Ahead of tonight’s final,we asked the show’s question setters to share their trickiest starters for 10. How many can you catch right? • The results are in. Did you beat the boffins?
1. According to the US novelist Vicki Baum, what institution “always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings”?2. Of unexcelled usefulness to historians … (its) intricate realism recorded with the restraint of a Jane Austen and the depth of reflection of a Proust.” These words report which 11th-century novel, and the work of the Japanese princess Murasaki Shikibu? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com