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Independent Booksellers Week 2010 Book Quiz

Independent Booksellers Week 2010 Book Quiz. With thanks to Chiswick Book Festival. Chapter 3 The Moving Toyshop. The Questions. Question 1. Which detective weighed a seventh of a ton and drank exactly six beers a day?. Question 2.

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Independent Booksellers Week 2010 Book Quiz

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  1. Independent Booksellers Week 2010Book Quiz With thanks to Chiswick Book Festival

  2. Chapter 3The Moving Toyshop The Questions

  3. Question 1 Which detective weighed a seventh of a ton and drank exactly six beers a day?

  4. Question 2 Three of the books about this detective have taken their titles from Rolling Stones’ albums. What’s his name?

  5. Question 3 Name Mama Ramotswe’s appositely-named trumpet-player ex-husband.

  6. Question 4 In which country was Napoleon Bonaparte a detective?

  7. Question 5 Which Booker Prize novelist has written a series of novels about the 1950s Dublin pathologist, Quirk?

  8. Question 6 What is the name of Agatha Christie’s self-caricature detective novelist who occasionally appears alongside Hercule Poirot?

  9. Question 7 What had George Smiley been intending to study as a postgraduate when recruited by the secret service?

  10. Question 8 Which diabetic police detective once played second fiddle to his police detective daughter?

  11. Question 9 Stieg Larsson’s Swedish detective trilogy began with “Men Who Hate Women” – this boasted a far more decorative title when published in English.

  12. Question 10 Two of the main writers of The Wire are eminent American crime novelists who featured on Barack Obama’s reading list this summer. One was David Price. Name the other.

  13. Question 11 In which Raymond Chandler novel does the character Moose Molloy appear?

  14. Question 12 What role did the postman play in James M. Cain’s twice-filmed noir thriller, The Postman Always Rings Twice?

  15. The Moving Toyshop The Answers

  16. Answer 1

  17. Answer 2 John Rebus

  18. Answer 3 Note Mokote

  19. Answer 4 Australia

  20. Answer 5 John Banville

  21. Answer 6

  22. Answer 7 Baroque German Literature

  23. Answer 8 Kurt Wallander

  24. Answer 9

  25. Answer 10

  26. Answer 11

  27. Answer 12 None at all

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