Ramsdencon February 2004 Multimedia Quiz

Section 2

Literature

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  1. Put the following characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books in the order of their first appearance: Captain Vimes, Death, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Rincewind.

  2. Lieutenant Stephen Maryk and Lieutenant Junior Grade Willie Keith were the defendants in the court martial of what event, as described (technically incorrectly) in the title of the work in question? What was the name of the target of their offence?

  3. Which Hugo and Nebula Award winning first novel, by which author, is generally credited with bringing the cyberpunk subgenre to general awareness in the science fiction field?

  4. He is the fictional first person narrator of the stories he appears in. In the first of these we learn he was struck in the shoulder by a Jezail bullet at the battle of Maiwand. He married a Miss Mary Morstan, but his author later killed her off to return him to probably the most famous fictional address in London, shared with his more famous companion, responsible for the modern decoration of the Underground station of the corresponding name. What is his name, and what is the address?

  5. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, apart from other similarities, have the common feature that the first book have different names in the U.S.A. Give both American titles.

  6. Which one of the following has not won the Booker prize: Peter Carey, J.M. Coetzee, Thomas Keneally, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson?

  7. Only five people were Poets Laureate of the United Kingdom wholly in the twentieth century. Name two of them.

  8. Name two of the Kings of England since the Norman Conquest and not named Henry who are the subject of a Shakespeare play.

  9. He persuaded his friends to pay him to do his job painting a fence, won a Bible but then suggested that the first two disciples were David and Goliath, and he rescued Becky Thatcher from Injun Joe and McDougal's Cave. Who?

  10. "The wrath of Achilles is my theme." as one translation of The Illiad starts. Whose death caused the wrath and who killed him?

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