Answers to the
Trivia Challenge: 2002
January:
Question: What was Oscar Wilde's prison number at Reading Gaol?
Answer: C-33
Winner: L. Z., Hamilton, ON
Prize: Mary Ladd Gavell's I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly
February:
Question:
Who was England's first official poet laureate?
Answer: While Ben Jonson is sometimes considered England's first poet laureate,
the first poet to hold the position as an official office was John Dryden.
Winner: J. A., Calgary, AB
Prize: Gordon Laird's Power
March:
Question:
On August 4 of what year does John Dowell marry Florence in The Good
Soldier?
Answer: 1901
Winner: C. W., Brantford, ON
Prize: Jerry Kobalenko's The Horizontal Everest
April:
Question: Complete the following couplet by Dryden: "Great Wits are sure to
Madness near ally'd"
Answer: "And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide"
Winner: A. H., Lower Sackville, NS
Prize: Ian
Stewart's Freetown Ambush
May:
Question:
What is the first book Mr. Todd gets Tony Last to read to him in A
Handful of Dust?
Answer: Bleak House
Winner: M. C., Nelson, BC
Prize: William Boyd's Any Human Heart
June:
Question:
What was the first book printed in English?
Answer: The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, which was printed by
William Caxton in 1474-75.
Winner: E. D., Mississauga, ON
Prize: Linda McQuaig's All You Can Eat
July:
Question:
In Spenser's Faerie Queene, who is transformed into the
embodiment of "Gealosie"
(Jealousy)?
Answer: Malbecco
Winner: P. B., Verdun, QC
Prize: Antony Beevor's The Fall of Berlin 1945
August:
Question: What fictional character thinks Paris is "devine"?
Answer: Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Winner: C. H., Brandon, MB
Prize: Sally Armstrong's Veiled Threat
September:
Question: What is the name of Sir Gawain's horse in Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight?
Answer: Gringolet
Winner: P. V., Surrey, BC
Prize: Eric McCormack's The Dutch Wife
October:
Question:
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, what is the name of
the song Stephen Dedalus remembers singing as a child?
Answer: "Lily Dale"
Winner: J. K., Victoria, BC
Prize: Lawrence Scanlan's Grace Under Fire
November:
Question: What is the capital of Utopia?
Answer: Amaurot
Winner: J. P., Dartmouth, NS
Prize: Alan Morantz's Where is Here?
December:
Question:
According to the census, what is the population of Stephen Leacock's
little town of Mariposa?
Answer: "something round 5,000" (from Sunshine Sketches of a Little
Town)
Winner: C. D., Delta, BC
Prize: Robert Bateman's Birds
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