Who Wrote Which Vintage Book? Trivia Quiz

"The Archeaology of Palestine" was written by William Foxwell Albright (1891-1971). The book was subtitled "From the Stone Age to Christianity". The first edition was published in 1949, with a revised edition published in 1960. Albright spent his career as an academic at Johns Hopkins University.

He was a Biblical scholar and archeologist who played a role in authenticating the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948.

"The Piccadilly Murder" was published by author Anthony Berkeley in 1929. This detective novel tells the story of a witness to an apparent murder of a woman in the lounge at the fancy Piccadilly Palace Hotel. The witness believes that he saw the woman's dining partner drop something into her coffee just before she dropped dead.

Her nephew, Major Sinclair, was her dining partner and her sole heir, so the detective is highly suspicious of him. However, doubts creep into the witness' mind and he turns amateur detective in order to solve the murder.

Charles Pitman (1890-1975) was born in Bombay and educated at a number of institutions before he received a commission in the Indian Army. He retired from the Indian Army after eleven years of service in 1921 to take up farming in Kenya. In 1924, he became a game warden in Uganda.

He remained in that position for most of the next thirty years. During that time, he did extensive research and published work on various animals in Africa. "A Game Warden Among His Charges" was published in 1931. It is an autobiographical account of his time as a game warden, including photographs that he took himself.

G.N.M. Tyrrell (1879-1952) was a mathematician, physicist, radio engineer, and parapsychologist who wrote a number of books, including "The Personality of Man". He studied radio engineering with Guglielmo Marconi. He was also a member of the Society for Psychical Research.

There, he studied telepathy, ghosts, apparitions, and other psychic phenomena. He published a book called "Apparitions" in 1943, in which he coined the term "out of body experience". He published "The Personality of Man" in 1946.

The book contains chapters about various psychic phenomena, psychic research, psychical research and religion, mysticism, and provides examples of various types of psychic ability. This book is available in online public domain libraries for those interested.

"The Physiology of Sex" was published in 1954. Its author, Kenneth Walker (1882-1966) was a philosopher and urological surgeon. Walker was educated at Cambridge University, and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. He wrote over twenty books, including many about sex from a social science perspective (e.g., "Sex and a Changing Civilization" [1935], "Sex and Society" [1964]).

His most well-known book might be "Meaning and Purpose" (1944) in which he reviewed various scientific theories that had been put forth over the previous century and how they impacted religious beliefs. Walker was also interested in parapsychology, publishing books on the topic such as "The Extra-Sensory Mind" (1961) and "The Mystic Mind" (1965).

"Primitive Art" was authored by Leonhard Adam (1891-1960). (See the first few letters of his first name under the arrow. Other authors have published books with this title, but the name on the spine clarifies the issue here.) Adam was born in Berlin and obtained a law degree.

He was appointed a judge in 1920, but was stripped of all official duties by the Nazis in 1933. He moved to London where he lectured at the University of London and published "Primitive Art" (1940). In May, 1940, he was labelled an "enemy alien" and sent to an internment camp in Australia.

He was released on parole after two years in the camp to National Museum of Victoria. Then, he was accepted at the University of Melbourne where he completed a research project on the Aborigines' use of stone.

He only ever published this one book.

"The Worst Journey in the World" (1922) is an autobiographical account written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) about his journey to Antarctica aboard the Terra Nova on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition. The journey had two objectives. The first was to gather eggs from Emperor penguins for the scientific study of their embryos. This journey had to take place in the winter because that is when the penguins nest. Cherry-Garrard and his two fellow travellers barely survived the cold trip to the rookery from the expedition's home base and back in July, 1911 when they gathered the eggs.

Once the eggs were gathered, the expedition started preparing for the trip to the as-yet undiscovered South Pole. Scott arranged the exploration so that at the end of each day, members of the team were sent back to home base as support personnel. This left the strongest men to continue to the Pole. Cherry-Garrard was sent back at one point, but arranged a rendezvous with the Pole party. Unfortunately, Scott and his team did not return to the rendezvous point, so Cherry-Garrard and his team went in search of them a year later when the weather cleared. They found three members Scott's team frozen to death in a tent.

"The Worst Journey in the World" was re-published in 1994, and again in 2006. The book was also made into a docudrama in 2007, and in 2022, the first volume of a four-volume graphic novel based on the book was published.

H. G. Wells first published "A Short History of the World" in 1922. It was republished by Penguin Books in 1936. The non-fiction work presents a summary of what scientists of the time knew about the history of our planet and the life upon it. The first edition had about 400 pages and included many maps and illustrations. Later editions included updates on the knowledge that was shared in earlier editions. According to the Preface, Wells wrote the volume "to meet the needs of the busy general reader, ... who wishes to refresh and repair his faded or fragmentary conceptions of the great adventure of mankind".

This book starts with the origins of the Earth, and progresses through WWI, and up to the development of the League of Nations in 1922. The book was generally well-received, with Einstein suggesting that it is a good book to review to understand how civilization has progressed. The book was banned by the Franco government in Spain in 1940 because censors felt that it did not provide a proper Spanish history, and that it attacked the Catholic Church. As a result, the book was not published in Spain until 1963.

Arthur Kaskel Solomon (1912-2002) did his undergraduate work at Princeton where he received a BSc in Chemistry. It was there that he wrote a thesis on radioactivity, a subject with which he had become fascinated. He went on to Harvard where he obtained a PhD in Chemistry in 1937. His advisors also interested him in building various kinds of scientific apparatus. Solomon followed his degree with post-doctoral training at Cambridge University. It was there that he helped to build one of the first cyclotrons that would assist scientists in finding radioactive isotopes.

While he was working on the cyclotron, he also wrote five articles about radioactivity that were aimed at the general public. These articles appeared in "Discovery" magazine (edited by C. P. Snow). Solomon was able to merge these articles into the book "Why Smash Atoms?" that was published in 1940. There is little information available about Solomon's career after 1940, but it appears that he had a very active career as an academic at Harvard university after WWII. He published some scientific textbooks and research articles in journals (both aimed at the science community), as well as articles in "Scientific American" magazine (aimed at the general public).

British author Henry Wade published "The Verdict of You All" in the UK in 1926 and in the US in 1927. This was his debut novel. The mystery story tells about a wealthy London tycoon who is found murdered in his study. The theme of the book is about a potential miscarriage of justice when a suspect is sent to court.

The title of the book refers to a question that judges once asked of juries to ensure that the verdict was unanimous.