Problem: The following are the first lines to which well known poem Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Answer: raven

Problem: Misselthwaite Manor is the chief locale of what beloved children's novel that tells the coming of age story of Mary Lennox?
Answer: secret garden by frances hodgson burnett

Problem: What did Ken Dodd begin his career in entertainment as?
Answer: ventriloquist

Problem: Who was the author of the 'Alan Quatermain' series and the 'Ayesha' series of novels, who was born on June 22nd. 1856?
Answer:
h rider haggard