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Menace is the title of the autobiography of which former fast bowler?
Genre - Autobiographies 4
This quiz looks at how autobiographies follow a person through different stages of life, from early memories to work, friendships and later experiences.
1 .
What is the title of Jimmy Nail's 2005 autobiography?
A Geordie Lad
A Geordie Soul
A Northern Lad
A Northern Soul
Nail's name at birth was James Michael Aloysius Bradford
2 .
Which former Goon wrote a volume of autobiography titled Peace Work, which begins just after he's been demobbed?
Michael Bentine
Spike Milligan
Harry Secombe
Peter Sellers
He also wrote poetry with one of his works, On the Ning Nang Nong, being voted the nation's favourite comic poem in 1998
3 .
Who wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater?
Daniel Defoe
Aldous Huxley
Charles Lamb
Thomas de Quincey
It was first published in the London Magazine in 1821, then in book form the following year
4 .
Which inventor called his 2006 autobiography Against the Odds?
Trevor Baylis
Christopher Cockerell
James Dyson
Clive Sinclair
He invented the bagless vacuum cleaner
5 .
Menace is the title of the 2004 autobiography of which former fast bowler?
Curtly Ambrose
Dennis Lillee
Jeff Thomson
Courtney Walsh
The title is a reference to the classic Beano comic character Dennis the Menace
6 .
Which American writer called her 1933 book The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas?
Natalie Barney
Mina Loy
Dorothy Parker
Gertrude Stein
Toklas was Stein's lifelong partner
7 .
Which BBC war correspondent wrote the autobiography The Kindness of Strangers?
Kate Adie
George Alagiah
Martin Bell
Brian Hanrahan
Kate also wrote Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War, Nobody's Child, Into Danger: People Who Risk Their Lives for Work and Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
8 .
Which comedian wrote the 2006 autobiography Common as Muck?
Roy 'Chubby' Brown
Julian Clary
Billy Connolly
Harry Enfield
Brown's real name is Royston Vasey, and this was chosen as the name for the fictional town in the comedy TV show The League of Gentlemen in which he makes some cameo appearances
9 .
A Funny Way to Make a Living! is the title of the autobiography of which member of the Dad's Army cast?
Clive Dunn
Ian Lavender
Arthur Lowe
Bill Pertwee
He played the ARP Warden, William Hodges
10 .
Which Northern Irish politician wrote the 2001 autobiography Before the Dawn?
Gerry Adams
Martin McGuinness
Ian Paisley
David Trimble
The autobiography is one of 15 books to have been written by Adams
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