Telegraph Review Literary Christmas Quiz 23/12/06

[Lipsiot]

Has anybody out there had a go at this ?

I'm stuck on three so far and haven't found 2, 3 and 5 from the Picture Round

4. Who said "My M Litt isn't something I admit to now, because people think of me as a killer agent, and killer agents aren't supposed to have Cambridge research degrees"?

10. Who said, "I think it's quite funny to talk about Paris Hilton, for example, in the same typeface that Ben Franklin might have used"?

20. Which book featured an Man-Booker shortlisted novel, "Under his Shadow"?

[Pantheon]

In 1997 Europa by Tim Parks was shortlisted

Tim Parks also wrote a novel called Cleaver

In the novel Cleaver, there is a reference to a novelised autobiography 'Under his shadow' ....

�In the autumn of 2004, shortly after his memorable interview with the President of the United States and following the publication of his elder son�s novelised autobiography, cruelly entitled Under His Shadow, celebrity journalist, broadcaster and documentary film-maker Harold Cleaver boarded a British Airways flight from London Gatwick to Milan Malpensa ..... �

http://www.timparks.com/20.html

[Pantheon]

http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.cfm?ac t=archive&year=2006&month=11

Ben Schott, British collector of miscellany and author of the soon-to-be-published Schott�s Almanac 2007. Although the almanac includes information both trivial and significant about the past year, Schott makes a distinction between the sort of facts he collects and mere garden variety trivia:

�I hate trivia,� he said, �and I�ve never been interested in trivia books. Trivia is competitive; it�s �I know this and you don�t.� I think what I�m doing is more inclusive. It�s more about sharing information. So it�s not so much about, say, who won the Super Bowl in such and such a year as what�s engraved on the Super Bowl trophy. Trivia books are written by people who are obsessed, and I wouldn�t want to read any of them.�

The only thing Schott could be accused of being obsessed with is classic book design: �Mr. Schott does all the typesetting himself and tries to make every paragraph end flush right.� He also tells the Times, �There�s real metaphorical joy in juxtaposition. I think it�s quite funny to talk about Paris Hilton, for example, in the same typeface that Ben Franklin might have used.�