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16/1 £50 book tokens and goody bag

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3079108.ece

there's a quiz to answer

1a. Othello by William Shakespeare
b. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning
c = Enderby Trilogy
d = Native Son
e = Alms for Oblivion

2a "Christabel" Samuel Taylor Coleridge answer = The night is chilly but not dark
b. "Essay on Man" Alexander Pope - ans = man is not a fly
c. "Stealing" Carol Ann Duffy - ans = a snowman
d. "The Ghost" Walter de la Mare - ans = I who was beautiful
e. "The Hill" Edgar Lee Masters - ans = all, all are sleeping on the hill

3a Persuasion by Jane Austen
b Cats Eye - Margaret Atwood
c A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
d = The Winters Tale
e Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4a. John Donne
4b. Joseph Conrad
4c. Alexander Pope
4d. E M Forster
4e. F Scott Fitzgerald

5a) Gryngolet? Sir Gawain<O></O>
b) Harkaway? George Sherston
c) Capilet? Sir Andrew
d) Mesrour? Edward Fairfax <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:CITY><ST1>Rochester
</ST1:CITY>e) The Pie? Velvet Brown


6 a = (fictional female) Mary Grath, Novel = Middlemarch
6b. Sandy Stranger (Sister Helena), novel = The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6c. Jane Symons, novel = The Remains Of The Day
6d. Daisy Perowne, novel = Saturday
6e. Violet Wechsler, novel = What I Loved

7 a = William Wordsworth
7 b = The Blessed Damozel
7 c = Robert Stewart (Viscount Castlereagh)
7 d - in Nightmare Abbey(by T L Peacock) - Scythorp Glowry sells only 7 copies ???
7 e = Burbank

8 a = Edward Thomas
8 b = Anthony Burgess
8 c = James Boswell
8 d = Anne Bronte
8 e = Lord Byron

9b WALDEN Or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau
9 c = Eustacia (In the return of the native,book 3, chapter 3)
9d Bad Sir Brian Botany” in When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne
9 e = James Stevens (The Butler in The Remains Of The Day)

10a Mathias in "The Bells" by Leopold Lewis
10 b = A London Zoo Keeper (in a book called "The Old Men At The Zoo" by Angus Wilson)
10 c Zenas
10 d = Esmeralda (From The Wasp Factory)


11.a) a) Mrs. Stoke-d'Urberville in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
11.b) Captain Whalley in Joseph Conrad's "End of the Tether"
11.c) Gloucester, addressed by Lear in King Lear
11.d) Blind Pew in Treasure Island
11.e) Robert in Raymond Carver's story "Cathedral"


12c. Frank Crutchley (Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy L Sayers)

12e Room with a View - E M Forster (Lucy Honeychurch)


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13 a = Philip Larkin
13 b = The Convict (in Great Expectations)
13 c = Tom & Huck (in Huckleberry finn)
13d? - Lady brenda last (A handful of dust, Evelyn Waugh)

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14 b = Samuel Johnson
14 c. Oscar Wilde wrote this, Lady Bracknell speaks about Lady Dumbleton in The Importance Of Being Earnest (3rd Act).
14 d = Marianne Dashwood
14 e Prince Alexander (matthew Arnold's "tristram and Iseult")

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15 a = Hard Times
15 b = The Nebuly Coat
15 c = A Passage To India
15 d = Late Call
15 e = Our Town

<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->16 a) "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy
b) "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams
c Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
d) "1984" by George Orwell
e) "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne

17.a) Mr Squeers in Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
17.b) Eve, in Marianne Moore's "Marriage"

17.d) Lady Carlotta (pretending to be a governess named Miss Hope) in Saki's story "The Schartz-Metterklume Method"
17.e) “Several languages did understand / But now lay sick and speechless on his pillow”?
The tutor Pedrillo in Lord Byron's "Don Juan"



18 c) "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year" by George Gordon, Lord Byron

e) "The Lotus-Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson


19 a) "The Lodger" by Marie Belloc Lowndes
b) "Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard" by Thomas Hardy (poem), in "Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses"
c) "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
d) "Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper" by Donald Henderson ??
e) "The Black Prince" by Iris Murdoch ??


20 b) "Put Out More Flags" by Evelyn Waugh<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

20 d - Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders




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please check me as I've tried to put all the answers together

was looking for herr doktor and found this - save you looking at these books
http://www.amazon.com/phrase/Herr-Doktor/ref=cap_top_0/104-1544397-4403901
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"Every day when I wake up I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews
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  • lilias
    lilias Posts: 7,902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    2e ) <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=center><TBODY><TR><TD align=left>Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,</TD><TD vAlign=top align=right>[SIZE=-2] 10[/SIZE]</TD></TR><TR><TD align=left>The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?—</TD><TD vAlign=top align=right>[SIZE=-2] [/SIZE]</TD></TR><TR><TD align=left>All, all, are sleeping on the hill.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
  • lilias
    lilias Posts: 7,902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    11.c) was addressed by his monarch as “Blind Cupid”?

    Gloucester, addressed by Lear in King Lear
  • lilias
    lilias Posts: 7,902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    11. e) watched a television programme about cathedrals?

    Think that this is Robert in Raymond Carver's story "Cathedral"
  • moonberry
    moonberry Posts: 338 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    I had a go at section 5 - using the internet of course - so someone will need to check I'm right!

    5 Who owned or rode a horse called
    <o></o>
    a) Gryngolet? Sir Gawain<o></o>

    b) Harkaway? George Sherston

    c) Capilet? Sir Andrew

    d) Mesrour? Edward Fairfax <st1:city><st1>Rochester

    </st1></st1:city>e) The Pie? Velvet Brown
  • lilias
    lilias Posts: 7,902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    11.d) was trampled to death by a horse

    Think this is Blind Pew in Treasure Island
  • BREX
    BREX Posts: 4,283 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    3 c A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

    3 e Alice in Wonderland ny Lewis Carroll

    9b WALDEN Or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau

    9d Bad Sir Brian Botany” in When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne
    Thanks to all comp posters:A
    Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive
  • lilias
    lilias Posts: 7,902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    11.b) captained a ship

    can only find Captain Whalley in Joseph Conrad's "End of the Tether"
  • 1 c = Enderby Trilogy
    1 d = Native Son
    1 e = Alms for Oblivion

    3 d = The Winters Tale

    6 a = (fictional female) Mary Grath, Novel = Middlemarch

    7 a = William Wordsworth
    7 b = The Blessed Damozel
    7 c = Robert Stewart (Viscount Castlereagh)
    7 e = Burbank

    8 a = Edward Thomas
    8 b = Anthony Burgess
    8 c = James Boswell
    8 d = Anne Bronte
    8 e = Lord Byron

    9 c = Eustacia (In the return of the native,book 3, chapter 3)
    9 e = James Stevens (The Butler in The Remains Of The Day)

    10 b = A London Zoo Keeper (in a book called "The Old Men At The Zoo" by Angus Wilson)

    13 a = Philip Larkin
    13 b = The Convict (in Great Expectations)
    13 c = Tom & Huck (in Huckleberry finn)

    14 b = Samuel Johnson
    14 d = Marianne Dashwood

    15 a = Hard Times
    15 b = The Nebuly Coat
    15 c = A Passage To India
    15 d = Late Call
    15 e = Our Town

    16 a = Tess of the d'Urbervilles
    16 d = Nineteen Eighty-Four

    18 a = Samuel Beckett ?

    20 d = The Woodlanders
    Best wins
    Signed Michael Owen shirt(£350)~MinaUK Voucher(£200)~Selection of cooking books(£192.06)~Various books(£176.91)~Case of wine & 21 books(£176.73)
    May '08...Alvin & the Chipmunks DVD
    Comping since Nov '07 prize total = £1625.15 :hello:
  • LizB62
    LizB62 Posts: 5,230 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    1a. Othello by William Shakespeare
    1b. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning

    Section 4 - I think they just want the author of the quote?
    4a. John Donne
    4b. Joseph Conrad
    4c. Alexander Pope
    4d. E M Forster
    4e. F Scott Fitzgerald

    6b. Sandy Stranger (Sister Helena), novel = The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    6c. Jane Symons, novel = The Remains Of The Day
    6d. Daisy Perowne, novel = Saturday
    6e. Violet Wechsler, novel = What I Loved

    Off to bed I think :)
    Best win ever: Trip to the Galapagos Islands in 2010
  • lilias
    lilias Posts: 7,902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    17.a) Mr Squeers in Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
    17.b) Eve, in Marianne Moore's "Marriage"
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