Literary Quiz

[Newby]

Is anybody out there doing the Sunday Times / Faber Literary Quiz this year and, if so, would they like to pool information?

[jno]

I'm not because I didn't know many of the answers, being functionally illiterate; but you're welcome to any I have - feel free to post, here or under Quizzes & Puzzles, where users are frighteningly knowledgeable.

[Aschenbach]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1747174,00.html

(Questions found at linked page)

Photos 3) John Buchan 4) Jane Gardem 5) e.e.cummins 6) Leigh Hunt 

Tobacco 5) Dangerous Corners JB Priestly

Pictures 1) Hogwarts/ fat lady in Harry Potter?

Jewellery 1) Tess (Tess of the d'Urbervilles) 3) Meyer Wolfshien The Great Gatsby

Statues 2) Sylla in Plutarch's Lives

[spinchimp]

I believe this is technically know as cheating.

[Newby]

Thank you all. I don't see it as cheating. I'm asking all my friends as well....

[avis50]

Surely photo number 3 can't be John Buchan - it is far too recent.

[Aschenbach]

Photos 1) William Empson 3) avis50 - Thanks, I think you're right - Ian Rankin?

Plants 5) Robinson Crusoe

Pictures 4) Oliver Twist

Books 5) George Gissing New Grub Street

Anyone else?

[Newby]

I knew the ian Rankin one. I also think that tobacco 5 is the Silver Box by Galsworthy. Jewelery one may be Tess but she wasn't actually terrified of them. Is sport5 delillo :underworld? Pictures 3 is Headlong by Michael Frayn. Sport 2 is Alice (which one?). Thaks for all the help. This is fun...

[spinchimp]

Sport 1 - Frank Machin, character from This Sporting Life by David Story

[spinchimp]

Sport 2  Alice in Wonderland

[Newby]

thanks spin. Have got a few more: satues 1 Zeulika Dobson (should have known) Basketball is Rabbit in the Updyke books.

[jno]

Newby and others, watch your spelling - I'm not fussed but the Sunday Times will be, could be the difference between first prize and fame, and losing out. Zuleika, Updike, e.e. cummings, I think.

[Newby]

Ewe ur kwite rite jno.wuz inna hury.

[Newby]

Does MIss Smilla burn anything in her (partly) eponymous book perchance? (Can something be partly eponymous?)

[phoenixxx]

Statues 5 is Ozymandius and I think Tobacco 2 may be Sherlock Holmes

[Newby]

phoenyx - I don't think it's Sherlock Holmes. It sounds detectivy though. What one's are you looking for. Maybe I can help?

[phoenixxx]

Thought it might be Raffles if not Holmes. Also wondered if Jewellery 1 might be Trollop'e's Eustace Diamonds. Death 3 is Busamn's honeymoon by Sayers. Still have loads to do but will keep chipping away!

[phoenixxx]

Typo! Busman's Holiday!

[Newby]

We are thinking on the same lines. I looked up Raffles -but he smoked Sullivan's. Are you sure about Busmans holiday: death by emu? I thought it was Rollo in The Half - Skinned Steer by Proulx. What about Biggles for the sobranie one - he always had a fag in his mouth when he was going to give the Hun a good seeing to?

[phoenixxx]

Sorry I meant Death 1 was Busman's Holiday! Sobranie sound rather exotic and too foreign for Biggles. Wondered if Death 2 was Miss Haversham.

[phoenixxx]

It's been a long day! Busman's Honeymoon NOT Holiday!