E: 01/01/2008 Win A Years Supply Of Books

catz747

Hope this hasn't been on

http://fifthestate.co.uk/booklover/

Help us celebrate the Perennial publication of Book Lover and test your own literary credentials by entering our quiz. Five lucky winners will each receive a set of 52 paperback books.

Can C&P answers from bottom of thread & enter via the form or by email. Don't forget to thank everyone else on the thread

1. Wooster is to Jeeves as:
A. Holmes is to Watson
B. Jekyll is to Hyde
C. Crusoe is to Friday:D
D. Rosencrantz is to Guildenstern

2. What was the first novel written on a typewriter?
A. David Copperfield
B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:D
C. A Farewell to Arms
D. Daniel Deronda
E. Treasure Island

<O:p</O:p
3. Who wrote an autobiography of Jesus?
A. John Updike
B. Saul Bellow
C. Norman Mailer:D
D. Philip Roth
E. John Irving

<O:p</O:p
4. After the Bible, what is the all-time bestseller?
A. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
B. Love Story
C. Gone with the Wind
D. The Little Red Book (Quotations of Mao Tse-tung):D
E. Mein Kampf

<O:p</O:p
5. Which writer has not had one of his works turned into a musical?
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Victor Hugo
C. Christopher Isherwood
D. Charles Dickens
E. Thomas Hardy:D

<O:p</O:p
6. In which book would you find Ents?
A. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
B. The Lord of the Rings:D
C. The Colour of Magic
D. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
E. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

<O:p</O:p
7. Match the literary work with the films below:
A. The Odyssey - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
B. Macbeth - Throne of Blood
C. Heart of Darkness - Apocalypse Now
D. Emma - Clueless

<O:p</O:p
8. Which reclusive author appears as him/herself in a Simpsons episode?
A. J. D. Salinger
B. Harper Lee
C. Thomas Pynchon:D
D. Salman Rushdie

<O:p</O:p
9. Who never wrote a work of science fiction?
A. H. G. Wells
B. Aldous Huxley
C. Doris Lessing
D. Ian Fleming:D
E. C. S. Lewis

<O:p</O:p
10. Match the title to the languages below in which each was originally published:
A. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow - Danish
B. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Czech
C. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Spanish
D. The Stranger - French
E. The Idiot - Russian

<O:p</O:p
</O:p
11. Who’s the odd one out?
A. Ruth Rendell
B. Pat Barker
C. P. D. James
D. Ellis Peters
E. Lindsey Davis

<O:p</O:p
12. Which of the following couples did not have a romantic relationship?
A. Zelda and Scott
B. Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin
C. Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
D. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
E. Katherine Mansfield and G. I. Gurdjieff:D

<O:p</O:p
13. Match the actors to the authors below they played :
A. Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade
B. Johnny Depp - Hunter S. Thompson
C. Joseph Fiennes - Shakespeare
D. Stephen Fry - Oscar Wilde
E. Himself - Robert Crumb

<O:p</O:p
<O:p</O:p
14. Who wrote This Boy’s Life?
A. Tobias Wolff:D
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Tom Wolfe
D. George Fox

<O:p</O:p
15. Which book starts with, ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’?
A. Portnoy’s Complaint
B. The Corrections
C. War and Peace
D. Anna Karenina:D

16. What is not the title of a book by V. S. Naipaul?
A. The Mystic Masseur
B. The Suffrage of ElviraC. A House for Mr Biswas
D. The Painter of Signs:D
E. A Turn in the South

<O:p</O:p
17. Who is the most prolific writer?
A. Margaret Drabble:D
B. Sarah Waters
C. Jane Austen
D. Toni Morrison
E. Emily Brontë

<O:p</O:p
18. Who wrote this first line: ‘Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold’?
A. John Keats:D
B. W. B. Yeats
C. Alfred Lord Tennyson
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
E. Andrew Motion

<O:p</O:p
19. Which writer has never won the Booker Prize?
A. Arundhati Roy
B. Antonia Byatt
C. Alan Hollinghurst
D. Martin Amis:D
E. John Banville

<O:p</O:p
20. Match the heroine with the Austen novels below:
A. Marianne - Sense and Sensibility
B. Fanny - Mansfield Park
C. Anne - Persuasion<O:p</O:p
D. Elizabeth - Pride and Prejudice
E. Catherine - Northanger Abbey


________________________________________________________________________


1. C. Crusoe is to Friday
2. B. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
3. C. Norman Mailer
4. D. The Little Red Book (Quotations of Mao Tse-tung)
5. E. Thomas Hardy
6. B. The Lord of the Rings
7.
A. The Odyssey - O Brother, Where Art Thou?<O:p</O:p
B. Macbeth - Throne of Blood<O:p</O:p
C. Heart of Darkness - Apocalypse Now<O:p</O:p
D. Emma - Clueless
8. C. Thomas Pynchon
<O:p9. D. Ian Fleming
10.</O:p
A. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow - Danish<O:p</O:p
B. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Czech<O:p</O:p
C. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Spanish<O:p</O:p
D. The Stranger - French<O:p</O:p
E. The Idiot - Russian<O:p</O:p
11. D. Ellis Peters
12. E. Katherine Mansfield and G. I. Gurdjieff
13.
A. Geoffrey Rush - The Marquis de Sade<O:p</O:p
B. Johnny Depp - Hunter S. Thompson<O:p</O:p
C. Joseph Fiennes - Shakespeare<O:p</O:p
D. Stephen Fry - Oscar Wilde<O:p</O:p
E. Himself - Robert Crumb
14. A. Tobias Wolff
15. D. Anna Karenina
16. D. The Painter Of Signs
17. A. Margaret Drabble
18. A. John Keats
19. D. Martin Amis
20.
A. Marianne - Sense and Sensibility<O:p</O:p
B. Fanny - Mansfield Park
C. Anne – Persuasion<O:p</O:p
D. Elizabeth - Pride and Prejudice<O:p</O:p
E. Catherine - Northanger Abbey

.
.
.
.Fill in the form or email: [EMAIL="editor&#64;fifthestate.co.uk"]editor@fifthestate.co.uk[/EMAIL]<O:p</O:p

SoozyJ22

I think 3 is Norman Mailer

clicky -

Perhaps it was inevitable that in this memoir-mad age, Norman Mailer, never a writer exactly known for his lack of hubris, would pen a novel in the form of an autobiography of Jesus

fraoch

Could the answer to 9 be Ian Fleming I don't think he ever wrote Sci-fi, and I think Toni Morrison is the answer to 17

catz747

fraoch wrote: »

Could the answer to 9 be Ian Fleming I don't think he ever wrote Sci-fi, and I think Toni Morrison is the answer to 17

I think Ian Fleming is right, how did you get to the Toni Morrison answer?

Gilla_2

I though Margaret Drabble was the answer to 17. According to Wki she's written 25 books to Toni Morrison's 22.

catz747

Number 11? Is Ellis Peters the only dead one?

josie301

Gilla wrote: »

I though Margaret Drabble was the answer to 17. According to Wki she's written 25 books to Toni Morrison's 22.

I was about to say Margaret Drabble as well - I remember a previous comp with some podcast with her in it

But it depends on what they mean by writer - do we include poetry???

Gilla_2

I think 12 is E.

Except from wiki 'In October 1922, Mansfield moved to George Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France, where she was under the care of Olgivanna Lazovitch Hinzenburg'.

Gilla_2

Could 11 be Pat Barker?

The rest seem to be crime writers of some kind or other.

catz747

Lol, I did 12

catz747

Gilla wrote: »

Could 11 be Pat Barker?

The rest seem to be crime writers of some kind or other.

No cause she's in the crime section on Amazon, I'm not sure if it's down to who is dead & alive, I think Ellis Peters is the only dead one but am not sure


Shall we go with Margaret Drabble for 17? Then I reckon we're all done