quiz for Tuesday = best sellers

[Penny]

1. Whose autobiography is A Long Walk to Freedom

2. To which genre do the novels of Zane Grey belong

3. Which Jaqueline Susann novel sold nearly seven million copies in the first six months of its publication in 1966.

4. In which John Le Carre novel does George Smiley appear for the first time.

5. What story is told in Exodus by Leon Uris.

6. Two of the books in the Dollanganger series by Virginia Andrews are Petals in the Wind and If There be Thorns. What is the first book.

7. Which novel brought Salman Rushdie a death sentance from Islam

8. Name the most famous book written by Grace Metalious

9. Which popular novelist with a string of best-sellers to her credit is a decendent of the Lowenbrau brewery family and ran a PR firm called Supergirls. before becomming a novelist

10. Stephen King's book Misery is about a writer who falls into the hands of his crazy number one fan. Who stars in the film with James Caan.

cheers Penny

[Monika]

1. Nelson Mandela
2. Westerns
3. Valley of the Dolls
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
8. Peyton Place
10. Kathy Bates (Brilliant film)

[drogo]

4. Call For The Dead

[drogo]

4. Call For The Dead

[Victors Mate]

6 Flowers in the Attic
7.The Satanic Verses

[drogo]

9. Danielle Steel

[vannin]

5. An exodus return of Jewish refugee children brought via a blockade by the British, was enabled by a boat journeyfrom Cyprus to Palestine.

[Penny]

Excellent, still No. 4 & 5 to go. cheers Penny

[Tiddles]

4. In which John Le Carre novel does George Smiley appear for the first time.

Call for the dead

[Penny]

The first appearance of George Smiley in John Le Carrs novel . Answer. No.4. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. No.5 The creation of modern Israel.

cheers Penny

[Tiddles]

Can we check no 4 again penny?

call for the dead appeared in 1961 I think and the spy who came in from the cold in 1963.

[drogo]

Re number 4. George Smiley appeared in two novels before The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1963). They were Call For The Dead (1961) and A Murder Of Quality (1962).

[Penny]

Very confusing this one. He first appeared in Call for the Dead. plus more, but retired from the circus and then came back, in the novel that shot Le carr to fame, in The Spy who came in from the cold. So it's a case of 'take your pick' Every one is correct. cheers Penny.

[vannin]

No.5 The creation of modern Israel.

cheers Penny[/quote]

Yes: by means of the film plot I have tortuously outlined.
Should have read the book too, I suppose. It also featured a romance between the two main characters, but there.............books and their subsequent movies. The words 'Based On'.
Viv

[Penny]

This post certainly got everyone going. I will continue until everyone gets fed up. I am not going to argue wih the people who set these questions, they no more than me. Lets hop the next set prove as intresting.

cheers Penny