WORLD BOOK DAY QUIZ

Thursday 5 March 2020

QUIZ RULES:Answer as many questions as possible.

You are competing against the other tutor groups in your year and whichever tutor group gets the most questions right will win a prize!

You are not allowed to look up the answers.

Please return your completed paper copy of the quiz to the library.

GENERAL (BOOK) KNOWLEDGE

1)What is the term used to describe non-magical people in Harry Potter?

2)What is the surname of the children in the Narnia Series?

3)Name Peter Pan’s gang.

4) What is the name of Bilbo Baggins’ wizard friend?

5) What was the first James Bond novel?

6) What are the names of Peter Rabbit’s three sisters?

7)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created which famous detective?

8)Name 5 (Or as many as you can for more points …) of Shakespeare’s plays.

9)In Cressida Cowell’s How to train your dragon what is the name of Hiccup’s dragon?

10)Who is missing from Enid Blyton’s Famous Five? Julian, Dick, Anne, George and …..

11)In which book by MalorieBlackman would you find Sephy?

12)Who created Where’s Wally?

13)Who said she would leave when the wind changed?

14)Who is the main villain in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy?

15) Who wrote the Cherub Series?

Were the following originally Books or Films?• Jurassic Park•The Empire Strikes Back •Mary Poppins•The Bourne Identity•Back to the Future•Forrest Gump

•The Lord of the Rings•Jumanji•Mortal Engines•E.T. •The Lion King

Match the title with the author:Wind in the Willows Suzanne CollinsTo Kill a Mocking Bird Alexandre DumasWar and Peace Kenneth GrahameMockingjay Liz PichonThe Count of Monte Cristo Jane AustenMansfield Park Harper LeeTom Gates-Everything’s Amazing (sort of) Leo Tolstoy

Solve these anagrams of Book titles:• SAIFORMN AVR REEDODE – Ian Fleming• TSEHTNGIG EHIUWHR - Emily Bronte• NODWRE - P J Palacio• PRW DAC NEEAA - Leo Tolstoy• RTFNIMFOT AA CXS- Roald Dahl• SPTIT EOEAGNIXRCTEAT - C Dickens• SIPO MRPPNYA -P L Travers• HKMCETEAC – Malorie Blackman

Match the book titles with their first line:• The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling• The Twits, Roald Dahl• Stormbreaker, A Horowitz• Tess of the D’Umbervilles, T Hardy• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens• The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien• Charlotte’s Web, E B White• Brighton Rock, Graham Greene• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins• Rebecca, Dauphne De Maurier• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

FIRST LINES:

1) In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.

2) Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

3) Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.

4) On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor.

5) When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it’s never good news.

6) My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

7) The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate of the pink-flowering thorn.

8) It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeoneehills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in the tips.

9) What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays.

10) ‘Where’s Papa going with that axe?’ Said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

11) It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

12) When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

THE ENDPlease return your completed paper copy of

the quiz to the library.

Thank you for playing and Good Luck!