World Book Day 4/3/10

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there is a rich variety of subjects to choose from.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This is a unique occasion to become familiar with what the library contains.  If you wish to follow up your visit to come and spend more time looking at particular books it is easy to make an appointment with the Hon Librarian Sue Baldwin who will be happy to assist you.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Especially for World Book Day our Collections Manager Mark Lewis has devised a book quiz (see below).  This is not for the feint-hearted but have a go and if you get them all correct you will be awarded free entry to the museum for the week Monday 1</B><B> </B><B>- Friday 5 March 2010, which includes World Book Day.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The museum is open from 10.00am-4.30pm Monday to Friday.  Tel (01834) 842809 for further information.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>BOOK QUIZ</B></I></div> <div> <B>1.  The poet C Day Lewis also wrote detective fiction using which pseudonym?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2.  Witnessing the bombing of which city during WWII inspired Kurt Vonnegut Jr's classic novel Slaughterhouse 5?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>3.  The poet Tony Harrison upset The Daily Mail amongst others with he publication of which poem in 1985?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>4.  The new film A Single Man starring Colin Firth is based upon a novel by which writer?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>5.  What is the name of the club to which PG Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster is a member?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>6.  “SLAYS TWO, FOUND GASSED, Thinks of Cat” is the only newspaper obituary of George Harvey Bone in which Patrick Hamilton novel?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>7.  In TS Eliot's The Wasteland, which is the cruellest month?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>8.  Graham Greene's The Lawless Road describes his adventures in which country?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>9.  JM Coetzee won the Booker Prize for Fiction twice - once for The Life and Times of Michael K in 1983 and for which novel in 1999?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>10  Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie was published under which title in America in 1960, one year after its publication in the UK?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>11.  Which George Eliot novel is subtitled A Study of Provincial Life?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>12.  What was the title of Dylan Thomas' first published collection of poetry?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>13.  In which novel by Arthur Conan Doyle did Sherlock Holmes first appear?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>14.  Stanley, Goldberg and McCann are characters in which Harold Pinter play, written in 1957?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>15.  What was the title of Jane Austen's last novel, published posthumously in 1818?</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>