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Викторина ”What? Where?
When?”
Quiz № 1
Famous British writers
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
He was an English writer, mathematician, logician
,Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous
writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its
sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He is noted for his
facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies
in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment
and promotion of his works and the investigation of his
life.
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
Born in Portsmouth, he left school to work in a factory when his
father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of
formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote
15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and nonfiction
articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an
indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for
children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
His literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The
Pickwick Papers.
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
He (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer
best known for his detective fiction featuring the
character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in
1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four
novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, he
wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous
detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally
considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
He also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often
revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) "Auld
Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of
the year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as
an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems
and songs of Burns that remain well known across the
world today include "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man
for A' That", "To a Louse, "To a Mouse", "The Battle of
Sherramuir", "Tam o' Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss".
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
He is known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a
novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic,
essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from
Belfast, Ireland. He is known for both his fictional work,
especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of
Narnia and The Space Trilogy and his nonfiction, such as
Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain.
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
He is an English novelist. He is the author of
several best-selling books, including
the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the
fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and
the Scoundrel Christ. In 2008, The Times named him one
of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004
poll for the BBC, he was named the eleventh most
influential person in British culture.
His Dark Materials trilogy, Northern Lights, won the
1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association,
recognising the year's outstanding English-language
children's book.
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
He was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet
and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both
English-language literature and of Scottish literature.
Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old
Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of
Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
He was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician
and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure
Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. He was a literary
celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most
translated author in the world. His works have been admired
by many other writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard
Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K.
Chesterton, who said that he "seemed to pick the right word
up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins ".
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
He was an English writer, poet, philologist, and
university professor who is best known as the author of
the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of
the Rings, and The Silmarillion. While many other
authors had published works of fantasy before him, the
great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led
directly to a popular resurgence of the genre.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Identify these famous British writers, events and places
She is a British novelist, screenwriter, and producer
who is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy
series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold
more than 400 million copies. They have become
the best-selling book series in history and been the basis
for a series of films, over which she had overall approval
on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the
series.
References
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
• https://en.wikipedia.org
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