Let dons delight

Oh, lovely.  The TLS Christmas Quiz:  now no longer a competition but an entertainment.  One hundred questions under twenty headings.  Let's do it!

1 Author’s own prefaces. Whose?
2 Second lines. Of which plays?
3 Again and again and again
4 Bicycles
5 Bells
6 Country Houses. Found in which novels?
7 . . . and housekeepers – of which houses; in which novels?
8 . . . and cooks and chefs
9 Eggs
11 . . . and uncles
12 Double-barrelled names. Occurring in which works?
13 Fictional newspapers. Found in which novels?
14 Hats
15 Disrespectful rhymes. Whose?
16 Fictional characters with the names of birds
17 . . . with the names of animals
18 . . . and with the names of fishes
19 Books within books. Who wrote them and in what novels do they occur?
20 Finish with Finnish

Some are dead easy!  But I'll let you pick the plums.


calimac
1d. Gaudy Night. (Easier)     calimac
2d. Twelfth Night         angevin2
2e.  Is Importance of Being Earnest, no?     nightspore
3a. is Larkin, but can't remember the name of the poem without checking. And then it's not remembering, is it?         steepholm
3c. Bishop's elegy on Lowell.         nightspore
4d. Bertrand Russell?         nightspore
5c. The Monk in the Canterbury Tales angevin2
7a. The Remains of the Day. (Easiest)     calimac
7b. Jane Eyre, but I couldn't remember the name of the house without Googling.         goliard
Thornfield, isn't it?         steepholm
7e. The Secret Garden.         steepholm
9a. Gulliver's ... (oh come on, that's too easy)     calimac
      Somewhere Gulliver went         houseboatonstyx
      Lilliput.         nineweaving
9d. Dunno. Rose Macaulay's was a duck egg.         houseboatonstyx
10a. Thurber's, I think.         calimac
11a. Tristram Shandy's, yes?     calimac    Yes, Uncle Toby. nineweaving
12b.  Wodehouse, isn't it?        calimac
      Wodehouse.  Ah, someone posted that while I was posting. To be more particular, Gussie Fink-Nottle.     nightspore
      Passim. Most spectacularly in Right Ho, Jeeves.  nineweaving
12c. Hurry on Down by John Wain. Lord, I thought I was the only person still living who'd read this.         calimac
13a - Trollope, Palliser novel, The Prime Minister, iirc         nightspore
13b. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh         calimac
13e. Harry Potter (pretty much all of them)  angevin2
15b. W.S. Gilbert in Patience (an attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato or a not-too-French French bean!). The singer is Bunthorne.  angevin2
16a. Clarice Starling         nightspore
16b. Philip Swallow, Changing Places by David Lodge.         calimac
16c. Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird  angevin2
17b. I can't believe I overlooked this.  Adrian Mole.         calimac
17c. Peter Bullcalf in 2 Henry IV  angevin2
18c.  A P Herbert's Albert Haddock         steepholm
20c Nick Narrator in The Great Gatsby         steepholm
      Carroway.     kore_on_lj



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