Question: What is grandpa's name in the TV show The Munsters?
Answer: Sam Dracula

Question: Chiromancy is the technical name for what pseudoscience (claimed but not proven to be scientific)?
Answer: Palmistry

Question: As at 2008 what is the most popularly attended concert venue in the world (highest audience numbers per year)?
Answer: The O2, London

Question: Nanga Parbat, meaning 'naked mountain', the 9th highest in the world, is part of which mountain range?
Answer: Himalayas

Question: Which American singer's real name was Eunice Wayman?
Answer: Nina Simone

Question: The ghost of great Dane dog Kabur, said to haunt Los Angeles Pet Cemetery, belonged to which 1920s screen idol?
Answer: Rudolph Valentino

Question: Who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
Answer: Robert Pirsig

Question: What country hosts the World Wife-Carrying Championships?
Answer: Finland

Question: What country temporarily renamed its currency Bolivar Fuerte (meaning strong Bolivar) while phasing out the use of the previous Bolivar alongside it?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: What vital mechanism did Elisha Otis invent in 1852?
Answer: The elevator brake

Question: What is Earl's band called in the TV series My Name is Earl?
Answer: Phish Tahko

Question: What are the Italian cheese balls whose name translates as 'small mouthfuls?
Answer: Bocconcini

Question: What word, extended from a more popular term, refers to a fictional book of between 20,000 and 50,000 words?
Answer: Novella

Question: Who wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Answer: Lord Alfred Tennyson

Question: In 1960 the UK publishing ban was lifted on what 1928 book?
Answer: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Question: In bookmaking how many times would an quarto sheet be folded?
Answer: Twice

Question: Who wrote the seminal 1936 self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People?
Answer: Dale Carnegie

Question: Who in 1450 invented movable type, thus revolutionising printing?
Answer: Johannes Gutenberg

Question: Which short-lived dramatist is regarded as the first great exponent of blank verse?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe

Question: What is the Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy dated around the year 1000, featuring its eponymous 6th century warrior from Geatland in Sweden?
Answer: Beowulf

Question: What relatively modern school of philosophy, popular in literature since the mid 1900s, broadly embodies the notion of individual freedom of choice within a disorded and inexplicable universe?
Answer: Existentialism

Question: What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
Answer: Lewis Carroll

Question: What term originally meaning 'storehouse' referred, and still refers, to a periodical of various content and imaginative writing?
Answer: Magazine

Question: Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
Answer: Isaac Newton

Question: What 16th century establishment in London's Bread Street was a notable writers' haunt?
Answer: The Mermaid Tavern

Question: Who wrote the 1845 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Answer: Robert Browning

Question: The period between 1450 and 1600 in European development is known by what term, initially used by Italian scholars to express the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture?
Answer: The Renaissance

Question: What is the main dog character called in Norton Juster's 1961 popular children's/adult-crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth?
Answer: Tock

Question: Who detailed his experiences before and during World War I in Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?
Answer: Siegfried Sassoon

Question: What significant law relating to literary and artistic works was first introduced in 1709?
Answer: Copyright

Question: Who wrote the 1891 book Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra)?
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche

Question: What word, meaning 'measure' in Greek, refers to the rhythm of a line of verse?
Answer: Metre

Question: Cheap literature of the 16-18th centuries was known as 'what' books, based on the old word for the travelling traders who sold them?
Answer: Chapbooks

Question: Derived from Greek meaning summit or finishing touch, what word refers to the publisher's logo and historically the publisher's details at the end of the book?
Answer: Colophon

Question: Japanese three-line verses called Haiku contain how many syllables?
Answer: Seventeen

Question: Stanley Kubrick successfully requested the UK ban of his own film based on what Anthony Burgess book?
Answer: A Clockwork Orange

Question: The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) code was increased to how many digits from 1 January 2007?
Answer: Thirteen

Question: What is the female term equating to a phallic symbol?
Answer: Yonic symbol

Question: James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Dombey and Son

Question: What famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus'?
Answer: Frankenstein

Question: By what name is the writer François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) better known?
Answer: Voltaire

Question: According to Matthew 27 in the Bible what prisoner was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
Answer: Barabbas

Question: What was the 1920s arts group centred around Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the district of London which provided the group's name?
Answer: The Bloomsbury Group

Question: What were the respective family names of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Montague and Capulet

Question: Who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking in 1953?
Answer: Norman Vincent Peale

Question: What name for a lyrical work, typically 50-200 lines long, which from the Greek word for song?
Answer: Ode

Question: Who wrote the 1866 book Crime and Punishment?
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Question: Who wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince?
Answer: Niccolo Machiavelli

Question: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are commonly referred to as the 'what' Poets?
Answer: Lake Poets

Question: In bookmaking, a sheet folded three times is called by what name?
Answer: Octavo

Question: What word, which in Greek means 'with' or 'after', prefixes many literary and language terms to denote something in a different position?
Answer: Meta

Question: """Reader, I married him,"" appears in the conclusion of what novel?"
Answer: Jane Eyre

Question: Philosopher and writer Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, is associated with what school of thought?
Answer: Utilitarianism

Question: The ancient Greek concept of the 'three unities' advocated that a literary work should use a single plotline, single location, and what other single aspect?
Answer: Time

Question: Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Answer: Susan

Question: Who wrote the plays Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard?
Answer: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Question: What technical word is given usually to the left-side even-numbered page of a book?
Answer: Verso

Question: What is the pen-name of novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-80)?
Answer: George Eliot

Question: In what decade was the Oxford English Dictionary first published?
Answer: 1920s

Question: What simple term, alternatively called Anglo-Saxon, refers to the English language which was used from the 5th century Germanic invasions, until (loosely) its fusion with Norman-French around 12-13th centuries?
Answer: Old English

Question: Laurens van der Post's prisoner of war experiences, described in his books The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970) inspired what film?
Answer: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Question: With which troubled son are parents Laius and Jocasta associated?
Answer: Oedipus

Question: Which Russian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970?
Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn