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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 jockey? 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 of bad feet? The original Truth Unveiled by Time was sculpted by Bernini? The Earl of Ardglass, Viscount Kilkeel, was known to his friends as Jumbo? Who wanted to enrol at Eton at the age of 38? Colonel Chu According to Stringham, what is Buster Foxe's only redeeming quality? Good taste in Champagne What is the title of Gwinnett's biography of Trapnel? Death's-Head Swordsman Barnby sleeps with and paints a waitress from Casanova's Chinese Restaurant named Norma? Is Jimmy Klein, Lady Peggy Stepney's first, second or third husband? Pamela threw Trapnel's manuscript into the Maida Vale (or Regent's Park) Canal? While walking on and about the Albert Memorial, Nick decided he was in love with Barbara Goring? Captain Gwatkin's company is billeted in a 19th century Welsh chapel called Sardis? Deacon dies after falling down the stairs at a nightclub called the Bronze Monkey? The title of Alaric Kydd's mildly pornographic novel is Sweetskin? Nick and General Liddament disagree about which Victorian novelist? Trollope Bertram Akworth was expelled from Eton because of a compromising letter to Peter Templer? In the fifth volume, Nick and Moreland buy a bottle of wine that is so bad even Moreland wont drink it. What kind of wine was it? Tawny Wine (Port Flavour) 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 Sloth? 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 he is bitten by a monkey (Maisky)? If a desperate hostess needed an extra man for a dance or dinner, she could always count on Archie Gilbert? But if you answered Widmerpool we will of course accept that, he being the real last resort! 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 bottom? At the end of the party scene in Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, who informs Amy Foxe that the quatrefoil cup is a forgery? Lord Huntercombe Biggs hangs himself in the cricket pavilion? Which of Thackeray's novels does Nick read while stationed at Castlemallock? Henry Esmond Odo Stevens's Sad Majors is a title adapted from a line in which Shakespeare play? Anthony and Cleopatra Dicky Umfraville claims that he once won a "monkey" from Buster at poker and was never paid. What is a "monkey"? £500 Who or what are the "Virgin Marys" Creech fears in The Kindly Ones? Suffragettes Henry James once stayed at: a) Thrubworth, b) Dogdene, c) Stourwater? Who died of blood-poisoning while shooting ibex in Kashmir? Hugo Warminster Who wrote The Bitch Pack Meets on Wednesday? Ada Leintwardine Who says "There was nothing positive about Cosmo Flitton, barring, of course, his Wassermann Test"? Dicky Umfraville 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 (11 December) 1936? 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 Death Comes for the Archbishop? "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 gaiety? 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 "The Vision of Visions heals the Blindness of Sight"?

Now add up your score (remember it's 2 points for each correct answer) to give you a percentage mark. Anyone who can honestly say they scored over 65, un-aided and at the first attempt, and who sends me an E-mail containing their name, e-mail address, score, and whereabouts will get their name in the Hall of Fame. As I recall I scored about 60 at my first attempt, so you'll not find me there! Oh and sorry, no bottles of wine this time! Return to the Quiz Questions Page.