PICTURE QUESTIONS [click on each question for pictures]
1 Who is this young equestrian who later caused controversy by his fascination with car crashes?
2 Which of these dapper youngsters was in Naples in 1944?
3 She wrote about her animals and other family before publishing a memoir about a domestic trio: who is she?
4 Name this literary daughter of a dramatist whose first theatrical success was a play about sons
5 Who is this budding author from metroland, seen with his brother and grandfather?
6 Name this future editor of the Times Literary Supplement, whose mother was a dab hand with cold cream

Bodily Oddities
1 Which Victorian science teacher had a see-through stomach?

2 Which murderous monarch was born with a full set of teeth?

3 Whose blush could heat bath water?

4 Whose amputated leg was returned in a brown-paper parcel?

5 Which tennis cheat had a hand like a monkey's paw?

Fruit
1 Who enthused about the femaleness of the fig?

2 Which large fruit squashed two women?

3 Which poet tripped over melons?

4 Whose enemy fell foul of a toxic apple?

5 Who would have liked to arrive on a donkey to pick strawberries?

Trains
1 Which would-be seducer was struck by a train while fleeing a vindictive husband?

2 Who was brain-damaged by a carelessly opened train door?

3 Who sees a woman being strangled on a train overtaking her own?

4 In which novel is someone flung from a pendolino under the Apennines?

5 Which journalist on the Orient Express picks up a chorus girl after a fatal shooting?

Boats
1 Which novel opens with seasick passengers singing for a showbiz evangelist?

2 Who didn't survive on a rock in the Atlantic after a U-boat sunk his ship?

3 Which sadistic husband drowns in the Bay of Genoa after a sailing accident?

4 Who comes to grief in a zoo after an encounter with a slumming socialite on a transatlantic liner?

5 Which Liverpudlian sailing ship ends up in the mangrove swamps of Florida?

Prisons
1 Which novel about a raven-loving halfwit features the destruction of a London jail?

2 Which Russian revolutionary owed his obesity to 15 years in solitary confinement?

3 Which hiker saved a girl falsely imprisoned in Edinburgh for infanticide?

4 Which maker of fashionable bonnets meets a murderess in Millbank prison?

5 Which compulsive correspondent finds happiness in jail?

Criminals
1 Which poet's play focuses on a woman who murders her incestuous father?

2 Which Venetian femme fatale stood trial for collusion in the breaking of her husband's neck?

3 Which wife-killer was beheaded in Rome when Innocent XII was Pope?

4 Which philandering highwayman marries an informer's daughter?

5 Which Scandinavian fraudster ends out in the cold?

Aeroplanes
1 Who described a takeoff in a Comet on Remembrance Sunday?

2 Which rain-soaked spinster relished the death of a German aviator?

3 What was the nationality of the injured pilot nursed by a young Canadian in Italy in 1945?

4 Which boy lost his model aeroplane to enemy soldiers?

5 Which two academics passed each other in Boeing 707s above the North Pole in 1969?

Madhouses
1 Who met an escapee from a lunatic asylum on a July evening?

2 Which poem has a section set in a subterranean madhouse?

3 Which light-fingered lesbian was imprisoned in a lunatic asylum?

4 Which French writer dramatically presented scenes from the revolution in a madhouse?

5 Which Spaniard feigned folly to try to seduce a doctor's wife in an asylum?

Battles
1 Whose fictional hero died after seeing a war poet mowed down?

2 Which fleeing queen cost a general a naval battle?

3 Who described the fatal wounding of a king on the shortest day of the year?

4 Who was reading her uncle's book of sermons when the battle of Waterloo began?

5 Which American domestic civil war began with the smell of scorched cookies?

THE WINNER

Nicholas Board of Reading, Berks, receives a library of Faber & Faber books worth £10,000.

Runners up: Helen Block of Brighton, Sussex, Alison Carpenter of Winchester, Hampshire, Mrs M E Parker of Enfield, Middlesex, Frederick Porter of Glastonbury, Somerset, and David Pyatt, also of Enfield, each receive signed copies of new books by five Faber authors.

THE ANSWERS

Picture questions: 1 J G Ballard; 2 Norman Lewis; 3 Julia Blackburn; 4 Rebecca Miller; 5 Julian Barnes; 6 Ferdinand Mount

Bodily oddities: 1 Griffin in HG Wells’s The Invisible Man; 2 Shakespeare’s Richard III; 3 Sufiya Zinobia in Salman Rushdie’s Shame; 4 Silas Wegg’s in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend; 5 Dr Julius Gorner in Sebastian Faulks’s Devil May Care

Fruit: 1 DH Lawrence in his poem Figs; 2 A giant peach in Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach; 3 Andrew Marvell in his poem The Garden; 4 William Blake’s in his poem A Poison Tree; 5 Mrs Elton in Jane Austen’s Emma

Trains: 1 Carker in Dickens’s Dombey and Son; 2 Edward Mayhew’s mother in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach; 3 Elspeth McGillicuddy in Agatha Christie’s 4.50 from Paddington; 4 Michael Dibdin’s Cabal; 5 Mabel Warren in Graham Greene’s Stamboul Train

Boats: 1 Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies; 2 Pincher Martin in William Golding’s novel of that name; 3 Henleigh Grandcourt in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda; 4 Yank in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape; 5 The Liverpool Merchant in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger

Prisons: 1 Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge; 2 Michaelis in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent; 3 Jeanie Deans in Walter Scott’s Heart of Midlothian; 4 Amanda Pynsent in Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima; 5 Irene Ruddock in Alan Bennett’s Lady of Letters

Criminals: 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci; 2 Vittoria in John Webster’s The White Devil; 3 Guido in Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book; 4 Macheath in John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera; 5 John Gabriel Borkman in Henrik Ibsen’s play of that name

Planes: 1 Philip Larkin in his poem Naturally the foundation will bear your expenses; 2 Mary Postgate in Rudyard Kipling’s short story of that name; 3 Hungarian – in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient; 4 Jim Graham in JG Ballard’s Empire of the Sun; 5 Phillip Swallow and Morris Zapp in David Lodge’s Changing Places

Madhouses: 1 Walter Hartright in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White; 2 The Marquis de Sade in Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade; 3 Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Maud; 4 Susan (Sukey) Trinder in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith; 5 Antonio in John Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling

Battles: 1 Pat Barker’s Billy Prior in The Ghost Road; 2 Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra; 3 Tennyson in The Passing of Arthur (in Morte d’Arthur also acceptable); 4 Mrs (Peggy) O’Dowd in William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair; 5 The War between the Tates in Alison Lurie’s novel of that name

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