Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

Literature

1. Which Tolstoy novel begins “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”?
2. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016?
3. Who wrote A Child’s History of England?
4. Who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in Nov 1850?
5. Apart from his novels, what is Anthony Trollope remembered for?
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?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.