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 Italian city is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set? Verona
2. Which of the following did not live entirely in the 19th century? Tolstoy (1828-1910)
3. What is the name of the snake in The Jungle Book? Kaa
4. Winston Smith is the protagonist of which George Orwell novel? 1984
5. Agatha Christie’s By the Pricking of My Thumbs and Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes are two novels who take their titles from lines in what Shakespeare play? Macbeth
6. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie after the publication of what 1989 novel that mocked the prophet Muhammad? The Satanic Verses

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2025.