Sunday 30 December 2012

The 2012 WWJ End-of-Year Massive Quiz


Have you been paying attention? Yeah, well, we’ll be the judges of that. All the answers can be found in the Words with JAM archives of this year. (Or Google. But think how cheap and low-down lazy you’d feel.)

Twenty literary questions and a wild card question to act as a tie-breaker. The winner will receive a £20 Amazon voucher and an official WWJ Mug.

Two rules: regular WWJ columnists can enter but will not be eligible for the prize, and JJ Marsh's decision is final.

Answers in the body of an email to jill@wordswithjam.co.uk by midnight 5th January 2013.

  1. Sherlock Holmes and Elizabeth Bennet rode on, despite the demise of their creators. Who stepped into Conan Doyle’s and Austen’s shoes, and with which books? 4 points
  2. How did Terry Pratchett describe his Alzheimer’s disease? 1 point
  3. What colour is the official Words with JAM mug, and what slogan does it bear? 2 points
  4. Name the city which links Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes, Robert Harris’s The Fear Index, and Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons. 1 point
  5. Which author won 2012 The Alliance of Radical Bookshops’ Bread and Roses prize and with which book? 2 points
  6. Hilary Mantel won her second Booker Prize this year. Who are the three other authors to have won the prize twice? 3 points
  7. Which author collaborated with Margaret Atwood on a zombie novel, and via which platform? 2 points
  8. Whose real name is Vin Deighan? 1 point
  9. Which publishing heavyweight joined forces with Penguin/Pearson this year? 1 point
  10. The ‘Aye Write’ Festival takes place in which city, the home town of which WWJ correspondent? 2 points
  11. Which London venue hosted ‘Shakespeare: staging the world’? 1 point
  12. Whose novel was adapted into the film ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’? 2 points for author and title
  13. Three men, two titles, one play: John Gay, Bertolt Brecht, Václav Havel. 2 points for both titles
  14. The first WWJ podcast of 2012 was which previous cover girl, reading her first chapter of her novel? 2 points, author and title
  15. Which literary agency, with whom WWJ has enjoyed a long and happy association, was joined by fiction agent David Haviland this year? 1 point
  16. Which animal links Jojo Moyes, Michael Morpurgo and Nicholas Evans? 3 points for 3 titles
  17. Which Man Booker shortlister did our prescient contributor Dan Holloway pick out this time last year? 2 points for title and author
  18. What does ‘Tacenda’ (one of the WWJ review ratings) mean? 1 point
  19. Where did JD Smith and Gillian Hamer interview Sir Richard Taylor, co-founder of the Weta Workshop? 1 point
  20. Which book was adapted to film this year, directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis? 2 points for title and author

    Tie-break question: finish this sentence in 140 characters or fewer.
  21. Reading Words with JAM is like ...
Answers in the body of an email to jill@wordswithjam.co.uk by midnight 5th January 2013.


3 comments:

  1. The winner of our 2012 End-of-Year Massive Quiz was Marie Gethins with the tie-breaking answer: Reading Words with JAM is like indulging in a restorative cup of tea in a cosy literary café.

    Congratulations, Marie! Your mug and voucher are on the way.

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  3. This year, WWJ was sending over 200 employees to over 40 cities across the country to take part in our annual massive quiz. Also you can get buy dissertation to manage their work. We read to over 2,000 readers and quizzed over 100 different employees in the process to find out what they thought of their jobs, their co-workers and their bosses in 2012.

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