World Book Day 4 March 2010
Bunclody Library
Quiz Questions
Name Charley’s companion on his travels?
How many volumes in the recently published Dictionary of Irish biography?
What prize did Eva Ibbotson win for her ‘Journey to the River Sea’?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good
fortune must be in want of a wife”. Can you place this quote?
5) What book award gets its nominations from libraries of the world?
6) Who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1995?
7) Which novel begins ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?
8) Which Shakespeare play begins ‘If music be the food of love, play on’?
9) What is the name of the vicious young gangster in the Graham Greene novel
“Brighton Rock”?
10) Who in the Sherlock Holmes stories was called the Napoleon of crime?
11) What was the first name of Inspector Morse?
12) Under what pseudonym did Charles Dickens write some of his earlier stories?
13) What is the name of the Indian doctor who gets into trouble on a trip to the
Marabar Caves in E.M. Forster’s “A passage to India”?
14) Tom Joad is a character in which classic novel?
15) In Greek mythology who was the wife of Hephaestus?
16) With which novel would one associate the concept of Double Think?
17) In which 1924 novel do three brothers join the French Foreign Legion after
falsely admitting to stealing a diamond in order to protect the reputation of their
family?
18) On which Greek island was the 1994 novel “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” by
Louis de Bernieres set?
19) What writer created the detective Philip Marlowe?
20) What did the PG in PG Wodehouse stand for?
21) In the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, who was the Last of the Mohicans?
22) What are the names of the mean Cocker twins in the book “Journey to the River
Sea”?
23) In which novel is Frodo a central character?
24) Name the spy who features in lots of Anthony Horowitz’s books?
25) Which children’s classic begins “Once there were four children whose names
were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy”?
26) In which children’s book were Homily, Pod and Arriety first introduced to
readers?
27) Which one of the Mister Men is a practical joker who lives in a teashop shaped
house and drives a shoe shaped car?
28) Which nursery rhyme character went to Gloucester?
29) Who killed Cock Robin?
30) Where did Mary’s little lambs follow her to?
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31) In the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle diddle” what did the dish run away?
32) Who is the school principal in the novel “Matilda”?
33) Who put Humpty Dumpty back together again?
34) What did the little mermaid exchange her voice for?
35) Which nursery rhyme character spilled her curds and whey?
36) Which is the longest book in the Bible?
37) The I Ching is a sacred text in which religion?
38) What book about the origins of the universe proved to be best seller in 1988?
39) What was Gavin Maxwell’s 1960 novel about the lives of two otters on the west
coast of Scotland?
Actually Factually
40) Which Central American country became the first independent nation in the
Caribbean?
41) When was the first Monaco Grand Prix (rally) held?
42) Who or what were the passengers of the world’s first hot air balloon journey in
1783?
43) What and where was the first aviation disaster?
44) In what year was the first email sent and who sent it?
45) How wide is the moon?
46) What land location is the most remote from the open sea?
47) Who or what record breakers gathered in the Guildhall Square in Derry City on
December 9th 2007?
48) Where was Christopher Columbus born?
49) What is a baby elephant called?
50) What was the most popular pet in Ancient Egypt?
51) Name the planets in our solar system in sequence?
Can you identify the following poems:
52) Their’s not to make reply
Their’s not to reason why
Their’s but to do and die
53) So give me a bug and a jumping flea
Give me two snails and lizard three
And a slimy squiggler from the sea
54) Who wrote ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’?
55) Who wrote the lines ‘Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen, we daren’t go a
hunting, for fear of little men…’
56) Can you finish the verse of the last poem?
57) Who wrote ‘The Old Woman of the Roads’?
58) Who wrote ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’?
59) What was the name of the affectionate Irish record breaker who had her record
broken by Jeff Ondash on Valentine’s Day 2010?
60) What does the acronym OPAC stand for?
61) What can you do with www.borrowbooks.ie?
62) What was Cuchulainn’s name before he was called Cuchulainn?
63) What style of writing was James Joyce famous for?
Answers in to Bunclody Library by Thursday 18 March.