Hyraxia Quiz #1
Welcome to the first Hyraxia quiz (with a prize)!
One point is awarded for each correct answer giving a total of 45 points. The prize is a copy of The Blue Fairy Book from the Folio Society including worldwide shipping. The closing date is 31st March, with the winner being announced shortly thereafter. The quiz is open to members only (membership is free - just click on the register link in the box to the left). Only one submission will be accepted per member. The winner will be the entrant with the highest score, the tie-breaker will be based on whoevers' email is received first. Subscribers to Hyraxia are permitted three entries. We hope you enjoy it.
Part 1
This one is simple, I need the name of the author and title of the book for each of the ten images below (the titles and names have been removed, otherwise it would be pretty easy for most of you). A couple are private printings and very tricky.
Part 2
The following are a list of well-known book and play titles, only they've been mixed up a bit. Words may have been replaced, rearranged or even removed. The replaced words might have multiple meanings (e.g. rock could mean a stone or to sway). For example, Three Men in a Boat could be Gentlemen Trio Ship, Leaves of Grass could be Turf Pages or Goes Turf. Here you go.
- Dracula Mountain Messiah
- Missing Heaven
- Wine Laws Apple Shack
- Resin Telescope
- Rex Edward's Nonsense
- Transparent Metropolis
- USA Cabal
- Adieu Arsenal
- Appendage Portside Tenebrousness
- Changes (not Change)
- A Saturn Satellite
- Subterranean Tones
- Doric Ashen Image
- Cudgel Clash
- Slumber Large
- Ambulations Duodecimal 33
- Terrain Outside(r)
- 5
- Grumble Emperor Ten
- Parallel Latitude Crab
Part 3
- The title of a famous Orwell novel is also the year of first publication of this seminal cyberpunk novel.
- The first name of the author of the book that is the answer to question one is the also the first name of this well-known playwright.
- The surname of the playwright that is the answer to question two is shared with a short-lived French publishing house, famous for publishing which classic book?
- The first name of the author of the book that is the answer to question three is the surname of this 19th-Century American Writer.
- The author that is the answer to question four published a book in serial form with a title similar to another book by a well-known writer published ten years later, also in serial form. What is the title of the more recent publication?
- The author of the book that is the answer to question five had a long relationship with a Lord whose surname is the same as the first name of the author of this famous 'trilogy'.
- The first name of the protagonist of the 'trilogy' that is the answer to question six is the name of one of two names that make up the title of this recent novel.
- The novel that is the answer to question seven is concerned primarily with this author.
- The author that is the answer to question eight shares a surname with the author of this Booker prize-winning novel.
- The title of the book that is the answer to question nine contains a name, the surname of that name is also the surname of the this famous science fiction writer.
- The author that is the answer to question 10 is best known for this 1968 novel.
- The year that makes up part of the title of the book that is the answer to question 11 saw this writer win the Nobel prize for literature.
- The writer that is the answer to question 12 also won the Booker prize with a book which starts and ends in this African country.
- The country that is the answer to question 13 borders a strip of land containing a city that makes up part of the name of this 1936 novel.
- The author of the book that is the answer to question 14 was born ten years after the publication of this American classic, which was published a century before the title of the book that is the answer to question 1.
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