The Spiegeltent.
Professor Shelley
Saguaro, Head of School, and Dr Debby Thacker, Subject Group Leader for Literary
& Critical Studies took part in the Festival Literary Quiz, as invited
guests of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, on Tuesday night in the
Spiegeltent. The question-master was James
Walton, who sets the BBC Radio 4 programme The Write Stuff. We
were on a team with two avid Festival-goers and we came third out of 21 teams.
For a long time, we were running a close second to the winning Sunday Times
Literary editorial team, and if we had remembered the existence of Stieg
Larsson, and that Anne of Green Gables was called Anne Shirley, or that
Birdsong was, indeed, written in the 1990s, we would have licked
them. The last round, in which any wrong answer would have lost us all of
the points for the whole round, made us extremely cautious. We did know
that Edgar Allen Poe was one of the authors on the Sgt Pepper album, but even
the Sunday Times team did not risk putting the answer ‘Dupin’, as the name of
Edgar Allen Poe’s detective, that late in the evening.
Shocked you didn't know the Anne question. Shame on you! Hmm: Coward, Wodehouse, Betjeman?
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