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