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?

[Ray The Grey]

Books 4 feels more like Trollope than Hardy

I have also been away and will be tracking more down soon...

[Ray The Grey]

Death 4 - Mr Savage - Brave New World - Huxley? The very end

Photos 5 - Yeats?

[phoenixxx]

no i'm sure photo 5 is ee cummings

[tautau]

Books 4

Could that be,Montag, in Fahrenheit 451

[tautau]

Books 3 Indefer Jones, Cousin Henry, Trollope.

[greatsage]

Death 4: Looks Good for Brave New World. Final Para is:

Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet. "Mr. Savage!"
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east. �

Sounds like they are boxing the compas alright! Good call!

[garyyokel]

Ah, great answer greatsage - I'm annoyed I didn't get that one, having only finished the book a month or so ago.

[Ray The Grey]

I have been trying this quiz since it started and the questions have become increasingly more obscure - obviously to avoid googling, etc.

In the last 3 years I've managed fewer and fewer - even though I have read a lot and I have been becoming disillusioned with it. I think this is the toughest regular quiz as it requires a vast amount of literary knowledge with only very limited general research possible. Having said that, I always really enjoy it and tend to read some of the books/poems that spark my interest from the questions and research.

Answerbank has got me back into it in a big way - so thanks everyone and I'm intent on tracking the last ten/fifteen answers and verifying the others. Good luck

[Newby]

  First of all I'm with Ray the Grey in thanking everyone who have made this year's quiz so much fun... now re Pictures 2... who knows about A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters? I don't have a copy to hand (And, as I live in the country no chance of getting one handily).  But I seem to remember that Arabella sees a static version of the painting and her father a mobile one. Anyone got the patience (and the book) to check? By the way, The Marble Faun (statues 2) has been a great discovery . Recommend.

[Ray The Grey]

I can't believe there are no Shakespeare or Chaucer answers.... there have always been some.

[greatsage]

tautau was right on those dickens ones. That means there were 2 Dickens in this quiz. Three if you count the Horace Skimpole reference.

My sister-in-law confirmed Opera 4 as Mrs Sparsit from Hard Times and Plants 1 is def Uncle/Mr Pumblechook from Great Expectations:

"and they partook of his wittles, and they slapped his face, and they pulled his nose, and they tied him up to his bedpust, and they giv' him a dozen, and they stuffed his mouth full of flowering annuals to prewent his crying out."

[phoenixxx]

Like our earlier correspondent I have always attempted these but have found them increasingly obscure. With your help I have some to confirm but then only about 7 to do. I am so grateful to you all for making this past week so interesting and making me read some unlikely material!
Let's pull out the stops and try to complete it this year.
Will try to check Pictures 2 as a Julian Barnes reference (if I can find my copy)

[quidnunc]

 Coming late to the party, I can confirm Col. Fergusson as Pictures 2. Any thoughts on Book 2 and Sport 3 and 5?

[phoenixxx]

Have just found Fergusson - but iis it both people? Colonel Fergusson takes Amanda to see 'The Wreck of the Medusa' so do we assume they both viewed it?

As for books 2 I think it is Northanger Abbey but that will take me longer to find.

Sport 3 I do not know!

[greatsage]

The heroine seems to read a lot in Northanger Abbey so maybe. I've never read it - but a friend is browsing through their copy to see if it is that book...

[maxwellmarsh]

Jewellery 1 - is Gwendoline Harleth in Daniel Deronda if that helps anyone.

Does anyone know Opera 2 or Sport 5?

[phoenixxx]

We seem to have reached the same point.

I am still at a loss over :

Jewellery 2
Opera 2
Death 5
Statues 4
Books 2
Sport3

Any ideas?

[quidnunc]

Fergusson goes to a moving tableau of 'the Wreck', Amanda goes to see the real thing.

Death 5 may be Island of Bones by PJ Parrish, though not sure.

Still not sure about tobacco 2, either, or about jewellery 2.

[phoenixxx]

Not very convinced with the idea of Island of Bones as it has several bodies washed up.

[tautau]

Still stuck on Jewellery 2, Opera 2.Statues 4. Pictures1

 im not sure about, Books 4 again not sure.

 Sport 3,5. and photos 1,

i can put you out of your misery, for Death 5.

Dead Lagoon, Michael Dibden, I was reading the passage, in Waterstones today. Very gruesome too.