Answers to the Trivia Challenge: 2003

January:
Question: Who is second mate on the Pequod?
Answer: Stubb
Winner: C. S., Elkhorn, MB
Prize: Deborah Dwork's and Robert Jan van Pelt's Holocaust: A History

February:
Question: In what year did W. B. Yeats become a senator of the Irish Free State?
Answer: 1922
Winner: K. G., Kingston, ON
Prize: Richard Conniff's The Natural History of the Rich

March:
Question: What movie star does Walker Percy's moviegoer see walking down a New Orleans street?
Answer: William Holden
Winner: M. B., Gibsons, BC
Prize: William Gibson's Pattern Recognition

April:
Question: In the poem by Coleridge, who is Christabel's father?
Answer: Sir Leoline
Winner: L. G., Ann Arbor, MI (US)
Prize: Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel

May:
Question: What names do Rosalind and Celia assume in the forest of Arden?
Answer: Rosalind - Ganymede, Celia - Aliena
Winner: S. T., Dartmouth, NS
Prize: Kevin Major's As Near to Heaven by Sea

June:
Question: What was the name of the steamer Joseph Conrad captained on the Congo?
Answer: Roi des Belges
Winner: P. G., Hamilton, MT (US)
Prize: George Bowering's Stone Country

July:
Question: Charles William Gordon, "Canada's first best-selling author", was better known under what pen-name?
Answer: Ralph Connor
Winner: K. L., Shearwater, NS
Prize: Michael Adams's Fire and Ice

August:
Question: The "Capataz de Cargadores" goes by what other name in his native Costaguana?
Answer: Nostromo, or Gian' Battista Fidanza
Winner: C. D., Red Deer, AB   
Prize: Ali Smith's Hotel World

September:
Question: According to Christopher Smart, what tribe was Jeoffry (his cat) a member of?
Answer: "For he is of the tribe of Tiger" (from Jubilate Agno)
Winner: L. R., New Westminster, BC
Prize: Cynthia Macdonald's Alms

October:
Question: Which of Shakespeare's sonnets has 15 instead of 14 lines?
Answer: Sonnet 99
Winner: G. N., Montreal, QC
Prize: Claudia Casper's The Continuation of Love by Other Means

November:
Question: Where was Philip Larkin's first posting as a librarian?
Answer: Wellington, Shropshire
Winner: B. H., Abbotsford, BC
Prize: Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe Diaries

December:
Question: Which of the Brothers Karamazov kills the father?
Answer: Smerdyakov (There were more wrong answers for this than for any other Trivia Challenge. It wasn't Dmitri!)
Winner: J. W., Burlington, ON
Prize: DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little