The Times lit quiz

[Newby]

It's that time of year again, folks...shall we?

[michealk]

I am in let's get the pics over with. 2 is John Betjamen,
3 Samuel Beckettand 5 John Osborne.
Any Offers on Supernatural 3 North Country Girl Bewitched by snaky intruder?

[I'm stuck]

the last picture is Bernice Rubens.

[Fibonacci]

You will also fins some hints and clues on the quizzing website - prize quizzers section

http://www.iqagb.co.uk/

At present the posting there includes a full copy of all the questions.

[Newby]

One that might be oscure is the twins- haggis - Macbeth one. The answer is in Wise Children by Angela Carter - but I don't know the name of the twins.

Also I think the one about the dead guy being brought somewhere after his death is in a novel by Graham Swift.

Wellow curtains - Dr Primrose in Vicar of Wakefield?

[Fibonacci]

Twins named Dora and Nora

[Ray The Grey]

Diagnosis through Bedlinen - Midnight's Children by Rushdie

Bach during surgery - Saturday by Ian McEwan

[michealk]

The Guy who operates in Saturday is Henry Perowne

[Flapwing]

Jobs 1: Is it Marcus Attilus in Pompeii by Robert Harris?
and
Theatre 1 : Is that Mansfield Park?

[Littlemimi]

I think the answer to Quarrels 3 is Mr Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss - does anyone know who the assassins could be?

[Ray The Grey]

It might be from a Discworld book By Terry Pratchett

[michealk]

Has anyone any ideas on the supernatural?
Jobs 4 is nice work by David Lodge

[captainandy]

picture 4: Terry Eagleton.

[phoenixxx]

It's good to be back!

A few guesses:

Monarchs 2 - White Mischief?
Theatre 5 - Lucy Snow/Villette?
Clergymen 1 - Persuasion?

[Newby]

The Mansfield Park answer is definite - Sir Thomas Bertram

The Friar, Hubert, in the Canterbury Tales is the one who quarells with a qarlic loving fellow traveller (the Summoner).

the novel by Graham Swift is Last Orders but I can't find a copy to confirm this is the right book.

Ray: I don't think it is Discworld -but I will check.

Gerald Manley Hopkins got all blubbery about the trees being cut down.

A big hello to all the old lags from last year.

[michealk]

theatre 5 is definitely Lucy Snow so thanks for that.
I don't think white mischief is right.
The Terry Eagleton is correct as picture on internet.

[phoenixxx]

The Cumbrian author (pictures) is Margaret Forster - so that seems like all the pictures done.

[captainandy]

Clergyman 3 is Gerard Manley Hopkins. Felling of trees is the subject of his poem: 'Binsey Poplars'.

[Flapwing]

Monarchs 2: not white mischief but Anthony Blunt in Alan Bennett's Single Spies.
Doctors 1; May be Dr Thorne
Doctors3: is that from the Life of Pi?
Supernatural 1: is I think an MR James story

[phoenixxx]

Clergymen 1 is Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, I think.

[Ray The Grey]

Early Days - a few suggestions that I have no time to check this week:-

Clergymen 5 - White Teeth
Cemeteries 1- A Feeling for Snow
Monarch's 5 - Moll Flanders
Doctor's 2 - Sounds very Conrad or Greene
Doctors 3 - Pretty sure not Life of Pi, as I don't think he gets that close (I don't think in the South Sea)
Supernatural 1 - I think this was set in a Hardy location
Supernatural 3 - D H Lawrence book?
Theatre 3 - Beryl Bainbridge work?

Just possibilities, I'll start in earnest next week