by Kay Mercer

ANSWERS TO THE ExQUIZite Summer of Reading Quiz

SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ THIS UNTIL YOU'VE DONE THE QUIZ

Answers

5-word plot synopsis

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

2. Jaws by Peter Benchley

3. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

4. The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

7. The Martian by Andy Weir

8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

9. This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

10. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Word games

1. Algebra

2. Portmanteaux

3. Wer (men) and wif (women)

4. 90 seconds

5. An unlicensed pub

Graphic content warning

1. Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium (once known as Delight)

2. Lumberjanes

3. My Chemical Romance

4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

5. Jem and the Holograms

Authors articulate

1.Toni Morrison

2. Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3. Louisa May Alcott

4. Oscar Wilde

5. Margaret Atwood

Déjà vu

1. Emma by Jane Austen

2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

3. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

4. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

5. The Borrowers by Mary Norton


A kingly bonus

1. The Shining (1977)

2. Cujo (1981)

3. Pet Sematary (1982)

4. IT (1986)

5. The Stand: Complete and Uncut Edition (1990)

6. Insomnia (1994)

7. The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass (1997)

8. 11/22/63 (2011)

9. Revival (2014)

10. The Institute (2019)

Image credits

All images from Pixabay (and yes, that’s actually Stephen King’s Maine home)

Sources (all available from Dunedin Public Libraries)

· Bibliophile by Jane Mount

· The Accidental Dictionary by Paul Anthony Jones

· The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal

· The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

· DPL Catalogue

· Stephen King's (sweet) website