Friday evening honour roll - 12
Samanth Subramanian -
Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:32 AM
Possibly out of mourning for Michael Jackson, the book quiz did not have its usual number of participants. One gentleman did manage to make it onto the honour roll, though.
1. In what way did A contribute to B's existence?
A B
A: Herman Hesse (A) wrote a book called Steppenwolfe, from which the band Steppenwolfe (B) got its name
2. Author X once recalled that the family often went
to a town near Alibaug for weekend retreats, and this town was where
Author Y, X's mother, set her most famous novel. Name X and Y.
A. X is Kiran Desai, and Y is Anita Desai. The novel, of course, is The Village By The Sea
3. The following is an extract from a W. B. Yeats poem titled The Second Coming. Fill in the blanks -- there are three of them -- with the name of a famous novel.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
______ _____ _____; the centre cannot hold
A. Things Fall Apart
4. Julian Barnes did it from London. Seymour Hersh
did it from Vietnam, and he continues to do it from Syria and Lebanon
and a bunch of other places. Adam Gopnik did it in America, moved to
Paris for a few years and did it from there, and then moved back to
America to continue doing it. William Dalrymple and Ved Mehta are a
couple of the people to have done it from India. So what is "it"?
A. Write for the New Yorker
5. Fill in the blank in this short snatch of dialogue from A Comedy of Errors:
Am I so round with you as you with me,
That like a ________ you do spurn me thus?
You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither:
If I last in this service, you must case me in leather.
A. Football -- one of the few mentions of the sport by William Shakespeare
Occupying the honour roll all by himself this week, we have G. Sreekanth. Well done, Sreekanth!