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YOUR STARTER FOR TEN

1. Which play by William Shakespeare is the one considered one of his to be set in Austria? It’s supposedly a comedy, however is now cited as one of many ‘problem plays’, i.e. it’s not humorous.

2. Which novelist, screenwriter and boozehound was named after the person who wrote the lyrics to the American nationwide anthem, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’? He was a distant relation to the household.

3. Which author referred to as Mary accomplished just one novel, and referred to as it Mary?

4. Which cartoon character was named after a Sixties pop pageant?

5. In Nineteenth-century America, which image was typically taught because the twenty seventh letter of the alphabet?

6. The Sound and the Fury, a 1929 novel by William Faulkner; Something Wicked This Way Comes, a 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury; and By The Pricking of my Thumbs, a 1968 novel by Agatha Christie. They all took their titles from traces from which Shakespeare play?

7. Sister Wendy Beckett, the much-loved artwork historian and nun, died in 2018 aged 88. Who was her Chief Examiner at Oxford, who tried to encourage her to remain on and turn out to be a don? She learn English.

8. The novelists Margaret Drabble and A. S. Byatt, each Dames of the British Empire, had been famously sisters. Which was their frequent maiden title, i.e. which surname had been they each born with? Is it Drabble or Byatt?

9. What had been set, variously, in Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Vietnam and Brighton?

10. Which American author was described by David Foster Wallace as ‘a penis with a thesaurus’?

MEMOIRS

Which well-known folks wrote the next memoirs? Or, in some instances, ‘wrote’ them.

1. The Woman In Me.

2. Making It So.

3. TV: Big Adventures On The Small Screen.

4. The Twat Files.

5. Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story.

6. Karma: My Autobiography.

7. Berserker!

8. Unbreakable.

9. Rambling Man: My Life On The Road.

10. Politics On The Edge.

LITERARY CANADIANS

Here are among the books written and revealed by ten bookish Canadians. For every one, establish the well-wrapped author. (One or two are Canadian by adoption fairly than start.)

1. The Rebel Angels (1981), What’s Bred within the Bone (1985), The Lyre of Orpheus (1988).

2. The Favourite Game (1963), Beautiful Losers (1966), Book of Longing (2006).

3. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), Oryx and Crake (2003).

4. The Republic of Love (1992), Larry’s Party (1997), Unless (2002).

5. Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), Dear Life (2012).

6. Life of Pi (2001), Beatrice and Virgil (2010), The High Mountains of Portugal (2016).

7. Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995), Family Matters (2002).

8. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989), Barney’s Version (1997).

9. Maps Of Meaning (1999), 12 Rules for Life (2018), Beyond Order (2021).

10. Really Good, Actually (2023).

ANNIVERSARIES

1. Turning 400 this yr was which well-known French thinker, mathematician and physicist, whose best-known guide was Pensées?

2. Celebrating a three hundredth birthday was which Scottish thinker and economist, who was born in 1723?

3. Whose first novel, Hans of Iceland, was revealed precisely 200 years in the past this yr?

4. Which of Anthony Trollope’s Palliser collection got here out 150 years in the past this yr?

5. Which American author, who wrote O Pioneers! and My Antonia, amongst others, was born 150 years in the past, in 1873?

6. It’s 100 years since publication of Dorothy L. Sayers’ very first Lord Peter Wimsey thriller, that includes a corpse present in a shower sporting pince-nez. What was its title?

7. It’s 100 years this yr for the reason that start of Elizabeth Jane Howard, creator of the Cazalet Chronicles; of John Mortimer, who wrote the Rumpole tales; and of which fairly extra pugilistic American author, whose best-known novel got here out 75 years in the past this yr?

8. Celebrating 75 years since publication this yr was the primary novel by an English author who would go on to write down the youngsters’s basic The Hundred And One Dalmatians. It’s narrated by Cassandra Mortmain. What is the novel’s title?

9. Also turning 75 in 2023 had been two related books from the Tintin collection, The Seven Crystal Balls and which epic journey in South America?

10. Fifty years outdated in 2023 had been J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago and which novel by Sidney Sheldon, on the time probably extra well-known as creator and producer of I Dream of Jeannie?

BOOKS & TV SERIES

In PREVIOUS quizzes we’ve given you the names of well-known movies based mostly on equally well-known books. This time it’s TV collection based mostly on books. Most of them have the identical title, which ought to make it barely easier. (Three are the title of the collection, and two extra are the title of the primary guide in a collection.)

1. Novel: 1867. TV collection: 2016, starring Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Greta Scacchi. Adapter: Andrew Davies.

2. Novels: 1906-1921. TV collection: 1967, starring Kenneth More, Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter. Adapter: Donald Wilson.

3. Novel: 1974. TV collection: 1979, starring Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Ian Richardson, Bernard Hepton. Adapter: Arthur Hopcraft.

4. Novels: 1960-1980. TV collection: 1987, starring Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Ronald Pickup. Adapter: Alan Plater.

5. Novel: 1945. TV collection: 1981, starring Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Nickolas Grace. Adapter: Derek Granger.

6. Novel: 1966. TV collection: 1984, starring Art Malik, Tim Pigott-Smith, Susan Wooldridge. Adapter: Ken Taylor.

7. Novel: 2018. TV collection: 2020, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Paul Mescal, Sarah Greene. Adapters: Sally Rooney and Alice Birch.

8. Book (non-fiction): 2016. TV collection: 2018, starring Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge. Adapter: Russell T. Davies.

9. Novels: 1924-1928. TV collection: 2012, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Janet McTeer. Adapter: Tom Stoppard.

10. Novel: 2009. TV collection: 2015, starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Anton Lesser. Adapter: Peter Straughan.

PICTURE ROUND

Here are ten pretty well-known writers who produced novels that contained girls’s names. For a degree every, establish the author.

1. Sybil (1845).

2. Heidi (1880).

3. Anne Of Green Gables (1908).

4. Rebecca (1938)

5. Lolita (1955).

6. Matilda (1988).

7. Olive Kitteridge (2008).

8. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017).

9. Circe (2018).

10. Queenie (2019).

FROM THE PAGES OF THE DAILY MAIL . . .

1. According to Elton John At 75, reviewed by Lilly Subbotin in January, he realised that he’d by no means be thought of pop star materials with an actual title like his. With an actual title like what?

a) Rick Davies.

b) Dwight Reginald.

c) Reginald Dwight.

2. How many senses do we’ve got? requested Nick Rennison in January, writing a few guide referred to as Nature. Some scientists imagine it could be as many as …

a) 11.

b) 53.

c) 640.

3. Roger Lewis cherished Crazy Old Ladies, concerning the perilously brief careers of actresses in Hollywood’s so-called golden age. How outdated, as an illustration, was Gloria Swanson when she performed ‘something vampiric’ in Sunset Boulevard?

a) 51.

b) 61.

c) 71.

4. Who, in keeping with a guide about bugs reviewed by Mark Mason in January, receives 50 to 70 letters a day, many addressed merely to ‘Attenborough, London’?

a) Michael Attenborough.

b) David Attenborough.

c) Chris Packham.

5. In February, the novelist Jessie Burton admitted she had by no means loved which novel written by a Brontë sister?

a) Jane Eyre.

b) Wuthering Heights.

c) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

6. ‘I am obsessed with violence. I am obsessed with twisted sexuality. I am obsessed with jealousy, greed, overweening ambition.’ The phrases of which U.S. crime author, whose biography was reviewed in February?

a) Patricia Highsmith.

b) Elmore Leonard.

c) James Ellroy.

7. According to explorer John Blashford-Snell, whose memoir we reviewed in February, if a 15 ft crocodile assaults you and desires to eat you, what do you have to do?

a) Scream like a banshee.

b) Run away.

c) Shoot it.

8. In Diana: The Life and Legacy of the People’s Princess, Diana spoke of her journey to the White House in 1985, when she danced with a number of well-known males. Who was her favorite dancing accomplice?

a) Tom Selleck.

b) Prince Charles.

c) John Travolta.

9. In Doggy People: The Victorians Who Made The Modern Dog, Christopher Hart learn that Queen Victoria owned what number of canine?

a) 11.

b) 53.

c) 640.

10. Which playwright, in keeping with a biography reviewed by Roger Lewis in March, was so accident-prone that sooner or later, whereas smoking a pipe, he set his hair on hearth?

a) Noel Coward.

b) Arthur Miller.

c) Terence Rattigan.

HOW TO ENTER

Send your solutions by put up to Daily Mail Literary Quiz, Books Department, Daily Mail, 9 Derry Street, London, W8 5HY. Include your full title, deal with, cellphone quantity and e mail deal with (when you’ve got one). Closing date for entries is January 19, 2024.

The first set of appropriate solutions drawn from the hat after that time limit wins a prize of £1,000. The winner’s title and the proper solutions can be printed within the Daily Mail Books pages on January 26, 2024. The prize is non-transferable and no different is accessible. Allow 28 days for receipt of prize.

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