2016 12 blf full meals_finals

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Bookasura!‘Full Meals’ — The Open Quiz

The Finals

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Round I - Roundabout

15 questions

Clockwise, starting with Team 1

10 points per right answer

Part points at QM’s discretion

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X comes from two Greek words that mean

“common people” and “rule, strength”

Y comes from another pair that means “think differently”

Combine these two and provide a book title that came out in 2016.

Name the well-known author as well.

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Democrats and Dissenters

Ramchandra Guha

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This memorable dialogue states that someone’s preferences included

these three and the speaker himself, among other things.

Where would you come across all these in succession?

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The opening lines of Love Story

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This is Bill Maher’s witty comment on a news-making 2016 event.

The latter two blanks are filled – rather appropriately by two works

by an author – one from 1811, and the other from 1813.

What event? What are the two titles?

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Brexit

Sense and Sensibility & Pride and Prejudice

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In 1983, as a 17-year-old student, he resolved to prepare a lexicon for the ____ region, covering the districts of Coimbatore, Erode,

Tiruppur, Salem and Karur. He collected dialect words from friends and relatives, and from oral traditions.

The early attempt at lexicography would come to fruition seventeen years later, in 2000. In sum, his over 35 books provide a veritable

cultural map of the ____ region.

Who is this man, who became a well known public figure in the last year or so, due to unfortunate reasons? Also, fill in the blanks.

Answer…


Perumal Murugan

Kongu

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____ _____ _____ ___: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood chronicles the 1970s New Hollywood era. This was when talented young filmmakers, along with a new

breed of actors, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, and Jaws.

The blanks are two films that bookmark the era: a low-budget cult classic that kick-started the era, and the other which ended it—a

biopic considered the supreme work of a partnership.

Name them both.

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Easy Rider (1969)

Raging Bull (1980)

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This 1997 autobiography was an immediate best-seller, seeing how little anyone knew about the man’s life and methods. Among other things, he is believed to have been the inspiration for a character in

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

The New York Times’ review of the book was given a three-word title that very appropriately shares its name with 1960s comic creation by

a Cuban immigrant.

Who? What was the title of the review?

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Markus Wolf

Spy vs Spy

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He was an author, diplomat and former Royal Air Force pilot whose

chief claim to fame was a 1959 memoir of teaching in London’s

deprived East End. The book chronicled his efforts — as a courtly,

Cambridge-educated military veteran who had been denied

employment as an engineer because he was black — to motivate a

group of unruly adolescents raised in a slum in early-1950s Britain.

The title of the book comes from an inscription his appreciative

students wrote on a pack of cigarettes they gave him.

Who? Which book?

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ER Braithwaite

To Sir, With Love

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In 2011, Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi was quoted as saying: “If you want to understand my situation, read Gabriel Garcia

Marquez’s book ____ __ _ ______ .”

Musavi and his wife had been under house arrest for more than six months, when he spoke about the book. It is an account of the 1990

abduction of people by drug traffickers and the terror they endure during their captivity. It also describes the suffering and the efforts by the

families to free the hostages.

Name this book.

Which person/group is the primary antagonist(s) of the work?

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News of A Kidnapping

Pablo Escobar/Medellin Cartel

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Urban Dictionary defines a ___ as “someone who has odd interests,

and is often silly at times. A ___ is also someone who can be

themselves and not care what anyone thinks.”

Connect this, to this author and Twitter personality shown here.

Answer…


Sidin Vadukut’s Dork Trilogy

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X is a 1941 short story/novelette is widely regarded as one of the greatest

in the history of science fiction. The story is about darkness coming to a

world permanently in sunlight.

Y is a 1993 story arc in which an iconic character is defeated and dealt a

crippling blow by one of his archenemies. One of the most influential

storylines in the genre, it also provided inspiration for a 2012 film.

What are X and Y, separated only by a letter?

Which 2012 film?

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Nightfall (by Isaac Asimov) & Knightfall

The Dark Knight Rises

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What two-word title connects two works of non-fiction by these two

authors? Although set in the same country, one concerns events in

the mid 1940s, while the other is about the early 2000s.

Identify the lady as well.

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Indian Summer

Alex von Tunzelmann

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This is an extract from a poem written after the death of the poet’s friend

Richard West. Two centuries later, it remains his best known work.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,

Awaits alike th' inevitable hour.

The ___ _ ____ lead but to the grave.

Identify the work whose title is a misnomer, and also fill in the blanks.

The blanks provide the title of the work shown here.

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (by Thomas Gray)

Paths of Glory

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Following an announcement a couple of months ago, he dismissed

the controversy surrounding it by saying that “To me [it] is like

pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.”

The announcement led many to believe that he could be next in line.

In an interview published a few days later, he announced soberly that

“he was ready to die”- a threat he followed up with a few weeks later.

Who? What controversy are we talking about?

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Leonard Cohen

Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize

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In a 2012 debate on Radio 4 with the Rev. Giles Fraser, he made a bit of a mess of himself. Irritated by his constant baiting, Fraser asked

him to do a simple thing: name the full title of the book he championed above all others.

Much to everyone’s shock (and delight), he failed utterly. He also topped it off, quite ironically, by swearing “__ ___!” Needless to say,

the press had a field day.

Who? Which book’s title couldn’t he remember?

What unlikely two words came out on air?

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Richard Dawkins; Origin of Species

“Oh God!”

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Identify this character, who was part of

an expensive 2016 film.

The title of this collection is a tribute to

the title of Book 1 of the collected

version of a seminal early 1990s work.

Name that work as well.

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Harley Quinn

Sandman

S C O R E S

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Round II – Side Dishes

Six questions in writing, film posters of films based on books

In each case, identify the film/book and the author

+8 for each correct answer (+4 for each part)

No negatives

There is also a common theme that connects all the answers

(non-exhaustive), which gets you another 7 points

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Film Release: 2008

Book Release: 1999

After having an affair with a student, a

Cape Town professor moves to the

Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up

in a mess of post-apartheid politics.

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Film Release: 2013

Book Release: 2005

The story of a man who returns to

the sea where he spent his

childhood summers in search of peace

following the death of his wife.

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Film Release: 1983

Book Release: 1975

Anne is investigating the life of her

grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has

always been shrouded with scandal.

The search leads back to the early 1920s,

when Olivia, recently married to Douglas, a

civil servant in the colonial administration,

comes to live with him in India.

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Film Release: 1997

Book Release: 1988

They meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society,

and as a result "join forces" together.

They are both passionate gamblers, and she bets him her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. He accepts her

wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.

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Film Release: 1993

Book Release: 1989

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to

service in the years leading up to World War II

realizes too late how misguided his loyalty

was to his lordly employer.

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Film Release: 2001

Book Release: 1996

A group of old friends reminisce

about their lives over the years after

the death of one of their crew.

Exchange Sheets

Answers Follow

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Film Release: 2008

Book Release: 1999

After having an affair with a student, a

Cape Town professor moves to the

Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up

in a mess of post-apartheid politics.


Disgrace

JM Coetzee

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Film Release: 2013

Book Release: 2005

The story of a man who returns to

the sea where he spent his

childhood summers in search of peace

following the death of his wife.


The Sea

John Banville

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Film Release: 1983

Book Release: 1975

Anne is investigating the life of her

grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has

always been shrouded with scandal.

The search leads back to the early 1920s,

when Olivia, recently married to Douglas, a

civil servant in the colonial administration,

comes to live with him in India.


Heat and Dust

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Film Release: 1997

Book Release: 1988

They meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society,

and as a result "join forces" together.

They are both passionate gamblers, and she bets him her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. He accepts her

wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.


Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

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Film Release: 1993

Book Release: 1989

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to

service in the years leading up to World War II

realizes too late how misguided his loyalty

was to his lordly employer.


The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Film Release: 2001

Book Release: 1996

A group of old friends reminisce

about their lives over the years after

the death of one of their crew.


Last Orders

Graham Swift

Theme?


Booker winning novels

made into film

S C O R E S

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Round II – About March

15 questions

Anti-clockwise, starting with Team 8

10 points per right answer

Part points at QM’s discretion

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Considering the subject matter of this book, the title is quite appropriate.

Some nice word play on the title of a breakout 1926 novel will get you the name of this book. The 1926 book was also published under the

name Fiesta, and is about a group of American expatriates.

Name the original book and author

(the cover will help!)

What is the title of this book?

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The Sun Also Rise, by Ernest Hemingway

The Pun Also Rises

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This book is the story of how ___ _____

produced his first film is legendary first film

on a shoestring budget. The title, a play on

the title of the iconic 1950s film shown

here, pays tribute to the fact that the

director did practically all the jobs by

himself for the film.

Who is this man?

What is the title of this book?

Answer…


Roberto Rodriguez

Rebel Without A Crew

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The Permian–Triassic (P–Tr) extinction event, colloquially known as

the Great Dying, occurred about 252 million years ago. It is the

Earth's most severe known extinction event.

For years there was a great debate about the cause or multiple

causes of this catastrophic event, so Douglas Erwin, in 1993, came to

a conclusion: all the causes together were responsible for it!

He called this hypothesis “The ____ __ ___ ____ _____ Model”.

What classic 1934 work fills in the blanks?

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Murder on the Orient Express

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This phrase originated from the world of musical instruments,

but got a different meaning once it began to be

used to refer to the mental state of human beings.

Writer Stephen Tignor borrowed the phrase as the title of his history of a great sporting rivalry that lasted from the late 1970s to the early

1980s. The title was particular fitting considering the nature of the main apparatus used in the sport.

What two-word phrase?

Which is the rivalry in question?

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High Strung

Borg-McEnroe

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The Last Letter is a poem that was discovered in 2010. It was clearly

the poet talking about a stressful period in his life. To some it seemed

like an apology, while some interpreted it as being just a man trying

to save his posthumous reputation.

Read the extract, name the poet and tell us what the poem is about.

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Still holding your letter,

A thunderbolt that could not earth itself.

That would have been electric shock treatment

For me.

Repeated over and over, all weekend,

As often as I read it, or thought of it.

That would have remade my brains, and my life.

The treatment that you planned needed some time.

I cannot imagine

How I would have got through that weekend.

I cannot imagine. Had you plotted it all?

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Ted Hughes, about Sylvia Plath’s suicide

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Tim ____ is an award-winning sculptor known for works that are

monumental in scale. He features in this quiz because of a work of his

in Birmingham – he created this as tribute to his great-uncle ____.

Take a good look, and

name the character portrayed in this sculpture.

Also name his uncle, a world famous author.

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Treebeard the Ent

JRR Tolkien

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It is one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking

world – and one of the richest, with a prize of 100,000 euros. Named

after _____ _____, the former Venezuelan politician and writer, it is

awarded by the government of Venezuela.

The first three winners of the prize were Mario Vargas Llosa,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes.

Name this prize.

Answer…


Rómulo Gallegos Prize

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The name ______came from the Latin text of the traditional verse spoken for ____ Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter. The verse

begins “___ ___ geniti infantes..." and is roughly translated as "As newborn babes desire the rational milk without guile...”

A titular fictional character gets his name because he was found abandoned a certain location on that day.

Who?

What location?

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Quasimodo

Notre Dame de Paris

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Connect this painting to the author you see here.

Identify the painter as well; he was one of the most

important French painters of his time.

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A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicolas Poussin

Anthony Powell named his 12-volume series after the painting

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__ ____ usually refers to the revolutionary events of 1917 Russia.

A popular name during the Soviet era, it was used to

name factories, and many other locations.

We are more familiar with another, more deadly,

object that was given this name, and popular through

a 1984 book (and a film based on it.)

What name? Which author used it for his debut novel?

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Red October

Tom Clancy

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The 2016 film Vor der Morgenröte chronicles the author’s

travels after his exile from Nazi Germany. One of the most

popular writers in the world in the 1920s and 30s, he

is largely a forgotten figure today.

However, two years back, he had a brief surge in popularity after a film about a stolen painting came out. The director confessed to basing the

main character, and indeed, the setting of the film, on ___’s works.

Who? Also name this acclaimed 2014 film.

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Stefan Zweig

The Grand Budapest Hotel

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The novel hinges on a decision that the titular character makes:

Jan is sent to the camp, while little Eva is sent to her death;

that is the terrible ____ ____ of the title.

This 1979 novel won the US National Book Award and

three years later, was responsible for someone winning

her first Oscar for Best Actress.

Name the novel and the actress.

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Sophie’s Choice

Meryl Streep

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Both these poets are Nobel laureates, and share a rather

airy connection. The woman was the first Latin American

author to win the Prize.

What connection, that might give you a whiff of France?

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Mistral

Frederic and Gabriela

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Frederick Furnivall was the second person to lead this famed 19th

century project. A confirmed eccentric, his genius, energy, and

scholarship ensured the survival of this project.

One of his friends was the banker-writer X, who he inspired into

writing ___ __ __ _____. X cast him as the Water Rat, a cunning and

ever-keen creature imbued with a properly rattish pedantry: ‘We

learned ’em!’ says Toad. ‘We taught ’em!’ corrects Rat.

What project? Which is this book?

Answer…


Oxford English Dictionary

Wind in the Willows

Last Question coming up…

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According to the preface written by this man in the 1940 edition, the

overwhelming part of the work was done by himself. The only

exception to this were Chapters 29-43 in Part V, which was done by

his friend and colleague Pyarelal in 1928-29 while he was away.

Who is this man?

What is the specific task he carried out?

Answer…


Mahadev Desai

Translating My Experiments with truth

from Gujarati to English

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