Friday 29 July 2011

Book Lovers' Quiz - July 2011

I regularly team up with fellow blogger and all round bibliophilic good egg Norfolk Bookworm to host a book quiz at the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.

For those who can't be there, those who just like testing their quizzing acumen, and those wanting to test the water before booking, here are the questions. (Answers are in white below the question: highlight the - apparently - blank space to see them) 

Enjoy! And good luck.
Round 1: Over the Rainbow

1)      Which author, best known for creating the character Jack Ryan, wrote Rainbow Six?
A: Tom Clancy
2)      Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City are set in which city?
A: San Fransisco
3)      Which doubting scientist wrote “Unweaving the Rainbow”?
A: Richard Dawkins
4)      Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories form the basis of which famous musical?
A: Caberet
5)      D H Lawrence wrote the novel The Rainbow in 1915, but what do the initials D H stand for?
A: David Herbert
6)      What is not the only fruit?
A: Oranges
7)      The daughter of which Irish Prime Minsiter wrote Where Rainbows End and PS I Love You?
A: Bertie Ahern
8)      The Oscar winning film Brokeback Mountain was originally short story by which author?
A: Annie Proulx
9)      Gravity’s Rainbow has been summarised as a “a blizzard of references to science, history, high culture and the lowest of jokes” Who wrote it?
A: Thomas Pynchon
10)  Who wrote the poem that starts “My Heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky”
A: Wordsworth
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Round 2: Here, There, and Everywhere

1 –  What is the name of Sebastian Flyte’s palatial home in Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel?
A: Brideshead
2 - Which two places connect Dickens Tale of Two Cities with Orwell’s Down and Out?
A: London and Paris 
3 – In which city is the first of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brody Case Histories novels set?
A: Cambridge
4 – Bruce Chatwin’s 1980s bestseller, The Songlines, is about which country?
A: Australia
5 – From where do the pilgrims depart in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?
A: Southwark
6 -  What is the capital of hell as described in John Milton’s ’Paradise Lost’?
A: Pandaemonium
7 - In the first Winnie the Pooh book Christopher Robin leads an expedition (or expotition as he puts it) to find which well-known geographical location?
A: The North Pole
8: Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer prize winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is partially set in which Caribbean country, whose history is paralleled with that of Middle Earth?
A: Dominican Republic
9. What is the name of the other house in the Wuthering Heights estate, formerly the home of the Linton family?
A: Thrushcross Grange
10 - Which author wrote about the fictional region of Wessex?
A: Thomas Hardy


Round 3: Trees

1 - What tree do Harry and Ron fly a Ford Anglia into in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
A: Whomping willow
2 - In which New York suburb does a tree grow according to the author Betty Smith?
A: Brooklyn
3 - Where do Moonface, Silky, dame Washalot and the Saucepan-Man live?
A: The Magic Farway Tree
4 - According to the Arabian legend which tree was plucked up by the devil who then thrust its branches into the earth and left its roots in the air?
A: The Baobab
5 - The dryads were the nymphs of the forest according to Greek mythology but which Goddess were they the companions of?
A: Artmeis
6 - Which fruit tree orchard features in the title of a play by Chekhov?
A: The Cherry
7 - Which play is set in the imaginary village of Llareggub?
A: Under Milk Wood
8 - What are the sentient trees known as in Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings?
A: Ents
9 - When the Greenwoods Laugh is the 4th book featuring the Larkin family by which author?
A:  H.E Bates
10 - Who had a Little House in the Big Woods?
A: Laura Ingalls Wilder



Round 4: Sport

1 – Which French author, who played goalkeeper for Racing Universitaire d’Alger Junior Team in the 1920’s, later said:
“After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport.”
A: Albert Camus
2 – Joseph O’Neill’s Richard and Judy selected book Netherland features attempts to introduce which sport back to America?
A: Cricket
3 - In his 1975 biography, what did Muhammed Ali claim he did with the Gold Medal he won at the 1960 Rome Olympics?
A: Throw it in a river
4 – What blight on sport is satirised in the 12th Asterix comic, Asterix at the Olympic Games ?
A: The use of performance enhancing drugs
5 – David Peace’s novel, The Damned Utd, recently made into a film staring Michael Sheen, is about which famous football manager
A: Brian Clough
6 – Which athletic pursuit unites books by Alan Sillitoe and Haruki Murakami?
A: (Long distance) Running
7 – David Storey’s masterful novel This Sporting Life, is about which ball game?
A: Rugby League (half a point for Rugby)
8 – Obsession with which football team does Nick Hornby chronicle in Fever Pitch?
A: Arsenal
9 – Which year was the last Olympic Games that awarded medals for art competitions including literature?
A: 1948 - London
10 - In which of Shakespeare's plays does the Dauphin taunt the king of England with a gift of tennis balls, intended to suggest the king's idleness and youth?
A: King Henry V


Table Round 1
Double Acts
Can you name the main character (1/2 point) and the author who created them (1/2 point) for all the below

Eg. 
---------- Juliet -----------
would be
Romeo – Juliet – William Shakespeare

 

1)     Sherlock Holmes        Doctor Watson        Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2)     Vladamir                     Estragon                  Samuel Beckett
3)     Rosencrantz                Guildenstern            William Shakespeare/Tom Stoppard
4)     Don Quixote               Sancho Panza            Miguel de Cervantes
5)     Mr Pickwick               Sam Weller               Charles Dickens
6)     Hercule Poirot           Arthur Hastings      Agatha Christie
7)     Bambi                           Thumper                 Felix Saltern
8)     Charlie Brown             Snoopy                     Charles M Schulz
9)     Andrew Dalziel          Peter Pascoe            Reginald Hill
10)   Dorothy Gale              Toto                          L Frank Baum
11)   Bertie Wooster           Reginald Jeeves      PG Wodehouse
12)   Endeavour Morse     Robbie Lewis          Colin Dexter
13)   Tarzan (or GreystokeJane Porter               Edgar Rice Burrows
14)   Beatrice                       Benedick                  William Shakespeare
15)   Scarlett O’Hara          Rhett Butler             Margaret Mitchell
16)   Anne Shirley              Gilbert Blythe         LM Montgomery
17)   Santiago                      Manalo                     Ernest Hemingway
18)   Arthur Dent                Ford Prefect            Douglas Adams
19)   Tintin                           Snowy                      Herge
20)   Calvin                          Hobbes                    Bill Watterson

1)        


A:
Book Title: The Hobbit

Author: JRR Tolkein
   
 
2)        

A:
Book Title: Treasure Island

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

3)        

A:
Book/Series Title: Oz

Author: Frank L Baum


4)        

A:
Book Title: Gulliver’s Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift


5)        

A:
Book Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: George Orwell


6)
           

A:
Book Title: The Handmaid’s Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood


7)        

A:
Series Title: The Hunger Games
                
Author: Suzanne Collins


8)         
A:
Book Title:  The Odyssey
                
Author: Homer


9)         
A:
Book Title: The Lord of the Flies
                
Author: William Golding


10)      

A:
Book Title: Candide
                
Author: Voltaire



11)      

A:
Series Title: Thomas the Tank Engine
                
Author(s): Rev W Awdry and his son, Christopher (either scores the point)

12)      

A:
Series Title: Harry Potter
                
Author(s): JK Rowling


13)      

A:
Book Title: Utopia
                
Author: Thomas More




14)      

A:
Series Title: A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones accepted)
                
Author: George R R Martin




15)          

A:
Book Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
                
Author: Jules Verne


16)      

A:
Book Title: Swallows and Amazons
                
Author: Arthur Ransome


17)      

A:
Series Title: Narnia
                
Author: CS Lewis


18)      
A:
Book Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
                
Author: Mark Twain


19)   
A:
Series Title: Discworld
                
Author: Terry Pratchett


20)      

A:
The Dreamlands feature in a number of books by this author, but there is no single series title. So for this final question you need name only the author:
HP Lovecraft

3 comments:

Ondrej from James Patterson Book List said...

If this is all your work, it must have been tremendously hard to put it together, you have my respect.

louise said...

Great quiz - did very badly in the maps round then kicked myself at not getting some of them. Thankfully I did get the Marauder's Map right.

Minnie said...

Huge fun to do - must have been fun to compile (as well as taxing)!
Now off to brush up on woeful ignorance in the matter of trees ...