2006 Literary Quiz Answers

With thanks to Ted Mumford and The Globe and Mail, http://www.globeandmail.com/, here are the answers for the 2006 Literary Quiz:

1. The Interpretation of Murder, The Thirteenth Tale and Water for Elephants were all picked by Heather Reisman, CEO and "chief booklover" of Indigo/Chapters.
2. Caryl Phillips wrote a) Dancing in the Dark, d) Strange Fruit and e) A Distant Shore. Carly Phillips wrote b) Summer Lovin', c) Erotic Invitation and f) Going All the Way.
3. Writers' paths:
a) bliss, building, booze: Mark Kingwell
b) India, Paris, China: Margaret MacMillan
c) talk, walk, me: Bill Bryson
4. While DQ is Dairy Queen, D&Q is Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal publisher of graphic novels.
5. Anita (Desai) was proud on Oct. 10 because her daughter Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss.
6. The who-am-I writer who punned on the title of a notorious novel, has a brother who heads a well-known institution and began publishing in 1975 is R. T. (Tom) Naylor.
7. The Frenchwoman who had both fiction and film treatments last fall is Marie Antoinette.
8. What Classic Cocktails, Secrets from the Vinyl Café and Christmas Days have in common is art by cartoonist Seth.
9. Unscrambled author names:
a) MORE AIM WITS: Miriam Toews
b) SADDAM HID RAD VICARS: David Adam Richards
c) NO TO TAB DENIAL: Alain de Botton
10. The pal of Joey's who got her own book last fall is Sheilagh Fielding (in The Custodian of Paradise, sequel to the Joey Smallwood novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams).
11. The venerable house said by some to have been reduced to a maple-leafed façade on a German branch plant is McClelland & Stewart.
12. The recent novel that bounces between the Torontos of the 1850s and 1990s is Consolation, by Michael Redhill.
13. The Canadian father and daughter who each got their own book treatment last fall are Frank and Belinda Stronach.
14. The real-life counterparts of fictional siblings Ben, Jude, Jemima, Harriet and Gus (Weiss) are Daniel, Noah, Emma, Martha and Jacob (Richler).
15. The aptly named Francine is literary stylist Francine Prose.
16. The novelist who is also a greengrocer is Jeanette Winterson.
17. Ethan, Kaitlin, Cowboy and Bree all work in the jPod, in the Douglas Coupland novel of the same name.
18. Michael R. LeGault (Think) is talking back to Malcolm Gladwell (Blink).
19. The mother-daughter duo of Globe journalists who published their first books last year are Cecily Ross (Love in the Time of Cholesterol) and Leah McLaren (The Continuity Girl).
20. Laurie Gough got the title Kiss the Sunset Pig from a lyric in Joni Mitchell's song California.
21. It's Bill, not George, who's in the kitchen. (Both Bill Buford and George Monbiot published books titled Heat last year.)
22. The Toronto book retailer whose 30th birthday was feted in several ads in The Globe's Books section is Book City.
23. Attawan (John Bemrose's The Island Walkers) is a lot like Manawaka (of Margaret Laurence's fiction) in that they're both fictional places based on their respective authors' home towns.
24. The epochal event that recently occurred at The New York Review of Books was the death of founding co-editor Barbara Epstein.
25. The author who died in 1942 who had a bestseller last year is Irène Némirovsky (Suite Française).
26. What Claire Messud, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ian McEwan and Jay McInerney have all been writing about is 9/11.
27. The who-am-I bookman who was a commando in the Second World War, was landed in prison by ivory and worked with McLuhan, Frye, Richler, Callaghan and Munro is Kildare Dobbs.
28. The magazine whose moniker could be updated to Pen & Paper is Quill & Quire.
29. The one degree of separation between
a) Steven Spielberg and Barbara Amiel is George Jonas
b) Audrey Tatou and Yann Martel is Jean-Pierre Jeunet
c) Whitney Houston and W. P. Kinsella is Kevin Costner
30. The recent novel that was advertised as "Ripping the facade off peaceable Canadian multiculturalism" is Governor of the Northern Province, by Randy Boyagoda.
31. Real-life figures at the heart of novels:
a) The Forest Lover: Emily Carr
b) The Communist's Daughter: Norman Bethune
c) The Master: Henry James
32. The book every Vincent Lam completist needs is The Flu Pandemic and You.
33. How did Madison Avenue recently put St. Urbain Street back on the map? Madison Books, named for Madison Avenue in Toronto, published Mordecai Richler was Here, an anthology of work by the writer whose touchstone was St. Urbain Street.
34. The sort of book that both Art (Spiegelman) and Bernice (Eisenstein) have published is a graphic-novel memoir about being a child of Holocaust survivors.
35. Leonard (Cohen) read to Pierre Trudeau on Nancy (Southam's) roof (in Book of Longing).
36. Fiction is the correct bookstore category for each of A Short History of Indians in Canada, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
37. The recent Canadian book that suffers from toponymania is The Geist Atlas of Canada.
38. André (Breton), Max (Ernst), Marcel (Duchamp) and Marc (Chagall) all stayed at the Villa Air-Bel, as related in Rosemary Sullivan's book of that name.
39. Corrected titles:
a) The Bedside Book of Birds
b) This is Your Brain on Music
c) De Niro's Game
40. America's "poet lariat" was Will Rogers -- but we also accepted Bloodgood Cutter, who was so dubbed by Mark Twain.

Sadly, I had 2 wrong. For #22 I had Toronto Women's Bookstore (which did celebrate their 30th this year as well) and for #40 I had Donald Rumsfeld (LOL). That answer was based on my finding out that a writer actually published a book of poetry with "prose" taken from speeches and media moments with Rumsfeld. It was a crapshoot! :) I am a bit bummed because last year I did get them all right! Oh well, there is always next year!!

Cheers!