 HARRY CREWS QUIZ THE ANSWERS Our eighth literary quiz was dedicated to cult writer Harry Crews. Our winner, Jim Strachan - jim_strachan@telus.net - tells us he had "heard only peripherally of Harry Crews and thanks to you and your quiz I'm in the process of reading his entire opus." Jim beat a team of Crews' ex-students . . . well, if they weren't 'ex' they are now! |
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published novel, The Gospel Singer, was at one point going to be made into a film
starring: (a) Warren Beatty (b) Tom Jones (c) Scott Walker
(3) Belt, the karate instructor in Karate Is A Thing Of The
Spirit is: (4) "Cho waters his ox, Hu washes his ears." Name the
novel. (5) In which film did Harry Crews briefly appear:
(7) What model of car does Herman Mack attempt to eat in Car? (8) The character Russell Muscle had appeared in two other
novels before Body. The Knockout Artist is one. The other is: (9) In A Childhood: the Biography of a Place, a young Harry Crews and his best friend make up stories using the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. What's his friend´s name? Willalee Bookatee (10) Most people call them rednecks. What does Harry Crews prefer to call them? Grits (11) In the article 'Going Down In Valdeez '(Playboy), Crews
wakes up after a night of beer and vodka to discover that:
(13) The character Gaye Nell Odell appeared in Karate Is A Thing Of The Spirit and later in another book as a different person. Name the novel. The Mulching of America (14) "This is freak the citizens month," Crews
announced on the Dennis Miller Show in February 1992. He was referring to:
(16) Mr. Blasingame of J.Alfred Blasingame Enterprises is also
known to some citizens of New Orleans under another name. What is it? (17) How does Pete Butcher repay Max Winekoff for dragging him miles to the zoo in the sweltering heat in the novel Scar Lover? He throws Max into a pool of alligators (18) Jefferson Davis Munroe appears in This Thing Don´t Lead To Heaven as a masseur. In Karate Is A Thing Of The Spirit, his portrait is displayed in Belt´s dojo. He is a legend in the karate world but has one significant handicap. As John Kaimon puts it: "Well, if he meets another _ _ _ _ _ _, he can sure whip his ass." Fill in the missing word (six letters!). Midget (19) Which novel by Graham Greene did Crews dissect in an
attempt to structure an early unpublished work of his own:
(20) Which celebrity couple (since divorced) did Crews accompany
to a Mike Tyson fight? (21) Crews has a line of poetry tattooed on his arm. From
what poem/poet is the line taken? __________________________________________________
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(2) While on an assignment for Esquire
magazine in 1979 Crews was knocked unconscious by a fellow spectator. He was covering:
(6) What is
Shereel Dupont´s real name?
(12) What
fate befalls Stump at Forever and Forever? Stump becomes
the maypole
(15) George
Gattling´s nephew, Fred, dies bizarrely in the novel The Hawk Is Dying. How?
Fiction