2015 kqa popular fiction quiz - pilferages

Pilferages 2015Our Books, Their Books

Research ByVenkatesh S

Vivek Karthikeyan

This quiz is about

James Joyce Hadley Chase

Paul Theroux Cain

John Steinbeck Grisham

Harold Pinter Robbins

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A few rules…

40 questions, all-written, for Teams of 2

*-marked questions to resolve ties

No negatives, please take guesses

All parts carry one point each, a total of 55 points to be made

Prizes for the Top 3 teams

Over to the answers…

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Whose upcoming book is this?

What is the protagonist’s surname, which

is part of the title of this book’s prequel?

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Zac O’Yeah

Mr Majestic


This 1998 film was an adaptation of a book left unfinished by its

author in 1958, and completed thirty years later. Who was the author

or who is the aging protagonist character? (The film and book are

both in English; just the trailer is in Spanish)

Which acclaimed playwright wrote the screenplay for this film?


Raymond Chandler / Philip Marlowe

Tom Stoppard


This is the Norwegian punk rock band Di Derre, featuring these two

brothers among others. Who is the guitarist on the left, with the

headscarf?


Jo Nesbo


This image on the cover of the book had people asking about what a

helicopter-like object was doing in the background. The author had

explained this in the book saying that it was the legendary flying

vehicle of a demon king, committing his famous kidnapping act.

Which book and what was the vehicle called in the myth?


Scion of Ikshvaku

Pushpaka Vimaana


In which 1857 book does the

protagonist of this book, Flashman,

originally appear as a bully?

In this particular book, Flashman

performs brilliantly at a cricket match

and is recorded as being the first to

perform what cricket feat, first

achieved in real life by a “demon”?


Tom Brown’s School Days

Hat Trick


Identify this fictional

English village, supposed

to be in the southeast of

England, 25 miles from

London, just outside the

town of Much Benham.

Also, identify the

character who lives here.


St Mary Mead

Miss Jane Marple


First appearing in the seventh book of the series called The Clue in the

Diary, he is mistaken for a car thief and later proves trustworthy.

Hailing from Mapleton, he is a sophomore at Emerson college and

plays basketball, baseball, and football. He is also a member of the

Omega Chi Epsilon Fraternity.

Who is this 6’ 2” young man, whose friends are Burt Eddleton and

Dave Evans?


Ned Nickersonfrom Nancy Drew


Identify this graphic novel with a one-

word proper noun.


Gabbar


Identify the real-life author couple celebrated in this Swedish stamp.

For an extra point, you can identify the character they created.


Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

Martin Beck


Serial Killer ‘Auto’ Shankar apparently read this author’s novels in prison. In a recent

interview, the author recalls, “Some 20 years ago, a mysterious murder shook

Pallavaram. The department couldn’t crack the case”.

A police officer couriered a stack of papers containing the case details, convinced

that the author could solve it. “I wrote back to him saying that when I write a crime

story, I know who the murderer is right at the beginning, unlike in real life.”

He is now making headway into the film industry. He wrote the story and dialogues

for the Sarath Kumar film Sandamarutham and is waiting to hear from Prabhu Deva

who has approached producers in Bollywood with the writer’s story on the missing

Malaysian aircraft. Which prolific writer?


Rajesh Kumar


Who connects? Why are these three works significant for him?


Sidney Sheldon

His Tony, Oscar and Emmy wins respectively


Identify the contextual title of this book,

given that it used the Falklands War as

the backdrop, and what you see on the

cover.


ExocetThe missile used in the war by the Argentine Navy


In the books, she is a Scot with the speculative first name of Martha

who is fond of cooking and makes a great breakfast.

In one version of the adapted TV series, she is Martha Louise, whose

husband was convicted in Florida on drug and murder charges, for

which she is grateful. She also speculates on a gay relationship and

repeatedly corrects the protagonists about her role.

Who?


Mrs HudsonFrom Sherlock Holmes


Devdutt Pattanaik’s Jaya begins with X conducting a snake sacrifice to

avenge his father’s death; one of the snakes agrees to tell him a story.

Each chapter therefore begins a dialogue addressed to him that

represents the essence of the chapter.

Who is X?


Janamejaya


On 7 Dec, 1963, as a 23-year-old Oxford student involved in Oxfam’s ‘Million Pounds For Hunger’ campaign, he somehow used his connections and got his way in to see The Beatles and got them to be part of a charity drive —one of the early controversies in his colourful life.

Identify him seen on the extreme right.


Jeffrey Archer


The TV and the film versions from 1956 and 1957 are shown here.

Identify the 1958 book version and the author.


Runway Zero Eight by

Arthur Hailey


The best works of crime fiction from which country are given these

awards? Who are the awards (somewhat appropriately) named after?


Australia

Ned Kelly


USS Kamehameha, a ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of

the United States Navy to be named for Kamehameha I, the first King

of Hawaii.

Who wrote his first novel in 1973, titled, Year of the Intern, while

serving on board this ship as a doctor?


Robin Cook


The latest and final book in a trilogy

starring which two characters, who also

lend their names to the first two books

of the series?


Ravan and Eddie


Identify the subject / fill in the blanks.


Moneypenny

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Unlike what the trailer says, there was nothing extraordinary about

this movie, based on a 1966 novel. The book was one of four written

by the author, whose first husband was incidentally a spy.

Name the 1966 work. Its story was a prequel to which 1847 work?


Wide Sargasso Sea

Jane Eyre


Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a

number of successful novels, mostly crime fiction.

One of his novels written in 2000 won the Glass Key Award. This

book’s title is also the overarching name given to a family of billiards

games generally played on cloth-covered tables. It is also the name of

the fruit shown.

What is the name of Nesser’s prize-winning book?


Carambole


Rudolph Fisher, born in 1897, graduated from

Brown University and went on to become an

accomplished doctor, but he died at age 37.

What distinction does his little-known classic,

The Conjure Man dies, hold?

What other aspect of the book, about the

investigation behind the disappearance of an

African king, makes it particularly unique?


It introduced the first black detectivea man named Percy Dart

All the characters in the book are black


Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Mozambique, stages plays focusing on

social issues. The theatre also performs works of acclaimed

playwrights such as Tennessee Williams.

The theatre is known in drama circles and its reputation has grown

over the years. A few years ago it even staged a play in Norway—the

story being a continuation of Ibsen’s A Doll House.

Why are we talking about this rather remote group in this quiz

(consider it a tribute of sorts)?


Henning Mankell (R.I.P) was the theatre’s artistic leader.He has been working with them since 1986


It is caused due to the loss of Adenosine Triphosphate. ATP is a

substance that allows energy flow, and its loss causes inflexibility,

starting with the face and neck.

A play on this is the title of a new creation which includes a nail-biter

at the Nürburgring racetrack. This is not the first time it is being used,

however. It was the title of pulp writer Frank Kane’s 1958 novel

featuring the gumshoe Johnny Liddell.

What two-word answer fits?


Trigger Mortis


David Lagercrantz is continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series with

the book The Girl in the Spider’s Web. He was in the limelight two

years ago involved as co-author of another book, the subject of which

once famously involved these two in a remark. Which is that book?


I Am Zlatan“You bought a Ferrari, but you drive it like a Fiat.”


He wrote several novels in a series without actually setting foot in the

city that serves as an evocative tropical backdrop for his plots. He

apparently picked the locale by flipping randomly through an atlas.

The first of the series won him the Golden Dagger in the UK (1964).

1988 was when he first set foot in the city. According to one report,

his first words as he got off the plane in India were, “My God, it’s hot!”

Who is this? What did he come to India for?


HRF Keating

The Perfect Murder was made into a movie by Ismail Merchant and Keating did a cameo in it.


She is one of the two protagonists in Larry Engelmann’s account, The

Goddess and the American Girl, of a memorable 1926 match in

France.

Who is this person who wrote a mystery in 1939 called Death Serves

An Ace?

And, who is the Goddess in Engelmann’s book?


The American Girl – Helen Wills Moody

The Goddess – Suzanne Lenglen


An early photo, sans glamour,

of the two of them together. ID both.


Jackie Collins and Joan Collins


Ruth Rendell was one writer who pushed the

boundaries of the crime fiction genre.

This line, “Eunice Parchman killed the

Coverdale family because she could not read

and write,” from her 1977 novel, A Judgment

in Stone broke pretty much every rule of

crime fiction. How so?


It was the first line of the book!revealing who, what and why


Who is the vampire hunter featuring in this series?


Anita Blake


Dashiell Hammett often ran into issues with his editors when they were OK

with offensive slang but questioned innocent-but-offensive-sounding

terms. So, he brought this word into The Maltese Falcon.

He managed to get away with it because it fit well in a gangster context.

The word comes from a Yiddish slur meaning ‘young goose’ and it originally

referred to a young male sexual companion kept by an older tramp.

What word that supposedly even found favour with actual gangsters, in a

case of life imitating art?


Gunsel


Which late 19th century mystery solver is described thus in the book

Whose Body?: “His long, amiable face looked as if it had generated

spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from

Gorgonzola.”


Lord Peter Wimsey


These are all book titles from James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club

series. Fill in the blanks (1 pt for getting three, 2 pts for all correct).

• 2nd ______

• 3rd ______

• The 5th ________

• 7th ______

• 11th ____


2nd Chance 3rd Degree The 5th Horseman

7th Heaven 11th Hour


Which character (the older lady)?


Mildred Pierce


As Sherlock Holmes had his well-known address on Baker Street, John

D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee lived on a houseboat docked at Slip F-

18, Bahia Mar marina, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The name of the boat is a hand in poker containing four cards of the

same suit and one of a different suit. It is also slang for someone who

shows promise but turns out to be a dud.

What was the boat called?


Busted Flush


This novel won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel in 1976. The

story involved an ageing gunfighter dying of a cancer. It was made into

a movie and the result according to critic Philip Horne was ‘a rich and

elegiac western, a fitting swansong for Hollywood’s most courageous

gunslinger’ – the man who played the lead was also battling a cancer

that would soon kill him.

Which novel/movie?


The Shootist


This author was in the habit of filling notebooks with ideas—one of

which was spawned by the fact that in his New York apartment was a

laundry room which he would never let his wife enter alone. He would

also not let his wife read the book, understandably so—she was in her

third pregnancy. Unfortunately their marriage collapsed, while the

book was a success.

What did he write?


Rosemary’s Baby


What is common to the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the

Confederacy’s Hunley, and the Union's Housatonic, the U-boat that

sank the Lusitania, the Confederate raider Florida, the Carpathia and

about 60 other vessels of the sea?


Their wrecks were all discovered by Clive Cussler


These are pictures from a 2009 photo shoot with the theme ‘criminal

intent’. Who or what is the inspiration?


Modesty Blaise

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