BAMBER GASCOIGNE'S UNIVERSALLY CHALLENGING QUIZ

Round 3 - Fiction

1. Who, on the first day of 1660, had the remains of a turkey for breakfast and began a new project?

2. Who gave Horace his Sabine farm?

3. Which Greek poet worked for 30 years as a civil servant in Alexandria's Irrigation Service?

4. Which Persian poet of the 13th century wrote 'Bustan' (Orchard)?

5. Which two playwrights were born in England in the same year, in the 1560s?

6. Which New Zealand poet titled her first collection 'The Eye of the Hurricane'?

7. Which poet was expelled from Oxford in the early 19th century for circulating a pamphlet entitled 'The Necessity of Atheism'?

8. Who was presented to Kubla Khan in

Xanadu and later claimed, in his own account, to have made a very good impression?

9. What action did the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima carry out, in 1970, in the traditional Samurai manner?

10. Which book caused Ayatollah Khomeini to declare a fatwa against Salman Rushdie?

Extracted from 'Bamber Gascoigne's Challenging Quiz Book', published by Penguin on 1 November at 7.99, and from his website, www.timesearch.info

About the prize

Each day until next Thursday, Bamber Gascoigne will be setting 10 more questions in 'The Independent', and 'The Independent on Sunday'. Two rounds have already been published in our sister paper.

Once the final questions have been published, email your answers to all seven days' quiz rounds to comps@independent.co.uk.

Alternatively, you can post them to Bamber Gascoigne Quiz, PO Box 55705, London E14 1AQ.

The highest-scoring entry will win a quiz hosted by Bamber Gascoigne for the winner and up to 100 of their friends, at a venue of their choice. It will be the winner's responsibility to provide a suitable UK venue and to invite guests. Of course, the date of the quiz will have to be convenient for Mr Gascoigne.

All quiz entries must include your name, address and telephone number. Entries must be received by 12 November.

The winner will be selected at random from the best entries and notified in writing by 19 November. The editor's decision is final.

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