- General Conyers dies while:
a) playing the cello,
b) stuffing Tuffy,
c) chasing looters during an air raid?
- Clergyman Eating an Apple was painted by:
a) Tiepolo,
b) Isbister,
c) Deacon?
- The reference to Vronsky (Anna Karenina's lover)
in The Acceptance World
is interesting not only because he was a seducer
but also because he was a _______________?
- The title of The Valley of Bones comes from:
a) Job,
b) Ezekiel,
c) St Mark?
- Creech could not serve in World War I
because _______________?
- The original
Truth Unveiled by Time
was sculpted by _______________?
- The Earl of Ardglass, Viscount Kilkeel,
was known to his friends as _______________?
- Who wanted to enrol at Eton at the age of 38?
- According to Stringham,
what is Buster Foxe's only redeeming quality?
- What is the title of Gwinnett's
biography of Trapnel?
- Barnby sleeps with and paints a waitress
from Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
named _______________?
- Is Jimmy Klein, Lady Peggy Stepney's
first,
second or
third husband?
- Pamela threw Trapnel's manuscript into
the _______________?
- While walking on and about the Albert Memorial,
Nick decided he was in love with _______________?
- Captain Gwatkin's company is billeted in a
19th century Welsh chapel called _______________?
- Deacon dies after falling down the
stairs at _______________?
- The title of Alaric Kydd's mildly pornographic
novel is _______________?
- Nick and General Liddament disagree about
which Victorian novelist?
- Bertram Akworth was expelled from Eton
because _______________?
- In the fifth volume, Nick and Moreland
buy a bottle of wine that is so bad even
Moreland won't drink it.
What kind of wine was it?
- One of these three is not alive at the
end of the last volume:
JG Quiggin,
Jimmy Stripling,
Jimmy Brent.
- In the Seven Deadly Sins tableaux,
Nick enacts _______________?
- Lady Anne Stepney's last husband was a:
a) French cosmetics manufacturer,
b) Negro painter,
c) Chinese diplomat?
- When Nick last sees Carolo,
he thinks Carolo resembles:
a) Peter Templer's father,
b) Franz Liszt,
c) Le Bas?
- Smith (the butler) dies because _______________?
- If a desperate hostess needed an extra man
for a dance or dinner,
she could always count on _______________?
- Leslie Murtlock believes that he is:
a) the illegitimate son of Bagshaw,
b) the reincarnation of Dr Trelawney,
c) the direct descendant of King Arthur?
- Jacky Bragadin:
a) owned Tiepolo's Candaules and Gyges,
b) poked Millie Blaides in a gondola,
c) financed the magazine Fission?
- During Widmerpool's installation as chancellor,
Amanda and Belinda Quiggin:
a) throw liquid manure on him,
b) throw paint on him,
c) do both of the preceding and then call him a Russian spy?
- According to Dicky Umfraville, Buster died:
a) of drink,
b) when a horse-box ran over him at Lingfield races,
c) after hearing that Dicky had done Amy Foxe on a camel in Cairo?
- A boy at Eton named Dickinson reports
to Stringham that Widmerpool suffers from
contortions of the _______________?
- At the end of the party scene in
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant,
who informs Amy Foxe that the
quatrefoil cup is a forgery?
- Biggs hangs himself in the _______________?
- Which of Thackeray's novels does Nick read
while stationed at Castlemallock?
- Odo Stevens's Sad Majors is a
title adapted from a line in which Shakespeare play?
- Dicky Umfraville claims that he once won a "monkey"
from Buster at poker and was never paid.
What is a "monkey"?
- Who or what are the "Virgin Marys"
Creech fears in The Kindly Ones?
- Henry James once stayed at:
a) Thrubworth,
b) Dogdene,
c) Stourwater?
- Who died of blood-poisoning while shooting
ibex in Kashmir?
- Who wrote
The Bitch Pack Meets on Wednesday?
- Who says
"There was nothing positive about Cosmo Flitton,
barring, of course, his Wassermann Test"?
- Widmerpool dies while:
a) looking at a Deacon painting,
b) running through the woods,
c) trying to poke Bijou Ardglass?
- We can date Widmerpool's complaints about the
abdication of Edward VIII because we know that
Edward gave up the throne on _______________?
- Which one of these people mentioned in
A Dance to the Music of Time
did not live during the 17th century?
Anthony Wood,
Thomas Vaughan,
Ippolito Nievo,
Nicholas Poussin,
Robert Burton,
Samuel Pepys,
Narcissus Lutrell.
- One of these famous commanders is not
mentioned in the novel-sequence:
Field-Marshal Haig,
Field-Marshal Slim,
Field-Marshal Montgomery,
Field-Marshall Paulus,
General Patton,
Field-Marshal Alanbrooke.
- The greatest accomplishment of Harrison Wisebite's life
was inventing a cocktail called _______________?
- "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is the name of:
a) a brothel where Widmerpool indulges in voyeurism,
b) the pub in which Trapnel dies,
c) a restaurant where Nick eats with Moreland?
- Dicky Umfraville says that according to
Marshal Lyautey the first essential of a good
officer is _______________?
- Dicky Umfraville remains true to form by
appearing for the last time at the wedding in
Hearing Secret Harmonies with:
a) a woman one-half his age,
b) a jockey he met at the race track,
c) a hangover?
- The proper response to
"The Essence of the All is the Godhead of the True" is _______________?
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