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Very hard History quiz. Can you get a decent score?
Question 1 of 10
Three of these are South African writers. One is a South African runner known for racing barefoot ... and for Britain. Who is the odd person out?
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Question 2 of 10
What fictional sleuth produced a handbook on bees and a monograph on more than a hundred varieties of tobacco ash?
Question 3 of 10
The jealous Athena turned Arachne into which kind of animal?
Question 4 of 10
Daniel Dafoe got the name of what character from a gravestone he saw while hiding out during the Monmouth Rebellion?
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Question 5 of 10
Dr Seuss won a bet with editor Bennett Cerf by writing what book, using just 50 words?
Question 6 of 10
Who wrote "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" while working as a clerk at Lloyd's, shortly after emigrating from St Louis?
Question 7 of 10
What small rodent did Beverly Cleary write about?
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Question 8 of 10
Spolier alert! What detective turns out to be the killer in "Curtain," when he returns to Styles with Arthur Hastings to hunt down the fiendish Stephen Norton?
Question 9 of 10
What philosophical treatise did Thomas Hobbes write in 1651?
Question 10 of 10
WS Baring-Gould speculates that Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler had a son. What other detective was this?
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