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Quiz answers

First lines

The correct answers are:

 

1.) 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' by J.K. Rowling (2)

2.) 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens (1)

3.) 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams (2)

4.) '1984' by George Orwell (3)

5.) 'Northern Lights' by Philip Pullman (1)

6.) 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen (2)

7.) 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville (2)

8.) 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll (2)

9.) 'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier (1)

10.) 'Goldfinger' by Ian Fleming (3)

11.) 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee (2)

12.) 'Paul Clifford' by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1)

13.) 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka (3)

14.) 'Winnie the Pooh' by A.A. Milne (1)

15.) 'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy (3)

16.) 'The Fellowship of the Ring' by J. R. R. Tolkien (2)

17.) 'Peter Pan' by J. M. Barrie (2)

 

Time travel

The correct answers are:

 

1.) 'Fatherland' (3)

2.) Kefalonia (2)

3.) Catherine of Aragon (2)

4.) Flashman, from George Macdonald Fraser's 'Flashman' series (1)

5.) 'Charlotte Gray' by Sebastian Faulks (3)

6.) The plantation on which the novel's heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, lives (1)

7.) Patrick O'Brian (2)

8.) Vermeer (3)

9.) 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison (3)

10.) 'A Place of Greater Safety' (1)

11.) Sir Walter Scott (3)

12.) 'The Night Watch' by Sarah Waters (2)

13.) A ship travelling from Ireland to New York, carrying refugees from the Irish Famine (2)

 

 

 

Crime check

The correct answers are:

 

1.) Ripley's Game (2)

2.) To create the perfect perfume, murdering 25 girls to extract their scent (2)

3.) Laos (3)

4.) Men Who Hate Women (1)

5.) Beekeeping (2)

6.) A Swiss insane asylum (1)

7.) Agatha Christie (2)

8.) Barbara Nadel (3)

9.) Precious Ramotswe from 'The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency' (1)

10.) Miss Marple (2)

11.) Patricia Cornwell (3)

12.) The Army (1)

13.) Kingsmarkham (2)

14.) Hercule Poirot (1)

 

A trip down memory lane…

The correct answers are:

 

1.) In a room with locked doors (1)

2.) Banks (1)

3.) Solve mysteries (2)

4.) New York City (3)

5.) He died the same day as President Kennedy (2)

6.) Lord of the rings (3)

7.) The Lake District (2)

8.) Winnie the Pooh (3)

9.) The Hardy Boys (1)

10.) A monkey (2)

11.) The Bank of England (1)

12.) The Water Babies (1)

13.) Liza Minnelli  (2)

14.) Misty (3)

15.) Where the Wild Things Are (2)

 

Page and screen

The correct answers are:

 

1.) Death on the Nile (1)

2.) Lyme Regis (2)

3.) Patricia Highsmith (1)

4.) Denzel Washington (3)

5.) Ben Kingsley (2)

6.) Alec Guinness (1)

7.) Robert Donat (3)

8.) Brief Encounter (2)

9.) Whisky. Whisky Galore! (2)

10.) Doctor Zhivago (3)

11.) Art Garfunkel (2)

12.) Room With A View (3)

13.) East is East (1)

14.) Margaret Mitchell (3)

15.) James Dean (2)