Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month.
As always, they’re designed to be tricky but not impossible, so it’s unlikely everyone will know all the answers – just have a bit of fun.

Literature

1. Which Italian city is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set?
2. Which of the following did not live entirely in the 19th century: Lermontov; Tolstoy; Dostoevsky?
3. What is the name of the snake in The Jungle Book?
4. Winston Smith is the protagonist of which George Orwell novel?
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?
6. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie after the publication of what 1989 novel that mocked the prophet Muhammad?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.