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    #32
    Chinafoot
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    Yup.

    Your question.


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    #33
    Deer
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    In Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell what is Somni's last request?


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    #34
    BossArky
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    A: to watch an old half-viewed film of "The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", to see what happened

    Q: What is the name of the girl who lives with the old woman Pip goes to play with towards the beginning of Great Expectations?


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    #35
    Faerie
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    It's been a while since I read it, but I think it's Estella?


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    #36
    BossArky
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    yes. your turn.


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    #37
    Faerie
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    Ok this is probably an easy question but I can't think of one!

    Who is the character of Bram Stoker's Dracula loosely based on?


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    #38
    BossArky
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    Vlad the Impaler?


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    #39
    Faerie
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    yup!


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    #40
    BossArky
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    Q: What did Anne from the famous five always say when they were having a picnic outdoors? I'm not looking for an exact quote, just the general gist of what she was on about.


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    #41
    tHE vAGGABOND
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    oh, crap,, tip of my....

    Must....not...google...


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    #42
    HemmingSay
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    is it the thing about "lashings of ginger beer"?


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    #43
    tSubh Dearg
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    BossArky wrote:
    Q: What did Anne from the famous five always say when they were having a picnic outdoors? I'm not looking for an exact quote, just the general gist of what she was on about.
    Is it something like "Shall I be mother?" I have a sneaking suspicion she said that on at least one occasion.


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    #44
    BossArky
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    hahah... the memories... but none of those :)

    come on think picnic ;)


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    #45
    rain on
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    something to do with wasps?


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    #46
    BossArky
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    no.... think food


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    #47
    Faerie
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    I was the biggest famous five fan so I think I know this!

    Didn't she always say food tastes so much nicer outside?


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    #48
    BossArky
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    Yes!

    Your turn.


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    #49
    Faerie
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    A famous crime writer also writes under the pseudynom Barbara Vine....name the writer.


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    #50
    Chinafoot
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    Ruth Rendell

    (My mam is a crime story fanatic :p)


    Q: J.R.R. Tolkien produced a 1962 academic publication on which 13th century Middle English text?


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    #51
    Deer
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    That would be Ruth Rendell!


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    #52
    rain on
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    peachypants wrote:
    Ruth Rendell

    (My mam is a crime story fanatic :p)


    Q: J.R.R. Tolkien produced a 1962 academic publication on which 13th century Middle English text?
    Beowulf?

    (the cringe factor if i get this wrong is going to be immense)


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    #53
    Chinafoot
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    rain on wrote:
    Beowulf?

    (the cringe factor if i get this wrong is going to be immense)


    Oh for shame... If Terry Dolan could see you now.

    That is incorrect I'm afraid.


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    #54
    Blowfish
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    peachypants wrote:
    Ruth Rendell

    (My mam is a crime story fanatic :p)


    Q: J.R.R. Tolkien produced a 1962 academic publication on which 13th century Middle English text?
    Sir Gawain and the green knight?


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    #55
    Chinafoot
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    Blowfish wrote:
    Sir Gawain and the green knight?


    Again..incorrect. Sorry Gary. :p


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    #56
    Blowfish
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    peachypants wrote:
    Again..incorrect. Sorry Gary. :p
    Damn! Just googled it now and turns out I was 40 years too early, he did the Sir Gawain one in 1925.


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    #57
    Chinafoot
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    Blowfish wrote:
    Damn! Just googled it now and turns out I was 40 years too early, he did the Sir Gawain one in 1925.


    Yea it's kind of obscure and probably one for English lit students/graduates or die-hard Tolkien fans which is why I put in the date...

    So come on people...

    Q: J.R.R. Tolkien produced a 1962 academic publication on which 13th century Middle English text?


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    #58
    sceptre
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    The Ancrene Riwle?

    (I'm not a die-hard Tolkiener)


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    #59
    Chinafoot
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    sceptre wrote:
    The Ancrene Riwle?

    (I'm not a die-hard Tolkiener)


    :) correct.

    Ancrene Wisse also would have been acceptable.


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    #60
    sceptre
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    In John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar what's a yonderboy?


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    #61
    rain on
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    peachypants wrote:
    :) correct.

    Ancrene Wisse also would have been acceptable.
    jaykers. I actually did a project for my MA on that. cringearama.


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