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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Linkit - Novel Quotations - Questions & Answers |
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WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES Linkit - Novel Quotations - Questions & Answers |
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| 29/12/2008 | Novel Quotations |
Each of the 10 questions is a quote from a well known novel. Give: a) the title of the novel, b) the name of the author and the tag (A1-A10) identifying the author’s picture from the list on the left below, c) the name of a leading character in the novel along with the tag (C1-C10) identifying the cryptic clue to that character's name from the list of cryptic picture clues on the right below |
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A2 |
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C1 |
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C2 |
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A4 |
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C3 |
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C4 |
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A6 |
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C5 |
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C6 |
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A8 |
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C7 |
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C8 |
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A10 |
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C9 |
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C10 |
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” |
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“At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean…” |
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To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee (A2) Atticus Finch (C1) |
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Moby Dick Herman Melville (A7) Starbuck (C10) |
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“That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people. ” |
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“The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments everywhere,’ he said. ‘Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad" |
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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Jerome K Jerome (A5) George (C3) (George VI) |
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Scoop Evelyn Waugh (A4) William Boot (C6) |
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“And Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface….” |
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“Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes.” |
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Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy (A9) Gabriel Oak (C2) |
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Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck (A10) Rose of Sharon (C4) |
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“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends - whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain.” |
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“Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything” |
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Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (A6) Mr Bingley (C8) (Bradford & Bingley logo) |
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Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens (A8) Bradley Headstone (C9) |
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“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes trees….” |
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“FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD” |
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Wuthering Heights Emily Bronté (A3) Heathcliffe (C7) (Heath Ledger & Cliff Michelmore) |
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Animal Farm George Orwell (A1) Napoleon (C5) |