Q.1
Which book won the 2012 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize?
The Tinsmith by Tim Bowling
Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy
Carnival by Rawi Hage
Inside by Alix Ohlin
Q.2
Jacques Plante: The Man Who Changed The Face of Hockey is a biography of the first NHL goalie to wear a mask after taking a puck in the face from the following player:
Casey Jones
Len Ronson
Andy Bathgate
Danny Lewicki
Q.3
In researching her book, Working the Dead Beat, how many marriage proposals did Sandra Martin discover June Callwood received during the Second World War from bomber pilots heading overseas?
One
Three
Eleven
None
Q.4
Which novel begins with this nursery rhyme: “Ladybird, ladybird, Fly away home/ Your house is on fire/ Your children are gone”?
Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
Q.5
What befell Mary Dempster in Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business?
A car accident
A bomb from an anarchist
A bulldozer
A snowball
Q.6
Which Canadian author’s first novel featured a jazz trumpeter living in early 20th century New Orleans?
Barbara Gowdy’s Through the Green Valley
Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter
Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park
Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here
Q.7
The novel Peace River Country was written by which former editor of Maclean’s magazine?
Peter C. Newman
Peter Gzowski
Ralph Allen
Pierre Berton
Q.8
To CanLit lovers, Tiff is more than a film festival. What do the ‘I’ and the first ‘F’ in Timothy Findley's nickname stand for?
Ian Felix
Ignatius Francis
Irving Frederick
Ink Fox
Q.9
Leslie McFarlane of Haileybury, Ontario, used a pseudonym to write the first 20 books of a world famous young adult book series, but never received any royalties. What is the series?
The Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew
The Babysitters Club
Bobbsey Twins
Q.10
On the Ides of March in 1980, this author and her publisher rode a chariot down Yonge Street to promote the release of her new book. Name the author and publisher:
Mavis Gallant and Douglas Gibson
Sylvia Fraser and Jack McClelland
Judy Rebick and Jack Stoddart
Nicole Brossard and Stan Bevington
Q.11
The title of Alistair MacLeod's best-selling 1999 novel, No Great Mischief, was originally intended to be:
The Sound and the Mischief
No Great Mischief If They Fail
Lots of Mischief in Bonavist Harbour
No Great Mischief If They Fall
Q.12
Alice Munro claims this collection of linked stories, originally published in 1971, is the closest she'll ever come to writing a novel:
The Progress of Love
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
Lives of Girls and Women
Wilderness Tips
Q.13
Originally published in 2002, which novel by a Canadian writer was remarkably the second best-selling work of fiction in Norway last year?
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
Unless by Carol Shields
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Q.14
In The Life of Pi how many days did Pi Patel spend at sea? (Hint: it’s a prime number.)
187
197
207
227
Q.15
Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery was the wife of a:
politician
minister
doctor
newspaperman