WORLD BOOK DAY QUIZ 4 March 2021 QUIZ
WORLD BOOK DAY QUIZ 4 March 2021
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 email your completed answer sheet to gbrind@sexeys. somerset. sch. uk
GENERAL (BOOK) KNOWLEDGE 1) In what London street did Sherlock Holmes live? 2) By what name was Sir Percy Blakeney known in Baroness Orczy's novel? 3) Which novelist wrote of a farm run by pigs and of the imaginary world of 1984?
4) What is the title of the third book in the Harry Potter Series by J K Rowling? 5) Which Richard Adams book about rabbits features Fiver, Bigwig and Hazel? 6) What is the title of the first book in the Young James Bond Series by Charlie Higson?
7) Which book by Roald Dahl features a Norwegian grandmother, a lot of mice and a hotel with some very nasty guests? 8) Robin Stevens wrote a murder mystery set at Christmas time. What is it called? 9) Which famous classic by Louisa May Alcott starts with ‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents. ’
10)What is the name of the book by Jeff Brown about a boy who gets squashed by a pinboard and sent to America? 11)What is the title of Marcus Zusak book narrated by Death? 12)Cameron is dying and his only option is to receive an unusual transplant in which book by Malorie Blackman?
13)What was the surname of the Swallows in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons? 14)What is the name of Lyra Belacqua’s dæmon in Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials? 15) What are the monsters in James Dashner’s Maze Runner called ?
16) Which book by Anna Sewell is told through the eyes of a horse? 17) In which novel is 42 the answer to the “ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything”?
Match the character with the title: Of Mice and Men Great Expectations The Da Vinci Code Wuthering Heights Treasure Island Last of the Mohicans To Kill a Mockingbird Goodnight Mr Tom The Godfather Stormbreaker Jack Starbright Long John Silver Hawkeye Atticus Finch Lennie Small Miss Havisham Heathcliff Vito Carleone Robert Langdon William Beech
Match the title with the author: Noughts and Crosses Patrice Lawrence David Copperfield Lewis Carrol I know why the caged bird sings Karen Mc. Manus Alice in Wonderland P. L. Travers Orangeboy Maya Angelou One of us is Lying Jane Austen Mary Poppins Malorie Blackman Northanger Abbey Charles Dickens
Book Cover Quiz: Can you guess the book title and the author? (1 point for each author or title) 2 1 3
4 6 5
7 9 8
10 12 11
Solve these anagrams of Book titles: • TGG HRAES BEATTY– F Scott Fitzgerald • KERRTOSMBAER- Anthony Horowitz • M DI AADIV – Ann Holm • TTEORLGN RISHHN –P Pullman • YLUJP LLOO YLFA- Robin Stevens • ED AMCF OIE NMN- John Steinbeck • HGE VITRE- Lois Lowry
Match these quotations with their authors: ”All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. ” “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ” “And may the odds be ever in your favour. ” “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared. ” “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you. ” “Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger. ” “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. ” “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. ” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan William Golding, Lord of the Flies Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games George Orwell, Animal Farm Yann Martel, Life of Pi Roald Dahl, The Witches
THE END Please email your completed answer sheet to gbrind@sexeys. somerset. sch. uk Thank you for playing and Good Luck!
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