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?

[Ray The Grey]

Sport 3 - I was thinking it might be Tony Hawkes in Playing the Moldovans at Tennis - I seem to remember he did not have the right kit when he was playing the guy in Israel (which was a trick).

Sport 5 - Delillo - Uderworld for maxwellmarsh

Is anyone sure about Montag in Fahrenheit 451 - I am not convinced?

[quidnunc]

I'm a big Dibdin fan, and never thought of it. Goes to something.

[patrickwhite]

Montag in Fahrenheit 451 definitely has a bible but I don't recall his flinging it into the fire and then rescuing it. I think they soaked the books in kerosene and then immolated them. could it be Hardy? Somewhere? Any thoughts on Books 3?

[Ray The Grey]

Books 3 is - Indefer Jones - Cousin Henry - A Trollope

[Aschenbach]

I don't know if anyone agrees that Death 2 is Clarissa by Samuel Richardson. Clarissa uses her own coffin as a writing desk on which to compose her last will and testament.

tautau - I stand by the Hogwarts and William Empson - (Poet/critic and author of Seven Types of Ambiguity) as answers for pictures 1 and photo 1.

Were the characters in The Comedians (re: statues 3) Brown and the ambassador's daughter (name?)

[tautau]

Thanks for that, Aschenbach.

I havn't seen the pictures.Statues 3. I got the names from the film, The Comedians, Mr Brown, Martha Pineda.

[greatsage]

Comedians - It is definitely Mr Brown and 'Martha'. I got the surname of Martha (pineda) also from a film review. Mr Brown doesn't have a first name, that is the conceit of the book, it focusses on 3 'ordinary' men. Smith Jones and Brown who are denied even a first name.

If anyone has the book it would be nice to confirm.

Images 1 I also think is William Empson.

[greatsage]

I think Death 2 is Clarissa too!

[Newby]

Good morning.  Sometime during the night I woke up and said "Cyril Connoly" (rather to my partners surprise) I think he may have smoked Balkan Sobranie (Sounds like the sort of thing he'd do) Does anyone have acess to Enemies of Promise....

[Bron X]

Am now doing better on this quiz than I have for years � thanks to you all!

Have just read Fahrenheit 451 � Montag tears pages out of the Bible but doesn�t burn it

Going back through previous years' answers, Joyce, Golding, Rushdie and PD James come up regularly  � do these jog anyone�s memory?

[greatsage]

Ray the Grey - Why dellio's Underworld for Sport 5? "hitting a six" seems a very cricket kind of phrase, whereas from what I can see Underworld is a rather American novel, and extends from a ball being hit out of some baseball game.

Also Newby - all these questions seem very 'fiction' oientated, apart from the 'authors' pictures section. That Cyril Connolly book looks rather autobiographical

[Ray The Grey]

It was an answer from another a'banker- I haven't validated it myself yet...any other ideas considered, of course

[greatsage]

Yes I saw the neswgroups pondering this quiz suggested underworld.

However, I may have a far better lead, and if Lord Wimsey wasn't Death 1 the originally suggested (Busman's Honeymoon) I think he is at Sport 5: Intense Googling has suggested "Murder must Advertise" by Dorothy L Sayers. Lord Wimsey displays his cricketing prowess, and a bottle of lemonade is smashed at the pivotal climax of the book.

If someone who actually has the text can check that - it would be great, but I am more confident (far more than 'underworld')

[greatsage]

I should clarify: The cricket match is at the end of the detective novel and is pivotal, a cricketer hits a ball for six, it rolls off the pavilion roof and smashes a bottle of lemonade. The only question is was the fellow who hit it arrested for murder?

[Bron X]

According to a movie spoiler website ......

"Tallboy proves himself not quite a villain at the same time as proving himself the murderer (that fatal throw at the cricket match gives Tallboy away to Lord Peter)"

Mr Tallboy, then?

[greatsage]

We only need the novel tho'. So did Tallboy hit that 6?

[Bron X]

Sorry!

Yes

[greatsage]

Ah. So in that truly English way, Lord Peter knows Tallboy is the murderer but doesn't have him arrested until the conclusion of the match, to which tallboy hits the winning six, eh?

What Ho!

[Bron X]

I've been chastised for my total ignorance of cricket - (throw, hit etc) Tallboy throws the ball ,someone else hits the 6, but his throw proves he was the murderer.

Ho hum

[Ray The Grey]

I am unhappy with Books 2 as Northanger Abbey as I can't find anything relevant in the text, also I am very unsure about Books 4 being Montag

On top of that remain :-

Jewellery 2

Opera 2

Statues 4

Sport 3

And a few to confirm for my own peace of mind - any more clues.

Well Done greatsage! Good call on Sport 5