Keywords – O – Ocean
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Finish the title of Neil Gaiman’s bestselling, award winning novel: The Ocean at the End of the —
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Lane
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World
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Which poet wrote: ‘ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!’
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Byron
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Coleridge
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The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard is a unique ‘first’. What is it?
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The first pick for Oprah’s Book Club
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The first novel by a transgender writer
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The Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner is about what group of people travelling to New York after World War 2?
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War Brides
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Prisoners of War
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And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness uses which classic American novel as its starting off point?
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Moby Dick
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Huckleberry Finn
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An Ocean Between Us by Ann O’Loughlin is set where in Ireland?
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Belfast
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Dublin
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Which poet wrote: ‘I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide/Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.’
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Maya Angelou
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Alice Walker
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Alessandro Baricco, the author of Ocean Sea, is from which European country?
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Italy
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Spain
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The Ocean Liner by Marius Gabriel has a host of famous characters crossing to New York from war-torn Europe including the mother of which future President?
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JF Kennedy
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Richard Nixon
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The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge is centred around the life of which American horror writer?
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HP Lovecraft
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Which David Mitchell novel does this quote come from: ‘My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?’
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Cloud Atlas
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The Bone Clocks
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An Ocean Apart by Robin Pilcher centres on a whiskey distillery, where is it ?
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Scotland
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Tennessee
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Where is the setting for ML Stedman’s bestselling The Light Between Oceans?
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Australia
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New Zealand
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In which famous poem is the line: ‘As idle as a painted ship/Upon a painted ocean’
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Lady of Shalott
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Who wrote: ‘Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.’
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Haruki Murakami
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Margaret Atwood
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The Glass Ocean is a historical novel set on which doomed luxury ship?
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Lusitania
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Titanic
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Which Dickens novel centres around the ocean?
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Dombey and Son
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Bleak House
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Finish the title of this Thea Lim time travelling novel: An Ocean of —
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Minutes
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Days
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The word ‘ocean’ is believed to have come from which ancient language?
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Latin
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Ancient Greek
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Who wrote: ‘I will love you as a starfish loves a coral reef … even if the oceans turn to sawdust and the trees fall in the forest without anyone around to hear them.’
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Lemony Snicket
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David Walliams
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