World Book Day 2015: Quiz!

Round 1: Guess the quote

1 mark for the author, 1 mark for the story!

20 points available

Author and book title

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

Author and book title

‘The class started the way all new classes start, with the stating of names. It was my turn. I wrote:

My name isPiscine Molitor Patel.Known to all asI double underlined the first two letters of my given name – Pi Patel

For good measure I added

π = 3.14

and I drew a large circle, which I then sliced in two with a diameter, to evoke that basic lesson of geometry.’

Author and book title

‘I heard you’d been malingering, Peaceful’ Hanley snarled. ‘I don’t like malingerers. I’ve got my eye on you, Peaceful. You’re a troublemaker, always have been. I’m warning you, one step out of line….’

Author and title

George looked sharply at him. “What’d you take outta that pocket?”“Ain’t a thing in my pocket,” Lennie said cleverly.“I know there ain’t. You got it in your hand. What you got in your hand –hidin’ it?”“I ain’t got nothin’, George. Honest.”

Author and book title

‘Sitting at Prim’s knees, guarding her, is the world’s ugliest cat… Prim named him Buttercup insisting that his muddy yellow coat matched the bright flower.’

Author and

book title

Author and book title

Author and book title

‘Then one day, this kid named Darren Walsh touched the Cheese with his finger, and that's what started this thing called the Cheese Touch. It's basically like the Cooties. If you get the Cheese Touch, you're stuck with it until you pass it on to someone else. The only way to protect yourself from the Cheese Touch is to cross your fingers.’

Author and book title

Round 2: Movie Adaptations

10 points available

1. Divergent is based on the novel by which author?

a) Patrick Ness

b) Veronica Roth

c) Rick Riordan

d) Anne Fine

2. Complete the title of this movie: 'The ___ in our Stars'

a) Fault

b) Name

c) Love

d) Nightmare

3. Who is this character, from 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptations?

A)Peeta Mallarkey

B)Peeta Mellark

C)Peter Piper

D)Peter Capaldi

4. Who is the author of the original book?

A)James Joyce

B)Jane Austen

C)F Scott Fitzgerald

D)Francesca Simon

5. Complete the title of this movie adaptation... 'The Hunger Games: Catching ___'

a) Cold

b) Jokes

c) Katniss

d) Fire

6. Who is this character from ‘Wolf Hall’?

A)Henry VIII

B)Cardinal Wolsey

C)Cromwell

D)Anne Boleyn

7. Who is the author of ‘Maze Runner’?

A)James Dashner

B)James Ratner

C)John Radcliffe

8. Who is this character from Alice

in Wonderland?

A)The White Rabbit

B) Alice

C) Queen of Hearts

D) The Mad Hatter

9. What is the name of this Elf?

A)Amareth

B)Galadriel

C)Arwen

D)Rosamunda

10. Who originally wrote

the book this film is based on?

A)Khaled Hosseini

B)Markus Zusak

C)Andy McNab

D)Malorie Blackman

Round 3Book to Film Adaptations

5 points available

1.1 Who is the author of this

classic?

a) Victor Hugob) Hugo Victor

c) Victoria Hugg

Who is the author of this book?

a) J. R. R. Tolkienb) Jeff Kinney

c) Charles Dickens

Complete the title of this book.

a) Dodgy Daysb) Dogged Day

c) Dog Days

Sherlock Holmes lived at number 221B on which famous London

street?

a) Fleet Street

b) Oxford Street

c) Baker Street

What is the name of this character, from the film/novel Holes?

a) Warden Walker

b) Mr Sir

c) Mr Pendanski

Bonus point if you can remember his real first

name!

Round 45 points

What is the title of this award-winner?

a) Magicians of Men

b) Leaders of Menc) Monsters of

Men

What is the title of this award-

winner?

a) Blood Red Roadb) Sky Blue Roadc) Ruby Red Road

What is the missing word from this award-winning

book?

a) Chalky Moon

b) Maggot Moon

c) Cheesy Moon

What is the missing word from this award-winning

book?

a) Groovy Granny

b) Gorgeous Granny

c) Gangsta Granny

What is the missing word from this award-

winning book?

a) The Extended Project

b) The Zeus Project

c) The Medusa Project

Round 55 points

What is the missing word?

a) Mirrors

b) Crystal balls

c) X-rays

“Books are _________, you can only see in them what you already have inside of you” Carlos Ruiz Zafon

What is the missing word?

a) Information

b) Homework

c) Pleasure

“I read for ______, and that is the moment I learn the most” Margaret Atwood

What is the missing word?

a) Play football

b) Empathise

c) Dance

“The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to _______ with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings ” Louis Sachar

What is the missing word?

a) Dreams

b) Money

c) Computers

“I had a lot of _____ when I was a kid, and I think that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot” Bill Gates

What is the missing word?

a) Poet’s

b) Journalist’s

c) Teacher’s

“A ______ mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level” Jay-Z

Round 6: Name that cover!10 points

a) Horton hears a Who?

b) The Cat in the Hat

c) Green Ham and Eggs

(they’re not all this easy)

This 1925 classic was adapted into a

Leonardo Di Capriofilm.

This 1990 sci-fi horror re-told the story of

‘Frankenstein’ on an island off Costa Rica.

a) The one-eyed man.

b) A Clockwork Orange

c) Braces and Bowler Hats

The sequel to this classic is going to be released this year.

Another children’s classic that was

made into a film.

a) The Grapes of Wrath

b) Cannery Row

c) Of Mice and Men

a) Twilight

b) Breaking Dawn

c) New Moon

d) Eclipse

Most of you will already know this one!

One of Dahl’s best loved classics!