New year literary quiz answers...

THANK YOU to everyone who entered our New Year Literary Quiz — and congratulations to this year’s winner, Clare Edwards from Wales, whose name was picked out of a hat of all the correct entries. She wins our £1,000 prize.

YOUR STARTER FOR TEN

1. Alan Johnson 2. Anna Burns 3. Children’s Laureate 4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 5. David Sedaris 6. Lord Byron 7. Macbeth 8. Animal Farm 9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy 10. Mein Kampf

GIVING YOU THE TIME OF DAY

1. The Day Of The Locust 2. The Day Of The Jackal 3. The Year Of The Flood 4. The Hour Of The Star 5. The Day Of The Triffids 6. The Day Of The Scorpion 7. A Month In The Country 8. A Day In Summer 9. A Week In December 10. A Time To Kill

FILMS & BOOKS

1. Psycho by Robert Bloch 2. Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier 3. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 4. Carrie by Stephen King 5. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 6. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 7. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy 8. No Country For Old Men by Cormac

McCarthy 9. Murder On The Orient Express by

Agatha Christie 10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

ME, MYSELF & I

1. David Jason 2. Claudia Winkleman 3. Barack Obama 4. Billy Connolly 5. Phillip Schofield 6. Shirley Ballas 7. Michael J Fox 8. Ant and Dec 9. Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward 10. Cliff Richard

ANNIVERSARIES

1. William Wordsworth 2. Anne Brontë 3. Anna Sewell 4. Charles Dickens 5. Women In Love (by D H Lawrence) 6. 100 7. Anne Frank 8. E. M. Forster 9. Harry Potter 10. Patricia Highsmith

PICTURE ROUND

1. Ian McEwan 2. Edna O’Brien 3. Roger McGough 4. Maggie O’Farrell 5. Carson McCullers 6. Patrick O’Brian 7. Mary McCarthy 8. Flann O’Brien/Brian O’Nolan

(either is acceptable) 9. John McGahern 10. Andrew O’Hagan LINK: all surnames begin with O’ or Mc, meaning ‘son of’

FROM THE PAGES OF THE DAILY MAIL

1. a) Daphne du Maurier 2. b) The three volumes of Haruki

Murakami’s 1Q84 series 3. c) Ghislaine Maxwell 4. a) In amateur dramatic societies 5. c) Bicycling 6. b) Jilly Cooper 7. c) Younger siblings 8. b) Sybille Bedford