Literature and Art

Question 1

Jane Austen

Answer 1

novelist. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility.

Question 2

Charles Dickens

Answer 2

novelist. Oliver Twist, Great Expectations.

Question 3

Robert Louis Stevenson

Answer 3

writer, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Question 4

Thomas Hardy

Answer 4

writer and poet, Far from the Madding Crowd

Question 5

Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 5

Sherlock Holmes

Question 6

Evelyn Waugh

Answer 6

Brideshead Revisited.

Question 7

Kingsley Amis

Answer 7

novelist, Lucky Jim

Question 8

Graham Greene

Answer 8

writer Brighton Rock

Question 9

JK Rowling

Answer 9

writer, Harry Potter

Question 10

William Golding

Answer 10

novelist

Question 11

Harold Pinter

Answer 11

playwright

Question 12

Ian Fleming

Answer 12

writer, James Bond

Question 13

Seamus Heany

Answer 13

poet

Question 14

Agatha Christie

Answer 14

writer, detective stories

Question 15

JRR Tolkien

Answer 15

The Lord of the Rings

Question 16

Thomas Gainsborough

Answer 16

portrait painter, painted people in landscape scenes

Question 17

David Allan

Answer 17

portrait painter

Question 18

Joseph Turner

Answer 18

landscape painter

Question 19

John Constable

Answer 19

landscape painter

Question 20

Pre-Raphalites

Answer 20

painters detailed pictures on religious or literary themes. Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Millais.

Question 21

John Lavery

Answer 21

Northern Irish portrait painter. Painter the Royal Family.

Question 22

Henry Moore

Answer 22

English sculptor.

Question 23

John Petts

Answer 23

Welsh. engravings and stained glass.

Question 24

Lucian Freud

Answer 24

portraits

Question 25

David Hockney

Answer 25

painter. pop-era

Question 26

Thomas Chippendale

Answer 26

furniture designer 18th C

Question 27

Clarice Cliff

Answer 27

Art Deco ceramics

Question 28

Terence Conran

Answer 28

interior designer

Question 29

Gertrude Jekyll

Answer 29

landscape architect.

Question 30

Edwin Lutyns

Answer 30

architect. New Delhi and Cenotaph

Question 31

John Milton

Answer 31

poet. Paradise Lost

Question 32

William Wordsworth

Answer 32

poet. The Daffodils

Question 33

Walter Scott

Answer 33

poet and novelist from Scotland

Question 34

William Blake

Answer 34

19th C poet. The Tyger.

Question 35

John Keats

Answer 35

19th C poet

Question 36

Lord Byron

Answer 36

19th C poet. She Walks in Beauty.

Question 37

Percy Shelley

Answer 37

19th C poet

Question 38

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Answer 38

19th C poet

Question 39

Robert and Elizabeth Browning

Answer 39

19th C poet. Home Thoughts from Abroad.

Question 40

Wilfred Owen

Answer 40

poet WWI. Anthem for Doomed Youth.

Question 41

Siegfried Sassooon

Answer 41

poet WWI

Question 42

Walter de la Mare

Answer 42

contemporary poet

Question 43

John Masefield

Answer 43

contemporary poet

Question 44

John Betjeman

Answer 44

contemporary poet

Question 45

Ted Hughes

Answer 45

contemporary poet

Question 46

Alexander Korda

Answer 46

film director. Originally from Hungry.

Question 47

David Lean

Answer 47

film director. Lawrence of Arabia. Brief Encounter.

Question 48

Ridley Scott

Answer 48

film director. Blade Runner

Question 49

Nick Park

Answer 49

annimation. Wallace and Gromit

Question 50

Lawrence Olivier

Answer 50

actor

Question 51

David Niven

Answer 51

actor

Question 52

Rex Harrison

Answer 52

actor

Question 53

Richard Burton.

Answer 53

actor

Question 54

Alfred Hitchcock

Answer 54

director. 39 Steps.

Question 55

Carol Reed

Answer 55

director. The Third Man

Question 56

Frank Launder

Answer 56

director. The Belle of St Trinian's

Question 57

Ken Russell

Answer 57

director. Women in Love

Question 58

Nicolas Roeg

Answer 58

director. Don't Look Now

Question 59

Hugh Hudson

Answer 59

director. Chariots of Fire

Question 60

Roland Joffe

Answer 60

director. The Killing Fields

Question 61

Mike Newell

Answer 61

director. Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Question 62

Kevin MacDonald

Answer 62

director. Touching the Void

Question 63

Morecambe and Wise

Answer 63

music hall comedians.