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Lit there be light
buried somewhere beneath the plethora of business and sports quizzes- heres a subject that is rarely touched in quizzing circles- Literature.

answers in about a week.

Q1 T.S Eliot’s “The hollow men” begins with:
Mistah Kurtz - he dead.
A penny for the old Guy!
The first line being that from Heart of Darkness, wherein Kurtz is described as both a "universal genius" and a "hollow man" (The Hollow Men- is the poem that Colonel Kurtz reads at the end of Apocalypse Now).
Who is the old guy referred to in the second line?


Q2. M.S. subbalakshmi played the role of Narada in “savitri”. Which man of letters acted in the role of Narada, directed the film, composed songs for it, set them to music and directed them In the 1934 film “bhakta dhruva”?


Q3. According to Douglas Adams what was gods final message to his creation?


Q4. She was reportedly born in New Jersey during the year 1858. She followed a career in opera as a contralto. Notable points of her career included performances in La Scala, Milan, Italy and a term as Prima Donna in the Imperial Opera of Warsaw. Sometime before her 30th year, she retired from the operatic stage and moved to London. Who?


Q5. The French actor Philippe Noiret essayed the role of D'Artagnan in the 1994french film “Fille de d'Artagnan”(D'Artagnan's Daughter). What other literary role essayed in the same year is he chiefly remembered for?

Q6. Published in 1986, what was inspired by Charles Johnston's translation of the Pushkin's 1833 Russian classic, Eugene Onegin?.
Q7.which controversial book (published in the late 1920`s) is –
To
THE PEOPLES OF INDIA
AND TO
THAT INDIAN FIELD LABORER
WHO ONCE, BY AN ACT OF
HUMANITY, SAVED
MY LIFE?


Q8 what owned by Willy Wonka employed as its workforce a group of people from Loompaland called- oompa loompa`s?


Q9. What was smuggled by Ernest Hemingway who managed to infiltrate it into the States - together with a friend by hiding contraband copies across the border from Canada in their trouser legs?.


Q10. Who translated Upanishads into Persian directly from Sanskrit and called it Sirr-e-Akbar (The Great Mystery). This facilitated the further translation into European languages influencing the likes of Schopenhauer?