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Quiz 2010

 1  2009 best sellers complete + author

 

1 The Lost

2 When will there be

3 Girl with the Dragon

4 the Time Traveller’s

5 The Suspicions of Mr

6 A Thousand Splendid

7 A Most Wanted

8 The White

9  My Sisters

10 The Audacity of

 

 

2 Bible and Shakespeare

 

Complete the following phrases and put S for Shakespeare and B for the Bible

1) A Stranger in a Strange   

2) Wheels Within 

3) All that glisters is not

4) Unleash the Dogs of 

5) The blind leading the

6) A still small 

7) How sharper than a serpents tooth to have a

8) The writing on the

9) How the mighty are 

10) the evil that men do lives

11) a tower of

12) A fly in the

13) a lamb to the 

14) for goodness’ 

15) Salt of the

16) a voice crying in the 

17) neither rhyme nor

18) the skin of your 

19) out of the mouths of

20) a two-edged 

21) pride goes before a

22) the be all and

23) the milk of human 

24) eat, drink and be

25) to thine own self be

26) the spirit is willing but the flesh is

27) who lives by the sword shall die by the 

28) new wine in old 

      29) Put your House in

30) pomp and 

 

 

 

 

3 Cult Classics

 

Complete the following cult classic titles and name author

 

1)      If on a Winters Night ……

2)         The Celestine …..

3)      The Alexandria  ……

4)      The Chariot of the Gods: Was God …….

5)      A Confederacy of….

6)       Dianetics: the modern science of……

7)      The Electric Kool Aid

8)      I capture the….

9)      The Master and

10)   Fear and Loathing in….

11)  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maitenance: An inquiry into…

12)   Thus Spoke

13)  The Teachings of Don Juan: a Jacqui way of ….

14)  How to win friends and

15)  The Ragged Trousered

 

 

4 Translations

In which languages did the following writers do their original work. (including English)

 

Patrick Susskind (Perfume)

S.E.Sebald

Michel Houellebecq

Perez Reverte

Stieg Larrson

Kazio Ishaguro

Umberto Eco

Carl Hiasson

Milan Kundera

Tami Hoeg

Marina Lowecka

Alaa Al Aswany

Khaled Hosseini

      Per Peterson

Haruki Murakami

Anita Desai

Gabriel García Márquez,

      Kurt Vonnegut

Hanif Kureishi

Henning Mankell

     Orfan Pamuk

 

 

5 Superheroes

 

1)Name the alter egos of the following

 

Peter Parker

Tony Stark

Dr. Bruce Banner

Bruce Wayne

Clark Kent

Benjamin Jacob "Ben" Grimm)

Norrin Radd

 

 

 2 Galactacus (AKA the devourer of worlds) has a herald named Silver Surfer. What is his power called  Telekinesis/ Photon Blasts/ Power Cosmic/ Cosmos Bursts

 

3 Which robot was powerful enough to break the Hulk’s leg

Super-Adaptoid/ Impact / ULTRON/ MODOK

 

4 Which Superhero tried to join the Fantastic Four early in his career?

Ant Man/ Spider Man/ Beast/ Daredevil

 

5 What is the name of Thor’s hammer?

Cytorak/ Mjolnir/ Mallet of Argard/ Protector of Midgard

 

6 Which Super villain killed Spider Man’s first love?

Rhino/Green Goblin/Lizard/Venom

 

7 which superhero didn’t acquire their powers by accident?

Storm/ The Thing/ Spider Man/ The Hulk

 

8) He is, and always has been, the arch-nemesis of Superman, but in recent years, he has undergone a transformation from a mad scientist to a corporate mogul:

Lex Luther/Brainiac/ Dr Doom/Metallo

 

6 Books that changed the way we look at the World

 

Who wrote the following? One is fictitious – from which novel?

 

1          An Essay Concerning Human Understanding  

2          A Critique of Pure Reason                                

3          The Interpretation of Dreams                           

4          Tractatus Logico-philosophicus                        

5          The Key to all Mythologies 

6          Rights of Man                       

7          Man and his Symbols   

8          On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres  

9          The Principea  Mathematica 

10        The Wealth of Nations       

11        The Prince

12       The Second Sex                   

13        Understanding Media

14       Relativity                          

15        Reflections on the French Revolution  

16        The Golden Bough 

17        A Vindication of the Rights of Women           

18        Married Love

19       The Art of War                           

20       A Brief History of Time

                       

             

Charles Dickens. Which books feature the following characters?

 

1          Mr Jaggers                            

2          Mr Pecksniff                        

3          Daniel Quilp                       

4          John Jarndyce                     

5          Sir Mulberry Hawk              

6          Mr Brownlow                       

7          Dr Manette Charles Darney   

8          Mr Micawber                        

 

 

Sherlock Holmes.

1          Which Sherlock Holmes collection of short stories is missing?

 

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

His Last Bow

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

        

2          What is Sherlock Holmes address?

       

3          What is the name of Sherlock Holmes older brother?

         

4          Who is the Napoleon of Crime?

 

5          In what publication did the Sherlock Holmes stories appear?

       

6       What was Sherlock Holmes occupation in retirement?

 

 

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Quiz 2009

1. From whose imaginations came these pubs and bars

The Midnight Bell
The Potwell Inn
The Moon Under Water
Sailors Arms
The Admiral Benbow
Pomereys Wine Bar
The Leaky Cauldron
The Green Dragon at Bywater
The Anglers Rest

2. Whose lives are presented? 

Summoned by Bells
My Booky Wook
The Two of Us
Dreams from my Father
Experience
Wild Swans
An Evil Cradling
Things have Got to get Better
Angela’s Ashes
Bad Blood
Moab Is My Washpot
As I walked out one Midsummer Morning
My Family and other Animals
When Did you last see your Father?
It’s not about the Bike

3. Link the quotations to their authors:

A Handful of Dust	Shakespeare
Things fall Apart	Robbie Burns
The Darling Buds of May	Thomas Gray
Tender is the Night	W. B. Yeats
Brave New World	John Keats
Vanity Fair	Conan Doyle
The Road Less Traveled	Shakespeare
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Nighttime	John Donne
Of Mice and Men	Shakespeare
Under the Greenwood Tree	John Bunyon
His Dark Materials	Shakespeare
Band of Brothers	T. S. Eliot
The Dogs of War	Robert Frost
For Whom the Bell Tolls	John Milton
Far from the Madding Crowd	Shakespear

4. Which author didn't make the bestseller chart?

Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Damon Runyon
T. S. Eliot
Victor Hugo
Gaston Leroux
George Bernard Shaw

5. The top-selling paperback fiction title in the UK last week was My Sister's Keeper.  Who wrote it and how many copies were sold in the week?

126,992
62,992
26,992
2,699

6. The top-selling paperback non-fiction title in the UK last week was At My Mother's Knee.  Who wrote it and how many copies sold in the week?

111,150
50,111
11,150
1,150

7. Where are these detectives based?

Inspector Morse
Wycliffe
Nick Stephanos, Derek Strange, Terry Quinn
Rebus
Maigret
Maura Isles
Commissario Guido Brunetti
Charlie Resnick
Kurt Wallender
Philip Marlowe
Dalziel & Pascoe
Kinsey Millhone
Easy Rawlins
V. I. Warshawski
Elvis Cole
Alex Cross
Joe Leaphon / Jim Chee
Inspector Erlander

8. Which of the following books are fiction?

Winter in Madrid
The Accidental Tourist
A Parrot in a Pepper Tree
No Country for Old Men
Rural Rides
The Sheltering Sky
Waterland
McCarthy's Bar
The Road to Oxiana
Long Way Round
Stamboul Train
Lake Woebegon Days
Tortilla Flat
Eothen
London Fields
Orlando
A Time of Gifts
English Passengers
A Walk in the Woods
Skating to Antarctica

9. Which is the odd one out?

Geoffrey Ashe
Thomas Malory
J. R. Tolkein
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Geoffrey of Monmouth
T. H. White

10. From which countries came the following winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Doris Lessing
Boris Pasternak
Derek Walcott
Pablo Nerruda
Patrick White
Wole Soyinka
Nadine Godimer
Dario Fo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Elfriede Jelinck
Orhan Pamuk
Ralindranath Tagore
Knut Hansun
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Mann
Hermann Hesse
Toni Morrison
Andre Gide

11. Who are these people better known as?

Eric Blair
Mary Ann Evans
Samuel Clements
Charles Dodgson
Ellis Bell
Currer Bell
Joseph Torzeniowski
Nicky French

12. Who created the following animal characters?

Dinah
Bullseye
Jumble
Fluffy
Montmorency
Scamper
Shadowfax
Argos
White Fang
Snowy

13. Which writers created the following action heroes?

Captain Flint
Athos, Porthos and Aramis
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Tarzan
Phileas Fogg
Richard Sharpe
Carruthers
Richard Hannay
Professor Challenger
Jack Aubrey
Alan Quartermain
Alex Rider


14. A round about Time!  Which is the odd one out?

Hogfather
Saturday
100 Years of Solitude
Under the Volcano
Intimacy
Ulysses
Colorado Kid
The Light of Day
Mrs. Dalloway
The Da Vinci Code

15. Which of the following are fiction titles?

The Pencil: a History
A True History of the Kelly Gang
Zen in the Art of Flower Arranging
Zen in the Art of Archery
Do Polar Bears get Lonely?
The Joy of Chickens
The Consolations of Philosophy
The Pursuit of Happiness
Who Moved My Cheese?
How to Cheat at Cooking
The Constant Gardener
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Hawksmoor
How to Avoid Huge Ships
Restoration
Eminent Victorians
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
The Yacoubian Building
The Buildings of England
Why Buildings Fall Down
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Field Guide to FieldIdentification
A History of the World in 10 and a half chapters
A Short History of Everything
The Fat Man in History
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Highlights in the History of Concrete
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
Talk to the Hand
The Cloud Spotters Guide
The Male Cross Dressers Support Group
Women who run with the wolves

16. Who created the following characters?

Dorothy, Lion, the Tin Man
Julian, Dick, Anne and George
Bella Swann
Meg Jo Beth Amy
William Douglas Ginger Henry
Mole, Ratty
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis
Billy Bunter
Jim Hawkins, Captain Flint
Tigger, Eeyore
Snow White
The Happy Prince
The Little Mermaid
The Iron Man
Mowgli, Ricci Tikki Tavi, Bagheera
Mr Jeremy FisherMrs Tiggy Winkle
The Walrus and the Carpenter
The Owl and the Pussycat
Thomas, Henry, James, Percy & Toby
Peter, Lucy, Edmund

17. Who created the following children's books?Two needed some help, who helped?

The Enormous Crocodile
Gorilla
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Tale of Jeremy Fisher
The Snowman
Swallows and Amazons
Where the Wild Things Are
Princess Smartypants
When we were Very Young
The Hungry Caterpillar

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