Book club Christmas Quiz

Every year at about this time, our book club has a Christmas get-together; we bring delicious things to share, have wine and talk about books… and I do a quiz.

Here is our this year’s quiz:

CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2014!!

The music round, part 1; fill in the missing words:

1. All is calm, all is ……………….. round yon virgin, mother and child
2. Look down from the sky and stay by my ……………….. till morning is nigh
3. Come and behold him born the ……………….. of angels
4. Above your deep and dreamless ……………….., the silent stars go by.
5. They looked up and saw a ……………….. shining in the east beyond them far

Part 2, match the title (number) with the last lines (letters):

6. Good King Wenceslas …..
7. We three kings …..
8. While Shepherds Watched …..
9. God rest ye merry gentlemen…..
10. It came upon a midnight clear …..

(a) Good will henceforth from Heaven to men begin and never cease
(b) When peace shall over all the earth its ancient splendours fling, and all the world give back the song which now the angels sing
(c) Each other now embrace; this holy tide of Christmas doth bring redeeming grace
(d) Therefore, Christian men, be sure, wealth or rank possessing, ye who now will bless the poor shall yourselves find blessing
(e) Westward leading, still proceeding guide us to Thy perfect light

December 25^th round, part 1, births

1642, 1771, 1908, 1954, 1984,

11. Alistair Cook (England cricketer and captain) …..
12. Annie Lennox (singer) …..
13. Quentin Crisp (model) …..
14. Isaac Newton (scientist) …..
15. Dorothy Wordsworth (poet) …..

December 25^th, part 2, deaths

1946, 1983, 1992, 1995, 2008

16. Monica Dickens (writer grand-daughter of Charles) …..
17. Jan Miró (artist) …..
18. C.Fields (actor) …..
19. Eartha Kitt (singer) …..
20. Dean Martin (singer) …..

At last a round about books! Dickens novels:
21. B……………….. R………………..
22. D………………..  and S………………..
23. D………………..  C………………..
24. B………………..  H………………..
25. H………………..  T………………..
26. L………………..  D………………..
27. A T………………..  of T………………..  C………………..
28. G………………..  E………………..
29. Our M………………..  F………………..
30. The M………………..  of E……………….. D………………..

… and the last round… who wrote what?

31. Catherine Boo ………………..
32. Howard Jacobsen………………..
33. Hilary Mantel………………..
34. C.J. Sansom………………..
35. Joanna Trollope………………..

(a) Beyond the Beautiful Forevers, (b)The Shardlake series (c) A Village Affair (d) The Finkler Question (e) Fludd