Written quiz for teams of two on popular and pulp fiction held in Oct 2015 at KQA

1. Pilferages 2015
Our Books, Their Books
Research By
Venkatesh S
Vivek Karthikeyan

2. This quiz is about
James Joyce Hadley Chase
Paul Theroux Cain
John Steinbeck Grisham
Harold Pinter Robbins
…

3. A few rules…
 40 questions, all-written, for Teams of 2
 *-marked questions to resolve ties
 No negatives, please take guesses
 All parts carry one point each, a total of 55 points to be made
 Prizes for the Top 3 teams

4. Over to the answers…

5. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20151.
Whose upcoming book is this?
What is the protagonist’s surname, which
is part of the title of this book’s prequel?

6. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Zac O’Yeah
Mr Majestic

7. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20152.
This 1998 film was an adaptation of a book left unfinished by its
author in 1958, and completed thirty years later. Who was the author
or who is the aging protagonist character? (The film and book are
both in English; just the trailer is in Spanish)
Which acclaimed playwright wrote the screenplay for this film?

8. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Raymond Chandler / Philip Marlowe
Tom Stoppard

9. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20153.
This is the Norwegian punk rock band Di Derre, featuring these two
brothers among others. Who is the guitarist on the left, with the
headscarf?

10. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Jo Nesbo

11. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20154.
This image on the cover of the book had people asking about what a
helicopter-like object was doing in the background. The author had
explained this in the book saying that it was the legendary flying
vehicle of a demon king, committing his famous kidnapping act.
Which book and what was the vehicle called in the myth?

12. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Scion of Ikshvaku
Pushpaka Vimaana

13. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20155.
In which 1857 book does the
protagonist of this book, Flashman,
originally appear as a bully?
In this particular book, Flashman
performs brilliantly at a cricket match
and is recorded as being the first to
perform what cricket feat, first
achieved in real life by a “demon”?

14. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Tom Brown’s School Days
Hat Trick

15. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20156.
Identify this fictional
English village, supposed
to be in the southeast of
England, 25 miles from
London, just outside the
town of Much Benham.
Also, identify the
character who lives here.

16. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
St Mary Mead
Miss Jane Marple

17. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20157.
First appearing in the seventh book of the series called The Clue in the
Diary, he is mistaken for a car thief and later proves trustworthy.
Hailing from Mapleton, he is a sophomore at Emerson college and
plays basketball, baseball, and football. He is also a member of the
Omega Chi Epsilon Fraternity.
Who is this 6’ 2” young man, whose friends are Burt Eddleton and
Dave Evans?

18. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Ned Nickerson
from Nancy Drew

19. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20158.
Identify this graphic novel with a one-
word proper noun.

20. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Gabbar

21. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 20159.
Identify the real-life author couple celebrated in this Swedish stamp.
For an extra point, you can identify the character they created.

22. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Martin Beck

23. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201510.
Serial Killer ‘Auto’ Shankar apparently read this author’s novels in prison. In a recent
interview, the author recalls, “Some 20 years ago, a mysterious murder shook
Pallavaram. The department couldn’t crack the case”.
A police officer couriered a stack of papers containing the case details, convinced
that the author could solve it. “I wrote back to him saying that when I write a crime
story, I know who the murderer is right at the beginning, unlike in real life.”
He is now making headway into the film industry. He wrote the story and dialogues
for the Sarath Kumar film Sandamarutham and is waiting to hear from Prabhu Deva
who has approached producers in Bollywood with the writer’s story on the missing
Malaysian aircraft. Which prolific writer?

24. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Rajesh Kumar

25. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201511.
Who connects? Why are these three works significant for him?

26. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Sidney Sheldon
His Tony, Oscar and Emmy wins respectively

27. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201512.
Identify the contextual title of this book,
given that it used the Falklands War as
the backdrop, and what you see on the
cover.

28. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Exocet
The missile used in the war by the Argentine Navy

29. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201513.
In the books, she is a Scot with the speculative first name of Martha
who is fond of cooking and makes a great breakfast.
In one version of the adapted TV series, she is Martha Louise, whose
husband was convicted in Florida on drug and murder charges, for
which she is grateful. She also speculates on a gay relationship and
repeatedly corrects the protagonists about her role.
Who?

30. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Mrs Hudson
From Sherlock Holmes

31. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201514.
Devdutt Pattanaik’s Jaya begins with X conducting a snake sacrifice to
avenge his father’s death; one of the snakes agrees to tell him a story.
Each chapter therefore begins a dialogue addressed to him that
represents the essence of the chapter.
Who is X?

32. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Janamejaya

33. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201515.
On 7 Dec, 1963, as a 23-year-old
Oxford student involved in Oxfam’s
‘Million Pounds For Hunger’ campaign,
he somehow used his connections and
got his way in to see The Beatles and
got them to be part of a charity drive
—one of the early controversies in his
colourful life.
Identify him seen on the extreme
right.

34. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Jeffrey Archer

35. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201516.
The TV and the film versions from 1956 and 1957 are shown here.
Identify the 1958 book version and the author.

36. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Runway Zero Eight by
Arthur Hailey

37. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201517.
The best works of crime fiction from which country are given these
awards? Who are the awards (somewhat appropriately) named after?

38. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Australia
Ned Kelly

39. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201518.
USS Kamehameha, a ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of
the United States Navy to be named for Kamehameha I, the first King
of Hawaii.
Who wrote his first novel in 1973, titled, Year of the Intern, while
serving on board this ship as a doctor?

40. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Robin Cook

41. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201519.
The latest and final book in a trilogy
starring which two characters, who also
lend their names to the first two books
of the series?

42. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Ravan and Eddie

43. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201520.
Identify the subject / fill in the blanks.

44. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Moneypenny

45. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201521
Unlike what the trailer says, there was nothing extraordinary about
this movie, based on a 1966 novel. The book was one of four written
by the author, whose first husband was incidentally a spy.
Name the 1966 work. Its story was a prequel to which 1847 work?

46. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jane Eyre

47. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201522
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a
number of successful novels, mostly crime fiction.
One of his novels written in 2000 won the Glass Key Award. This
book’s title is also the overarching name given to a family of billiards
games generally played on cloth-covered tables. It is also the name of
the fruit shown.
What is the name of Nesser’s prize-winning book?

49. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Carambole

50. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201523
Rudolph Fisher, born in 1897, graduated from
Brown University and went on to become an
accomplished doctor, but he died at age 37.
What distinction does his little-known classic,
The Conjure Man dies, hold?
What other aspect of the book, about the
investigation behind the disappearance of an
African king, makes it particularly unique?

51. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
It introduced the first black detective
a man named Percy Dart
All the characters in the book are black

52. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201524
Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Mozambique, stages plays focusing on
social issues. The theatre also performs works of acclaimed
playwrights such as Tennessee Williams.
The theatre is known in drama circles and its reputation has grown
over the years. A few years ago it even staged a play in Norway—the
story being a continuation of Ibsen’s A Doll House.
Why are we talking about this rather remote group in this quiz
(consider it a tribute of sorts)?

53. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Henning Mankell (R.I.P) was the theatre’s artistic leader.
He has been working with them since 1986

54. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201525
It is caused due to the loss of Adenosine Triphosphate. ATP is a
substance that allows energy flow, and its loss causes inflexibility,
starting with the face and neck.
A play on this is the title of a new creation which includes a nail-biter
at the Nürburgring racetrack. This is not the first time it is being used,
however. It was the title of pulp writer Frank Kane’s 1958 novel
featuring the gumshoe Johnny Liddell.
What two-word answer fits?

55. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Trigger Mortis

56. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201526
David Lagercrantz is continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series with
the book The Girl in the Spider’s Web. He was in the limelight two
years ago involved as co-author of another book, the subject of which
once famously involved these two in a remark. Which is that book?

57. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
I Am Zlatan
“You bought a Ferrari, but you drive it like a Fiat.”

58. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201527
He wrote several novels in a series without actually setting foot in the
city that serves as an evocative tropical backdrop for his plots. He
apparently picked the locale by flipping randomly through an atlas.
The first of the series won him the Golden Dagger in the UK (1964).
1988 was when he first set foot in the city. According to one report,
his first words as he got off the plane in India were, “My God, it’s hot!”
Who is this? What did he come to India for?

59. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
HRF Keating
The Perfect Murder was made into a movie by Ismail Merchant
and Keating did a cameo in it.

60. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201528
She is one of the two protagonists in Larry Engelmann’s account, The
Goddess and the American Girl, of a memorable 1926 match in
France.
Who is this person who wrote a mystery in 1939 called Death Serves
An Ace?
And, who is the Goddess in Engelmann’s book?

61. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
The American Girl – Helen Wills Moody
The Goddess – Suzanne Lenglen

62. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201529
An early photo, sans glamour,
of the two of them together. ID both.

63. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Jackie Collins and Joan Collins

64. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201530
Ruth Rendell was one writer who pushed the
boundaries of the crime fiction genre.
This line, “Eunice Parchman killed the
Coverdale family because she could not read
and write,” from her 1977 novel, A Judgment
in Stone broke pretty much every rule of
crime fiction. How so?

65. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
It was the first line of the book!
revealing who, what and why

66. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201531
Who is the vampire hunter featuring in this series?

67. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Anita Blake

68. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201532
Dashiell Hammett often ran into issues with his editors when they were OK
with offensive slang but questioned innocent-but-offensive-sounding
terms. So, he brought this word into The Maltese Falcon.
He managed to get away with it because it fit well in a gangster context.
The word comes from a Yiddish slur meaning ‘young goose’ and it originally
referred to a young male sexual companion kept by an older tramp.
What word that supposedly even found favour with actual gangsters, in a
case of life imitating art?

69. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Gunsel

70. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201533
Which late 19th century mystery solver is described thus in the book
Whose Body?: “His long, amiable face looked as if it had generated
spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from
Gorgonzola.”

71. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Lord Peter Wimsey

72. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201534
These are all book titles from James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club
series. Fill in the blanks (1 pt for getting three, 2 pts for all correct).
• 2nd ______
• 3rd ______
• The 5th ________
• 7th ______
• 11th ____

73. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
2nd Chance 3rd Degree The 5th Horseman
7th Heaven 11th Hour

74. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201535
Which character (the older lady)?

75. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Mildred Pierce

76. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201536
As Sherlock Holmes had his well-known address on Baker Street, John
D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee lived on a houseboat docked at Slip F-
18, Bahia Mar marina, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The name of the boat is a hand in poker containing four cards of the
same suit and one of a different suit. It is also slang for someone who
shows promise but turns out to be a dud.
What was the boat called?

77. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Busted Flush

78. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201537
This novel won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel in 1976. The
story involved an ageing gunfighter dying of a cancer. It was made into
a movie and the result according to critic Philip Horne was ‘a rich and
elegiac western, a fitting swansong for Hollywood’s most courageous
gunslinger’ – the man who played the lead was also battling a cancer
that would soon kill him.
Which novel/movie?

79. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
The Shootist

80. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201538
This author was in the habit of filling notebooks with ideas—one of
which was spawned by the fact that in his New York apartment was a
laundry room which he would never let his wife enter alone. He would
also not let his wife read the book, understandably so—she was in her
third pregnancy. Unfortunately their marriage collapsed, while the
book was a success.
What did he write?

81. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Rosemary’s Baby

82. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201539
What is common to the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the
Confederacy’s Hunley, and the Union's Housatonic, the U-boat that
sank the Lusitania, the Confederate raider Florida, the Carpathia and
about 60 other vessels of the sea?

83. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Their wrecks were all discovered by Clive Cussler

84. Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 201540
These are pictures from a 2009 photo shoot with the theme ‘criminal
intent’. Who or what is the inspiration?

85. Answer Collected Works – asKQAnce 2014Pilferages 2015
Modesty Blaise