sign in sign up
<<
Home , John Galsworthy, Patrick White, Wole Soyinka

Christmas 2007 Quiz Supplement Answers to both quizzes and the crossword will be printed in the Spring Newsletter

Christmas Quiz 1 : for Literature Set by Mr Blackhead 26 who write in English have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Match the first lines of these works with the . Writers 12. Time present and time past / Are both ; WB Yeats; GB Shaw; Sinclair perhaps present in time future / And time Lewis; ; Eugene O’Neill; Pearl S future contained in time past. Buck; TS Eliot; ; Bertrand 13. Nothing to be done. Russell; ; ; 14. As your Chairman has told you, the subject ; ; ; about which I am going to speak to you ; ; ; tonight is ‘Why I am not a Christian’. ; ; ; ; VS Naipaul; JM Coetzee; 15. ‘This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them ; . canoes’. / Philoctetes smiles for the tourists, who try taking / his soul with their cameras. Quotations 16. The first thing the midwife noticed about ----- 1. It was Wang Lung’s marriage day. ------when she helped him out of his 2. This is America – a town of a few thousand, mother into the world was that he had a hare in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and lip. little groves. 17. ‘If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with 3. A clearing on the edge of the market, me,’ thought M----- H----. dominated by an immense ‘odan’ tree. 18. Turning and turning in the widening gyre / 4. Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men The falcon cannot hear the falconer. and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek 19. I’m getting chilled to the bone. What can hotel. Freddy be doing all this time? He’s been 5. All year the flax-dam festered in the heart / gone twenty minutes. Of the townland; green and heavy headed / 20. Those privileged to be present at a family Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge festival of the F-----s have seen that charming sods. and instructive sight – an upper middle-class 6. Jewel and I come up from the field, following family in full plumage. the path in a single file. 21. The two women were alone in the 7. After the end of the World War of 1914 there flat. was a deep conviction and almost universal 22. Pale freckled eggs. hope that peace would reign in the world. 23. Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing 8. He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, champion of Princeton. astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick 24. The boy with fair hair lowered himself down platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher – the the last few feet of rock and began to pick his Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore way toward the lagoon. Museum. 25. A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas 9. Mick is alone in the room, sitting on the bed. River drops in close to the hillside bank and 10. But old Mrs Goodman did die at last. runs deep and green. 11. Living room of James Tyrone’s summer 26. The world is what it is; men who are nothing, home on a morning in August, 1912. who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. Christmas Crossword : Quotes and Books Set by Agent Isobel

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9

10 11

12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19

20

21 22 23

24

25 26 27 28

29 30

31 32 33

Across 1. “This is the ---- wine, ma’am, that the board ordered for the infirmary …” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist. (4) 12. “Miss Temple had always something 3. “… blameless as he was, he was not of serenity in her air … which only growing dreadfully in ----, but precluded deviation into the ardent, the was hearing of it so often …” Jane ------, the eager …” Charlotte Bronte, Austen, Persuasion. (4) Jane Eyre. (7) 6. “‘I, too, have had something of an 13. “There’s husbandry in heaven; / Their adventure,’ said Mr. Winkle [and] he ------are all out”. Macbeth, II.i. (7) detailed the malicious ----- of the 14. “I would then take a sheet of paper, Eatanswill INDEPENDENT …” and write across the top … the Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers. heading, ‘Memorandum of ---- debts’” (5) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 10. Alice Through the ------and What (4) She Found There, a philatelic 16. “------tames man, woman, and beast.” phantasy. Gerald M King. (6,3) The Taming of the Shrew, IV.i. (6) 11. “Sigismund arbuthnot the mad ---- 18. Farmer Giles of ---. JRR Tolkein. (3) master musters his rhomboids.” Geoffrey Willans & Ronald Searle, 21. “--- lords a-leaping.” English Carol. How to be topp. (5) (3) 22. “At the extreme, in a concoction like 6. “One ------clock against the sky / ------... the egg proteins are so diluted Proclaimed the time was neither wrong that they can’t possibly accommodate nor right.” Robert Frost, Acquainted all the liquid, and instead merely give With The Night. (8) it some body.” Harold McGee, McGee 7. “O little town of ------.” American on Food and Cooking. (6) Carol. (9) 23. “… per omnia secula seculorum. ----.” 8. “In a world of flying loves and fading Tridentine Rite. (4) -----, / It is something to be sure of a 25. “Will ye buy ony fish – Bonnie ------, desire.” GK Chesterton, The Great as cheap as they're clean?” W Gordon, Minimum. (5) in David H Edwards, Modern Scottish 9. “Now is the time for all good men to Poets. (7) come to the aid of the -----.” Charles E 27. “‘If anyone so much as mentions Weller. (5) concentration camps again,’ said 15. “Aunt Dahlia is as jovial and Ambrose Silk, ‘I shall go frankly bonhomous as a dame in a Christmas ------.’” Evelyn Waugh, Put out More ------.” PG Wodehouse, Much Flags. (7) Obliged, Jeeves. (9) 29. “‘And the ----- workhouses?’ 17. “They were cures for warts … and demanded Scrooge. ‘Are they still in ------and cramp, and a spell for operation?’” Charles Dickens, A taking a swarm of bees.” CS Lewis, Christmas Carol. (5) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. (9) 30. “… this is the ------devil / That 19. “Confutation of vassal for prince meet robb’d Andronicus of his good hand.” – Wherein all the powers that convince Titus Andronicus, V.i. (9) meet, And mash my opponent to 31. “And he took -----, and gave thanks, ------!” Robert Browning, and brake it, and gave unto them, Pacchiarotto VII. (9) saying …” Luke, 22:19. (5) 20. “We are all of us ------to death: it’s 32. “The First ----, the Angels did say …” life we aren’t ------to.” Graham English Carol. (4) Greene, The Heart of the Matter. (8) 33. “He that buckles him in my ----.” 24. “… and when they had opened their Henry IV Part II. (4) treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and Down -----.” Matthew, 2:11. (5) 1. Little Old Mrs ------. Alf Proysen & 25. “‘You’re – you’re a witch?’ ‘I’m a Bjorn Berg. (9) -----, as Mundungus knows full 2. “Fair Greece! sad ----- of departed well…” JK Rowling, Harry Potter worth!” Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s and the Order of the Phoenix. (5) Pilgrimage. (5) 26. “Herself the solitary ----- left / Of a 4. “I have spoken of the ------of time-honour'd race.” Lord Byron, organic bodies and human remains in Dream. (5) peat.” Charles Lyell, The Geological 28. “And God said, Let us make man in Evidence of the Antiquity of Man. (9) our -----, after our likeness …” 5. “One man’s ----- waste is another Genesis, 1:26. (5) man’s potpourri.” How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film). (5) Christmas Quiz 2 : Identify the Artist Set by Agent Tiger Identify the artist (author, composer, painter, sculptor) responsible for these works. As a clue the following symbols have been used to indicate: & literature, ♫ music, • painting or sculpture.

1. ♫ The Wasps 33. & Room with a View 2. & The Lion, the Witch and the 34. ♫ Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus Wardrobe 35. & The L-Shaped Room 3. & Middlemarch 36. & The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 4. • The Thinker 37. • Guernica 5. & A Child’s History of 38. & Timon of Athens 6. & Fleshmarket Close 39. & A Brief History of Time 7. ♫ Mr Bear Squash-you-all-flat 40. • The Hay Wain 8. & Philosophiæ naturalis principia 41. ♫ Blue Suede Shoes mathematica 42. & The Wasps 9. & Lolita 10 10. • The Laughing Cavalier 4 11. & Summoned by Bells 12. & Villette 13. • A Dance to the Music of Time 14. & Vision of Piers Plowman 15. & Wintersmith 16. ♫ Aida 17. & The Barnard Letters 18. & The Thirty-Nine Steps 31 19. ♫ Daydream Believer 28 20. & Northern Lights 21. & The Insect Play 22. ♫ Catulli Carmina 23. & Cold Comfort Farm 40 24. & Under the Greenwood Tree 25. ♫ Noye’s Fludde 26. & Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 27. & Ivanhoe 28. • The Ambassadors 37 29. & Black Mischief 30. & The Wind in the Willows 31. • The Fighting Temeraire 32. & Rates of Exchange