Christmas Quiz 2010

 

 

 

The prizes

1.  £50 book token for my website

2.  Monica Edwards - Dolphin Summer, published by Girls Gone By

3.  Josephine Pullein-Thompson’s Six Ponies, published by Fidra Books

 

 

 

Rules and regulations

1.  Only one entry per person.  Joint entries are not allowed.

2.  Any incorrect spelling of a name will be marked as wrong. I know this seems a bit draconian, but I received so many answers for the last quiz where I just had to guess what the writer meant, it seemed simpler to introduce this rule.

2.  Entry is free.

3.  All entries to be in by midnight, 3rd January 2011.  Winners will be announced on this website, my forum and blog on 10th January 2011.

4.  In the event of a tie, the names of the winners will be drawn out of the hat by a completely impartial person, a local MFH (in the best pony book tradition).

5.  I won’t tell you the answers (at least, not until after the closing date!)

6.  The judge’s decision is final.

 

 

The Quiz

 

Section 1 - the six Jays:  Jill, Jackie and Jinny and the Three Jays

1.  Who was Yasmin the killer horse?  Shantih

2.  Who leads the pony trek in Jill’s Pony Trek? Mrs Folds

3.  What sort of horses does Lady Gilbert, of the Bendarroch Estate, breed?  Arabians - Patricia Leitch, Gallop to the Hills

4.  Why is Jill threatened with being locked in her room  by the doctor? She was hit by a branch on a cross country ride and knocked out.  She is told to stay in bed but wants to get up because it is Chatton Show on Saturday.

5.  Why do Jackie and Babs ride off to Aunt Monica’s in Jackie Won a Pony?  There is no grazing for Misty either at Jackie’s house or Babs’, so Jackie decides to keep Misty temporarily at Aunt Monica’s, fifty miles away, until her own grazing is free again.

6.  Which horse does Kat Dalton ride?  Lightning, , Patricia Leitch - Ride Like the Wind

7.  Who does Jackie’s Aunt Di marry? Steve Rowlands – Jackie’s Show-jumping Surprise

8.  How does Jill get hold of her very first riding outfit?  She bids for it at an auction, using the change from the shoe mending money.

9.  Which trekking centre does Pam Whyte ride Acushla at?   The White Heather – Jackie and the Pony Trekkers - NOT Pinewoods!  The White Heather is the rival trekking centre.

10.  Why does Jacky go from grief to joy at the end of Three Jays Against the Clock?  Her father is reported as being killed in a plane accident, but it turns out he was just injured.

 

 

 

Section 2:  initials

The first column is of author’s initials.  The second column is of books.  Work out who the authors are, and then match them to the books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

Monica Edwards – Punchbowl Midnight

Stephen Mogridge – New Forest Smugglers

Dorothy Lyons – Bright Wampum

K M Peyton – Paradise Pony

Sheila Chapman – Ride for Freedom

Lavinia Davis – Buttonwood Island

Amélie Rives – Trix and Over the Moon

Alyssa Brugman – Beginner’s Luck

Joan Phipson – Boundary Riders

Dick Francis - Enquiry

 

 

 

Section 3:  Illustrators

 

1.  Which illustrator bred show ponies?  Anne Bullen

2.  Which illustrator kept his first horse in a converted bicycle shed in Chiswick? Cecil Aldin

3.  Which illustrator kept his first horse in his aunt’s stables without her knowledge?  Lionel Edwards

4.  Which illustrator changed a black pony into a piebald?    Bonar Dunlop

5.  Which illustrator broke his back in a fall with the Woolwich Draghounds?    Gilbert Holiday

6.  Which illustrator studied with Hubert von Herkomer before setting up their own studio?    Lucy Kemp Welch

7.  Which illustrator was a pupil of Lionel Edwards?   Peter Biegel

8.  Which Black Beauty illustrator was responsible for many Ladybird titles?   John Berry

9.  Which illustrator now has another career as part of a television archaeology team?    Victor Ambrus

10.  Which illustrator trained a horse which was part of the United States Equestrian Team, and was also official artist to
the team?  Sam Savitt

 

 

 

Section 4:  first and last lines

Half a point here for the author, and the other half for the name of the book.

 

1.  Yesterday I lost my licence. Dick Francis – Enquiry

 

2.  I felt so happy that I let out a few hunting cries, and the rabbits thinking I was mad scuttered away in all directions. Jill Enjoys her Ponies – Ruby Ferguson

 

3.  The great arena of the American polo ground, Meadowbrook, was packed with people; not an empty seat in the stands, not a yard of standing room, for it was a match of the highest importance that day in 1927, an international match, no less; America v Great Britain.  Kitty Barne – Rosina Copper

 

4.  “Keep right on to the end of the road,” sang the Pony Club members loudly, but not very tunefully.  Pony Club Team – JPT

 

5.  No cattle came to Dead Horse Gap that summer.  Elyne Mitchell – Silver Brumbies of the South

 

6.  Stuart, my elder brother, knelt on the kitchen floor and counted the money.  Patricia Leitch – A Pony of Our Own

 

7.  The twins, Roger and Geoff, were as alike as two colts.   Irene Makin – Ponies in the Attic

 

8.  “I’ve made some wizard hardbake.  Funny, I just said that things looked after themselves if one left them alone.  Er—have you a chisel please?”    Mary Gervaise – Ponies and Holidays

 

9.  A wild, ringing neigh shrilled up from the hold of the Spanish Galleon.  Marguerite Henry – Misty

 

10.  “I don’t call it a real job.  Not a man’s job.  All right for a girl like Pat with something behind her.” Mrs Smith said.   CPT - The Second Mount

 

 

Section 5:  match pony and rider

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

Lindsey Thornton – Sula (Black Hunting Whip)

Lindy Cottham – Gypsy (Douthwaite – Christmas Pony)

Rowan Watkins – Swallow (Peyton – The Swallow Tale)

Alec Ramsay – The Black (The Black Stallion etc, Farley)

Ann Henderson – Pilot (Pilot the Hunter etc, Peel)

Ken McLaughlin - Flicka (Mary O’Hara - My Friend Flicka etc)

Rosevale Washington  - Psyche (Jill’s Pony Trek)

Anna Dewar – September (Horse Called September)

Penny Brooke – Rusty (A Show Jumper in the Family)

Merry Hemlock-Jones – Quaver (Pony Club Team)

 

Section 6:  Picture Round 1 - easy-ish

Each of these pictures shows a piece of a dustjacket or front cover:  half a point for the name of the book, and half a point for the author.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 7:  Books in books, and other literary things

 

1.  Who sings songs to their pony, mostly from The Lays of Ancient Rome?  Jean, A Pony for Jean, Joanna Cannan

 

2.  Who “quotes” the following:

“All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful,

The Lord God made them all.

 

“The hunter in his stable,

The pony on the moor,

The little foal beside her,

He made them, rich and poor.”  Mousies’s mother, Moorland Mousie, Golden Gorse

 

3.  In which book do these lines appear:

“My pony, which I bought to-day,

Has a shiny coat of smoky grey,

And his star that is so pearly white

Will help me to see him in the night.”  Augusta, about Daybreak in I Wanted a Pony, DPT

 

4.  Who finds the following books by her bed when she goes to stay with her cousin:  The Third Form at St Faith’s, The Fourth Form at St Winifred’s and The New Girl at St Ann’s?  Jill Crewe – A Stable for Jill

 

5.  Which series of books, by which author, makes use of this Walt Whitman quotation:  “I think I could turn and live with animals.”  Monica Dickens – World’s End series

 

6.  Who are inspired by reading Tschiffely’s Ride and The Children of the New Forest to ride through the New Forest?  Three Jays, Three Jays Against the Clock

 

7.  Who makes a terrible mess of the cooking because they are reading Pride and Prejudice?   Pony Jobs for Jill –  Mrs Sound

 

8.  In which book does the heroine, who hopes she will be able to civilise the people with whom she is going to stay, have to wait for their eldest son, who is in a second hand bookshop, when she arrives?  I Had Two Ponies, JPT.  Christabel waits for Simon

 

9  Who wins their pony in a competition run in a magazine, and in which magazine is the competition? Jackie Hope, Misty, Jackie Won a Pony, Horseshoes Magazine

 

10  In which book do the heroes start a newspaper in order to raise money to pay back a baker?  Monica Edwards,  Strangers to the Marsh

 

 

Section 8:  Picture Round 2 - not so easy

Each of these pictures shows a piece of a dustjacket or front cover:  half a point for the name of the book, and half a point for the author.

1   C Pullein-Thompson – The Empty Field     2   Samantha Alexander  - Team Spirit           3  Katie Price – Here Comes the Bride

4    Thelwell – Leg at Each Corner                   5  Walter Farley – The Black Stallion            6  Bryan Forbes – International Velvet

7   JMB – Jackie’s Pony Patrol                                                                    

Thomas Hinkle – Black Tiger                                              

Violet Heathcote - Fiander’s Horse                                                      

Kathleen Herald - Crab the Roan                                                     

Section 9:  animals

 

1.  Who lives in Murder Mansions? Joanna Cannan – They Bought Her a Pony – Smash and Grab the ferrets

2.  In which book does a calf escape and run with the local deer?  Monica Edwards – Punchbowl Midnight

3.  Which pony book author, who wrote a short series of books about a girl and her father, was instrumental in setting up Guide Dogs for the Blind?  Lady Kitty Ritson

4.  Who owns the chickens Winken, Blinken and Nod?  Jill Crewe and her mother

5.  In which book is Hamish saved from a bull by John?  We Met Our Cousins – Joanna Cannan

6.  Which book has a hunt in which the fox talks?  Primrose Cumming – Silver Snaffles and possibly also Corn and Carrot Tops and Marguerite Henry - The One o’Clock Fox

7.  In which book does a curse mean a horse can only eat things beginning with an “H” – which alas sometimes means hens?  Hildebrand – John Thorburn

8.  In which series does Henry the ram appear?  Monica Dickens - World’s End

9.  Who owns the cat King Toby?  Georgia Kane, Mary Gervaise’s G for Georgia series

10.  In which book do cows have to be rescued after a flood?   JPT - All Change OR The Ponies of Cuckoo Mill Farm, Catherine Harris

 

 

Section 10:  Christmas

Here is a selection of Christmassy extracts:  half a point here for the author, and the other half for the name of the book.

 

1. As one grows older one is always expecting to stop enjoying Christmas, or at least I am, and when Andrew and Rory burst into my bedroom at six o’clock on Christmas morning and wanted to show me what they’d had in their stockings, I cursed disagreeably, put my head under the bed-clothes and thought that the moment had come.  All Change - Josephine Pullein-Thompson

2. She said, “Oh, what a treat! This is real luxury, tea in bed on Christmas morning.” Then we got dressed and went down and had breakfast, and I took ..... ...... an extra feed of oats for his present, and mucked out the stable.  Jill's Gymkhana - Ruby Ferguson

3. I thought it very funny that the animals should give them presents but I didn’t say anything except “Happy Christmas!”  DTP Riding With the Lyntons

 

4. It must have been that queer trance between sleeping and waking that set me thinking and wondering about Colonel Mainwaring. Beastly as he had always been to us, incomprehensible in his headstrong rages, I yet felt sorry for him as I sat in the warm, glowing little church looking at the rich colours on the altar and hearing the first strains of the Adeste Fidelis pealing out.   Ten Pound Pony : Veronica Westlake
 

5. “Yes, Daddy, thanks,” and she drew the mouse and the foal down into bed, her stocking things, sweets, orange, tie, purse and a dog-lead, scattered over her quilt.  Monica Edwards - Black Hunting Whip
 

6. While the grown ups had eggnog with rum and nutmeg, Jane made Em play a game with dice.  Em did not much like dice games, or any other kind, because it made her sulk if she lost.  She lost.  She sulked.  Jane said she was a bad sport.  In this house, that was like saying you were a murderer.  World's End in Winter - Monica Dickens

7. I was haunted by remorse as I opened the parcels. Guy had given me an electric torch; Martin a wooden cocker spaniel and Camilla a book about a pony.
“Oh dear,” I said, “I only sent them Christmas cards with churches on them.”
Daddy said, “What does it matter? Everybody knows that we haven’t got any money.”  A Pony for Jean
- Joanna Cannan
 

8. Now Carole led the riders up the hill and into the woods, where the trail narrowed, but was still lighted and decorated. The woods were silent in the winter night. Here, the blanket of snow changed the sound, making everything quieter. The forest felt close and friendly , as if it had walls to protect the riders wherever they went. “O little town of Bethlehem,” Stevie began. “How still we see thee lie,” Phil sang, joining in. The rest of the riders took up the song.  Starlight Christmas: Bonnie Bryant

 

9.  There was a sharp frost in the night which left traces of white and silver on the grass and trees. The sun shone and the sky was fairly blue and the Marshams agreed that it was a perfect Christmas morning, as they walked into Stoney Cross to the little grey church that was built on the banks of the river and from which the clear peal of bells rang out far into the countryside.   The Ponies of Cuckoo Mill Farm: Catherine Harris

 

 

10 NOT A PONY BOOK – but here because I am very fond of it:

It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by the dim rays of a horn lantern, some eight or ten little field-mice stood in a semicircle, red worsted comforters round their throats, their fore-paws thrust deep into their pockets, their feet jigging for warmth.  The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

 

 

 

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10. Monica Dickens – Summer at World’s End

9  Primrose Cumming – Silver Snaffles   

8  Peter Clover – Sheltie Rides to Win             

 

Eleanor Helme - Mayfly                                              

Lindsey Campbell – Horse of Air                                   

John Richard Young – Arizona Cutting Horse

                                      

Enid Michael - The Runaway   National                                                 

Jane Gardam - White Horse  

(or Horse)                                                    

Pony Club Book 14                                                  

Michael Morpurgo - Farm Boy