The Times lit quiz

[Newby]

It's that time of year again, folks...shall we?

[Flapwing]

We are all reading......

[gullah]

Cemeteries 3 looks like Miss Moss in Evermore(thanks Ray the Gray) by Julian Barnes from Cross channel havent got the exact quotation but she spends her hoildays visiting WW1 cemeteries in France and is proofreader for dictionaries I think! I am left with the electric drill!!

[michealk]

would just like to take credit for this one as it was me that suggested it. Not that ray the gray hasn't been brilliant!

[LG123]

Well done to both of you!

Now where is that electric drill from? My first thought was also the Cement Garden, but they bury her in a box with cement, so no drill needed! Just like last year, looks like we're down to one question...

[phoenixxx]

Well done everyone! Perhaps those of us who are still struggling for that elusive electric drill answer could jot down any thoughts - and then it might spark an idea with someone else.

To state the obvious - it must be mid to late20th century or even 21st to have an electric drill.

Why would anyone need a drill? -perhaps ice? behind panelling?

Any more thoughts out there?

[Ray The Grey]

YES ! I have the electric drill answer

So don't worry - I'll give you all a few clues in the next couple of days before I reveal all by Friday - lots of time to send it in. Just to make the fun last a little longer

Clues 1 & 2- It's the first page of the book in question and it was originally a film script that was later turned into a book

[greatsage]

Hmmn Ray the Grey... I was just about to suggest Bleedout by Joan Braby, but that was an electric powered pneumatic drill. But that doesn't sound like it fits your clues.

Also last year we may have been missing just one or two, but a few were on the 'dodgy' side and weren't there about 3 that were wrong?

[Ray The Grey]

Hello. Not Bleedout.

There were some wrong and I haven't been able to double check several. If I find any that are wrong when I get around to it I will let you all know

[LG123]

The only book that springs to mind which was originally a film script is the Third Man - am I warm?

[phoenixxx]

Well The Third Man certainly starts with a funeral. If a drill was used (and I can't find a copy to read!) the answers would be Harry Lime and Vienna. Are we close?

[greatsage]

Oh Superb....

"... I met him first at Harry Lime's funeral. It was February, and the gravediggers had been forced to use electric drills to open the frozen ground in Vienna's Central cemetery. It was as if even nature were doing its best to ..."

Full answers at
http://www.geocities.com/timeslitquiz

Now anyone suspect any of those may be duff?

[Flapwing]

Well done you'all.
I'm still a tad worried about Quarrels 4 as I wonder about the 'thrashing'.
I'd just like to say this has been really good fun. I've always done these on my own before but I look forward to helping out next year.
I don't send in an answer by the way, the last thing I need is 10,000 more books.

[tautau]

Thankyou all , for your assistance, I was wondering if
they wanted Harry Lime as the answer," if it was the first Funeral", or the guy who was actually buried?

[goodfriday]

That was brilliant - thank you all! I am only sorry I entered the fray so late. Next year I'll be in earlier. Will one of us own up if we win?

[phoenixxx]

Great fun and a pleasure to meet some great minds again. If I win I will post a notice on here. Whatever happens I'll be back next year.
Thank you everyone!

[Ray The Grey]

Well Done!

I don't need to give any more clues then....that's obviously why they keep the questions obscure

Just double checking though and the Mill debate!

[LindsayR]

Can anyone point me in direction of the John Osborne photo - it's just that I am convinced Photo 5 is DH Lawrence.....

[LindsayR]

Mr Tulliver has a stroke whilst riding home on horseback when he reads a letter from his lawyer indicating that his securities had been transferred to Wakem (another Lawyer). He didn't have a stroke whilst thrashing a lawyer Unless the horse is named 'Lawyer'....... Can't think who else it could be tho..

[LG123]

Mr Tulliver suffers a further stroke later on in Mill on the Floss, at the time when he is indeed thrashing the lawyer, Wakem. So I'm sure that's it!

Well thanks to everyone for making the quiz so much fun, and I'll report back if a prize comes my way. See you next year - start swatting now!

[gullah]

Thanks everybody I really enjoyed this I like Flapwing? usually do this alone but this was much more fun see you all next year.