Answers to the Trivia Challenge: 2005

January:
Question: What is the book in Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book?
Answer: The "old yellow book", a collection of documents dealing with a sensational murder trial
Winner: B. H., Abbotsford, BC
Prize: The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

February:
Question: Who is imprisoned in the fortress of If? 
Answer: Edmond Dantès (in The Count of Monte Cristo)
Winner: D. H., Bowmanville, ON 
Prize: Robert Calasso's K.

March:
Question: By the shores of what lake stood the wigwam of Nokomis?
Answer: Gitchee-gumee (aka Lake Superior)
Winner: J. R., Hacienda Heights, CA (US)  
Prize: Hunter S. Thompson's Hey Rube

April:  
Question: In order of succession, name the four landlords of Castle Rackrent described in Edgeworth's novel.
Answer: Sir Patrick, Sir Murtagh, Sir Kit, and Sir Condy
Winner: M. C., Nelson, BC
Prize: Jane Jacobs's Dark Age Ahead

May:
Question: Who does Herrick ask to go a-Maying?
Answer: Corinna
Winner: R. S., Toronto, ON
Prize: Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road

June:
OFF

July:
Question: Who is the hero of the "U" chapter of Eunoia?
Answer: Ubu
Winner: G. T., Marlboro, NJ (US) 
Prize: Jim Westergard's Mother Goose Eggs, Sunnyside Up

August:
Question: What stowaway on Noah's Ark narrates the first part of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters?
Answer: A woodworm
Winner: W. Z., Halifax, NS
Prize: Leon Rooke's Hot Poppies

September:
Question: Who wins Shirley Jackson's lottery?
Answer: Tessie Hutchinson
Winner: G. M., Toronto, ON
Prize: P. K. Page's A Brazilian Alphabet for the Younger Reader

October:
Question: What is the name of Nell Severance's pistol?
Answer: Swamp Angel
Winner: M. T., Rockland, ON
Prize: Christopher Wiseman's In John Updike's Room

November:
Question: What is the first name of Rappaccini's daughter?
Answer: Beatrice
Winner: N. W., Toronto, ON
Prize: Paul Glennon's The Dodecahedron

December:
Question: Who waits for cats in Mrs. Prothero's garden on the afternoon of Christmas Eve?
Answer: Dylan Thomas
Winner: B. G., Guelph, ON
Prize: Bonnie Rozanski's Banana Kiss