trivia night: can you answer my awesome questions?

My family totally bagged out and failed me on my Tom-Sawyerish move to get them to come up with trivia questions for our school's annual trivia night (which I organized). Pooh pooh to them. Let's see how many of the questions that I slaved over they can answer...

First up, the literature category! Caillebault chocolates for the most correct answers sent to me at my hotmail address (my first name underscore my last initial at hotmail dot com).

LITERATURE

In which Jane Austen novel does Lady Catherine de Burgh say, “There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

Two Indian-born authors have won Nobel Prizes for Literature. Who are they?

Name one of the top-selling books in the United States in 2008. Hint: Three of them were written by the same person.

Which advice-offering chapter of the Old Testament suggests “Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those who have heavy hearts.” (Chapter only, not verse)

In which Shakespeare play does the love-sick Count Orsino say “If music is the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.”

Which American novel, published in 1852, was the first to sell a million copies?

The world's largest book has 1460 pages. Each page is 3 ½ feet wide, 5 feet tall, 5 inches thick, and is made of marble. In which country is this sacred Buddhist text located?

Which troubled, usually blonde but occasionally bald, American pop princess said, “Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about the things I stress about.”

What is the name of Euclid's famous text on geometry, which was first set in type in 1482 and is second only to the Bible in number of editions published?

Name the book that was recently made into a film starring Johnny Depp, and which opened with the line: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold”?

Game on!

[Delhi-3-October-2009]