5th Birthday Quiz

 

The closing date for the quiz has now passed.  The answers are here.  Winners will be announced on 7th August.

 

The prizes

1.  £50 book token for my website

2.  Monica Edwards - A Wind is Blowing and The Wild One (Girls Gone By)

3.  Six Ponies - Josephine Pullein-Thompson (Fidra Books)

4.  The Team - K M Peyton (Fidra Books)

 

Rules and regulations

1.  Only one entry per person.

2. After the last competition, in which I had to decide whether spellings of pony names were mis-pellings, and which were just wrong, any mis-spelling of a name will now be marked as wrong.

2.  Entry is free.

3.  All entries to be in by midnight, Saturday 31st July 2010.  Winners will be announced on this website, my forum and blog on 7th August 2010.

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 three Jays:  Jill, Jackie and Jinny

1.  In what magazine’s competition did Jackie win her pony Misty?   

2.  With what family does “Amanda Applewood” go and stay?

3.  What are the names of Jinny’s brother and sister?  

4.  Jackie’s great friend is called Babs –what is Babs short for?

5.  What is the name of the show pony Jinny saves in The Magic Pony?

6.  Why do Melly and Lindo Cortman come and stay with Jill?

7.  What odd thing does Jinny see when she is painting Lady Gilbert’s horses?

8.  The sale of which book allowed Jill to buy Black Boy?

9.  Grand National winner Golden Boy comes to which farm?

10.  Who was Dinah Dean?

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 3: colours

You get half a point here for the pony’s name, and another for the name of the book in which it (first) appears:

 

1.  A grey pony, belonging to Piers and Tilly, who died of tetanus

2.  A black Fell pony who helped Jill to overcome her fears.

3.  A bay pony who jumped like a rocking horse fly.

4.  A chestnut pony half blinded by a girl.  

5.  A skewbald pony whom two girls try to cure of rearing.  

6.  A grey pony, condemned as unrideable, whom a boy and a girl think they can cure.  

7.  Another grey pony, this one is borrowed by someone pretending to be someone she isn’t.

8.  A chestnut mare who starts off in a circus.  

9.  A palomino stallion who ends up on a houseboat.

10.  A chestnut mare cruelly treated by the heroine’s aunt.

 

 

Section 4:  first and last lines

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

 

1.  When the letter came to say that we had been allotted a council house, two of us were pleased and two were broken hearted.

 

2.  My pony Misty seemed to sense that something really fateful was about to happen that afternoon.  

 

3.  She waved happily to the small knot of women and children that had gathered on the pavement to watch, and the Rolls-Royce moved off.  

 

4.  Within the firm walls of flesh that held him prisoner the foal kicked out angrily.

 

5.  None of us quite knew what was going to happen next.  

 

6.  We don’t get lost any more because he always knows the way home; and we don’t lose our heads, because now  he’s ours, there doesn’t seem anything worth pursuing through the ever-changing Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

 

7.  For an incredulous moment they were silent, and then they began to shriek and hug one another deliriously, while the Major collapsed into helpless laughter, wiping his eyes and choking, “Thirty-seven pounds sixteen shillings and ninepence!  Oh, my word, what a splendid price for a horse like Pennant!”

 

8.  The morning fog had lifted, giving way to a clear day.  Nearly all the people of Windsor, Ontario, and thousands of visitors were surging into Kenilworth Park, filling the stands and overflowing to the infield.

 

9.  “I’m never going to look right on a horse....”  

 

10.  “Isn’t it ghastly about Mrs Mulvaney?” Megan said, joining Frances in the school stables to gossip and clean tack, on the last day of the Easter term.”  

 

 

Section 5:  match pony and rider

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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:  The Modern Pony Book

 

1.  Whose pony is Drummer?

2.  Which Eventing gold medallist has recently written a series of books about Tilly?

3.  What is the name of the glam riding instructress in Katie Price’s Perfect Pony books?

4.  In what series does Twilight, who is actually a unicorn, appear?

5.  Whose series is based in Fetlocks Hall?

6.  Name the two equine heroes in Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse.

7.  Who wrote an historical horse story set in 14th century Mongolia?

8.  Lani, Malory and Dylan appear in which series?

9.  In which book does the pony Blue get swapped for a pony who is only chestnut because he’s been dyed?

10.  In which book do Issie and Blaze appear?

 

 

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                                                  2                                                   3

4                                                       5                                                              6

7                                                  8                                                 9                                                 10

1                                                  2                                                         3                                 4

5                                   6                                            7                                                            8

9                                                                                    10