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December 22, 1999 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Samuel Beckett. To pay tribute, we offered the quiz below and a chance to win a book. The winner is Stephen Blower, a student at the University of Missouri where he is finishing his MA in Religious Studies before beginning law school. His choice of book as prize: Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts, and Non-Print Media, edited by Lois Oppenheim. A big congratulations to Stephen - no one else came close Any queries about the quiz please e-mail us at bar_rev@retemail.es |
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2. Contrasting his writing with Joyce’s, Beckett suggested that Joyce differed from him in being a: a) didgeridoo 3. What doctrine of the independence of mind and body expounded by a 17th-c. Flemish philosopher troubles Murphy and Watt? a) Rosicrucianism 4. In what did Beckett beat Solzhenitsyn by 12 months? 5. After being The Butcher Boy, The Navigator and The General, who was still silent in 1965? Buster Keaton 6. By whom was the Resistance cell in Occupied France in which Beckett was active infiltrated and betrayed to the Gestapo? a) a prostitute 7. What was significant about Beckett’s encounter with a pimp in Paris in January 1938? The pimp stabbed him. 8. What did Beckett describe as "the most distasteful job I ever
took on"? a) acting as amanuensis to Joyce 9. If one Hammer, how many nails? Three.
11. "white world, bitter cold, ghastly scene, old men, great …": a) coats 12. Who soaps, thoroughly rinses and dries what or whom before the embers? a) sucky Moll; hairy Mac 13. Who asks "Dung? What would we want with dung, at our time of
life?"? 14. Belacqua’s lunch of choice? Blackened toast, mustard, salt, cayenne pepper, rotten Gorgonzola. 15. What were the two chimpanzees doing in the photograph Beckett wanted to use on the cover of Murphy? a) masturbating 16. Which of Beckett’s works takes its title from a late poem by Yeats? ‘…but the clouds…’ 17. A novel by which 19th-c. English "Christian Socialist" did Beckett allude to in the title of one of his texts? Charles Kingsley 18. Who, in Beckett terms, is the odd one out? a) Lenny Bruce
a) Francis Bacon 20. To whom does Beckett refer in a preface as a "garrulous old dowager"? a) Peggy Guggenheim
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1. If Waiting for Godot is a
play "in which nothing happens, twice", in which play does something happen,
twice? Happy Days
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To whose painting of two men looking at the moon did Beckett ascribe the inspiration for Waiting
for Godot?
Fiction