Stimulating September - WHO? It's quiz time!

Hello Everyone,

I hope you have all had a most enjoyable week. Maybe you learned something from last week's quiz - the answers are now available.

Now for this week's quiz:

1. Who in ancient Greece made a great discovery while taking a bath?
Archimedes


2.  Who 'tilted at windmills'?
Don Quixote


3.  Who crowns the Sovereign of Great Britain?
The Archbishop of Canterbury


4.  Who introduced the 'penny post' in Britain?
Sir Rowland Hill


5.  Who invented the first astronomical telescope?
Galileo

6.  Who first flew over the North Pole?
Commander Byrd


7.  Who are the patron saints of a)Russia  b) Italy?
a) St Nicholas   b)St Anthony


8.  Who founded the Jesuits?
Ignatius Loyola 

9.  Who was the last Viceroy of India?
Earl Mountbatten of Burma


10. Who is regarded as the greatest of Chinese philosopher's?
Confucius 


11.  WHO stands for what?
World Health Organisation


12.  Who gave us Love Me Tender  and Wooden Heart?
Elvis Presley


13.  Who would be a true cockney?
A person born within the sound of the bells of St Mary Le Bow Church, Cheapside, London. UK


14.  Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo Da Vinci


15.  Who was the sixteenth century German engraver famous for Praying Hands?
Albrecht Durer


16.  Who lives at 10, Downing Street, London?
The Prime Minister of England


17.  Who was the English outlaw, who robbed the rich to pay the poor?
Robin Hood


18.  Who in the thirteenth century invented gunpowder and spectacles?
Roger Bacon


19.  Who, in 1927, made the first solo non-stop Atlantic flight?
Charles Lindberg


20.  Who wrote Time & Tide, No Regrets, Stay in Touch, Look After Each Other, Sofia's Legacy? and Love You Forever.
Marilyn L Rice !!!!

Answers next week.

Lady M! (The smart arse who knows all the answers)

Stimulating September... THE BOOKWORM! it's quiz time again

Hello Everyone,

It's quiz time!

1. Who has a secret diary and is in love with Pandora?
Adrian Mole

2. What is the title of Peter Ustinov's autobiography?
'Dear Me'

3. In which book did Toad of Toad Hall first appear?
'The Wind in the Willows'


4.Which of F.Scott Fitzgerald's novels begins, In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice.?
'The Great Gatsby'


6. By what name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known?
Mark Twain


7.The setting for Thomas Hardy's novels is the West Country of England. What is his name for this region?
Wessex


8.Which book by Paul Gallico is a story of Dunkirk?
'The Snow Goose'


9.Which author wrote about Tilly Trotter?
Catherine Cookson


10. Which Shakespearean play begins with a storm and a shipwreck?
'The Tempest'


11. Where were the following authors born a) D H Lawrence  b) Charles Dickens  c)Thomas Hardy?
a)Eastwood, Nottingham  b)Landport, Portsmouth  c)Nr. Dorchester


12. What is the title of the American novel by Steinbeck about the migrants heading for the Golden West of California?
'The Grapes of Wrath'


13. In which books do the following characters appear
a)Eustacia Vye   b)Dorothea Brooke,   c)Catherine Barkley?
a) 'The Return of the Native'  b)'Middlemarch'   c)'A Farewell to Arms'

14. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in  a)1954  b)1962?
a)Ernest Hemingway   b) John Steinbeck


15. In which book do Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara appear?
'Gone with the Wind'


16. What theme did both Christopher Marlowe and Goethe use for a play?
The Faust Legend


17. In which novel are the March sisters first introduced?
'Little Women'


18. Which 17th Century work was written in Bedford jail?
'The Pilgrim's Progress'

19. Who wrote Brave New World?
Aldous Huxley


20. In which century was Beowulf  written?
Eighth Century

Answers next week. Have a great week folks and if you have time on your hands, do not waste it... read a book.

Love y'all!

Lady M xxxx

It's quiz time 2...An American Trilogy

Isn't it just beautiful? Paphos sunset. I love it!

Hello Everyone,

The answers to last week's Shakespeare quiz are now available. So, how many did you get right? Go on... be honest. Did you cheat and look up the answers?

For my second quiz in this series, I am using three eminent American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota and wrote five novels and five volumes of short stories. Ernest Hemingway was from Chicago, the second of six children and the son of a doctor. John Steinbeck was born in California, he wrote a number of books, short stories and plays.

Twelve questions. Twenty-four characters. Can you name the twelve novels and their author. Well, you have a one in three chance of being right with the author. Answers next week.

1. Rose of Sharon & Casy, the preacher  THE GRAPES OF WRATH, (J.S.)


2. Robert Cohn & Mrs Braddocks  FIESTA (THE SUN ALSO RISES) (E.H.)


3. George & Lennie OF MICE AND MEN (J.S.)


4. Nick Carraway & Gatsby THE GREAT GATSBY (F.S.F)


5. Catherine Barkley & Frederic Henry A FAREWELL TO ARMS (E.H.)


6. Monroe Stahr & Cecelia Brady THE LAST TYCOON (F.S.F)


7. Robert Jordan & Anselmo  FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (E.H.)

 

8. Lee Chong & Dora Flood  CANNERY ROW (J.S.)

9.Apolonia & The Doctor THE PEARL (J.S)


10.Dick & Nicole Diver TENDER IS THE NIGHT (F.S.F)


11.Santiago & Manolin THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (E.H)


12.Amory Blaine & Beatrice Blaine THIS SIDE OF PARADISE (F.S.F.)



Have fun... yours, Lady M

OCTOBER book quiz.

Moi at Arnold earlier this year!

Hello Everyone,

Lady M here for the last time this year! The pic? I just like it. This week I'm thinking of autumn evenings by a warm fireside with a book or quiz. Well, I'm going back to childhood days but I'm leaving you with a Lady M quiz designed to entertain and test your brains. No cheating and looking up answers on the Net!

It is alphabetical. Each one has a book title with a word missing, and the author. Can you fill in the missing word? Have you read the book?

A   "ANNE  of Green Gables"     L.M. MONTGOMERY

B   "BLACK Beauty"  ANNA SEWELL

C   "CATCH 22"  JOSEPH HELLER

D  "DEATH on the Nile"  AGATHA CHRISTIE

E   "Jane EYRE"  CHARLOTTE BRONTE

F   "A FAREWELL to Arms"  ERNEST HEMINGWAY

G  "The GRAPES of Wrath"  JOHN STEINBECK

H  "Wuthering HEIGHTS"  EMILY BRONTE

I   "IVANHOE" WALTER SCOTT

J   "JUDE the Obscure"  THOMAS HARDY

K  "To KILL a Mockingbird" HARPER LEE

L  "LOVE Story" ERICH SEGAL

M "MIDDLEMARCH"  GEORGE ELIOT

N  "NORTH and South"  ELIZABETH GASKELL

0   "OUR Mutual Friend" CHARLES DICKENS

P  "PRIDE and Prejudice"  JANE AUSTEN

Q  "The QUIET American" GRAHAM GREENE

R  "ROBINSON Crusoe"  DANIEL DEFOE

S  "SATURDAY Night and Sunday Morning"  ALAN SILITOE

T  "TENDER Is the Night"  F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

U  "ULYSSES"  JAMES JOYCE

V  "A Room With A VIEW"  E M FORSTER

W  "WAR and Peace"  LEO TOLSTOY

Y  "Love YOU Forever" MARILYN L RICE

Z   "Dr ZHIVAGO"  BORIS PASTERNAK


So, 25 book titles. Yes, X is missing. if you can find a book with X in the title  other than "Don Quixote" please share with us. Answers next week.

Lady M xxx