Books Special: Orwellians v Jillies

Series Specials, Episode 55

Jump To: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Round 1

𓇌 Two Reeds

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Three things in stories

Bear, Billy goat, Little pig, Musketeers

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Nobel Literature Laureates

Rabindranath Tagore, WB Yeats, TS Eliot, Rudyard Kipling

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Brown

symbol

Conan Doyle

world

Clue 2

Bryson

continent

Clue 3

Milton

paradise

Clue 4

Lost in literature

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

She was waiting with a safety net

He talked to her dad

Clue 2

They never felt this way, I bet

Clue 3

He nearly gave her a heart attack

Clue 4

Romeo and Juliet

Mystery Dance by Elvis Costello, Love Story by Taylor Swift, Cherish by Madonna, Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits

Answer

𓈗 Water

Aunt in The Handmaid’s Tale

Restaurant diner in The Night Manager

Clue 2

Reporter in Jaws

Clue 3

Drug dealer Mikey Forrester in Trainspotting

Clue 4

Writing extras

Margaret Atwood, John Le Carré, Peter Benchley, Irvine Welsh

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Bluebell and Walter Scott

Muriel and Chisholm

Clue 2

Boxer and Sailor

Clue 3

Napoleon and Rupert Campell-Black

Clue 4

Jolly animal farm

Animals from Animal Farm and Jilly Cooper books

Answer

Round 2

𓇌 Two Reeds

A writer named Mary

Another writer named Mary

Clue 2

A scientist named Victor

Clue 3

?

A monster often misnamed Frankenstein

Each created the next. Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster

Answer

𓃭 Lion

After Mel

Before Derek

Clue 2

After Betty

Clue 3

?

Before (e.g.) of Kells

B, Bo, Boo, Book

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

0: Gary Lineker in the 1990 semi-final

1: Paul Gascoigne in the 1990 semi-final

Clue 2

2: Marvel Desailly in the 1998 final

Clue 3

?

3: Josip Simunic in a 2006 group match

Number of bookings

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

5 character in Pride and Prejudice (all)

4 characters in Sense and Sensibility (first four)

Clue 2

3 characters in Crime and Punishment (me and i)

Clue 3

?

2 characters in Oscar and Lucinda (a and c)

Shared letters in both words

Answer

𓈗 Water

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

A cow mooing

Albert Camus. Al (Pacino), Bear (Grylls), Cam (Norrie), Moo

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

4: Smuggler’s Top

3: Run Away Together

Clue 2

2: Adventuring Again

Clue 3

?

1: Treasure Island

First four Famous Five books

Answer

Round 3

𓃭 Lion

James

Henry

Small

Rush

Lennys and Lennies

Answer

Mark

Worm

Maker

Case

Book___

Answer

Acts

Galatians

Revelation

Philemon

Books of the New Testament

Answer

Daydream

Mean

Clever

Bump

Mr. Men

Answer

𓈗 Water

Job

Psalms

Ezra

Joshua

Books of the Old Testament

Answer

Song of Solomon

The Whispering Statue

Hollowed

Le Morte d'Arthur

End with days of the week abbreviations

Answer

Scrap

Case

Text

Guide

___ book

Answer

Banks

Darling

Milton

Smiley

Georges

Answer

Round 4

Bookish phrases

BYT HBK

BY THE BOOK

CKT HB KS

COOK THE BOOKS

LDS TT RCK NT HBK

OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK

DN TJD GB KBY TSC VR

DON'T JUDGE AND BOOK BY ITS COVER

Famous libraries and their locations

BD LNL BRR YNDX FRD

BODLEIAN LIBRARY AND OXFORD

LBR RYFC NG RSSNDW SHN GT NDC

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND WASHINGTON DC

NTN LLBR RYFW LSNDBR YSTW YTH

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES AND ABERYSTWYTH

HDR NSLB RRYN DTH NS

HADRIAN'S LIBRARY AND ATHENS

Bestsellers of the 2020s

THTH RSD YMR DRCL B

THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB

GRLW MNT HR

GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

THB YT HM LTHF XNDT HHR S

THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE

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