Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz

[phoenixxx]

Hi all

That time of year again...

My early contribution is the pictures section:

1. Dorothy Edwards
2. Frances Partridge
3. Alison Uttley
4. Joan Bakewell
5. William Golding
6. Muriel Spark

Any offers?

[monaghan]

Hello - Some great answers already - I too from A level memories think answer to Shops 2 is Winston Smith and Julia in 1984 . Was away over weekend and couldn't get copy of Sunday Times so accessed on line. Could anyone let me have the address and closing date for entries? I couldn't see it mentioned on on line (probably my fault). I'm optimistically anticipating an entry! Thanks

[slaney]

Curses 3 - possibly King Lear; in Act 1 scene 4 he curses Goneril - "into her womb convey sterility"

Monaghan- the closing date is 6pm Friday October 2nd.
Address:
The Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz,
Bloomsbury House,
74-77 Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DA.

[LG123]

Hello all - can this year really have gone so quickly?! Here's what I have that I don't think you mentioned already:

Fraud 4 - Fielding Goodney in Money by Martin Amis
Curses 1 - Leo Colston in the Go Between
Parties 2 - Jay Gatsby (Great Gatsby)
Teachers 3 - Mr Creakle in David Copperfield
Teaches 4 - Josephine Napier in More Women than Men (I Compton Burnett)

Also I though Autheros Deaths 5 might be Solzenitsyn?...

[monaghan]

Thanks Slaney! O level memories now - War 1 - The knight in the Canterbury Tales! I'm struggling at the moment with Teachers - thought Teachers 3 could be Squeers but was he hoarse and I don't think any of his pupils were chubby! Don't think I will ever get Parties 4!

[monaghan]

Fantastic work LG123 - particularly Teachers 4 - definitely checks out. PatrickWhite is right though about Authors' Deaths 5 - Simon Gray although a playwright was also a novelist and had terminal cancer which he wrote about in 'The Smoking Diaries' but an aneurysm got him first.

[Eslite2]

Teachers 5: Andrew Crocker-Harris (The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan � he was given the Browning translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, in which Agamemnon is murdered by his wife)

[Eslite2]

Messages 5: In the Cage by Henry James

[LG123]

here's a couple of half-ideas, which might jog someone's memory:

Fraud 3 - Is this someone in the Count of Monte Cristo?
Shops 1 - Is this from 'The Shadow of the Wind'? They do live in a second hand bookshop, but I can't remember anything about being Famished
Parties 5 - I have a feeling this could be Russian because of the Name Day; perhaps War & peace?

[goodfriday]

Parties 5. Lt Col. Vershinin in Chekhov's three Sisters (Irena's name-day party)

[am002m3231]

authors deaths 5 i thought this was albert camus who wrote the plague but died in a rod accident. what does anyone think?

[patrickwhite]

I'm certain that Shops 2 is Winston Smith and Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Mr Charrington, the prole owner of the junkshop above which the two lovers meet regularly, is a member of the Thought Police.

Looking at Curses 4 could it possibly be Voldemort in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows?! I don't have a copy to check but recall something about Voldemort using the Avekedavra (apologies for spelling) curse on Harry.

[phoenixxx]

Messages 2 - Sir Andrew Aguecheek in 'Twelfth Night'

[LG123]

I Think Curses 4 is The Lady of Shallot (Tennyson) - 'The Mirror Crack'd', etc

[Portia1564]

Messages 2
If 'Twelfth Night' is the correct play then it is Maria who plants the letter for Malvolio to pick up, while Sir Andrew Aguecheek et al watch under cover in the box hedge. But it is definitely a box hedge not privet.

[monaghan]

I go with The Lady Of Shallot - especially as the question mentions reflections which fits in with her mirror. Any ideas on teachers 2 - I'm trying to think who would fit the description of long-winded. I was thinking about Lucky Jim and Jim Dixon's lecture on Merrie England but he is not long-winded so that's no good!

[LG123]

Fraud 5 - Montague Tigg/Tigg Montague in Martin Chuzzlewit (he is murdered by Jonas Chuzzlewit).

[LG123]

Injuries 3 - Barbara Grebe in 'Barbara of the House of Grebe', which is a short story by Thomas Hardy

[Flapwing]

Where have the rest of the postings gone?

[grimhild]

I am confused about pictures 1. Dorothy Edwards wrote 'My Naughty Little Sister' but doesn't appear to have ever been an illustrator whilst Shirley Hughes was the illustrator and has written other popular children's books. So does anyone have a view on which is the correct answer?

[LG123]

Hi - I don't know if this will be posted properly, this site is a bit all over the place today!

Injuries 2 - Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels
Teachers 2 - I think it's Holofernes in Love's Labours Lost