Bookquiz

Denerick

Simple enough concept really. Ask a question related to any author/book and see if you can answer it...

I'll start. Who first published Fahrenheit 451?

BossArky

You mean the author or the publisher?

Answer: Author --> Ray Bradbury.

Denerick

No the publisher. If I was asking the name of the author I would have asked for the name of the author

Anyway, it was first published by Hugh Hefner AKA, Playboy man. Not really that surprising when you think about it! Someone else set the ball rolling.

Locamon

Denerick wrote: »

No the publisher. If I was asking the name of the author I would have asked for the name of the author

Anyway, it was first published by Hugh Hefner AKA, Playboy man. Not really that surprising when you think about it! Someone else set the ball rolling.

Shouldn't you just confirm the question and wait until someone gets it right?

Name the author, recently in the news, who was denounced from the altar by her parish priest when her first book was published and the same priest invited everyone to bring their copies to the churchyard for a public burning?

Denerick

Locamon wrote: »

Shouldn't you just confirm the question and wait until someone gets it right?

Name the author, recently in the news, who was denounced from the altar by her parish priest when her first book was published and the same priest invited everyone to bring their copies to the churchyard for a public burning?

J.K. Rowling? (Lazy guess)

Locamon

Denerick wrote: »

J.K. Rowling? (Lazy guess)

Unfortunately not....but if they were first published in the same decade as this author I bet they would have been burned in the churchyard too:D

randomguy

That'd be Edna O'Brien, I'd say. Guessing the book was the Country Girls.

Locamon

randomguy wrote: »

That'd be Edna O'Brien, I'd say. Guessing the book was the Country Girls.

Correct...that would pass the next question to you:)

randomguy

Name the writer who wrote a series of novels for teenagers about a young boy, whose mother is dead, who discovers that he has magical powers and goes off to boarding school to train to be a wizard. We then follow his career as he fights evil and the forces of darkness, grappling with issues of black magic and his own power, until after adventures and escapades he matures from being a callow kid to a wise wizard.
One important clue - the writer is an american woman.

randomguy

While people are trying to work out the one above (I think I picked a question that can't be googled anyway) here's another one - this time if you want to cheat you just might be able to google it.

What writer connects Anthony Blunt, Copernicus and Malcolm MacArthur?

randomguy

Have I made them too hard? Maybe the following will help.

Clues:
The female writer was born in California and lives in Portland Oregon - the main character in the trilogy I was referring to has a few names, one of which is sparrowhawk.

The second writer is an Irish male, and as well as novels narrated by fictionalised characters based on Anthony Blunt (one of the Cambridge spies) and Malcolm MacArthur (the GUBU murderer), he has written novels about some famous renaissance physicists as well as a novella about a letter to the inventor of the 3 laws of motion.

dave13

The second one is John Banville anyway.

lemon_sherbert

randomguy wrote: »

Clues:
The female writer was born in California and lives in Portland Oregon - the main character in the trilogy I was referring to has a few names, one of which is sparrowhawk.

It's Ursula LeGuin I do believe, with the Earthsea Trilogy (which now has 5 books) - these were my favourite books as a kid. Kudos on the Harry Potter misdirection:p

randomguy

Ares wrote: »

The second one is John Banville anyway.

Correct

lemon_sherbert wrote: »

It's Ursula LeGuin I do believe, with the Earthsea Trilogy (which now has 5 books) - these were my favourite books as a kid. Kudos on the Harry Potter misdirection:p

And correct. I read the original 3 as a kid and loved them. Reread the first one recently and it wasn't bad at all.

To keep things moving, how about if each of ye throw a question in, so that there are 2 questions on the go at once?

lemon_sherbert

Hmm, it's hard to know whether this is easily guessed or not...

In which novel does Becky woo Rawden in search of riches?

EDIT: No joy with this yet, so I'm adding:

The novel has another prominent set of lovers; Amelia and Georga

Lizzykins

Vanity Fair?

lemon_sherbert

Lizzykins wrote: »

Vanity Fair?

Correct! Your turn

Lizzykins

Who was Jane Eyre's aunt who sent her to the awful bording school?

gogo

Aunt Reed?

Lizzykins

Right! Your turn now!

gogo

Ok, after reading the best opening lines thread...

"All children, except one, grow up" is the opening line from which famous book?

Try not google.

randomguy

gogo wrote: »

"All children, except one, grow up" is the opening line from which famous book?

Peter Pan

gogo wrote: »

Try not google.

And I promise I didn't use google at all until I'd got it. Had been thinking Huckleberry Finn, then Dracula, then something like Virgin Suicides, and it hit me (I watched Finding Neverland again recently). Only googled "peter pan" to see if I was right.

randomguy

Name the writer associated with each of the following fictional places:
(11 writers in total)

Wessex
Castle Rock
Haddam, New Jersey
Deptford
Monument (clue: it represents Waterford)
Barchester in Barsetshire
Oceania
Macondo
Rummidge
Ballybeg
Coketown

randomguy

randomguy wrote: »

Name the writer associated with each of the following fictional places:
(11 writers in total)

Wessex
Castle Rock
Haddam, New Jersey
Deptford
Monument (clue: it represents Waterford)
Barchester in Barsetshire
Oceania
Macondo
Rummidge
Ballybeg
Coketown

I was really proud of this question, but it looks like it wasn't as interesting as I thought. And I thought people would get the first 2 straight away.
No takers for any of them??? Anyone... anyone... anyone

Hermy

randomguy wrote: »

I was really proud of this question, but it looks like it wasn't as interesting as I thought. And I thought people would get the first 2 straight away.
No takers for any of them??? Anyone... anyone... anyone

It's a very interesting question - but I'm damned if I know the answers.
Sorry.:o

EDIT: Just used the interweb to help me and it seems I should have known a few of these.

randomguy

Ok then, I'll give a clue of a character or two who lived in or visited each place as well

Wessex -

Jude Fawley (yeah, might be a bit obscure)

Castle Rock -

Gordie La Chance, Leland Gaunt, Cujo the dog

Haddam, New Jersey -

Frank Bascombe

Deptford -

Dunstan Ramsay, Boy Staunton

Monument (clue: it represents Waterford) -

Charles Conduit, Jack Santry

Barchester in Barsetshire -

Dr. Thorne

Oceania -

Winston Smith

Macondo -

Jose Arcadia Buendia, Remedios

Rummidge -

Phillip Swallow, Vic Wilcox and Robyn Penrose

Ballybeg -

Gar O'Donnell, the Mundy sisters, Yolland and Manus

Coketown -

Gradgrind and Bounderby

turgon

Charles Dickens! Coketown was the givaway.

Ok name the author who killed himself, whos father killed himself, whos brother killed himself , whos sister killed herself and whos granddaughter killed herself.

Pretty gruesome!

Blush_01

I saw Deptford and immediately thought Michelle Magorian - and what is possibly my favourite children's book ever. I'm a bit out of my depth here I think!

randomguy

turgon wrote: »

Charles Dickens! Coketown was the givaway

It's 11 different (and unconnected) writers I was looking for. You're right on Coketown, though - Hard Times.

turgon wrote: »

Ok name the author who killed himself, whos father killed himself, whos brother killed himself , whos sister killed herself and whos granddaughter killed herself.

Pretty gruesome!

I know this one, but I seem to be hogging this thread, so I am not saying anything. Funnily enough, my flickr actually has a photo or two of a former residence of his.

pica

Ernest Hemingway?

turgon

pica wrote: »

Ernest Hemingway?

Yep!

I just assumed, having only read two dickens' books, that they were all places in his other texts.