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New Zealand Book Month Quiz results
Thank you to all who entered our NZ Book Month Quiz. It proved to be very difficult and testing and the result was a tight one, with the winner eventually emerging after close scrutiny and a final decision from the judges.
Won by Marian Johns, Nelson
Correct answers:
1. What recent award-winning book took 50 years in the making?
Audrey Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand
2. What’s the name of the central character in The captive wife?
Betty Guard
3. A NZ author and illustrator filed (and failed) a breach of copyright claim against the Hollywood movie “Mr & Mrs Smith” – who was the author/illustrator?
Gavin Bishop
4. Who has just written about his year of living dangerously?
Rodney Hide
5. What’s the name of the dog in Footrot Flats?
“Dog”
6. In 2006 Golden Bay author Philip Simpson won the Montana book Awards with a book on which well known species of New Zealand trees?
P?hutukawa and rata
7. The daughter of which well-known author wrote The sound of butterflies?
Michael King
8. What award has Janet Frame (somewhat controversially) just won?
Poetry category of the 2007 Montana NZ Book Awards for "The Goose Bath."
9. The Motueka River turns brown for this fishy tale. What is the title of the book?
Ben Brown’s Fish in the swim of the world
10. Where are the Olympics set in Tessa Duder’s Alex series?
Rome
11. Name the three books in Maurice Shadbolt’s trilogy based on the M?ori Wars?
Season of the Jew; Monday’s warriors; The house of strife
12. Which New Zealand novelist set a story in a French vineyard?
Elizabeth Knox
13. Who is the author of the Hairy Maclary books?
Lynley Dodd
14. Which book won the ‘Environment Category’ at this year’s Montana Book Awards?
"Ghosts of Gondwana: the history of life in New Zealand", by George Gibbs
15. Which NZ author recently won the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Award?
Margaret Mahy
16. Artist Kate Walker has recently collaborated with Jennifer Beth Guerin and a local poet in the “Hotspot” exhibition at the Suter Gallery. Who is the local poet?
Cliff Fell
17. Which NZ author has written historic mysteries featuring Inspector O’Rorke?
Edmund Bohan
18. A NZ author was the first Woollaston Estates Writer in Residence this year – who was this author?
Owen Marshall
19. What mining community was the setting for a very successful historical novel in which the main character was a spirited 5 year old girl?
Denniston
20. Which is New Zealand’s most popular cook book?
Edmond’s Cook Book
21. Which Nelsonian won the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2006?
Brigid Lowry
22. Maurice Gee wrote a fantasy trilogy for children set partly in Golden Bay. What is the name of the trilogy?
The O Trilogy (includes: The Halfmen of O; The Priests of Ferris; Motherstone)
23. Name a NZ novel with ‘Tarzan’ in its title?
Tarzan Presley by Nigel Cox
24. An internationally popular film was based on which book by Witi Ihimaera?
The Whale Rider
25. Name a Maurice Gee book made into a movie or television
In my Father’s Den (movie) or Under the mountain (TV series)
26. A book about which NZ composer was a prizewinner in this year’s Montana NZ Book Awards?
Douglas Lilburn |
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