LITERARY FESTIVALHOUSE QUIZ

2014 (ANSWERS)

1.Guess the book title

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

2. Guess the book titleItch Rocks by Simon Mayo

3. Guess the book title

Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman

4. Guess the book title

Cat Among the Pigeons by Julia Golding OR Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

5. What does Eeyore put in the empty honey pot that Pooh gives him as a birthday present?

Eeyore by E.H. Shepard

A burst red balloon from Piglet

6. In After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross what does the nurse demand as payment for treating Taco?Uncooked rice

7.I Am Number Four, The Power of Six, The Rise of Nine and The Fall of Five are part of what series?The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore

Each missing title or author includes the name of a bird

TITLE AUTHORWhere Eagles Dare Alistair MacLeanSwallows & Amazons Arthur Ransome

Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan SwiftOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey

The Pelican Brief John GrishamLark Rise to Candleford Flora ThompsonThe Owl and the Pussycat Edward Lear

Royal Assassin Robin Hobb

The Crow Road Iain Banks

The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Anderson

TITLE AUTHOR

8. WED AM

9. SAA AR

10. GT JS

11. OFOTCN KK

12. TPB JG

13. LRTC FT

14. TOATP EL

15. RA RH

16. TCR IB

17. TUD HCA

18. Which playwright is the only person to have won an Academy Award (an Oscar) and the Nobel Prize for Literature?George Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for

Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award in 1938 for the screenplay of his play Pygmalion.

19. Which author is due to replace Charles Darwin on the Bank of England £10 note in 2017?

19.Jane Austen will replace Darwin on £10 notes

20. Name the central characters who attend these fictional educational establishments:a.) Neil Armstrong Comprehensive

b.) Yancey Academy

c.) St. Custard’s d.) Ribblestrop

e.) Brakebills Illustration by Ronald Searle

Adrian Mole

Percy Jackson

Nigel Molesworth

Sam Tack

Quentin Coldwater

21. In which books do these adults appear?a.) Mrs Coulter

b.) Miss Lupescu

c.) Mr Pendanski

d.) Mr Scruton

e.) Miss Honey

Illustration by Quentin Blake

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend

Matilda by Roald Dahl

22. In which American city is Veronica Roth’s Divergent novel set?

CHICAGO

23. What was the name of Frodo’s mother in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings?

Tolkien’s artwork for The Hobbit. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/nov/29/jrr-tolkien-fine-modern-artist (Accessed: 23 April 2014)

Primula Brandybuck (maiden name) or Primula Baggins

24. Which Shakespeare play was Samuel Pepys passing judgement on?

A Midsummer

Night’s Dream

Titania and Bottom by John Anster Fitzgerald. Available at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titania_and_Bottom_John_Anster_Fitzgerald.JPG (Accessed: 23 April 2014)

25. Which novel begins with this sentence:

‘Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.’?

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

26. Which novel ends with this sentence:

‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’?

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

27. Which writer’s heart, which was being buried separately from the rest of him, was rumoured to have been stolen by a naughty cat?Thomas Hardy

Novelist and poet who wrote The Mayor Of Casterbridge and Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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