Answers to the
Trivia Challenge: 2007
January:
Question: Who
are the first four pilgrims,
in order of appearance,
described in the General
Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales?
Answer: Knight, Squire, Yeoman, Prioress
Winner: C. B., Lakefield, ON
Prize: W. J. Keith's Canadian Literature in English, Volume One
February:
Question: What
year is Brave New World
set in?
Answer: 632 A. F. (After Ford)
Winner: W. Z., Dartmouth, NS
Prize:
Kenneth Sherman's Black River
March:
Question: Who
does the Lady of Shalott look
at from her window?
Answer: Sir Lancelot
Winner: J. A., Penticton, BC
Prize: W. J. Keith's Canadian Literature in English, Volume
Two
April:
Question: Who
were the authors of Wacousta
and Wacousta! (different
works)?
Answer: John Richardson and Heather
Kirk have both written books titled Wacousta.
Wacousta! (the exclamation
mark is part of the title) was
written by James Reaney.
Winner: A. N., Cambridge, ON
Prize:
P. K. Page's Up on the Roof
May:
Question: Who
founded the Revelations Colony
of Truth on Vancouver Island?
Answer: Donal Keneally
Winner: R. C., Lakefield, ON
Prize:
George A. Walker's Images
from the Neocerebellum
June:
Question: What
is the name of the dog in The
Two Gentlemen of Verona?
Answer: Crab
Winner: S. G., Toronto, ON
Prize:
P. K. Page's Up on the Roof
July:
Question: At
the beginning of Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead,
how many coin tosses in a row
come up heads?
Answer: 92
Winner: B. D., Calgary, AB
Prize:
Barry Webster's The Sound
of All Flesh
August:
Question: What
four players precede Casey's
final at bat?
Answer: Cooney, Barrows, Flynn,
and Jimmy Blake (in that order)
Winner: D. M., Dundas, ON
Prize:
Clark Blaise's World Body
September:
Question: What
is Pip's full name?
Answer: Philip Pirrip
Winner: S. N., Guelph, ON
Prize:
Richard Outram's South of
North
October:
Question: Who
were the two people cast as
King of the Dunces in Pope's Dunciad?
Answer: Lewis Theobald and
Colley Cibber
Winner: M. C., Nelson, BC
Prize:
David Helwig's Smuggling
Donkeys
November:
Question: Who
was Melmoth the Wanderer's
bride?
Answer: Immalee / Isidora di
Aliaga
Winner: D. B., Surrey, BC
Prize:
Wayne Clifford's The
Exile's Papers: Part One
December:
Question: The
characters in Stephen Crane's
story "The Open
Boat" are survivors of
the sinking of what
ship?
Answer: The steamer Commodore
Winner: C. D., Kingston, ON
Prize:
Stefan Berg's Let That Bad
Air Out
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