Did you master our tricky New Year quiz?

We WERE overwhelmed with entries for our festive Books Quiz this year and thank you all for taking part. And now, to put you out of your misery, the answers . . .

YOUR STARTER FOR TEN

1. Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy. 2. Twilight. 3. Words ending in -ology. (1,011 compared to 508.) 4. James Bond. 5. John Keats. 6. Albert Campion. 7. A dagger. 8. Horses. 9. Samuel Pepys’s diary. 10. My Life.

WHO WROTE WHAT?

1. David Jason. 2. Sarah Millican. 3. David Attenborough. 4. Robert Webb. 5. Paul Hollywood. 6. Richard Branson. 7. Rio Ferdinand. 8. Gordon Brown. 9. Dawn French. 10. Eddie Izzard.

FILMS & BOOKS

1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote. 2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. 3. The Shining by Stephen King. 4. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron. 5. The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. 6. Atonement by Ian McEwan. 7. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. 8. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré. 9. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. 10. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier.

UNUSUAL WORDS

1. BATE-BREEDER. 2. BED-SWERVER. 3. BIBLIOCLASM. 4. ANORCHID. 5. AXILLA. 6. BOANTHROP. 7. ANDOCRAT. 8. APTERYX. 9. BALATRON. 10. ALFEAR.

FROM THE PAGES OF THE DAILY MAIL

1. a) The Authors’ Club. 2. b) The Dutch concept of gezelligheid. 3. a) Richard Rodgers (of Oscar Hammerstein II). 4. b) Nando’s. 5. c) 1940s. 6. c) Dirk Bogarde. 7. a) Red. 8. c) Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry. 9. b) Sir Nicholas Hytner. 10. b) Frank Zappa. n OuR lucky winner is Miss C Ashton from Lancashire, who wins £1,000.