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1 Who is the fourth musketeer besides D Artagnan, Athos and Porthos? Aramis
2 Who killed the Minotaur ? Theseus
Which Egyptian woman was considered as the inventor of agriculture? She married her brother and
3 Isis
together they had a son: Horus.
4 Who is the giant with 100 eyes according to the Greek mythology? Argus
5 Whose box did Epimethius open? Pandora s box
6 What is the name of the winged horse in Greek mythology? Pegasus
7 Who wrote Oliver Twist? Charles Dickens
8 On which island did Ernest Hemingway stay to be able to write much? Cuba
9 Where is set the book A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carre? Bonn
10 In which country did Shakespeare s Hamlet live? Denmark
11 Who was the wife of Othello? Desdemona
12 Who was the imaginary love of Don Quixote? Dulcinea
13 In which two languages did the Irish writer Samuel Beckett write? English and French
14 Which book Mary Shelley wrote when she was 19? Frankenstein
15 Who said "I think therefore I am"? Rene Descartes
16 What is the English name of the Russian novel titled Voyna i Mir? War and peace
17 What is the name of the infamous novel by Vladimir Nabokov? Lolita
18 In which book did Sherlock Holmes first show up? Study In Scarlet
19 What is the name of the first complete novel written by Charles Dickens? The Pickwick Papers
20 In which part of Shakespeare do you find the character Ophelia? Hamlet
21 Who is the hero in the book Da Vinci Code? Professor Robert Langdon
22 Who wrote Moby Dick? Herman Melville
23 Who solves the crime in "Death on the Nile"? Hercule Poirot
24 Who wrote Jungle Book? Rudyard Kipling

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