Competitions (NO ASKING FOR VOTES)

remeneerb wrote: »

Hi, thanks for the book quiz info, just wondering what is the tiebreaker - can't get onto facebook....thanks!

remeneerb wrote: »

thanks...everyone on this forum is so generous

Just one thing, is there a max no of words u can use?

curl30 wrote: »

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roroduff wrote: »

Test your book knowledge and be in with the chance to win the full list of 25 World Book Night books...from One Day to to Life of Pi to Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time! (see our separate discussion topic to see the full list, or check out http://www.worldbooknight.org/). We might have a few runner's up prizes too!

Closing date for the quiz is Friday April 29th.

Email your answers to facebook@easons.com with QUIZ in the subject line... or you can send them c/o Eason Book Club, Dublin Airport Logisitics Park, St Margaret's Road, Swords, Co Dublin. Don't forget to fill in the tiebreaker!

Here goes...

Fiction

1. Which of the following was the bestselling novel in Ireland in 2010?
A.‘Room’ by Emma Donoghue
B. ‘Girl Who Played with Fire’ by Stieg Larsson
C. ‘ The Finkler Question’ by Howard Jacobson
2. Which American author had his glasses held to ransom on his most recent book tour?
3. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny are characters in which recent book set in Jackson, Mississippi?
4. 'With a nod to WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, this funny, emotionally engaging novel traces the unlikely relationship between Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew . . . . . If you left college sometime in the Eighties with no clear idea of what was going to happen next, or who your lifelong friends might turn out to be, this one's a definite for your holiday suitcase’ Name the book that this review is describing.
5. Which recent bestselling Australian novel begins with someone physically reprimanding another person’s child at a party?

Children’s

1.What is the name of the teen spy that I Am Number Four’s Alex Pettyfer played in his previous literary movie adaptation?
2.What is the name of Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley’s older and quite annoying brother?
3.What is the name of the facility where Percy Jackson is brought to train for his future battles and quests?
4.Name the 2 feuding brothers from LJ Smiths' Vampire Diaries Series.
5.Which bestselling children’s illustrator just won an Oscar for his fantastic animated short "The Lost Thing"?

Irish

1. Which author wrote the ‘One City One Book’ title for Dublin 2011?
2. Who won the lifetime achievement award at the Irish Book Awards in 2010?
3. Who wrote the line, ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’?
4. Name any two Irish winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
5. Where did Rachel take her ‘holiday’ in the Marian Keyes novel?



Prizewinners


1.Which book won the Eason Book Club ‘Books of the Noughties’ poll last year?
2.Who won the Booker of Bookers in 1993?
3.Which author won the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award?
4.Which author and illustrator has been shortlisted twice for the Bisto Children’s Book of the Year award in Ireland this year?
5. Which book won the Costa Biography award this year?

Crime

1. What is the name of Lisbeth Salander’s father?
2. Which Irish crime writer made Time magazine’s top ten books of 2010?
3. ‘Thornier, proud extremeness’ is an anagram of which Agatha Christie novel?
4. Name the detective who features in Michael Connelly’s ‘Lincoln Lawyer’
5. Jack Reacher stars in the novels of which bestselling crime writer?

Non fiction

1. Which GAA club is the focus of Christy O’Connor’s 2010 bestseller?
2. Who says he can make you thin, rich, happy and sleep?
3.Which young Cork author and musician will put you in a Good Mood with his Food?
4.Which travel writer has been in small and big countries, neither here nor there, but last year was At Home?
5. What does Richard Dawkins describe in his classic popular science title as Selfish?

In the news

1. Which publisher will bring out the memoirs of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange later this year?
2. What is the name of the anonymous novel published earlier this year giving a fictionalised account of the life of Barack Obama?
3. Name the Four Angry Men who published books about Irish economics and politics in 2009?
4. Which former world leader was nominated for the Bad Sex in Fiction award?
5. Name the two Irish writers that feature in the World Book Night giveaway

Classics

1. Which classic author first wrote under the name Currer Bell?
2. Winston Smith is the protagonist of which dystopian novel?
3. Which of the following places does not feature in Gulliver’s Travels: Laputa, Lilliput, Luvania, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan.
4. Boo Radley is a character in which classic novel?
5. What is the first name kind hearted heroine dies in Oliver Twist?

First lines

Name the books from which the following opening lines are taken:

1. ‘My name was Salmon, like the fish’?
2. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
3. I WILL NOT Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
4. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
5. Call me Ishmael.

Celebrity, autobiography, film and tv

1. Which of the following do you think was Eason’s biggest signing event of 2010?
A. Johnny Giles
B. Kenny Dalglish
C. JLS
2. Which bestselling literary novel was recently made into a movie starring Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan?
3. Which of the following TV series is NOT based on a series of novels?
A. Bones
B.House
C.True Blood
4. Which Irish celebrity named his autobiography after his oft-used phrase, ‘The Thing Is…’?
5.Which author had a cold auld night, was sold for a few cigarettes, got herself a new mammy and is now going up in the world?

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