1. What is the first line of the Hogwarts’ School Song?Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts.
2. Hilary Mantel’s books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the
Bodies, were dramatised this season at The Swan
Theatre. Who is the central character in both books?Thomas
Cromwell
3. What do the crew hang around the neck of the Ancient Mariner in the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? The body of the dead albatross
4. ‘Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.’This is the opening line of which book?A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
5. This author has written three books in the last few years that begin with the same two letters – who is he?Monsters of MenA Monster CallsMore Than This by Patrick Ness
6. Yassen Gregorovich completed his Scorpio training on which island?Malagosto in Venice
7. What insulting name do ‘Crosses’ use to describe ‘Noughts’ in Malorie Blackman’s book? Blankers
8. Which literary character’s first word to whom are ‘How are you?’ You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.’?(Name BOTH characters) Sherlock Holmes to Doctor John Watson
9. On what date did our new, temporary library open?Tuesday 15 January 2013
10. What is the first line of Virgil’s Aeneid? (In English or in Latin)Arma virumque cano …I sing of warfare and a man at war …Of men and weapons, I sing …Arms, and the man I sing, who forced by fate …Any of the above
11. Name the playwright who took some of these words as the title of one of his plays.George Bernard Shaw ‘Arms and the Man’
12. Anne Frank, Jeff Kinney, Sue Townsend, George and Weedon Grossmith and Alexie Sherman have all written books with the same word in the title. What is that word? Diary
13. Robert Muchamore, Michael Morpurgo, Mark Walden, Bernard Cornwell and Paul Brickhill have all written books with the same word in the title. What is that word? Escape
14. Sally Gardner, Alan Garner, Stephenie Meyer, M.G. Harris and John Meade Falkner have all written books with the same word in the title. What is that word? Moon
15. According to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, what is the Earth? A giant supercomputer
16. A famous line from Macbeth is the title of a book by Ray Bradbury? What is it? Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Witches from a 1983 production. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/standard/english/macbeth/witches/revision/1/
(Accessed: 2 March 2014)
17. Name the books (not just the series) in which these characters appear:
Bertha Mason (this character appears in two books by different authors. There will be a mark for each one.) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Vladimir Obidin The Fall by Robert Muchamore
Cassandra Mortmain I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
What are the TITLES of these books?
(Please put the full title and not just the series)
18. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
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