March Quizerama!

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March 7th, 2022 10:52:21am
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It's time for March's Quizerama!

We celebrate world book day in this literature based quiz!

Each correct answer will earn you 500 points on an animal of your choice. But the answers must be spot on!

Please send your answers AND the animal ID in by 11.59pm 3/12/2022

For those in mascot teams - only one set of answers per mascot may be awarded so please choose who will submit for your team!

Good luck!

1. Who wrote A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner? (one of City's favourite authors)

2. Which English writer’s 66 detective novels helped make her the best-selling author of all time?

3. In which book will you find this famous first line “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”

4. How many days did Phileas Fogg want to travel around the world in, according to Jules Verne?

5. Who wrote the autobiographical novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

6. In Ancient Greek literature, who is the presumed author of The Odyssey and The Iliad?

7. In which book will you find this famous first line “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”

8. Which famous author was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens

9. Which Shakespear play does the following line come from "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."

10. Which author created the iconic fictional character Holly Golightly?

11. Which novella published in 1937 tells the story of two migrant ranch workers searching for job opportunities in California during the Great Depression? It gets its title from a Robert Burns' poem.

12. What are the names of the three musketeers in the book written by Alexandre Dumas?

13. What is used as the portal to Narnia in C. S. Lewis' children's fantasy series?

14. What is the name of the author who wrote 'The Book Thief'?

15. Who are the protagnoists in John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars? (Also another favourite book of City's!)

And because I like a good bonus round - for a bonus 500 points, send me a picture of something (HP appropriate) that reminds you of your favourite book.