GLOBE QUIZ NIGHT 2012

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Q1

QUESTION
Who wrote the poem inscribed over the entrance to Wimbledon's Centre Court?
ANSWER
If… Rudyard Kipling

"If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same"

Q2

QUESTION
What the Dickens? What is the eponymous character's first name in The Pickwick Papers?
ANSWER
Samuel Pickwick Esquire

Q3

QUESTION
What was the cause of war between the Lilliputians and Blefuscans in Gulliver's Travels?
ANSWER
Which side of the egg to break first.

Q4

QUESTION
The design for the periscope was refused by the patent office because the description of such a device had already appeared in which book?
ANSWER
2000 Leagues Under The Sea

Q5

QUESTION
What novel partially takes place here?
ANSWER
Chateau d'If, The Count Of Monte Cristo

Q6

QUESTION
What was the name of Long John Silver's Parrot in Treasure Island?
ANSWER
Captain Flint

Q7

QUESTION
Illegal activity Infliction of penalty
ANSWER
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Q8

QUESTION
The Even More Weird
ANSWER
The Stranger, Albert Camus

Q9

QUESTION
St.Georgina Mark of Cain
ANSWER
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

Q10

QUESTION
A Hippie gathering the Weekly Magazine of Bacterial Disease.
ANSWER
Love in the time of cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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