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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