2016 12 blf full meals_prelims

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Bookasura!Full Meals —The Open Quiz

The Prelims

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The Rules of the Game

25 questions

All answers in writing

1 point per answer, part points available

No negatives – please take guesses!

Qs. 11-15 are starred, and will be used to break ties

Any further ties will be broken via sudden death

Top 8 teams in the final

Answers!

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We begin with a tribute.

Thuglak, the magazine run by ‘Cho’

Ramaswamy, once had an all-black cover.

Why?

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As a protest during the Emergency

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Sources differ on which book holds this title. Usually there

are three contenders: the Bible, the Quran and

Quotations from Chairman Mao.

In each case, it is almost impossible to verify

the actual facts – the Bible is the most likely contender.

What title/what record are these books contenders for?


Best-selling book of all time

(Accept most number of copies sold)

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What two words have been blanked out

from this TIME Magazine cover that

talks about the publishing success of

this author?


The Godfather

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By what titular geographical name is the planet

Arrakis better known in the world of science-fiction?

The author later wrote sequels titled ___ Messiah, Children of ___,

God Emperor of ___, Heretics of ____, and Chapterhouse: ____.


Dune

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He started his career as an architectural

sculptor at the (now) Victoria and

Albert Museum. He spent a lot of time

in India. This book is a result of his

tours across the northern provinces.

Who is the author, who also illustrated

many of his son’s works?


John Lockwood Kipling

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This word comes from a word that literally

means “narrative”, and usually brings to

mind the mythical stories from

Scandinavia.

What word, also the title of this

acclaimed graphic novel series?


Saga

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What is the appropriate 3-word title

of this biography?


Football, Bloody Hell!

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Quebecois graphic novelist Guy Delisle’s chronicles are a delight to

read. He has published his travels to Burma, Korea, China and so on.

In which city is this one based?


Jerusalem

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When this man passed away in 2015, a book club was debating which of his works they should read during one of their sessions.

Motorcycles, Music, and a ‘Miracle’ Drug:

Which ______ _____ Book Should We Read for the SciFri Book Club?

• One chronicles his experience treating victims of “sleeping sickness”

• In another, we hear story of his life, from early adulthood to old age.

• The third is about the brain’s musical mysteries.

Who was this science writer?


Oliver Sacks

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Among the highest-earning authors, this person is on top for the

third year running, with a $95 million pre-tax haul. Name, please.


James Patterson

Starred questions begin…

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Printing was a hobby for this couple. It provided a diversion for the

woman when writing became too stressful. They started The Hogarth

Press in 1917. It was named after their house in Richmond, in which

they began hand-printing books. During the interwar period, it grew

from a hobby to a business. The person who began this business also

threw up this memorable dictum: “A woman must have money

and _ ___ __ ___ ___ if she is to write fiction.”

Who?

Which seminal feminist essay takes its name from the blanks here?


Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

The blanks were “a room of her own”

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The 89-year-old in the centre has been facing a lot of flak over a

decision he made about five years ago, which involved handing over

his responsibilities to the other two gentlemen.

However, purists say that he should be blamed entirely for a general

decline in quality since an unfortunate event in the late 1970s.

Identify the man in the middle. (0.5 pts)

Name these two people OR the unfortunate 1970s event (0.5 pts)


Albert Uderzo

Goscinny’s death

OR

Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad

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This 1973 film starring Yul Brynner as an

android gone rogue has been back in

the news recently. The man who wrote

the screenplay (and directed the film)

would return to the same theme again

—to much more success—more than a

decade or so later.

Identify this film/tell us why

its been in the news.

Who is the director of this film?


Westworld

Michael Crichton

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This book, set to be released in February

2017, is a retelling of Norse myths in the

author’s trademark style.

Identify the author.

Considering the subject of the book,

what is the name of the object featured

on the cover?


Neil Gaiman

Mjollnir

(no points for Thor’s Hammer)

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In her memoir, the author (of works like the one shown here) talks in detail about her marriage that lasted from 2004 to 2007. Every October,

she says, her husband’s mood would sour, as it was the month of the _____.

“He was certain he was [..] and every year I’d comfort him, cooing, ‘Oh, they don’t know what they’re doing.’ [..] the disappointment

understandably cut him deeply.”

Who is the author?

What was her husband getting sour about?


Padma Lakshmi

Salman Rushdie not winning the Nobel Prize

End of Starred Questions

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This author goes by a strange name which he was given during his

wild teenage years. It was bestowed on him by a friend who

reckoned that everything he attempted was fated to produce the

opposite result to the one planned.

His 2003 book became the first to receive a

Booker and a Whitbread (for the same book).

Born Peter Finlay, who is this dirty but clean chap?


DBC Pierre

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One of the most vilified men of his

generation, he was perpetually

made fun of. During a visit to

America, he was derided for living

off his friends.

Who is being made fun of in this

cartoon?


Oscar Wilde

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By definition, this is a force that arrives to find a solution to a

seemingly hopeless situation. We witness it in the form

of a contrived plot device in some plays and novels.

It is also an inspiration for the name of this comic book series

about the world’s first and only superhero, who, in the wake

of his actions on 9/11, is elected Mayor of New York City.

What is the term we are looking at?


Deux Ex Machina

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For both the ‘Nebula’ and the ‘Hugo’ awards,

the categorisation is as follows:

• X — less than 7,500 words

• Y — at least 17,500 words but less than 40,000 words

• Z — 40,000 words or more

What are X, Y and Z?

(0.5 points for any two)


X – Short Story

Y – Novella

Z – Novel

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In 2011, three literary figures—Laeeq Futehally, Arshia Sattar, and

Achal Prabhala—came together to present an anthology that

included essays, poems and short stories published in a former

Indian quarterly.

What was the rhyming title of this effort?


The Best of Quest

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In Tracy Chevalier’s soon to be published book New Boy,

the main protagonist is a diplomat’s son Osei Kokote.

The story is set in a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard. He is

new at the school, his fourth in six years and is lucky to hit it off with

Dee, the most popular girl in school. One other student can’t stand

this and he decides to destroy the black boy and the girl.

What is the plot based on?


Shakespeare’s Othello

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These are comic book titles based on what pop culture phenomenon

that is very much in the news now?

The Last Padawan

From the Journals of Old Ben Kenobi: "The Last of His Breed"

The Corridors of Coruscant

The Canyons of Kardoa

The Mesas of Mygeeto


Star Wars

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This is from a review of Saul Bellow’s book, Humboldt’s Gift:

Beyond and behind the wit lies Bellow’s spiritual questing... Bellow

talked about prayer as “checking in with universal headquarters.” In a

way “Humboldt's Gift” is like a _______ that's run out of control—

gorgeous, funny and sad.

What ‘reverent petition’ will fill the blank?


Kaddish

Bellow was Jewish

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Which work begins thus?


The Raven

By Edgar Allen Poe

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This is from the reburial of Richard III.

Whose poem is Cumberbatch reading?


Carol Ann Duffy

She’s the Poet Laureate

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