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What does Candide say we must cultivate in the end?
Answer: Our garden
Why: Although it was widely banned, Candide sold 20,000 to 30,000 copies in 1759, the year it came out.
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Who founded London's Bow Street Runners?
Answer: Henry Fielding
Why: As a Westminster magistrate, Fielding started the Runners in 1749 with just six men based at his Bow Street court.
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Where is Crusoe's island in Defoe's novel?
Answer: Off Venezuela
Why: Defoe's likely model, Alexander Selkirk, was marooned in the Pacific off Chile, on an island renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.
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In which land is Gulliver tiny among giants?
Answer: Brobdingnag
Why: Brobdingnag's giants are about twelve times Gulliver's size, the exact reverse of the one-to-twelve scale in Lilliput.
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Who did a 16-year-old Benjamin Franklin pose as in print?
Answer: Silence Dogood
Why: Behind the name was a made-up middle-aged widow, whose letters ran in 1722 in his brother James's newspaper.
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In which language was Diderot's Rameau's Nephew first printed?
Answer: German
Why: The first French edition, in 1821, was not Diderot's own text but a translation back from Goethe's German.
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