PICTURE QUESTIONS [click on each question for pictures]
1 Who is this young equestrian who later caused controversy by his fascination with car crashes?
2 Which of these dapper youngsters was in Naples in 1944?
3 She wrote about her animals and other family before publishing a memoir about a domestic trio: who is she?
4 Name this literary daughter of a dramatist whose first theatrical success was a play about sons
5 Who is this budding author from metroland, seen with his brother and grandfather?
6 Name this future editor of the Times Literary Supplement, whose mother was a dab hand with cold cream

Bodily Oddities
1 Which Victorian science teacher had a see-through stomach?

2 Which murderous monarch was born with a full set of teeth?

3 Whose blush could heat bath water?

4 Whose amputated leg was returned in a brown-paper parcel?

5 Which tennis cheat had a hand like a monkey's paw?

Fruit
1 Who enthused about the femaleness of the fig?

2 Which large fruit squashed two women?

3 Which poet tripped over melons?

4 Whose enemy fell foul of a toxic apple?

5 Who would have liked to arrive on a donkey to pick strawberries?

Trains
1 Which would-be seducer was struck by a train while fleeing a vindictive husband?

2 Who was brain-damaged by a carelessly opened train door?

3 Who sees a woman being strangled on a train overtaking her own?

4 In which novel is someone flung from a pendolino under the Apennines?

5 Which journalist on the Orient Express picks up a chorus girl after a fatal shooting?

Boats
1 Which novel opens with seasick passengers singing for a showbiz evangelist?

2 Who didn't survive on a rock in the Atlantic after a U-boat sunk his ship?

3 Which sadistic husband drowns in the Bay of Genoa after a sailing accident?

4 Who comes to grief in a zoo after an encounter with a slumming socialite on a transatlantic liner?

5 Which Liverpudlian sailing ship ends up in the mangrove swamps of Florida?

Prisons
1 Which novel about a raven-loving halfwit features the destruction of a London jail?

2 Which Russian revolutionary owed his obesity to 15 years in solitary confinement?

3 Which hiker saved a girl falsely imprisoned in Edinburgh for infanticide?

4 Which maker of fashionable bonnets meets a murderess in Millbank prison?

5 Which compulsive correspondent finds happiness in jail?

Criminals
1 Which poet's play focuses on a woman who murders her incestuous father?

2 Which Venetian femme fatale stood trial for collusion in the breaking of her husband's neck?

3 Which wife-killer was beheaded in Rome when Innocent XII was Pope?

4 Which philandering highwayman marries an informer's daughter?

5 Which Scandinavian fraudster ends out in the cold?

Aeroplanes
1 Who described a takeoff in a Comet on Remembrance Sunday?

2 Which rain-soaked spinster relished the death of a German aviator?

3 What was the nationality of the injured pilot nursed by a young Canadian in Italy in 1945?

4 Which boy lost his model aeroplane to enemy soldiers?

5 Which two academics passed each other in Boeing 707s above the North Pole in 1969?

Madhouses
1 Who met an escapee from a lunatic asylum on a July evening?

2 Which poem has a section set in a subterranean madhouse?

3 Which light-fingered lesbian was imprisoned in a lunatic asylum?

4 Which French writer dramatically presented scenes from the revolution in a madhouse?

5 Which Spaniard feigned folly to try to seduce a doctor's wife in an asylum?

Battles
1 Whose fictional hero died after seeing a war poet mowed down?

2 Which fleeing queen cost a general a naval battle?

3 Who described the fatal wounding of a king on the shortest day of the year?

4 Who was reading her uncle's book of sermons when the battle of Waterloo began?

5 Which American domestic civil war began with the smell of scorched cookies?

HOW TO ENTER
Send your answers on A4 paper, together with your name and address in block capitals, to The Sunday Times/Faber Literary Quiz, 3 Queen Square, London WC14 3AU. Entries must be received by 6pm, on September 26, 2008. Employees of Times Newspapers or Faber & Faber or their relatives are not eligible for entry. The decision of the Sunday Times literary editor is final. No correspondence will be entered into. The first prize can be sent only to a UK address.

THE PRIZES

The winner of the SundayTimes/ Faber Literary Quiz will receive a library of Faber & Faber books worth £10,000. The Faber & Faber list includes works by WH Auden, Alan Bennett, TS Eliot, Ted Hughes and William Golding, as well as the best of contemporary fiction, biography, poetry, drama, music and film books.
Five runners-up will receive signed copies of new books by five Faber authors: The Private Patient by PD James, Churchill's Wizards:The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin, The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, His Illegal Self by Peter Carey and Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow. All entrants who send a large stamped addressed envelope will receive a Faber & Faber catalogue.

The quiz answers will be published on December 14.

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