When I'm Sixty Four Trivia Quiz

Answer: After Many A Summer Dies The Swan

Mr Stoyte is an American millionaire who has absolutely everything and who can buy anything he desires until he is forced to face his own mortality and realises he cannot buy the one thing he desperately needs, the secret of eternal life. Written in 1939 this book is still fresh and relevant today.

Answer: The Murder At The Vicarage

Miss Marple is Agatha Christie's elderly spinster who spends a lot of time knitting and solving murders. She made her first appearance in 1930 and went on to appear in a further eleven books, as well as films and television series.

Answer: Closing Time

Joseph Heller's sequel to "Catch 22" is very funny and very dark in equal measure. Set in New York in the 1990s it follows Yossarian and Milo Mindbender in their old age trying to cope with the changing world around them.

Answer: Fannie Flagg

Later made into a film starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy, the book relates the life of 86-year-old Ninny Threadgoode of Whistle Stop, Alabama as told to Evelyn Couch, an overweight unhappy housewife. The stories make Evelyn realise how pointless her life has become so she gets a job, starts attending weight loss camp, and buys herself a pink Cadillac.

Answer: The Children of Men

In "The Children of Men" the human race is slowly dying out because men have become infertile. The elderly are herded onto boats and rafts, to which they are chained and these are then ceremoniously sunk. This is quite unlike any other P D James book as it verges on Science Fiction instead of being her more usual 'Who-Dun-It'.

Answer: John Updike

Published in 1965 this book recounts the story of a completely eccentric group of elderly people living in a poorhouse in New Jersey. Starting on the morning of the Annual Fair which is being run by the new Supervisor it shows the reactions of the inhabitants of the house to his efforts to institutionalise old age.

Answer: Mel Pickett

Mel Pickett has retired from the Police and now lives in a cabin in a small town 150 miles north of Toronto. When a local man is murdered he comes out of retirement to help solve the crime.

Answer: Lady Slane

Written in 1931 by Vita Sackville-West this tells of Lady Slane who goes to live by herself after the death of her husband. At the age of 88 this is the first time she has been able to live her own life as she wants to. She renews a friendship with a man who has secretly loved her for 60 years and eventually inherits his fortune.

Answer: The Stand

Mother Abigail is 108 at the time "The Stand" begins and in the post plague society she draws survivors to her through dreams. Her opposite, Randal Flagg, is also drawing people to him via dreams, and the book finally comes down to the story of the battle of good versus evil, with Mother Abigail dying before the outcome is revealed.

Answer: Marvin Karlins

After being forced into retirement by the Company he co-founded, Ben Adder lacks direction, but when a friend is killed by a hit-and-run driver who is later acquitted, he decides to avenge crimes against the elderly, and to this end founds The Green Banana Club. Originally consisting just of members of his Korean War unit more members sign up and his crusade gathers momentum.