1. He is an only child who frequently recieves tips from wealthy relatives, always has money when required. He loves disguising himself, both for his detective work and pranks. I want the full name of this person distinctly lacking in modesty.
2. In 1974, he lost his entire fortune because of a bad investment. After this, he wrote his first novel based on his financial downfall. Who?
3. This author was inspired to start his first novel after hearing the harrowing testimony of a 12-year old rape victim in a Dessoto courthouse in 1984. Who?
4. "Every now and again, a plain grey cardboard box was dished out to each boy in our House, and this, believe it or not, was a present from the great chocolate manufacturers, Cadbury". Inside were twelve new chocolate bar inventions that the boys were asked to sample and critique. Memories of an author from his time at Repton Public School in Kent. Who?
5. "As your readers will have learned from earlier issues, a senior officer of the Ministry of Defence, Commander --------------, C.M.G., R.N.V.R., is missing, believed killed, while on an official mission to Japan." Fill in.
6. Fill the blanks: -------, --------, laputa, houyhnhnms
7. If Tom Riddle was Head Boy of Hogwarts, which school was Joey Bettany Head Girl Of?
The sun oozed over the horizon, shoving aside the darkness, crept along the greensward, and, with sickly fingers, pushed through the castle window, revealing the pillaged princess, hand at throat, crown asunder, gaping in frenzied horror at the sated, sodden amphibian lying beside her, disbelieveing the magnitude of the frog's deception, screaming madly, 'You Lied!' -- Winner of Bulwer Lytton Award for worst Book Opening
8. We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? --Is he in hell?
That damned, elusive...............
Complete the above.
9. ......................
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
--John Keats. Endymion.
Complete the first line of this work.
10. It was three hundred forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago today that the citizens of Paris were awakened by the pealing of all the bells in the triple precincts of the City, the University, and the Town. Opening lines of which book?
11. Halfway down a bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. Opening lines of which book?
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry. -- Douglas Adams
(The next four questions constitute a theme. 2 points for the theme)
12. Complete this series: Julian,Anne, Richard, Georgina, .....
13. When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse. Opening lines of which book?
14. There were Two sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve who resided in Cair Paravel. They went hunting one day and found a place they hadnot visited for many years, which was illuminated by a lamp post. The hunt would eventually lead them to exit the world they knew through a wardrobe. (heh heh heh) What was the object of their hunt?
15. Jupiter was displeased with the atrocities of King Lyacon and his Cult. When Jupiter appeared to them, to reprimand them, Lyacon had a feast of human flesh made for him. This angered Jupiter and Lyacon fled to the countryside to escape, though this would prove futile. How did Jupiter punish him?
16. Theme:
One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. -- Gustave Flaubert
17. Although Arundhati Roy was the first Indian to win the Booker, three other People of Indian Origin (PIO) won the prize before she did. Who was the first?
18. Another one, name this year's Nobel Prize Winner for Literature.
19. Why does Georges Remi sign under the name Herge?
20. He is generally considered the founder of the English novel. In 1685, he was involved in the Monmouth Rebellion against James II. In 1688, after the rebellion was put down, he was hiding in a churchyard when he saw a name on a grave-stone, which he was to immortalize later by giving it to his most famous character. This character was later modelled on the real life adventures of Alexander Selkirk, an eccentric who was thought to have taught alley cats strange dances. Who?
I'm all for keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let's start with typewriters. -- Solomon Short
21. Audio 1 Which book is this taken from?
22. Audio 2 Who is the poet and to whom is the poem dedicated?
23. Visual 1. Identify this writer, whose epitaph reads "Excuse my dust"
24. Visual 2. Identify.
25. Complete this line about the Dark Lady of the Sonnets: Where other's have their will, .... .... .
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You know Hobbes, someday's even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.
--Calvin