Re: Book Quiz

Thanks for that, Nicholas!  It was fun.  (I can't BELIEVE that I didn't get
the Moomins...).

 Debbie


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