QUESTING QUIZ OF THE YEAR

Opening Sentences (name the books)

1) Aaron, Richard Ithamar (1901-1987), philo- sopher, was born on 6 November 1901 at Upper Dulais, Blaendulais, Glamorgan, the son of William Aaron (1864–1937), a draper, and his wife, Margaret Griffith (d. 1940).

2) When the woman found milk in her breasts, and other secret feminine tokens, Scaife, the constable’s man, an archdolt, was dispatched across the windswept moors and icy mountains to fetch Mr John Brigge, coroner in the wapentakes of Agbrigg and Morley.

3) So just how mega is this then? A book on English.

4) Although 1979 may not have the same histor- ical resonance as 1789, 1848 or 1917, it too marks a moment when the world was jolted by a violent reaction to the complacency of the existing order. Two events from that year can both now be recognised as harbingers of a new era: the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini to Iran and the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Tories in Britain.

5) She stares back at me, sulky, suspicious, dis- trustful, holding my gaze. There isn’t a day when she’s not here, shadowing me from the minute I wake up.

6) What laws govern our universe?

7) Peter Crowther’s book on the election was already in the shops. It was called Landslide! and the witty assistant at Dillon’s had arranged the window in a scaled-down version of that natural disaster.

8) I’ve been called a slapper, a tart, a man-eater; a woman who is so desperate for male attention she will do anything to get it.

9) Early on the morning of August 19, 1946, I was born in a clear sky after a violent summer storm to a widowed mother in the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, a town of about six thousand in south-west Arkansas.