Award Winners Trivia

1. Which 1982 Caldecott Medal winner tells the story of a brother and sister that gets lost in a board game?

From Quiz My Favourite Caldecott Award Winners

Answer: Jumanji

"Jumanji" was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. He won the Caldecott Medal for the fantasy adventure picture book in 1982. The book tells the story of a brother and sister who find a game in the park. They take it home to play, but find that, with every roll of the dice, they experience a different jungle adventure. Their house is a mess inside, but just before their parents return, they are able to end the game, clean the house, and return the game to the park. Chris Van Allsburg also won the Caldecott Medal in 1986 for "The Polar Express".

From Quiz And The Winner Is....

Answer: Rabbit at Rest

Following the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from 1960 to 1990, this series from John Updike ends with the death of his hero. This was the second book in the series to win the Pulitzer Prize. "Rabbit is Rich" won in 1982.

From Quiz Caldecott Medal Winners

Answer: Make Way for Ducklings

McCloskey became inspired to write this book while he was feeding the ducks in the Public Garden. To better illustrate the story, the author brought six ducklings to live in his studio. Incidentally, former U.S. First Lady, Barbara Bush, gifted former Soviet First Lady, Raisa Gorbachev, with a replica of the Boston statue.

From Quiz Nobel Laureates who won Other Prizes too

Answer: William Golding

He was awarded the Nobel, "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and the universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world today". The others were all shortlisted candidates.

From Quiz Caldecott Award

Answer: 1938

The Caldecott Award was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher, who was also the originator of the Newbery Award.

From Quiz Newbery Medal

Answer: 1922

It was originally proposed to the Children's Section of the American Library Association in 1921 by Frederic Melcher.

From Quiz Pulitzer-Winning Fiction

Answer: John Hersey

Cheever won for his short stories. Updike won for some of his 'Rabbit' books. Steinbeck won for 'Grapes of Wrath'.

From Quiz My Favourite Caldecott Award Winners

Answer: Wolf

"Where the Wild Things Are" was written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It tells the story of a boy named Max who misbehaves while he has his wolf costume on and is sent to his room without dinner. There, he finds himself the imaginary king of a magical jungle. He encounters lots of wild creatures on his journey until he gets lonely and decides to return to his former life. Once he turns his imagination off and is back in his room, he finds a nice warm dinner waiting for him. The story is told mostly using pictures, with only 338 words and 40 pages in the book.

From Quiz Best in Class

Answer: The Hours

Although all four of these books won the Pulitzer in their respective years, only "The Hours" is by Cunningham. Set in the span of only a few hours, the story flipped back and forth through three characters, interweaving the Modernist life of Virginia Woolf living in Sussex, England, trying to write the opening lines of "Mrs. Dalloway"; the melancholic, domestic life of Mrs. Brown in Los Angeles in 1949; and the life of Clarissa Vaughan, a modern-day Dalloway buying flowers for a party. How their lives connect and flow together becomes apparent quite quickly. The book won the Pulitzer and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999; a film adaptation was created in 2002-- it was nominated for Best Picture; Nicole Kidman won Best Actress.

From Quiz First Place Goes To....

Answer: The Sea, The Sea

Iris Murdoch's novels deal with moral and philosophical questions, and the power of the unconscious. In 2008 "The Times" named her on their list of "The 50 Greatest British writers since 1945". She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1987. Several of her novels have been made into films or television series including "An Unofficial Rose" and "The Bell".

From Quiz And The Winner Is....

Answer: Alice Walker

Set mainly in Georgia, "The Colour Purple" tells the story of female black life in the southern United States during the 1930s. As well as the Pulitzer Prize it also won the National Book Award for Fiction. In 1985 it was made into a film starring Whoopie Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.

From Quiz Nobel Laureates who won Other Prizes too

Answer: Eugene O'Neill

"For the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy".

From Quiz The Bad Sex Award

Answer: Sebastian Faulks

Most winners, presumably taking the view that there is no such thing as bad publicity, are content to come along and join in the fun. Faulks failed to see the joke, and a presentation was made instead to the runner-up, Alan Titchmarsh.

From Quiz Caldecott Award

Answer: Rene Paul Chambellan

Rene Paul Chambellan also designed the Newbery Award Medal.

From Quiz The Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Answer: Nadine Gordimer and Stanley Middleton

Gordimer's "The Conservationist" and Middleton's "Holiday". Ondaatje and Unsworth shared the honours 18 years later, in 1992, with "The English Patient" and "Sacred Hunger", respectively. Burgess's "Earthly Powers" was pipped at the post by Golding's "Rites of Passage" in 1980. Amis ("Jake's Thing") lost out to Murdoch ("The Sea, The Sea") in 1978, but went on to win it himself in 1986 with "The Old Devils".

From Quiz Newbery Medal

Answer: Rene Paul Chambellan

It is bronze and has the winner's name and the date of the award engraved on the back.

From Quiz Pulitzer-Winning Fiction

Answer: MacKinlay Kantor

Wilder won for 'Bridge of San Luis Rey'. Styron won for 'Nat Turner's Rebellion'. Tarkington won more than once.

From Quiz My Favourite Caldecott Award Winners

Answer: Ball

"A Ball for Daisy" was illustrated by Chris Raschka. It was published in 2011 and won the Caldecott Medal in 2012. The wordless book is about a dog named Daisy who loves her red ball. She takes it with her everywhere. One day on a walk, a brown dog accidentally punctures it, so her owner throws the deflated ball away. Daisy is very sad until one day they are out for a walk and they see the same brown dog playing with a new blue ball. The brown dog gives Daisy the blue ball, which makes her very happy.

From Quiz Best in Class

Answer: Life of Pi

Following the religious upbringing of Indian boy 'Pi' Patel and his subsequent adventure and harrowing accounts (with a tiger named Richard Parker) on a small raft in the Pacific Ocean, "Life of Pi" was met with international acclaim upon its release in 2001, receiving a large number of awards and getting film treatment in 2012 (directed by Ang Lee and receiving Oscar nods). The award propelled Martel into the spotlight, especially in the Canadian literary scene-- he spent later years campaigning for arts funding to the Canadian government, notably in a long series of letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper (chronicled in a book called "What is Stephen Harper Reading?", which originated as a blog. Martel sent over one hundred letters to Harper, each packaged with a book he deemed important to the growth of the nation and the individual. He received responses on two.

From Quiz First Place Goes To....

Answer: William Golding

"Rites of Passage" is the first of the "To the Ends of the Earth" trilogy published between 1980 and 1989. It is the journal of a young man travelling to Australia on a British warship. William Golding is best known for "Lord of the Flies", his novel of shipwrecked children and their descent into savagery.

From Quiz And The Winner Is....

Answer: The Executioner's Song

"The Executioner's Song" is a powerful novel focusing on the last nine months of the life of murderer Gary Gilmore. Gilmore became a sort of celebrity when he fought to have his execution carried out as soon as possible. In 1977 he was executed by firing squad, making him the first person to be executed in the USA since 1967. In 1982 the book was adapted into a made-for-television film starring Tommy Lee Jones.

From Quiz Caldecott Medal Winners

Answer: The Polar Express

A former professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, Chris Van Allsburg has won the prestigious Caldecott Medal twice. He also won for the book "Jumanji" in 1982.

From Quiz Nobel Laureates who won Other Prizes too

Answer: V. S. Naipaul

"For having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories". The others were shortlisted.

From Quiz Caldecott Award

Answer: The illustrator

The Caldecott Award is for a children's picture book. The illustrations must be an integral part of the story.

From Quiz The Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Answer: Salman Rushdie

Specifically for "Midnight's Children", which won in 1981. I don't think anyone could seriously disagree with this choice. Rushdie has also been shortlisted for "Shame" (1983), "The Satanic Verses" (1988), and "The Moor's Last Sigh" (1995).

From Quiz Newbery Medal

Answer: American Library Association

The medal is still inscribed 'Children's Librarians' Section,' however the current name for the group is the 'Association for Library Service to Children' which is a division of the American Library Association.

From Quiz My Favourite Caldecott Award Winners

Answer: As big as her thumbnail

"Many Moons" was written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. Slobodkin was awarded the Caldecott Medal when the book was initially published, but it was reprinted in 1990 with illustrations by a new artist. "Many Moons" is a charming tale of wisdom. Princess Lenore becomes ill from eating too many sweet things, but she tells her father, the king, that she will get better if he will bring her the moon. He talks with all of his supposedly wise men, but they tell him it's impossible. The court jester talks with Lenore to find out what she thinks the moon is like. She tells him that it is made of gold and that it is as big as her thumbnail. The king has a piece of jewelry made that matches her specifications, and when she receives it, she becomes better. Then, he worries that she will get ill again when she sees the moon rise again. His wise men come up with all kinds of ridiculous schemes to keep her from seeing the moon, but once again the jester comes to the rescue when he has a chat with her. He discovers that she knows that the moon will come back, just like a child's tooth or flowers in the garden.

From Quiz Best in Class

Answer: Foundation

Sure enough, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (by Walter M. Miller, Jr.) won in 1961, "Stranger in a Strange Land" (one of Robert A. Heinlein's many nominations) won in 1962, and "Dune" (by Frank Herbert) won in 1966. This award began in 1953 as sci-fi emerged on a grander scale and has since produced some of the most groundbreaking pieces in the genre. Other notable winners include William Gibson's "Neuromancer", Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game", Neil Gaiman's "American Gods", and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J.K. Rowling. "Foundation", by Isaac Asimov, is one of a few that didn't get the nomination, mainly because it was released in 1951-- two years before the award was introduced. He would later win three Hugos, getting nominated for four.

From Quiz First Place Goes To....

Answer: Ben Okri

Variously described as magical realism, animist realism, or just plain fantasy, "The Famished Road" is the story of a child who is connected to the spirit world. Set in an unnamed city, probably in Nigeria, the book is based on the traditional African belief that the spiritual and material worlds co-exist side by side.

From Quiz And The Winner Is....

Answer: James Agee

"A Death in The Family", an autobiographical novel, was published in 1957, some two years after James Agee died. He is probably better known as a screenwriter, and his film credits include "The African Queen" and "The Night of The Hunter".

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