UK Literature mix

Been on a revision spell of my old UK literature questions, so here are the ones I still couldn’t get right.

Questions

In the “Chronicles of Narnia”, Prince Caspian established which long reigning dynasty? It was on the brink of being defeated by the Calormene empire when Aslan called for the world of Narnia to be destroyed.

TELMARINE

Its title being influenced by the “1001 Nights” rather than a Romanian abortion film, what Salman Rushdie novel features jinns and has depictions of the philosophers Averroes and Al-Ghazali?

TWO YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND TWENTY-EIGHT NIGHTS

Sheridan Le Fanu’s lesbian vampire story “Carmilla” was published as a serial in which London literary magazine that was published from 1871 to 1873?

THE DARK BLUE

Who is the female character in “To the Lighthouse” who towards the end of the novel finally finishes her painting, despite Charles Tansley asserting that women can neither paint nor write?

LILY BRISCOE

Which British author is responsible for the 2018 novel “Codename Villanelle”, the basis for the TV series “Killing Eve”? He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1995 for his novel “Atlantic”.

LUKE JENNINGS

Who “is unwell” in the title of a comic play by Keith Waterhouse? This alcohol-abusing writer of The Spectator’s “Low Life” column was played in a TV movie by his friend Peter O’Toole.

JEFFREY BERNARD

Published after his death, which poem with a four-word title by Percy Bysshe Shelley was written in response to Manchester’s Peterloo massacre?

THE MASQUE OF ANARCHY

Which 1960 novel by Alexander Trocchi was notable as being the first to be banned for obscenity that wasn’t of a sexual nature, but rather for the lifestyle it represented, heroin drug use?

CAIN’S BOOK

Notable for being largely written in rhyming couplets, which Caryl Churchill work is about the British stock market, with her other works including the career driven “Top Girls”?

SERIOUS MONEY

What is “against reason and mankind” in the title of a poem by 17th century satirist John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, who died of venereal disease at the age of 33?

A SATYR

Which 17th century English playwright is known for amusing titles such as “The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub”, “She Would if She Could” and “The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter”?

GEORGE ETHEREGE

“From Allyship to Coalition” is the sub-title to which 2021 work with a six-word title by Dublin-born “Don’t Touch My Hair” author Emma Dabiri?

WHAT WHITE PEOPLE CAN DO NEXT

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a 1992 film starring Jeremy Irons, who wrote the 1983 novel “Waterland”, which was set in the Fens of eastern England? It was followed by “Shuttlecock”.

GRAHAM SWIFT

What is a short work by Graham Swift set entirely during one day in 1924, being adapted into a 2021 film starring Olivia Colman and Colin Firth?

MOTHERING SUNDAY

Portraying experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions, which novel by William Hope Hodgson was praised by HP Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett, being a hallucinatory account of a recluse’s stay at a remote location?

THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND

Which is the only one of the “Canterbury Tales” not to begin with ‘The’?

SIR THOPAS’ TALE

Who does Sir Thopas try to win in his “Canterbury Tale”?

THE ELF QUEEN

Apart from “Sir Thopas’ Tale”, which “Canterbury Tale” is told by Geoffrey Chaucer himself, being a translation of a work by Renaud de Louens?

THE TALE OF MELIBEE

The longest of them all and built around the theme of penitence, what is the last of the “Canterbury Tales”?

THE PARSON’S TALE

Zadie Smith’s novel “White Teeth” centres on Englishman Archie Jones and his wartime friend Samad Iqbal, who carries what nationality?

BANGLADESHI

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, what is the name of Zadie Smith’s 2005 novel that is loosely based on E.M. Forster’s work “Howard’s End”?

ON BEAUTY

Which 2012 work by Zadie Smith takes its name from a postcode, being adapted for a television film that aired in 2016?

NW

Olaudah Equiano, famous for his autobiography, was according to his memoir born in which African country?

BENIN

Olaudah Equiano, famous for his autobiography, was known for most of his life by the name of which famous king?

GUSTAVUS VASSA

Which seven words precede “Olaudah Equiano” in the title of his autobiography?

THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF

Taking its title from a Brutus quote in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, “Taken at the Flood” is a work set in 1946 that is written by which author?

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Known for writing “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner”, James Hogg was given which two-word nickname which includes his place of birth in Selkirkshire?

ETTRICK SHEPHERD

Stemming from the 16th century works of Paracelsus, what type of air spirit is Ariel in Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”?

SYLPH

What type of creature is Umbriel in “The Rape of the Lock”, who travels to the ominously named Cave of Spleen?

GNOME

What is the pseudonym of Jamie Morton’s father, the writer of the “Belinda Blinked” books that feature the protagonist Belinda Blumenthal? These are the subject of the podcast “My Dad Wrote a Porno”.

ROCKY FLINTSTONE

The black dragon Ancalagon was killed by which father of Elrond? When it fell to earth it destroyed the volcanic mountains of Thangorodrim, marking the end of Morgoth’s final resistance against the Valar.

EÄRENDIL

Minor UK Poet Laureates

I was going through the list of Poet Laureates looking for those that didn’t set instant light bulbs going, simply because I couldn’t add any context to Nahum Tate when he came up as an answer.

Questions

Poet Laureate at the turn of the 20th century and not particularly well remembered today, it has been alleged that which alliterative poet got the role because he supported Lord Salisbury in the 1895 General Election? His work “Haunts of Ancient Peace” provides the name of the first track on Van Morrison’s 1980 album “Common One”.

ALFRED AUSTIN

Called a ‘poetaster’ because he apparently wasn’t very good, who became Poet Laureate during the French Revolution, being followed by the more notable Lake Poet Robert Southey in 1813?

HENRY JAMES PYE

More prominent as a poet than his father of the same name, which Poet Laureate at the start of the French Revolution is considered to be one of the ‘Graveyard poets’, a loose grouping characterised by their morbid works that also included Thomas Gray? “The Pleasure of Melancholy” is an example of his work.

THOMAS WARTON

The longest in the role prior to Robert Southey, which alliterative writer became Poet Laureate in 1757 after the refusal of Thomas Gray? Also a playwright, his poetry includes “The Je Ne Sais Quoi”.

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD

A target of the satirical Alexander Pope poem “The Dunciad”, which alliterative Poet Laureate was in the role from 1730 to 1757, beating Nahum Tate’s record for length in the role? He wrote an entertaining autobiography whose title begins “An Apology for the Life of”.

COLLEY CIBBER

The youngest to date to have become Poet Laureate, which Yorskhire-born poet was rewarded with the role in 1718 after penning a work about Thomas Pelham-Holles’ marriage to Lady Harriet Godolphin? Pelham-Holles is also known as the Duke of Newcastle, later having two spells as Prime Minister.

LAWRENCE EUSDEN

Considered the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare, who had a short spell as Poet Laureate from 1715 to 1718? He also wrote plays with his works including “Tamerlane”, “The Ambitious Stepmother” and the suspicious sounding “The Biter”.

NICHOLAS ROWE

Being a target of Alexander Pope’s satirical poem “The Dunciad” just like the later Poet Laureate Colley Cibber, Nahum Tate is also known as a lyricist, having provided the libretto to which opera that had its premiere in 1689?

DIDO AND AENEAS

Changing the ending so that it was a happy one, Nahum Tate wrote an adaptation of which William Shakespeare play, keeping some of the lines and modifying others only slightly? It first appeared in 1981 and was preferred by Samuel Johnson to the original.

KING LEAR

John Dryden attacked which second Poet Laureate in his work “Absalom and Achitophel”, one of a series of barbed exchanges between the two that emerged after political and religious differences came to the fore? Dying only three years into the role, both him and his son Charles produced work as playwrights.

THOMAS SHADWELL