Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.

Literature

1. Which Tolstoy novel begins “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”? Anna Karenina
2. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016? Bob Dylan
3. Who wrote A Child’s History of England? Dickens, 1853
4. Who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in Nov 1850? Tennyson
5. Apart from his novels, what is Anthony Trollope remembered for? Introduction of pillar boxes to UK
6. Which two-word term was popularised by a 1948 Robert Heinlein novel of the same name, which inspired a science fiction franchise centring on a character named Tom Corbett? Space Cadet

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.