Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 7637 Birthday: 7th July
Location: Shropshire
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject:
I haven't peeked at the answers yet, so here are my attempts at answers:
Spoiler:
1. Guess: stocking?
2. Guess: no idea!
3. Derbyshire?
4. Guess: chocolate?
5. Guess: Montagues & Capulets?
6. Blue so he'd be disguised as a cloud floating along
7. Currer or Ellis Bell
8.
9.
10. Who
11. 3??
12.
13. don't remember
14. who
15. Edmund, Peter, Lucy and Susan
16. aaah the guy who shot John Lennon reckoned the novel inspired him to do so. Something like that.
17. Kate Bush
18.
19. She was suffering from breast cancer.
20. Rats?
21. Yes, the business of tunnelling underground - had no idea about that.
_________________ Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 4137 Birthday: 12th December
Location: Cumbria
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject:
Not done too well this time
Spoiler:
1. Gum and Indian-head pennies
2. Gerald
3. Hampshire
4. don’t know
5. Bolkonsky and Rostov (Trying to read this for a while, have finished book one)
6. don’t know
7. Currer Bell
8. Translate languages
9. don’t know
10. don’t know
11. 7
12. Heil, Puccini
13. some sort of animal
14. Abel
15. Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Susan
16. Did his killer say the book told him to kill him?
17. Kate Bush
18. don’t know
19. She thought she was ill and dying of a brain tumour.
20. Rats
21. I’ve read this 3 times but can’t remember.
1. In a tree trunk
2. Gerald
3. Hampshire??
4. - (it's been years since I've read it!)
5. Rostov and Bolkolnsky
6. -
7. Currer Bell
8. When it is stuck in your ear, it translates any language so that you can understand it
9. No idea - I'll guess at Hogwarts?
10. -
11. 9
12. Heil Puccini
13. -
14. Abel
15. Peter and Edmund, Susan and Lucy
16. John Lennon's killer, Mark Chapman was obsessed with The Catcher In The Rye, and thought he was Holden Caulfield
17. Kate Bush
18. Dolce means sweet, but I don't know what Domum means
19. Because she had terminal cancer
20. Rats
Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 7637 Birthday: 7th July
Location: Shropshire
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject:
Here are the answers:
1. In what does Boo Radley leave his gifts for the children in To Kill a Mockingbird? A hole in a tree
2. What is the first name of Scarlett O'Hara's father? Gerald
3. In which county is Pemberley? Derbyshire
4. What food is Amy in Little Women particularly fond of trading? Pickled limes
5. Name two families who feature in War and Peace. Bolkonsky, Rostov, Bezukhovs (any two)
6. What colour balloon does Pooh choose to help him get the honey and why? Blue, so that he looks like a cloud in the sky
7. Under what pseudonym did Charlotte Bronte publish Jane Eyre? Currer Bell
8. What does a Babel fish do in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? It translates from one spoken language to another
9. Who wins the Quidditch World Cup? Ireland
10. What does Milo Minderbinder do? He controls a black-market syndicate and is also a mess-officer (one or both ok)
11. How many books are there within The Lord of the Rings? 6
12. What is Captain Corelli's version of 'Heil Hitler'? Heil Puccini
13. In His Dark Materials, what does Lyra's daemon settle as? Pine-Marten
14. What is a Magwitch's first name? Abel
15. Who are the two Sons of Adam and the two Daughters of Eve? Edmund, Peter, Lucy & Susan
16. What is the link between John Lennon and The Catcher in the Rye? Mark Chapman who shot John Lennon was obsessed with the book
17. Which 1970s' singer wrote a song with the title Wuthering Heights? Kate Bush
18. What is the meaning of the chapter title 'Dulce Domum' in The Wind in the Willows? 'Sweet home'
19. Why is it thought Rebecca committed suicide? She was terminally ill
20. What is Winston confronted with in Room 101? A cage that would be attached to his face with hungry rats in it
21. Which little known aspect of the First World War is featured in Birdsong? Tunnelling/mining _________________ Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10
Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 7637 Birthday: 7th July
Location: Shropshire
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject:
And the scores are:
1st - Ruth with 12 points
2nd - Blueflower with 11 points (so close)
3rd - Shropshireblue with 9 points.
Not bad going guys
There's another one which is pretty much along the same lines, so will give it a miss and do something else. _________________ Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10
Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 7637 Birthday: 7th July
Location: Shropshire
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:
aaah I'm sure Blueflower won't mind
Well done, Ruth
I'm confused as didn't know there are 6 books in The Lord of the Rings. I thought there were 3. What are the others? _________________ Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 4137 Birthday: 12th December
Location: Cumbria
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject:
Well done Ruth you deserved to win.
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If blueflower had read the questions properly and paid more attention she may have done better. She started badly by not even reading the first question correctly and she was unable to recall information from her favourite books Birdsong and Winnie the Pooh.
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Guess: stocking?
so blueflower should have won really!
but I've never actually read any of them - not my thing really.
