Book Quiz Friday - Week 3

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1.  What are the names of the five main characters in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five? 

Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy (the dog)


2.  How many hours were mentioned in the title of the film based on the autobiography by Aron Ralston, ’Between a Rock and a Hard Place’?

127 Hours


3.  Name the author

Alexander McCall Smith

4.  Julia Donaldson created a creature with ‘terrible tusks and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws’. What is the creature’s name?

The Gruffalo


5.  ‘If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it’.  This is a line from which play?

Twelfth Night


6.  Born in 1812, which writer and artist wrote The Book of Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, and Laughable Lyrics?

Edward Lear


7.  Which nature writer created the hugely popular and influential book on wild swimming, Waterlog. 

Roger Deakin

8.  Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole, grew up in which English city?

Leicester


9.  The 2011 book, Mother, Brother, Lover is a collection of song lyrics by which popular local songwriter?

Jarvis Cocker


10.  In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, who falls into the chocolate river?

Augustus Gloop


11.  Mr and Mrs Dursley of No 4 Privet drive were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thankyou very much!  
Which book is this first line taken from?

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 


12.  Name the author

Charlotte Bronte

13.  Judy Dench appeared in the film version of ‘Notes on a Scandal’. Who wrote the book?

Zoe Heller


14.  The film ‘Babe’ was based on which Dick King-Smith novel?

The Sheep Pig


15.  Which popular characters did Roger Hargreaves create for a series of books in the 1970s? 

Mr Men


16.  Which county is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett set? 

Yorkshire


17.  And Tango Make Three, The Canterbury Tales, and Nineteen Eighty Four.  What links these three books?

They have all been banned 

18.  The film We Bought a Zoo is based on the book by Benjamin Mee.  In which county is the zoo located?

Dartmoor Zoological Park, located in Devon


19.  World Without End is the sequel to which Ken Follett best selling epic novel?

Pillars of the Earth


20.  And finally!  Name the author.

Lord Byron

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