QUIZ RESULTS!
Only two solutions to the recent Beastly Books Quiz were received.
The winner was Good Dog who brilliantly succeeded in naming all 40 titles and their authors.
Runners-up were Sheila and Roger who correctly identified an impassive 34 titles and filled in their six gaps with such inventive suggestions as E/PS: Echidnas by Phil Sludgebucket and TW/EB: Two Whales by Elizabeth Barnacle!
Anyway, many congratulations to GD and R&S!
Here's the full list of correct answers...
1) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
2) The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
3) The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
4) King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
5) Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
6) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
7) A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
8) The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
9) The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
10) White Fang by Jack London
11) Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
12) The Goshawk by T H White
13) Horton Hears a Who! by Dr Seuss
14) Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
15) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter
16) Born Free by Joy Adamson
17) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
18) National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
19) The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
20) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot
21) The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
22) A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
23) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
24) Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw
25) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
26) Equus by Peter Shaffer
27) The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast by Alan Aldridge and William Plomer (after William Roscoe)
28) Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
29) The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
30) Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
31) The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
32) The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis
33) The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith
34) Stuart Little by E B White
35) The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
36) The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford
37) All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
38) The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
39) The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne
40) My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
41) The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
42) The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
43) Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
44) The Horse and His Boy by C S Lewis
45) Roverandom by J R R Tolkien
46) Animal Farm by George Orwell
47) Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
48) War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
49) The Rescuers by Margery Sharp
50) Elephant Bill by J H Williams
Image: Noah's Ark (1846) by Edward Hicks
3 comments:
Congratulations to the winner ...
... and lots of groans here as we saw how we failed on some of the easier answers! Sometimes one can try too hard and miss the obvious. But thanks for the quiz - we enjoyed having a go.
The books for which I was looking and which weren't on the list are:
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk
Conrats folks! I was going to give this a shot and just sort of forgot about it. Probably wouldn't have got them all though. Some of those title I haven't thought of in a long time...
Sheila – Thanks for giving us the answers to your puzzlers. I thought TLATU was The Lion and the Unicorn; didn't see TOS/AG even though I had considered putting it on the list (Doh!); and I have never heard of The Pope's Rhinoceros, but it sounds intriguing. Also just remembered that I had meant to include Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Oh, well, too late now...
Geno – Just think of all the time you saved!!
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