Borrowing from Quizzes of Christmases Past plus some new questions – this is the third of 3 quizzes on all things literary and Christmassy.
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Finish the title of this story by JRR Tolkien: — from Father Christmas
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Letters
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Presents
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What did JK Rowling say you can never have enough of for Christmas?
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Socks
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Chocolate
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Which Victorian wrote: ‘Fine old Christmas…had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and colour with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
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Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Which of Beatrix Potter’s delightful tales is set around Christmas?
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The Tailor of Gloucester
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The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
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Author Karen Swan writes two books a year, one at Christmas and one when?
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Summer
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Halloween
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What street animal is at the centre of James Bowen’s story A Christmas Gift from Bob?
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Cat
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Dog
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Finish the title of this Patterson thriller: The — Christmas
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19th
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15th
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Which author wrote the 12 stories found in her collection, Christmas Days?
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Jeanette Winterson
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Kate Atkinson
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Which Shakespearean Christmassy play has Viola loved by Olivia who is loved by Orsino who is loved by Viola?
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Twelfth Night
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A Winter’s Tale
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What is the title of bestselling author, Sophie Kinsella’s, 2020 festive story?
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Christmas Shopaholic
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Christmas Lockdown
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Finish the title of this Pearl S Buck story: Christmas Day in the —
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Morning
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City
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Who wrote the 1932 novel The Christmas Pudding in which the formidable Lady Bobbin is hosting what she hopes will be the perfect Christmas party?
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Nancy Mitford
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Evelyn Waugh
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Finish this quote from A Christmas Carol: ‘he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and a — would have astonished him very much.’
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Rhinoceros
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Gorilla
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Who wrote: ‘For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas.’
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Charles Dickens
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Mark Twain
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Dickens wrote 5 Christmas stories. True or false?
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True
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False
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In David Balducci’s The Christmas Train where does disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon have to get to in time for Christmas?
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From Washington to LA
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From Chicago to New York
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Who wrote the 10 comic short stories Father Christmas’s Fake Beard?
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Terry Pratchett
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David Walliams
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Christmas is Murder is a short story collection by which crime and thriller author?
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Val McDermid
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Ann Cleeves
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Christie’s ingredients: A dysfunctional family Christmas, the black sheep, a sadistic game, an unexpected guest, an unknown granddaughter… who solves whodunnit?
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Hercule Poirot
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Miss Marple
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And ending with Mr Dickens… In A Christmas Carol who has the last word?
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Tiny Tim
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Scrooge
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