1. Which city was involved in getting UNESCO to officially declare April 23^rd ‘World Book Day’?
a) London
b) Frankfurt
c) Barcelona
d) New York
e) Quebec

2. What are the leaves called that secure a book’s pages to its front and back covers?
a) endpapers
b) backcloths
c) tie papers
d) securi
e) bookends

3.What, respectively, are the left-hand (even-numbered) and right-hand pages of a book called?
a) reverse and obverse
b) lucht and reht
c) sinister and dexter
d) sinistra and dextera
e) verso and recto

4. Which book’s title comprises the simplified instructions for its destruction?


5. Shhh! It’s not The French Lieutenant’s Woman nor The English Patient but…

6. This German book went on to worldwide success. Strange, considering it stinks.

7. Strange fruit indeed. Mine seems to be ticking!


8. Which literary work takes its title from a translation of the Hebrew word, known in English as ‘Beelzebub’?
a) The Satanic Verses
b) The God of Small Things
c) Heart of Darkness
d) The Lord of the Rings
e) Lord of the Flies

9.Which of the following has a one-word final chapter that is also the title of the author’s next book?
a) Mansfield Park
b) Angela’s Ashes
c) Manhattan Transfer
d) Of Human Bondage
e) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

10. A Hemingway title was taken from a sermon by which one of the following?
a) John Milton
b) John Donne
c) John Dryden
d) Edmund Spenser
e) Sir Philip Sidney

11. In what logically progressive order would you put…
a) Kurt Vonnegut
b) Alexandre Dumas
c) Ken Kesey
d) Charles Dickens
e) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-just put the letters in sequence, i.e. a,b,c, etc

12. Not trying to send you barking mad, but what links Pinkney Benedict, Frederick Forsyth, Richard Adams, Kem Nunn and John Lydon?

13. “And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye."

14. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

15. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

16. “From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.” And: “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” And, finally: “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”

17. “Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.”


18. “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

19. Which author had on the copyright page of one novel: ‘The opinions expressed in this book are not those of the author’?
a) Philip K. Dick
b) Poppy Z. Brite
c) Arthur C. Clarke
d) Robert A. Heinlein

20. Initially, what is bound to link these authors?
a) J.G Ballard
a) George Orwell
a) Joyce Carol Oates
a) Ken Kesey