Book Quiz - July 2012

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We have teamed up with audio book publishers AudioGO (home of BBC audiobooks) to offer you a fantastic opportunity to win an audio book of your choice worth up to £25 throughout 2012. Most titles are available in both CD and download format. Here are a few examples:

  • Sporting Gaffes. Download £1.84, CD £6.93.
  • 1980s Moscow Olympics; The Reunion by Susan MacGregor. Download £1.84, CD £9.25.
  • Sport and the British (Radio 4 series) by Clare Balding. Download £7.34, 6 CDs £20.40.
  • Ration Book Olympics; when London hosted the austerity games by Clare Balding. Download £1.84, CD £9.25.

Six of the best …sports Quiz

  1. Which famous yachtswoman became a best selling author of thrillers ?
  2. In which book does Nick Hornby talk about the "affliction" that first took hold of him in 1968 when, at eleven years old, he saw Arsenal beat Stoke City?
  3. What game did Penguins stop play?
  4. Which author, more recently alongside his son, wrote books set in the horse racing world ?
  5. What's the title of the book written by Freya North which features the Tour de France ?
  6. Which race is National Velvet out to win?

Send your answers to Deb Ryan by email at dryan@rnib.org.uk by 31 July 2012.

June's winner was : R Canton.

Last month's answers

  1. Sue Towsend has the Queen living on a Council estate.
  2. Dick King-Smith wrote "The Queen's nose".
  3. The Queen is the "Uncommon reader" in Alan Bennett's book.
  4. Hannah is The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory.
  5. Jennie Bond has written a book about her experience as a Royal reporter.
  6. The King's Speech is Mark Logue's book about King George VI.

Last updated: 20 September 2012

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