Despite us not being able to meet in person, our book group had our Christmas gathering today with Santa hats, novelty Christmas earrings, various headgear including a Christmas tree – all on Zoom. As usual I had a quiz – the first round was a picture round, fourteen pictures of writers, play-writes and poets whose initials (either their first or last name) spelt out Merry Christmas. I can’t share those pictures here, but if you google the names you will see what these people looked like – here are the answers:
- Margaret Atwood
- Emily Brontë
- Roald Dahl
- J.K. Rowling
- W.B. Yeats
- Agatha Christie
- Hilary Mantel
- Ian Rankin
- Ian Fleming
- Salman Rushdie
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Maya Angelou
- Jane Austen
- George Bernard Shaw
The next five asked who wrote the following Christmas novels – answers tomorrow!
- A Christmas carol
- Hercules Poirot#s Christmas
- A Maigret Christmas
- The Taylor of Gloucester
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
… and the last ten were about place names to do with Christmas – which five of the following are real actual UK place names:
- Cold Christmas
- Christmas Trees
- Christmas Cross
- Higher Bethlehem
- Twinkle
- Holly Green
- Turkey-cum-Quy
- Star on High
- Wiseman’s Bridge
- Pudding Hill
Answers tomorrow!
Lois Elsden 