How well did you do in our Literary Quiz?
We had a terrific response to our Christmas literary quiz and many congratulations to the winner, Paul Mortimer from Romford in Essex, who answered every question correctly, and was drawn from the winners’ hat. He will receive our prize cheque of £1,000. And here’s the answers:
STARTERS FOR TEN
1. Doris Lessing; 2. William Boyd; 3. Jay Gatsby;
4. Cecil Day-Lewis; 5. Mathematics; 6. C; 7. Ode To A Grecian Urn;
8. The Butler; 9. Inferno by Dan Brown; 10. Miss Read
WHO WROTE WHAT?
1. Mary Berry; 2. Harry Redknapp; 3. Jennifer Saunders;
4. David Suchet; 5. George Cole; 6. Katie Price;
7. Stephen Hawking; 8. Sharon Osbourne; 9. Usain Bolt;
10. June Brown
ANNIVERSARIES
1. Globe Theatre; 2. Laurence Sterne; 3. James Boswell & Samuel Johnson;
4. Pride And Prejudice; 5. William Makepeace Thackeray;
6. Albert Camus; 7. Sons And Lovers; 8. Barbara Pym;
9. C.S. Lewis; 10. Yann Martel
BIZARRE WORDS
1. Torus — shape of a ring doughnut
2. Stellifaction — Process by which stars are formed
3. Slabberdegullion — A slobberer, a sloppy person
4. Thaumaturge — A wonder worker, a magician
5. Waggying — the dung of foxes
6. Strabismus — of being crossed-eyed
7. Turpiloquescence — foul speech, incontinent swearing
8. Tanling — someone who has been out in the sun
9. Spousebreach — adultery
10. Wittol — A man who knows his wife is unfaithful but doesn’t mind
FROM THE PAGES OF THE DAILY MAIL
1. Edward Lear; 2. John Hurt; 3. Ernest Shackleton;
4. Business manager to the Rolling Stones for 39 years;
5. HRH Prince George, Duke of Kent; 6. Kate Humble;
7. Diana Cooper; 8. Hippophagy; 9. John F. Kennedy; 10. Francesca Simon
