Answers to the
Trivia Challenge: 2006
January:
Question: In order of publication,
what were the titles of John
Updike's Rabbit books?
Answer: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit
at Rest, Rabbit Remembered
(in Licks of Love)
Winner: J. S., Winnipeg, MB
Prize: Margaret Avison's Always Now (Volume 3)
February:
Question: In a shop in what
neighbourhood does Maggie buy the golden
bowl?
Answer: Bloomsbury
Winner: I. K., Montreal, QB
Prize: Paul Glennon's The
Dodecahedron
March:
Question: In what year was W. B.
Yeats appointed to the Irish
Senate?
Answer: 1922 (I hang my head in
shame over this one, as it is a
repeat of the February 2003 Trivia
Challenge. That's what running this
site for 8 years does to you.)
Winner: B. F., Ancaster, ON
Prize: P. K. Page's Hand Luggage
April:
Question: The town of Peyton Place
is named after what local
landmark?
Answer: The castle built by
Samuel Peyton
Winner: R. H., Bowmanville, ON
Prize:
Rudolf and Elizabeth Kurz's An
Illustrated Alphabet for the
Illiterate
May:
Question: Who wrote the poems of
Ossian?
Answer: James Macpherson
Winner: M. C., Nelson, BC
Prize:
Brender à Brandis's A
Gathering of Flowers from
Shakespeare
June:
Question: What was the name of the
boat Shelley drowned in?
Answer: The Don Juan.
Though Mary later claimed he had
renamed it Ariel.
Winner: J. L., Montreal, QC
Prize: David Helwig's The Names
of Things
July:
Question: What year was House of
Anansi Press founded?
Answer: 1967
Winner: S. B., Ottawa, ON
Prize: Clarke Blaise's Montreal
Stories
August:
Question: What were the titles of
the first and last volumes in
Hugh Hood's New Age series?
Answer: The Swing in the
Garden and Near Water
Winner: J. K., Toronto, ON
Prize:
G. Brender à Brandis's Wood,
Ink & Paper
September:
Question: What is a hypercatalectic
line of poetry?
Answer: One that has an extra
syllable or syllables at the end of
a metrically complete line.
Winner: P. V., Surrey, BC
Prize:
Clark Blaise's World Body
October:
Question: Who rapes Belinda's lock?
Answer: The Baron
Winner: R. N., Winnipeg, MB
Prize: Sharon English's Zero
Gravity
November:
Question: What
was the first year the
Governor General's Literary
Awards had a cash prize and
how much was it?
Answer: 1951, $250.
Winner: L. K., Calgary, AB
Prize: Paul Glennon's The
Dodecahedron
December:
Question: What
is the name of the family cat
that comes back from the dead
in Pet Sematary?
Answer: Church (short for Winston
Churchill)
Winner: M. M., St. Albert, AB
Prize: Wayne Clifford's The Book
of Were
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