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What does Hamlet hold when he says 'Alas, poor Yorick'?
Answer: A skull
Why: The gravedigger says the skull belonged to the king's jester and has lain in the earth for twenty-three years.
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Who first wrote 'It was a dark and stormy night'?
Answer: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Why: A fiction contest founded in 1982 and named after him asks entrants for the worst possible opening sentence.
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What did Tolkien first write The Hobbit's opening line on?
Answer: An exam paper
Why: That sentence grew into The Hobbit, published in 1937.
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Which famous Darcy scene did Austen never write?
Answer: The lake swim
Why: Screenwriter Andrew Davies added the lake scene to the 1995 BBC series.
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Where is the poem Beowulf set?
Answer: Scandinavia
Why: The poem is in Old English, yet its hero Beowulf is a Geat who comes to help the king of the Danes.
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Who coined 'pandemonium' as the name of Hell's capital?
Answer: John Milton
Why: Milton built the word from the Greek words for 'all' and 'demon'.
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