The Colman Getty PEN Quiz Answers
Round 1: Sporting Chance
1: Saturday, Ian McEwan
2: Mrs Trunchbull
3: Billiards
4: Underworld
5: The Longest Journey
6: Marlin
7: P.G. Wodehouse
8: Samson (Agonistes)
9: A Ping-Pong ball
10: Flashman, in Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser
Round 2: History Boys and Girls
1: The History Boys
2: B, A, C (1953, 1960, 1972)
3: The Washington Post
4: Patty Hearst
5: Selfridges
6: The Mona Lisa
7: Theodore Roosevelt
8: Elvis Presley
9: 1921
10: Winston Churchill
Round 3: Celebrity Gossip
1: Eastenders
2: Charlotte Church
3: Johnny Vegas
4: Anna Wintour
5: Satchel
6: Saddam Hussein
7: Naomi Campbell
8: Tom Waits
9: Oprah Winfrey
10: Lord Asriel & Nicole Kidman
Round 4: Cover Stories
1: A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
2: Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
3: The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
4: Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
5: Captain Correli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
6: To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
7: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Mark Haddon
8: The Book of Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley
9: Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
10: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling
11: Wayne Rooney: My story so far - Wayne Rooney
12: Life of Pi - Yann Martel
13: Toast - Nigel Slater
14: The Cat in the Hat - Dr Seuss
15: The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
16: American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
17: The Plot against America - Philip Roth
18: Free Expression is No Offence - English PEN/Penguin (edited by Lisa Appignanesi)
19: Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
20: Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
21: The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
22: Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
23: Atonement - Ian McEwan
24: Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
Round 5: Easy Listening?
1: St Martin's College
2: 'Cake and fine wine' ('the finest wines available to humanity')
3: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Dmitri Shostakovich
4: John Dowland; lute
5: Tropicalia
6: Strange Fruit
7: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
8: 50 Cent
9: Zanzibar
10: Bono; 'Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you'
Round 6: Forbidden Fruits
1: June 16
2: The Dodo
3: T. S. Eliot
4: The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell
5: 13
6: Mick Jagger
7: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
8: Aladdin
9: 'When I'm cleaning windows'
10: Nigel Hawthorne