Answers to the Trivia Challenge: 2004

January:
Question: William Wordsworth's first published poem appeared under what pseudonym?
Answer: Axiologus (the poem was "Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress")
Winner: S. R., Chatham, ON
Prize: John le Carré's Absolute Friends

February:
Question: Who gets shot in the Malamute saloon?
Answer: "Dangerous" Dan McGrew (and the "miner fresh from the creeks")
Winner: R. H.,  Bowmanville, ON
Prize: Susan Vreeland's The Forest Lover

March:
Question: What does Anne of Green Gables name the cherry tree outside her bedroom window? 
Answer: Snow Queen
Winner: L. R.,  Brampton, ON
Prize: Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage

April:
Question: Who is Mosca's master?
Answer: Volpone
Winner: M. M., Lethbridge, AB
Prize: Guy Gavriel Kay's The Last Light of the Sun

May:
Question: What are the names of the Four Zoas?
Answer: Luvah, Urizen, Urthona, Tharmas
Winner: S. D., Truro, NS
Prize: Lynn Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves

June:
Question: Whose dog does the good soldier Svejk steal for Lieutenant Lukas?
Answer: Colonel Friedrich Kraus von Zillergut's
Winner: S. A., Vancouver, BC
Prize: Ken Auletta's Backstory

July: 
Question: What's the name of Ignatius J. Reilly's girlfriend?
Answer: Myrna Minkoff
Winner: Z. W., Halifax, NS
Prize: Geoff Dyer's Anglo-English Attitudes

August:
Question: What is Yossarian's first name?
Answer: John
Winner: S. C., Kanata, ON
Prize: Rose George's A Life Removed

September:
Question: What was Selima trying to do when she drowned?
Answer: Catch a goldfish (in Thomas Gray's poem "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes")
Winner: K. P., Edmonton, AB
Prize: Maggie De Vries's Missing Sarah

October:
Question: Who thought Byron was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"?     
Answer: Lady Caroline Lamb
Winner: A. C., Regina, SK
Prize: Nathaniel Lachenmeyer's Thirteen

November:
Question: Where does Ole Andreson stay in Summit?    
Answer: Mrs. Hirsch's Boarding House (in Hemingway's "The Killers")
Winner: D. F., Dayton, TX (US)
Prize: Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad

December:
Question: In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, who is the last to die?
Answer: Don't worry, I'm not going to give the ending away. But "Vera Claythorne", the answer most of you gave, is not correct!
Winner: J. K., Toronto, ON
Prize: Robert McCrum's Wodehouse