Scotland?
Robert Burns
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What is the name of a popular Scottish song based on a poem written by Robert Burns?
Auld Lang Syne
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Which Irish playwright is best known for their plays such as the Rivals and the School for Scandal?
Richard Sheridan
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Known as ''The Father of Capitalism", he is famous for writing the Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith
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Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park are novels written by ____.
Jane Austen
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____ is a collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes by Robert Browning.
Men and Women
24
Who is the author of Don Juan?
Lord Byron
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William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are known as the ____ Poets.
Lake
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Which English novelist wrote a novel which is considered an early example of science fiction?
Mary Shelley
27
What is Lewis Carroll's most famous work?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Who wrote David Copperfield, a Christmas Carol and a Tale of Two Cities?
Charles Dickens
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What is Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous work?
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
30
Which English writer was awarded the Novel Prize in literature in 19
7?
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Who is the author of Man and Superman and Pygmalion?
George Bernard Shaw
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Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Oscar Wilde
33
An English female writer of 2
th century known for her detective novels.
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Who is the author of the poems The Waste Land and The Hollow Men?
Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Which English novelist is known for the novel Brave New World?
Aldous Huxley
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Who is the author of Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow?
D. H. Lawrence
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What is Alan Alexander Milne's most known work?
Winnie-the-Pooh
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Which Nobel Prize winning English novelist is famous for their novel Lord of Flies?
William Golding
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Which British novelist is best known for their political and satirical novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four?
George Orwell
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Who is the author of Look Back in Anger and Inadmissible Evidence?
John James Osborne
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