Garry Gillard > quizzes > Magus 4
1. A well-known Irish-Australian novelist has just published Fanatic Heart, based on the life of an Irishman. But there already was a book of that title, published in 1997, a biography of a more famous Irishman. For one point each: Who is the novelist? What is the name of his subject? Who is the (Western Australian) biographer? And his subject? And who originated the phrase "fanatic heart" (in a poem)?
2. Who wrote in which play, "Everybody is so clever nowadays. ... The thing has become an absolute public nuisance."?
3. Which clever writer wrote in which of his novels, "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat, and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room."
4. Which actor in which film, directed by whom, says, "I’ve been accused of many things, Mrs Mulwray, but never that [being honest]."
5. From what clever TV show do these lines come?
Jerry: What community? There’s a community?
Elaine: Of course there’s a community.
Jerry: All these years I’m living in a community, I had no idea.
6. Do you know the way to San Jose?
7. What novel does the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye mention in the first sentence of the book? And what is his name, and those of both novelists?
8. As I write this question, an "Australian" film is about to win Best Film at the AACTA awards. How is Elvis Australian? No, don't answer that. Instead, name the director, the star, and I'd love you to know the name of the cinematographer.
9. Shameless plug for local guy. There are several little books called Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne ... Perth, and so on. Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is excellent. I also really admired the Perth book, written by a guy who lives most of the time not far from me in Fremantle. He more often writes crime stories about a detective named Swann (as in the river?) What is this author's complicated name?
10. A film directed a woman has for the first time been voted the best film of all time in the poll regularly conducted by the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound. You might be able to spell her name right if you can remember it, but I'll bet you can't remember the exact full name of the film. What are both of them? And the name of the single actress, who is on the screen for over three hours?
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