Quiz 4: - themanwhofellasleep



Authors

1 Raymond Chandler

2 Iris Murdoch

3 Danielle Steele

4 Terry Pratchett

5 John Steinbeck

6 Will Self

7 Virginia Woolf

8 Ian Rankin

9 Nick Hornby

10 Ian Fleming

Round 2: Last lines (5 questions)

1 So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. – The Great Gatsby

2 The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. – Animal Farm

3 Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. – Gone With The Wind

4 For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate. – L’Etranger

5 He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was. – The Picture of Dorian Grey

Round 3: Trivia (10 questions)

1 Which author’s glasses were recently stolen at a book launch and held for ransom? Jonathan Franzen

2 Donna Tartt has published two novels. Name them both. The Little Friend, The Secret History

3 What nationality was author Jorge Luis Borges? Argentine

4 Which two books do castaways automatically receive on Desert island discs? The Bible and The Complete Works of Shakespeare

5 What is the name of the friendly faun in The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe? Mr Tumnus

6 What did Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis have in common, along with an unfortunate US President? They died on the same day, as well as JFK

7 French writer Sully Prudhomme was the first winner of what prize in 1901? The Nobel Prize for Literature

8 What was Charles Dicken’s first published novel? The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club)

9 The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker is set during which war? The First World War.

10 Which British poet spent 30 years working as a librarian in The University of Hull? Philip Larkin

Science Fiction (10 questions)

1 Which science fiction author first coined the term “Cyberspace”? William Gibson

2 Which Philip K Dick novel deals with a parallel world in which Germany and Japan won World War II? The Man In The High Castle

3 The Voices of Mars was written by which popular astronomer? Patrick Moore

4 In The Day of The Triffids, what causes the majority of the Earth’s population to go blind? A meteor shower

5 Which science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem has been filmed by both Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderburgh? Solaris

6 Which science fiction writer was responsible for 1959’s Starship Troopers? Robert Heinlein

7 What precious commodity makes the planet Arrakis so valuable? Spice

8 Which Margaret Atwood novel describes a dystopian future in which women are enslaved? The Handmaid’s Tale

9 In HG Well’s The War of the Worlds, from which planet do the alien invaders originate? Mars

10 The character of Billy Pilgrim was created by which science fiction writer? Kurt Vonnegut

Simon Trivia (10 questions)

1 What was the name of Quint’s boat in Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws? The Orca

2 In July 2010, who was announced as the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon's Kindle electronic bookstore? Stieg Larsson

3 What is the only play of Shakespeare with 'love' in its title? Love’s Labour Lost

4 Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese artist best known as the creator of which celebrated manga (anime) character? Akira

5 In literature, what were Vladimir and Estragon doing? Waiting For Godot

6 In the Bible, how many people went onto Noah's Ark? 8

7 What is the name of Caractacus Potts’ 12- cylinder, eight-litre, supercharged Paragon Panther? Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

8 Which novel opens: “It was 348 years, six months and 19 days ago today that the citizens of Paris were awakened by the pealing of all the bells in the triple precincts of the City, the University and the Town”? The Hunchback of Notredame

9 Which children’s author’s first book was Child Whispers? Enid Blyton

Detectives and creators

Father Brown – GK Chesterton

Batman – Bob Kane

Perry Mason – Erle Stanley Gardner

Easy Rawlins – Walter Mosley

Sam Spade – Dashiell Hammett

Adam Dalgliesh – P. D. James

Aurelio Zen – Michael Dibden

Nancy Drew – Carolyn Keene

Mike Hammer – Micky Spillane

John Rebus - Ian Rankin

Brontes

1 In which Yorkshire village did the Bronte sisters grow up and write the majority of their novels? Haworth

2 How old was Emily Bronte when she died? 30

3 Arrange the three literary Bronte sisters in order of age, from youngest to oldest. Charlotte Emily Anne

4 Which Indian-born popstar played Heathcliffe in a 1990s musical stage adaptation? Cliff Richard

5 What was Anne Bronte’s first novel? Agnes Grey

6 In 1966 a prequel to Jane Eyre was written by Jean Rhys. What was its title? The Wide Sargasso Sea

7 Which famous sentence begins chapter 38 of Jane Eyre? Reader, I married him

8 Which Charlotte Bronte novel was written before Jane Eyre but only published posthumously? The Professor

9 Who is the 14-year-old protagonist of Charlotte Bronte’s Vilette? Lucy Snowe

10 The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is a loose retelling of Jane Eyre and marked the debut of detective Thursday Next. Who wrote it? Jasper Fforde.

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