An item or substance used as a decoration or embellishment accompanying a prepared food dish or drink is a what?
Garnish
Mostly known for his Westerns - which John appeared in drag in two Marlene Dietrich films?
John Wayne
In which country, home to the Khmer people, would you find Angkor Wat?
Cambodia
Banned in the United Kingdom and the usually liberal France in the fifties, which Vladimir Nabokov novel upset people with its subject matter?
Lolita
Thomas Lanier Williams III is considered one of the foremost American playwrights, with success such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". By what pen name is he better known?
Tennessee Williams
Natural vanilla flavouring comes from which popular flowering plant?
Orchids
Another famous John, which authors most welll known title was probably "East of Eden"?
John Steinbeck
Which male actor starred in the Alfred Hitchcock film 'To Catch a Thief'?
Cary Grant
India went as far as calling Huxley a ‘pornographer’, whereas Ireland banned it for what they saw as its comments against religion and the traditional family. Which book?
Brave New World
Known for his adventurous lifestyle, which author wrote "A Farewell to Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" among others?
Ernest Hemingway
What was the first name of Senor Cardini, the Mexican restaurateur who created a classic salad in 1924?
Caesar
Which John has over 50 Oscar nominations, and is one of the best known, awarded, and successful composers in US history?
John Williams
From which musical does the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" come?
Carousel
Salman Rushdie had to go into hiding for an entire decade after Iran’s Ayatollah issued a fatwa because of which book?
The Satanic Verses
F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for what novel that depicts the flamboyance and excess of the "Jazz Age"?
The Great Gatsby
What is the dish made from peppers, aubergines, courgettes and tomatoes called?
Ratatouille
Which John featured on the cover of the first Rolling Stone magazine?
John Lennon
Something that accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being changed might be called a what?
Catalyst
Which novel was banned in the Stalanist USSR, and is still banned in Cuba and North Korea? Also, bizarrely by UAE schools for its depiction of a talking pig.
Animal Farm
Most famous for his darkly satirical, bestselling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five", which author was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city in WW2?
Kurt Vonnegut
The process where food browns during cooking is known as the what reaction?
Maillard
The name given to the capitol of hell, which poet called John invented the word "pandemonium"?
John Milton
An anthropophaginian would more commonly be referred to as a what?
Cannibal
Such an impenetrably written novel that it's hard to find the "filth", which James Joyce novel was banned in the US and in Britain for most of the 1930s?
Ulysses
Raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the inspiration for the setting for his two most famous works, which author was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced"?
Mark Twain