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?

[unknowing]

Re Fraud 2 - I know we're all thinking Maud now but I can't get Cosette from Les Mis/Victor Hugo out of my mind. just thought i'd throw it into the pot and see who saluted....

[melmox090209]

Fraud2 I looked at Les. Mis but father went to jail for stealing a loaf of bread. Couldn't find any ref. to being a swindler.

[unknowing]

Thanks melmox

[slaney]

I've gone through the list and am reasonably happy with everything but Messages 2- Malvolio in Twelfth Night - he finds a note in a box-tree (not privet hedge) which he thinks is a love note from Olivia, and no mention of curtains unless I'm missing something.
Michael Frayn's Spies - this came up on Google but doesn't really fit - a boy thinks his mother is a German spy, but she leaves messages in a box, not a hedge.

[melmox090209]

Messages 2 I have been through 12th night 4 times and am convinced it is not the answer.I have just finished Madness of King George and it's not that.

[unknowing]

I can't find the terms and conditions for the quiz - where am I meant to send the answers in what format? I think it's by Friday so was going to get in the post tomorrow morning but...! It's not on the Sunday Times website as far as I can see. Can someone tell me please the full terms and conditions ASAP or send me to the link? Thank you.

[LG123]

Hi - It says send your answer to all 51 questions (jncluding the pictures) on a sheet of A4 paper, together with your name and address in block capitals. Send to: The Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz, Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russell Street, London WC18 3DA. Entires should be in by 6pm on Friday Oct 2nd.

Good luck everyone!

[melmox090209]

Messages 2 Is everyone happy with 12th night? Will it be worth while sending answers in not knowing this one?

[monaghan]

Have just spent a week in France where it poured every day and therfore did a lot of reading - one of the books on the shelf was Enduring Love by Ian McEwan and the character Jed Parry thinks that Joe is leaving messages in the hedge and by opening/closing the curtains!! Too late now!!

[slaney]

Very well done monaghan, and thanks - that one was still preying on my mind!

[maxwellmarsh]

Can someone let me know when the answers have been printed in The Sunday Times as I can't always get it. Thanks

[goodfriday]

Just received runner-up prize for this - five signed first editions. Thrilled to bits!

[unknowing]

well done goodfriday. it's a great feeling isn't it?!?!?! My friend and I jointly do it each year and we got the runner-up books about three years ago.

[slaney]

Congratulations goodfriday - good to hear of your win!

[monaghan]

Well done goodfriday (fitting name!) - where are the answers printed? Only a few months 'til the 2010 Quiz !!!!!

[goodfriday]

I have just been told by a friend that this quiz has been discontinued (2010) because 'Google makes it too easy'. You've got to be kidding...Even with Google it is difficult and I am quite gutted!

[monaghan]

This is usually one of the highlights of my year - surely it can't be true!! I can imagine Stephen Fry answering all the questions without too much trouble and I think those of us who contribute to this link have a pretty good 'literary' minds - ie we love and read books, but to say google has made it too easy is ridiculous. Surely this must be a wind-up?

[LG123]

I can't believe they have discontinued it for being 'too easy' - I must be really stupid then! In any case, it's fun to do, so what does it matter how easy/difficult anybody finds it? I'm so dissappointed...

[maxwellmarsh]

So is it not in today's Sunday Times then?

[monaghan]

No! I have bought my last copy of SundayTimes today and won't buy again until it is reinstated!