Literary Quiz

[Newby]

Is anybody out there doing the Sunday Times / Faber Literary Quiz this year and, if so, would they like to pool information?

[mrs p]

Plants (4) must be basil (The Basil Pot, Keats). I think Jewellery 5 is Elfride in A Pair of Blue Eyes (Hardy); & at a guess Opera (5) is The Age of Innocence, prob. Ellen Olenska. Cd Pictures 2 be s/t from James Joyce - ULysses? Then that wd be Stepehn looking at Gustave Moreau??? Just gut feelings ...

[phoenixxx]

Is Tobacco 1 Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice? My thoughts were of Joyce for Pictures 2 but never got that far reading Ulysses!

[greatsage]

Opera 1 Is The age of Innocence, Opera 5 may have something to do with Eugene Pickering by henry james (at least there is an opera in which ms Patti is trilling away)

Death 1 Busmans Honeymoon??? The Murders in the Rue Morgue... surely?

Tobacco 2: Not Holmes as he is Jewellery #4, how about Johhny Dixon? Never heard of him but he came up in a search.

Statues 3 I think is The Comedians by Graham Greene... anyone know the names of ethe lovers?

plants 2: Triffids maybe... They are artificially created... was it in Scandinavia?

[garyyokel]

The only one I knew was that Death (1) definitely relates to the body of Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye in Edgar Allen Poe's "Murder in the Rue Morgue" and then someone beat me to it. Bah - I'll post it anyway....

[garyyokel]

Hmm - you could be right greatsage with the Balkan Sobraine cigarettes - it's Johnny Dixon's elderly friend Professor Childermass that smokes them. And I guess that there will be a couple of answers that are from children's literature.

[garyyokel]

On a bit of a roll now - Plants (3) is Harriet Herriton from  E.M. Forster's "Where Angels Fear to Tread".

[greatsage]

Jewellery 5 is definite Efride (swancourt?) from a pair of blue eyes

Pictures 5 is pentecost by David Edgar

Statues 5: is Ozymandius by Shelley

[Newby]

Hi everyone: I don't think it's Ulysses. I'm familiar with the book and it doesn't ring a bell. The nicotine named girl is Cigarette from Under Two Flags by Ouida

[greatsage]

I agree, Gustave Moreau seems simply to be mentioned in passing

[phoenixxx]

Plants 2 is Thistles. Tobacco 2 is it Dixon's or Childermass' room?

[greatsage]

Why thistles?

It's Professor Childermass as Johnny Dixon is only 13 (apparently)

[mrs p]

tobacco 4 makes me think of Philip Larkin. I thought of Mr Beaney, but it's not specific enough.

[mrs p]

Books 1 is Hedda Gabler, I'm pretty sure. For the Pictures 2 Q, anyone know anything about WB Yeats?

[tautau]

Thanks for the help so far, I think the book in question

for Pictures 2 , is A history of the world in 10 and a half

chapters. Julian Barnes. But dont know who the character is.

[tautau]

Opera 5, Anna Karenina

[greatsage]

Ahhh. Good lead... In that case I believe it is Colonel Fergusson (and possibly Amanda) who views a mobile (and audio) version of Gerricault's Scene of a Shipwreck.

[Newby]

tobacco four is The Bethrothed by Rudyard Kipling

[phoenixxx]

I think Books 2 is from Northanger Abbey but I can't remember the name of the character.Can anyone save me from re-reading?

[mrs p]

newby, thanks for the answer to tobacco 4. I looked up Betrothed and it was a delight! Only thing I've come up with this evening is authors 2 - John Carey - am I the last to get that one?

[greatsage]

Authors 2. The clue is 'original copy' which makes you think it might be the authors first work. A friend of mine suggested Roland Barthes (the pleasure of the text 1973). However at least Carey wrote a book called pure pleasure but that was in 2000 and hardly 'original copy'. I am unsure, and I still haven't seen the piccies yet!