Bookends is the literature and books quiz held as a part of Tie Grab, the annual quizzing festival of SJC Quizzers. It is an open quiz for teams of two members.

1. BOOKENDS
FOR
BOOKWORMS
(The Literature Quiz)

2. PRELIMS
25 Questions

3. Prelims
Question 1
You crash-land in the Sahara and are greeted by a young boy with
golden hair who only repeats questions until they are answered .
He asks you to draw him a sheep . You draw him multiple sheep , yet he
rejects them .
Who are you?
What do you then draw to placate him ?
1+1

4. Answer
Narrator of The Little Prince
A box with a sheep inside it.

5. Prelims
Question 2:
If you were dealing with teenage geniuses holding fairies hostage for
gold, centuars working for underground agencies, Holly Short from
LEPrecon, Mulch diggums the dwarf, which YA sci fi series are you
reading?

6. Answer:
Artemis Fowl

7. Prelims
Question 3
For 20 years BBC operated a de facto ban on dramatizing X’s books for
radio, considering them to be a "second-rater" whose work was
without literary merit. The literary critic Margery Fisher likened X’s
books to "slow poison", and Jean E. Sutcliffe of the BBC's schools
broadcast department wrote of X's ability to churn out "mediocre
material", noting that "X’s capacity to do so amounts to genius ...
anyone else would have died of boredom long ago.”
ID X

8. Answer:
Enid Blyton

9. Prelims
Question 4
It is the seventh novel by author X, reimagining Sophocles's Antigone in
a contemporary setting. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
2017.
The novel focuses on issues of identity and security of Muslims in
Britain. It speaks of the troubles of Muslims as they struggle to
maintain a unique cultural identity while defending their ''Britishness''
and loyalty to the state against political and social activists who wish to
alienate them.
Name the book and the author.

10. Answer:
Author – Kamila Shamsie
Book – Home Fire

11. Prelims
Question 5
In a well-known quote from the introduction of his book X summarizes the Y.
.
“A Y ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of
supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive
victory is won: the Y comes back from this mysterious adventure with the
power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”
ID X. Also, name his book which has Y in the title.
1+1

12. Prelims
Question 5: Image

13. Answer:
Author—Joseph Campbell
Book- Hero with a thousand faces

14. Prelims
Question 6:
This scene from the Walking Dead is a tribute to an event from a
novella about migrant ranch workers . Name the novella.
(image next slide).

16. Answer:
Of Mice and Men

17. Prelims
Question 7:
Name this work. What distinction did it achieve in 2018?

18. Answer:
Sabrina
First graphic novel long listed for the Man Booker prize

19. Prelims
Question 8:
This little collection still exists today, but is kept out of sight,
housed in Harvard. (see image) It contains hundreds of
documents, cigar boxes crammed with x penises, and dried out
specimens, all labeled in this person’s elegant handwriting. What
is being talked about and who is the person concerned (image
again)?

21. Answer:
Vladimir Nabokov’s Genitalia Cabinet of (male) butterfly specimens.

22. Prelims
Question 9:
ID the person in the video. What is he predicting (as it would be in
2001)?

24. Answer:
Arthur C. Clarke
He is predicting the internet, as it would be in 2001.

25. Prelims
Question 10:
Stieg Larsson, the writer of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo said
that the protagonist of his trilogy was inspired by a certain
character from a children’s book- a fiercely independent and
cheerfully kooky 9-year-old. This portrayal came from his ideas
about how a children’s book characters would turn out as adults.
Which character?

26. Answer:
Pippi Longstocking

27. Prelims
Question 11:
With the help of a specialised nurse, this person was able to write
his book. The nurse spent three hours, six days a week, taking
dictation – using the same method he (the author) was taught by
his speech therapist.
The book’s title refers to the immobility of his body by comparing
it to old-fashioned heavy diving headgear, inside which his mind
flutters. Name the book. How did the author manage to produce
this book confined to a bed? (image next slide).

29. Answer:
Jean-Dominique Bauby/Jean-Do
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
He dictated his memoir by blinking only his left eyelid.

30. Prelims
Question 12:
X (in image) would attend nudist camps but refused to drop his
trousers; he was known by others as ‘The Man in the Swimming
Trunks’. ID X.

32. Answer:
Franz Kafka

33. Prelims
Question 13:
The film (in image) was based on the Mickey Spillane novel of
the same name, only Spillane’s book has an extra something in
its title. The _____ is an important subtraction as it changes the
meaning of the title. In fact, when his editor left out this something
from its title initially, Spillane ordered 50,000 copies of his
novel to be destroyed. FITB.

35. Answer:
Comma

36. Prelims
Question 14:
____ ___________ _____ is a novel first published privately in
Italy. An unexpurgated edition was published openly in the UK
in1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity
trial against the publishers Penguin Books. The prosecuting
lawyer at the trial asked the jury if it was ‘a book that you’d even
wish your wife or your servants to read.“ FITB.

37. Answer:
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence

38. Prelims
Question 15
The first US edition of X's novel was published with the title ‘You Asked
for It’. It took a few years to attract a fanbase in the States. The books
really became successful in the US when John F. Kennedy declared
himself a fan. X also named the protagonist Secretan but then chose
another because it was the ‘dullest name’ he’d ever heard.
ID X and novel.

40. Answer:
Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

41. Prelims
Question 16
ID the person in the picture, who was a keen cricketer and was known
by her family as ‘the demon bowler’.
Her father, who was also an English writer and critic, later wrote in his
memoirs: “We made what we called a lawn tennis’ ground on the most
level bit, where the children delighted in playing small cricket every
evening.”

43. Answer:
Virginia Woolf

44. Prelims
Question 17
The image shows a full front-page obituary in the New York Times. ID
the person in the picture whose surname comes from the French word
meaning ‘leek’.

46. Answer:
Hercule Poirot

47. Prelims
Question 18:
The US sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" is about an astronaut who finds a
beautiful 2000 year old genie in a bottle after a flight. Jeannie, the
genie, turns out to be a mischievous, innocent girl who is very much in
love with her master. The creator of this sitcom, however, became most
famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels of a
genre very close to that of the sitcom. He is the seventh best selling
fiction writer of all time.
Who is this creator?

49. Answer:
Sidney Sheldon

50. Prelims
Question 19
The Guardian obituary for X in 2010 was written by a scholar, Mark
Krupnick, who had been dead for seven years. X lived to the age of 91,
and some of his obituaries were written years in advance, patiently
waiting for the news of X's death. With one highly popular full-length
novel, X also dated Oona, the daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill,
who left him for Charlie Chaplin. ID X.

51. Answer:
JD Salinger

52. Prelims
Question 20:
Suzanne Collins, who wrote The Hunger Game novels, stated that the
surname of her protagonist, Katnisss, was inspired by the name of
another protagonist of a Victorian era novel- "both characters struggle
with knowing their hearts." Both characters also have to deal with men
who pine for their affection. The title of the Victorian novel suggests
the rural remoteness of the its setting and the pastoral backdrop.
Which novel?

53. Answer:
Far From The Madding Crowd

54. Prelims
Question 21
In an article about his father, the son said, "I don't think he had manic
depression or the bipolar gene, I think he had pretty classic post-
traumatic stress disorder symptoms. He saw horrific things during the
war. He was beaten nearly to death by prison guards. And he was still
trying to deal with his mother's suicide."
The father in question is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-
selling 1969 novel; a book that resonated with a generation by the
Vietnam War. Name the book and the writer.

55. Answer:
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter House 5

56. Prelims
Question 22:
Somewhere in __ ______, a place whose name I do not care to
remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a
lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a
greyhound for racing.
Which text’s first lines are these? Place name, derived from the Arabic
for dry land?

57. Answer:
Don Quixote, and La Mancha.

58. Prelims
Question 23:
In French, __________ means "little Mary". In France, during the Middle
Ages, string puppets were often used to depict biblical events, with the
Virgin Mary being a popular character, hence the name. Additionally, one of
the first figures to be made into a ___________ was the Virgin Mary. FITB.
The controls for these figure in the cover/poster of a roughly 1970s book-film
franchise.
A Sam Grittner once complained on Twitter about how there was zero
puppetry in the film, and how the poster had led him to watch it.
Which cover?

59. Answer:
Marionettes
They are referenced on the cover of The Godfather

60. Prelims
Question 24:
James Sharpe, professor of history at the University of York, has
described how X came to be toasted as "the last man to enter
Parliament with honest intentions“. Name his Yorkshireman X.
Also name Y, the 1980s graphic novel that uses a stylized depiction of X
as a major plot element.

61. Answer:
X- Guy Fawkes
Y- V for Vendetta

62. Prelims
Question 25:
X began his career as a cricket player for the APCA and has played small
level cricket. Then he started commentating at the age of 19 with All
India Radio, while living in Hyderabad. In 1991–92, he became the first
Indian commentator to be invited by the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation during India's cricket series before the 1992 Cricket World
Cup. ‘The Winning Way’ is X’s first book published as an author, which
deals with two otherwise unrelated fields, management and sport. Y
wrote the foreword, covering the former and Z the afterword, speaking
about the latter. Identify.

63. Answer:
X- Harsh Bhogle
Y- Mukesh Ambani
Z- Rahul Dravid