Authors

(See picture gallery above for photographic clues to these six questions on authors)

1 Who is this future traveller round the world in 80 days?

2 Would this seaweed-munching tot go on to have a sensible life?

3 This brother of twins would later take a walk around the lakes. Who is he?

4 Who is this East European writer who would achieve a profitable victory?

5 Who is this Belfast boy who would later find a time to dance?

6 Who is this young literary detective to be?

Blondes

1 Which bigamous blonde tries her hand at arson?

2 Which literary blonde is educated by a Chicago button tycoon?

3 Which Teutonic blonde is killed by a Russian shell in Turkey?

4 Which adopted blonde toddler proves to be as good as gold?

5 Which crusader prefers an Anglo-Saxon blonde to a dark lady?

Dates

1 Which novel is set between May 8 and August 15, 1945?

2 Which poet used Roman numerals to date the end of an era?

3 Who offered muscatel wine to ghosts in Oxford on November 2, 1920?

4 In which work is August 4 a recurrently significant date?

5 Which eponymous hero was born on November 5, 1718?

Drinks

1 Who saw a black monkey after drinking tea?

2 Who relishes cups of redbush tea?

3 Who loses stature after downing a nice-tasting beverage?

4 Which cabaret artiste loved Prairie Oysters?

5 Which fictional tonic was sold in bottles whose wrappings depicted a nude giant?

Boobies

1 Which princely booby loses his head on route to committing rape?

2 Which female booby fancies a footman whose sister was famously virtuous?

3 Which hungry booby is gagged with gingerbread?

4 Which dressy booby is cheated out of a hoydenish heiress?

5 Which clubman booby is pursued by a belle who plays fairy queen in panto?

Births

1 Which writer was present as his mother gave birth next to his father’s corpse?

2 Who goes into labour at the end of a rehearsal of Macbeth?

3 Who helps a violinist give birth during a snowstorm?

4 Which student of Elizabethan poetry had an illegitimate child after an encounter with a BBC announcer?

5 Who gave birth on a ship before being put overboard?

Marriages

1 Which vicar’s wife was sniffy about the bridal wear at a Home Counties wedding?

2 Who remarried her first husband in Reno 15 minutes after her divorce came through?

3 Whose marriage was menaced by a don with a samurai sword?

4 Which irascible atheist weds a canon’s daughter south of the equator?

5 Who secretly married a Roman Catholic nurserymaid?

Deaths

1 In which book is someone killed by shards of stained glass?

2 Which rapist died in a duel with his victim’s cousin?

3 In which Victorian tale is an uncle’s putrefying corpse discovered in the outhouse of an Italian convent?

4 Which Greek widow offers a soldier her husband’s corpse to help him out of a scrape?

5 Which bridegroom is shattered by a statue’s headgear?

Arrivals

1 Which detective is first encountered living in a refugee community in Essex during the first world war?

2 Which novel opens with the arrival of two Korean babies?

3 Which boys cause a sensation by turning up at their own funeral?

4 In which play does the arrival of four deserters create upheaval in a northern mining town?

5 Whose first published novel opens with an ex-smuggler arriving at a cottage where there is a corpse?

Departures

1 Which sleuth is last seen waiting for a connecting train to Rome?

2 Which seeker of salvation blocks his ears while running from his wife and children?

3 Who put a last shilling in the gas meter before going off to war?

4 In which 1930s novel are holidaymakers unable to depart from a railway station because of fog?

5 Which female killer leaps overboard from a boat bound for St Malo?

How to enter

Send your answers on A4 paper, together with your name and address in block capitals, to The Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz, 3 Queen Square, London WC14 3AU. Entries must be received by 6pm, on 28 September, 2007. Employees of Times Newspapers or Faber & Faber or their relatives are not eligible for entry. The decision of the Sunday Times literary editor is final. No correspondence will be entered into. The first prize can only be sent to a UK address.

THE PRIZES

The winner of the SundayTimes/ Faber Literary Quiz will receive a library of Faber & Faber books worth £10,000. The Faber & Faber list includes works by TS Eliot, WH Auden and Ted Hughes, as well as the best of contemporary fiction, biography, poetry, drama, music and film books. Five runners-up will receive signed copies of new books by five Faber authors: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, Family Romance: A Love Story by John Lanchester, The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage and Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk.

All entrants who send a large stamped addressed envelope will receive a Faber & Faber catalogue.

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