TASK DEFINITION: Given an trivia question precisely answer the question with a word/phrase/name. External resources such as Wikipedia could be used to obtain the facts.
PROBLEM: Which actor, a former hospital patient in the T.V. comedy series 'Only When I Laugh' went on to play the Irish R.M.?

SOLUTION: peter bowles

PROBLEM: Which novelist, with a three letter surname, wrote the novels 'The Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum'?

SOLUTION: umberto eco

PROBLEM: Who wrote the Booker prize-winning novel Hotel du Lac?

SOLUTION:
anita brookner