Vtg quiz world book day 2014 answers

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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/

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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

19. Making History by Stephen Fry

20. Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman

21. Starter for Ten by David Nicholls

22. Allegiant by Veronica Roth

23. Hello Darkness by Anthony McGowan

24. Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street

25. Sylvia Plath

26. Tom Hiddleston

27. Emma Watson

28. Ethan Hawke

29. President Barack Obama when he was young

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