Re: Book Quiz

"Nicholas Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> Inspired by similar postings on another group, I thought you might enjoy
> this - one of my Christmas quizzes from last year.  

Here are the answers.  Between you you got most of them, but one or
two baffled everybody. Missing words are in square brackets.

Hope you all enjoyed it!  Perhaps someone else can do one.

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> 1) Katy's name was Katy _____.

What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge
[Carr]

> 2) They were not railway children to begin with.

The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

> 3) I asked, weren't we taking the pistol, or anyhow the long murderous-looking
> pike which has hung across our broad kitchen chimney ever since I can
> remember?

Cue for Treason - Geoffrey Trease 

> 4) ______, like all great men, had simple tastes.  He wore simple trousers
> with two simple legs.  His coat was simply fastened with safety pins because
> the buttons had simply fallen off.

The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm - Norman Hunter
[Branestawm]

> 5) ______ had been working hard all morning, spring-cleaning his little house.

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
[The Mole]

> 6) Nicholas Fetterlock lay on his back on the hillside, gazing up into the
> young leaves of an oak tree.

The Wool Pack - Cynthia Harnett

> 7) The armourer's forge was east of the river, in that part of the city called
> Chesil.

The Prince in Waiting - John Christopher

> 8) I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon, pretty
> well disgusted with life.

The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
 
> 9) Mrs. _____ lived just where the _____ main road  dipped down into a
> little hollow, fringed with alder and ladies eardrops, and traversed by a
> brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.

Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
[Rachel Lynde]

> 10) Here is _____, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his
> head, behind ______ .

Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne
[Edward Bear] [Christopher Robin]

> 11) 'Mother, have you heard about our summer holidays yet?' said Julian at the
> breakfast table.

Five on a Treasure Island - Enid Blyton
 
> 12) Penn read slowly down his report.  Apart from games - 'Excellent,' - the
> remarks were the usual, brief and unenthusiastic.  'Poor,' 'Fair,' 'Could do
> better.'  Under Mathematics it said, 'Idle and destructive in class, in spite
> of innate ability,' and under the heading 'Extras: Music' a crabbed hand had
> written angrily, 'May God forgive this boy for abusing so unusual a talent'

Pennington's Seventeenth Summer - K. M. Peyton
(I assume this must also have been published as Pennington's Last Term
since one or two people gave that answer.)

> 13) 'Little Man, would you come on?  You keep it up and you're gonna make us
> late.'

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor

> 14) It all began with William's aunt, who was in a good temper that Saturday
> morning and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her and carrying her
> parcels from the grocer's.

Just William - Richmal Crompton
 
> 15) The carriage gave another lurch, and Maria Merryweather, Miss Heliotrope
> and Wiggins once more fell into each others? arms, sighed, gasped, righted
> themselves and fixed their attention upon those objects which were for each of
> them at this trying moment the source of courage and strength.

The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge

> 16) In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered
> lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy
> and taffeta - there lived a _____ in _____.

The Tailor of Gloucester - Beatrix Potter
[Tailor] [Gloucester]
 
> 17) In a hole in the ground there lived a _____.

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
[hobbit]

> 18) There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great
> country of mountains and valleys.

The Princess and the Goblin - George Macdonald

> 19) When ______ was sent to _____ Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said
> she was the most disagreeable looking child ever seen.

The Secret Garden ? Frances Hodgson Burnett
[Mary Lennox] [Misselthwaite Manor]

> 20) There was a boy called ______, and he almost deserved it.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis
[Eustace Clarence Scrubb]
 
> 21) Mr and Mrs Brown first met ______ on a railway platform.

A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond
[Paddington]

> 22) This is the story of a Polish family, and of what happened to them during
> the Second World War and immediately afterwards.

The Silver Sword - Ian Seraillier

> 23) It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills when
> Father _____ woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned and spread
> out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their
> tips.

Mowgli's Brothers (The Jungle Book) - Rudyard Kipling
[Wolf]

> 24) One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with
> it: it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll 

> 25) At dawn one still October day in the long ago of the world, across the
> hills of Alderley, a farmer from Mobberley was riding to Macclesfield fair.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner

> 26) David lay quite still in the darkness, listening to the men?s low
> muttering.

I am David - Anne Holm
(This may also have been published under another title.)

> 27) The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the
> torm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin

> 28) Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of
> Wisconsin, in a little grey house made of logs.

Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder

> 29) One grey morning the first snow began to fall in the Valley of the ______.

Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson
[Moomins]

> 30) It was dusk - winter dusk.  Snow lay white and shining over the pleated
> hills and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road
> across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and
> shovels.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken

> 31) It was the first afternoon of the Christmas term, and Mr. Carter was
> enjoying the peace and stillness, so soon to be shattered by the arrival of 67
> boys on the school train.

Jennings Goes to School - Anthony Buckeridge

> 32) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae
> Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and
> Astrology.

The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White

> 33) Mr. and Mrs. ______, of Number Four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that
> they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
[Dursley]