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Location: Shropshire
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject:
Doesn't seem any harder if you ask me, but hey ho, it's all good fun _________________ Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10
Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2142 Birthday: 10th June
Location: Scottish Borders
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject:
Right don't laugh
Spoiler:
1. A girl
2. Fainting
3. An artist
4. Little Women 2
5. bee likes honey
6. Boy
7. England
8. Giant
9. The name of a book
10. One on the cover
11. Cos he drove a great car
12. A very long one
13. Put it under a matress
14. Boat builder
15. He was caught
16. Mrs Moor
17. Maid/washerwoman's outfit
18. Mrs Mop
19. They'd die in the sea
20. America and America
21. Canard
Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 381 Birthday: 16th February
Location: Upper Largo, Fife
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:
This was harder. Not sure if mine are right
Spoiler:
1.Don’t know - isn’t that awful!!
2.Nerves
3.Lee Scoresby
4.Good Wives
5.
6.Atticus Finch – I loved this book
7.Thornfield (3rd floor I think)
8.Giant
9.Besides being a terrible book? A situation where you have to do one thing to achieve another but can’t do the one thing til you’ve achieved other
10.That depends! Ooh trick question? 1 ring really is what the story is about but there were 20 in total.
11.
12.Napoleonic wars – French invasion of Russia
13.
14.Blacksmith
15.
16.Nelly Dean – loved this book too
17.
18.Mrs Danvers
19.The Germans are bombing London
20.
21.
_________________ Currently reading: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 7637 Birthday: 7th July
Location: Shropshire
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject:
Ok, here are the answers:
1. Who played Scarlett O'Hara in the film version of Gone with the Wind? Vivien Leigh
2. What does Mrs Bennet constantly suffer from? her nerves
3. In His Dark Materials, who is the Texan balloonist? Lee Scoresby
4. What is the title of the sequel to Little Women? Good Wives
5. Complete the line from this poem which features Winnie the Pooh. 'Isn't it funny how a ____ / _____ / ________?' bear likes honey
6. What is the name of Jem and Scout's father? Atticus
7. Where does the first Mrs Rochester live? in the attic
8. Hagrid is part human, part... what? giant
9. What is Catch 22? A catch which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. (Or answers to that effect!!).
10. How many rings are there in The Lord of the Rings? 20
11. Why did Ford Prefect choose that name? he thought it would be inconspicuous
12. Which war is featured in War and Peace? Russia's war with Napoleon
13. At the beginning of Captain Corelli's Mandolin what does Dr Iannis do to a pea? removes it from someone's ear
14. What is Joe's craft in Great Expectations? Blacksmith
15. What has happened to Holden Caulfield's brother in The Catcher in the Rye? he died of leukaemia
16. What is the name of the housekeeper who tells Lockwood the story of the families in Wuthering Heights? Ellen Dean (Nelly)
17. In what disguise does Toad escape from prison in The Wind in the Willows? as a washerwoman
18. What is the name of the housekeeper in Rebecca? Mrs Danvers
19. Why are the children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe sent to the country? to escape the Blitz
20. Name two of the three 'countries' in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Oceania, Eastasia, Eurasia (any two)
21. In which French town on the Somme does Birdsong open? Amiens _________________ 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: Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject:
So who won?
Debbie won!!
Only kiddin ya!!
Blueflower won with 16 points!!
Nicnic came second with 12 points although not sure about your 'Thornfield' answer Could you please elaborate?
And Debbie came 3rd but made us all smile with her answers _________________ Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10
Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 381 Birthday: 16th February
Location: Upper Largo, Fife
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:
Well done Debbie
About Thornfield: I ahd a vague memory of it being the third floor but I didn't want to cheat by checking _________________ Currently reading: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 4137 Birthday: 12th December
Location: Cumbria
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:42 am Post subject:
nicnic wrote:
Well done Debbie
About Thornfield: I ahd a vague memory of it being the third floor but I didn't want to cheat by checking
I got this total wrong and thought it was where she came from originally and having read the Wide Sargasso Sea recently I thought it was some where hot but wasn't sure about which island!
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Could you please elaborate? 
Cool, I was too ill when the first one was on the go to enter. I still can't get my head around Catch 22 - it means what!! 