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Question 1 of 10

What creator of Jeeves made five appearances on Nazi radio in 1941, in which he made light of his experience in a French internment camp?

Question 2 of 10

Which Roman's name was the origin of the Russian word "Tzar"?

Question 3 of 10

What writer became "big brother" himself when he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927?

Question 4 of 10

Which writer of science fiction is credited with the invention of the telecommunications satellite?

Question 5 of 10

Who praised "a loaf of bread beneath the bough, a flask of wine, a book of verse and thou," even though at least one of those items is prohibited to him on religious grounds?

Question 6 of 10

Who wrote a 1899 poem about "The White Man's Burden" after American white men conquered the Philippines?

Question 7 of 10

No, it hasn't got much plot, but it's performed very slowly. Where would you most likely see a Noh tragedy?

Question 8 of 10

Tell us the word replaced in this line from Allen Ginsberg's "Howl." I saw the best penguins of my generation, destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.

Question 9 of 10

What book, published in 1880 and made into movies in 1907, 1925 and 1959, was the first work of fiction blessed by a pope, namely Leo XIII?

Question 10 of 10

Since 1982, the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. How would you win it?