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Bedfordshire Literary Quiz - Number 2
| 1.In whose crime novels would you find the detective Penny Wannawake? | ||
| a) Elizabeth George | c) Carol Goodman | |
| b) Ruth Rendell | d) Susan Moody | |
| 2. Born in Marston Moretaine, this local farmer also wrote poetry, books on dialect and devised a form of shorthand. What was his name? |
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| a) Thomas Heinz | c) Thomas Batchelor | |
| b) Thomas Sainsbury | d) Thomas Coop | |
| 3. Which writer of novels set up home at Trinity Hall Farm, near Hockliffe? | ||
| a) Laurie Lee | c) Wilkie Collins | |
| b) Arnold Bennett | d) George Orwell | |
| 4. Who was born on the 5th April 1920 at 107 Albert Road, Luton? | ||
| a) Dick Francis | c) Isaac Asimov | |
| b) Arthur Hailey | d) Ray Bradbury | |
| 5. Which well loved comedy writer was born in Bedford in 1929? | ||
| a) Tommy Cooper | c) Ronnie Barker | |
| b) Ken Dodd | d) Bernard Cribbins | |
| 6. Chicksands Priory was the home of which famous letter writer? |
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| a) Dorothy Balmoral | c) Dorothy Windsor | |
| b) Dorothy Buckingham | d) Dorothy Osbourne | |
| 7. Which famous campaigner and author is buried in Kherson, Ukraine? | ||
| a) John Bunyan | c) Sir Albert Richardson | |
| b) John Howard | d) Sir Joseph Paxton | |
| 8. Her writings are sealed in a box awaiting a gathering of Bishops. Who is she? |
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| a) Joanna Southwold | c) Joanna Southcott | |
| b) Joanna Southern | d) Joanna Southwind | |
| 9. Which writer was a boarder at Bedford School, had one of their books made into a film starring Michael Caine and described himself as a "cantankerous man of letters"? | ||
| a) Kenneth Williams | c) Sir David Attenborough | |
| b) Harper Lee | d) John Fowles | |
| 10. Where was the novel 'Beatniks: An English Road Movie' by Toby Litt set? |
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| a) Ampthill | c) Flitwick | |
| b) Maulden | d) Millbrook | |
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