1. What country is the second largest in the world by area?

a. China
b. !Canada
c. United States of America
d. Russia

2. What is the name of the former country that was succeeded by countries such as
Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia?
a. !Yugoslavia
b. Czechoslovakia
c. Abkhazia
d. South Ossetia

3. How many counties in the Republic of Ireland.

a. 30
b. 32
c. 28
d. !26

4. The surface area of Russia is slightly larger than that of the dwarf planet
Pluto.
a. !True
b. False

5. You could walk from Norway to North Korea while only passing through Russia.
a. !True
b. False

6. What is the official German name of the Swiss Federal Railways?

a. !Schweizerische Bundesbahnen
b. Schweizerische Staatsbahnen
c. Bundesbahnen der Schweiz
d. Schweizerische Nationalbahnen

7. What is the most common climbing route for the second highest mountain in the
world, K2?
a. Magic Line
b. !Abruzzi Spur
c. Polish Line
d. Cesen Route

8. Which of these countries is not a United Nations member state?

a. South Sudan
b. !Niue
c. Tuvalu
d. Montenegro

1. By what name was the author Eric Blair better known?

a. Ray Bradbury
 b. !George Orwell
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Aldous Huxley

2. The quot;Berenstein Bearsquot; is the correct spelling of the educational

children039;s book series039; name.
a. !False
b. True

3. How many Harry Potter books are there?

a. !7
b. 5
c. 8
d. 6

4. The novel quot;Of Mice And Menquot; was written by what author?
a. Harper Lee
b. George Orwell
c. Mark Twain
d. !John Steinbeck

5. Where does the book quot;The Silence of the Lambsquot; get its title from?
a. The voice of innocent people being shut by the powerful
b. !The main character039;s trauma in childhood
c. The relation it has with killing the innocents
d. The villain039;s favourite meal

6. In the novel quot;Lord of the Ringsquot;, how many rings of power were given to
the race of man?
a. !9
b. 11
c. 5
d. 13

7. In Terry Pratchett039;s Discworld novel 039;Wyrd Sisters039;, which of these are

not one of the three main witches?
a. !Winny Hathersham
b. Granny Weatherwax
c. Magrat Garlick
d. Nanny Ogg

8. What was Sir Handel039;s original name in quot;The Railway Seriesquot; and
it039;s animated counterpart quot;Thomas and Friends?quot;
a. Kyte
b. !Falcon
c. Eagle
d. Swallow

9. In The Lies Of Locke Lamora, what does quot;Lamoraquot; mean in Throne Therin?
a. Thievery
b. Justice
 c. Chaos
d. !Shadow

1. Which author and poet famously wrote the line, quot;The female of the species is
more deadly than the malequot;?
a. William Wordsworth
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. William Shakespeare
d. !Rudyard Kipling

2. What is Hermione Granger039;s middle name?

a. Emma
b. Jo
c. Jane
d. !Jean

3. Who wrote the children039;s story quot;The Little Match Girlquot;?

a. Lewis Carroll
b. !Hans Christian Andersen
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Charles Dickens

4. The novel quot;Of Mice And Menquot; was written by what author?
a. Harper Lee
b. Mark Twain
c. !John Steinbeck
d. George Orwell

5. quot;Elementary, my dear Watsonquot; is a phrase that is never truly said within

the Conan Doyle books of Sherlock Holmes.
a. False
b. !True

6. The title of Adolf Hitler039;s autobiography quot;Mein Kampfquot; is what when

translated to English?
a. My Hatred
b. My Sadness
c. !My Struggle
d. My Desire

7. Which of these book series is by James Patterson?

a. The Legend of Xanth
b. !Maximum Ride
c. Harry Potter
d. The Bartemaeus Trilogy

8. What book series published by Jim Butcher follows a wizard in modern day
Chicago?
a. My Life as a Teenage Wizard
 b. A Hat in Time
c. !The Dresden Files
d. The Cinder Spires

9. Who is the author of the series quot;Malazan Book of the Fallenquot;?

a. George R. R. Martin
b. Ian Cameron Esslemont
c. !Steven Erikson
d. J. R. R. Tolkien