Literary Quiz

So here is the Globe and Mail's annual literary quiz that had me stretching my wee brain. I managed to answer all of the questions again this year, so now it is up to the decision maker at the G&M: Ted Mumford. Winners will be announced sometime in January.

1.Who picked The Interpretation of Murder, The Thirteenth Tale and Water for Elephants?
2.Which of the following are by Caryl Phillips and which are by Carly Phillips?
a)Dancing in the Dark; b) Summer Lovin'; c) Erotic Invitation; d) Strange Fruit; e) A Distant Shore; f) Body Heat.
3.What writer's path? (The last clue is a book published this fall.)
a) bliss, building, booze b) India, Paris, China c) talk, walk, me.
4.DQ is Dairy Queen. What's D&Q?
5.What reason did Anita have to be proud on Oct. 10?
6.The title of my recent book is a pun on that of a notorious novel. My brother heads a well-known institution. My first book was published in 1975. Who am I?
7.What Frenchwoman has had both fiction and film treatments this fall?
8.What do Classic Cocktails, Secrets from the Vinyl Café and Christmas Days have in common?
9.Unscramble these author names:
a) MORE AIM WITS
b) SADDAM HID RAD VICAR
c) NO TO TAB DENIAL
10.What pal of Joey's got her own book this fall?
11.What venerable house is said by some to have been reduced to a maple-leafed façade on a German branch plant?
12.What recent novel bounces between the Torontos of the 1850s and 1990s?
13.What Canadian father and daughter each got their own book treatment this fall?
14.Who are the real-life counterparts of fictional siblings Ben, Jude, Jemima, Harriet and Gus?
15.Which Francine is aptly named?
16.What novelist is also a greengrocer?
17.Where do Ethan, Kaitlin, Cowboy and Bree all work?
18.Who is Michael R. LeGault talking back to?
19.What mother-daughter duo of Globe journalists published their first books this year?
20.Where did Laurie Gough get the title Kiss the Sunset Pig?
21.Who's in the kitchen, George or Bill?
22.What Toronto book retailer's 30th birthday was recently feted in several ads in The Globe's books section?
23.How is Attawan a lot like Manawaka?
24.What epochal event recently occurred at The New York Review of Books?
25.What author who died in 1942 had a bestseller this year?
26.What have Claire Messud, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ian McEwan and Jay McInerney all been writing about?
27.I was a commando in the Second World War. Ivory landed me in prison in Tanganyika. In publishing, I worked with McLuhan, Frye, Richler, Callaghan and Munro. Who am I?
28.What magazine's moniker, if updated, would be Pen & Paper?
29.What's the one degree of separation between these people?
a)Steven Spielberg and Barbara Amiel; b) Audrey Tatou and Yann Martel; c) Whitney Houston and W. P. Kinsella.
30.What recent novel has been advertised as "Ripping the facade off peaceable Canadian multiculturalism"?
31.What real-life figure is at the heart of these novels?
a) The Forest Lover; b) The Communist's Daughter; c) The Master.
32.What book does every Vincent Lam completist need?
33.How did Madison Avenue recently put St. Urbain Street back on the map?
34.What sort of book have both Art and Bernice published? (Be specific.)
35.Who did Leonard read to on Nancy's roof?
36.Give the correct bookstore category for each of these books:
a) A Short History of Indians in Canada; b) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian; c) Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
37.What recent Canadian book suffers from toponymania?
38.Where did André, Max, Marcel and Marc all stay?
39.Correct the titles of these recent books:
a) The Bedside Book of Bats; b) This is Your Brain on Drugs; c) Pacino's Game
40.Who was America's "poet lariat"?

This took up an enormous amount of my time for two weeks. There were two questions in particular that I was just stuck on for the longest time, but finally I figured them out and I felt such sweet relief! Now that I am finished with this for another year, I can focus on Christmas again. Most of the shopping is done and the lights are up on the front of the house. I am playing Christmas music to try and help me feel a little more festive and will be deciding on my baking in the next couple of days. There just never seems to be enough time in December!