GRAND CHRISTMAS LITERARY QUIZ

THE ANSWERS

THANK you to everyone who entered our Christmas Literary Quiz. Here are the answers:

YOUR STARTER FOR TEN

1. Measure for Measure. 2. F Scott Fitzgerald. (After Francis Scott Key.) 3. Mary Wollstonecraft. 4. Woodstock. (In Peanuts.) 5. &. 6. Macbeth. 7. J R R Tolkien. 8. Drabble. 9. Novels by Graham Greene. 10. John Updike.

MEMOIRS

1. Britney Spears. 2. Patrick Stewart. 3. Peter Kay. 4. Dawn French. 5. James Blunt. 6. Boy George. 7. Adrian Edmondson. 8. Ronnie O’Sullivan. 9. Billy Connolly. 10. Rory Stewart.

PICTURE ROUND

1. Benjamin Disraeli. 2. Johanna Spyri. 3. Lucy Maud Montgomery. 4. Daphne du Maurier. 5. Vladimir Nabokov. 6. Roald Dahl. 7. Elizabeth Strout. 8. Gail Honeyman. 9. Madeline Miller. 10. Candice Carty-Williams.

LITERARY CANADIANS

1. Robertson Davies. 2. Leonard Cohen. 3. Margaret Atwood. 4. Carol Shields. 5. Alice Munro. 6. Yann Martel. 7. Rohinton Mistry. 8. Mordecai Richler. 9. Jordan Peterson. 10. Monica Heisey.

ANNIVERSARIES

1. Blaise Pascal. 2. Adam Smith. 3. Victor Hugo. 4. Phineas Redux. 5. Willa Cather. 6. Whose Body? 7. Norman Mailer. 8. I Capture The Castle. 9. Prisoners Of The Sun. 10. The Other Side Of Midnight.

BOOKS & TV SERIES

1. War And Peace. 2. The Forsyte Saga. 3. Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy. 4. Fortunes Of War. 5. Brideshead Revisited. 6. The Jewel In the Crown. 7. Normal People. 8. A Very English Scandal. 9. Parade’s End. 10. Wolf Hall.

FROM THE PAGES OF THE DAILY MAIL... 1. c) Reginald Dwight. 2. b) 53. 3. a) 51. 4. b) David Attenborough. 5. b) Wuthering Heights. 6. c) James Ellroy. 7. c) Shoot it. 8. c) John Travolta. 9. c) 640. 10. a) Noel Coward.