LitAmantes Literature Quiz 2016 Finals

X comes from Middle French, which comes directly from a Latin word Y ."a X" literally means "little mouse,"

So called because the shape and movement of some X were thought to resemble mice and also due to the medieval

belief of mice working in place of X. The analogy was also made in Greek, where mys is both "mouse" and “X”. Give X

Q1

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• MUSCLE

Q2FITB OR CONNECT• Clive Bell, art critic• Vanessa Bell, post-impressionist painter• X, fiction writer• Roger Fry, art critic and post-impressionist painter• Duncan Grant, post-impressionist painter• John Maynard Keynes, economist• Desmond MacCarthy, literary journalist• Lytton Strachey, biographer• Leonard Woolf, essayist and non-fiction writer• Y, fiction writer and essayist

And the answer is

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• X- E.M.FOSTER• Y- VIRGINIA WOOLF• CONNECT-BLOOMSBURY

Q3• This 1833 poem, considered a literary landmark, gives a statue

its popular name. The poem is in first person and reads as an ode to a great city. Legend has it that while this statue stands in the city, the city will never be taken by enemy armies. Quite in line with that, during a 900 day long bloody siege during WW2, the city was never taken. The statue was built from an enormous stone called the ‘Thunder Stone’. In 1770, the stone was moved to the city center, and it formed the pedestal for the statue. The stone is often referred to as the “largest stone ever moved by man”. Owing to censorship only the prologue was published during the poet’s lifetime. Name the poet and statue.

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• The Bronze Horseman, by Aleksandr Pushkin. (Statue of Peter the Great, in St. Petersburg.)

Q4

While X is celebrated for his prose, he actually enjoyed a parallel existence in the realm of insect study. His obsessive passion for butterflies is not well known, but shouldn’t be understated. As X expressed it in an interview in 1967: “It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in ______, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology [the study of butterflies] and never written any novels at all.” Between 1942 and 1948, X was a Researcher Fellow in the Harvard University Comparative Zoology department. The university allowed him to have a little shop furnished with scientific equipment to pursue his taxonomic research. Nabokov was already a practiced expert of Blue Butterflies and focused his classification theory on one specific point: the study of male butterfly genitalia. By doing so, X could observe new physiognomic differences between identical-looking butterflies and reevaluate their belonging to one species or another. Each specimen was indexed and placed in a small wooden cabinet. ID X

And the answer is

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• VLADIMR NOBAKOV

Q5• Rudyard Kipling• H. G. Wells• Arthur Conan Doyle• P. G. Wodehouse• G. K. Chesterton• Jerome K. Jerome• A. A. Milne• E. W. Hornung• Henry Justice Ford• A. E. W. Mason• Walter Raleigh• E. V. Lucas• Maurice Hewlett

And the answer is

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• ALLAHAKBARIES• J.M.BARRIE

Q6• X came to prominence in the 1930s, first working

on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award. When television became the new popular medium, he decided to try his hand in it. "I suppose I needed money," he remembered. "I met Patty Duke one day at lunch. So I produced The Patty Duke Show, and I did something nobody else in TV ever did. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the series."He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show(1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie(1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84) though he later became extremely famous when he tried his hand in something else.

And the answer is

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• SYDNEY SHELDON

Q7

• X is Hailed by many as the greatest novelist of 19th Century. He was sentenced to death by firing squad by paranoid Tsarist regime for participating in socialist circles, and was in front of the firing squads when orders for stay of his execution arrived and he was sentenced to harsh exile and incarceration in Siberia instead. He would later become one of the most eminent critics of socialism and is widely regarded for the amazing psychological depth present in his works

And the answer is

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• FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Q8

• X is a famous Persian work of poetry written by Omar Khayyam which talks about life. It has been translated by several people, the most notable translation being that by Edward FitzGerald. He translated it in the rhyme scheme aaba bbcb ccdc… and so on. This form of rhyming was named after the same and is used by Robert Frost in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

And the answer is

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• Rubaiyat

Q9

• One of the most successful Victorian playwrights who lived near the end of the century. He also became the source of scandal which resulted in his fall from stardom. He was imprisoned as a result of his homosexual affair with Alfred Douglas. Later from prison he wrote a letter to his young lover, today that letter is published under which name? Also name the literary giant

And the answer is

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• De Profoundis, by Oscar Wilde

Q10

• X has an adjective associated with his name in the English language which refers to nightmarishly bizarre or illogical nature of an event or a thing . ID X and the adjective

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• Franz Kafka, Kafkaesque

Q11

• One of the most famous of Romantic poets whose tomb stone on his request contains the inscription “Here lies the one whose name was writ in water.” He died believing that he had failed to create a place for himself among the great poets. Another interesting part of his life was his bitter sweet love affair and the love letters he wrote are widely read

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• JOHN KEATS

Q12

• He was an accomplished playwright and poet. He started writing poetry at age eleven. Besides composing poetry in conventional meters, he introduced a new meters called vainayak. His three musical dramas ‘Usshaap’,‘Sanyastakhadga’ and ‘Uttarkriya’, written during his internment at Ratnagiri, are notable for their dialogues and dramatic content.‘Sanyastakhadga’ - set in the time of Gautam Buddha - was also performed on stage in 1931 at Mumbai.

And the answer is

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• VEER SAVARKAR

Q13• “All I wanted was to get away from the tremendous heat and rest in peace.The

world about me was divided sharply down the middle into two halves. Both these halves were pitch black, but one was scorching hot and the other was not……My face hurt most. I slowly put a hand up to feel it. It was very sticky. My nose didn’t seem to be there…..And then the machine guns started off. I knew right away what it was.There were about 50 rounds of ammunition left in each of my eight guns and, without thinking, I had crawled away from the fire out in front of the machine, and they were going off in the heat. I could hear them hitting the sand and stones all round, but I didn’t feel like getting up and moving right then, so I dozed off.” • A well known author wrote the above extract about his experience when he crash landed a fighter plane, which he was flying for 80th Squadron of the RAF in 1940. He claimed that this event directly led to his becoming a writer. This was not just because his first published piece of writing was a semi-fictionalised account of the crash, but also because he suspected that the brain injuries which he received there had materially altered his personality and inclined him to creative writing.

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• RONALD DAHL

Q14

• Identify the book from the excerpt: "X had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With X it was all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was."

And the answer is

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• CATCH 22

Q15

• Mollie Ralston• Giles Ralston• Christopher Wren• Mrs Boyle• Major Metcalf• Miss Casewell• Mr Paravicini• Detective Sergeant Trotter

And the answer is

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• MOUESETRAP’S ( WORLD’S LONGEST RUNNING PLAY) CHARACTERS.

Q16• X based his fictional creation Y on a number of

individuals. Among those types were his brother Peter. Aside from X's brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Y's make up, including Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill "Biffy" Dunderdale]

• The name Y came from that of the American ornithologist Y, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. X, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Y's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second Y was born"

And the answer is

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• X-IAN FLEMING• Y- JAMES BOND

Q17

• Jeffrey Sing-Song• Obadiah Blue Hat• Betty Blueskin• Penelope Firebrand• Count Kidney Face• Sir Fopling Tittle-Tattle• Jonathan Problematick• Hubble Bubble• A Ministering Friend of the People Called Quakers

And the answer is

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• DANIEL DEFOE PSEUDONYMS

Q18

• X is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry.

And the answer is

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• Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems

Q19

• Paulo Coelho declared that X had damaged the 20th century novel by reducing it to “pure style.”“There is nothing there,” Mr. Coelho said. “If you dissect ‘Y,’ it gives you a tweet.” to which Stuart Kelly responded, “Coelho is, of course, entitled to his dumb opinion,”. She wrote in a much re-tweeted post on the Guardian’s books blog, “just as I am entitled to think Coelho’s work is a nauseous broth of egomania and snake-oil mysticism with slightly less intellect, empathy and verbal dexterity than the week-old camembert I threw out yesterday.”. Give Y

And the answer is

• X- JAMES JOYCE• Y- ULYSSES

Q20• X is set in a fictional world parallel to ours, but Y does not reveal

that until the second half of the book. Thus, there are several untrue historic "facts" used in setting of the novel. In the novel, American president John F. Kennedy survives the Dallas assassination but is shot alongside his brother Robert Kennedy later on; the Watergate scandal is represented as a novel starring a fictional president Richard Nixon. Rushdie also deliberately miscredits some classic rock songs, such as The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", which he credits to John Lennon, or Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" which he credits to The Kinks. The character named Jesse Garon Parker represents Elvis Presley in every way, while The Who are presented under their original name The High Numbers. Give X

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Q21

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• ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Q22

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• 1984

Q23

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• A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Q24

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• JULIAN BARNES (2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER)

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