(answers) Friday quiz 2024 no. 34 - Ten questions!
(answers) Dear patrons! After the success of a great crime quiz yesterday, we decided to have a different form of the quiz today. Simple: ten questions that can be connected with the Municipal Library in some way (or its holdings).
Of course it's most fun in quizzes like this to not cheat (read: google). Right answers will come after the weekend.
If you are impatient, you can contact the website's editor and he'll email you right away.
Hopefully you'll have a great weekend, read as much as you can, play, watch ... just: have a fantastic weekend!
The staff of the Municipal Library
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1. A crime novel that happens during winter in the Westfjords ... two little sisters get lost in horrible weather and 25 years later their big sister is a detective at Ísafjörður ... - who is the author and what's the name of this book that came out 2024?
- Hildur by Satu Rämö
2. A young journalist, drunk sailor that curses a lot, white terrier-dog ... sounds familiar - but what books include these characters and who's the author (bonus point if you can give both the name and the pseudonum)
- The Tin Tin books by Hergé (Georges Remi)
3. This author wrote a lot as a child and teenager in the countryside but the first published work came out 1946 and the author was 59 years old! Wrote constantly for the next 27 years and died in 1975. Who's the author?
- Guðrún from Lundur (Guðrún Baldvina Árnadóttir)
4. Bella Mackie wrote a book that is called How to _____ your family (in Icelandic: Hvernig á að ______ fjölskyldu sína). Funny, catching and brutal ... what word is missing in the title? (came out this year)
- drepa (Hvernig á að drepa fjölskyldu sína) --- e. kill (How to kill your family)
5. According to the Guinness Book of Records, what character from written novels has appeared the most often in movies?
- Sherlock Holmes
6. These days we're witnessing the premiere of a movie called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) which is a sequel to Beetlejuice (1988) and available here at the library in DVD-format. The director and the composer have worked together on so many films. Who are these individuals?
- Tim Burton director and Danny Elfman composer
7. Now patrons have probably walked around the library in different ways. The new building along with renovations to the old one was opened in 2004 and we celebrated the 20 year old birthday in March this year. The institution itself is 197 years old this year. But the question is simple, like the situation is at the library now: Majority of the DVDs is on the north wall of the old building, in the corner to the east of it we've placed ________________ ?
- Gardening tools
8. In 1997 the first crime novel by Arnaldur Indriðason came out (Synir duftsins). Then he has published a book every year, won many awards, been translated to may languages and is usually at the top or near it on bestselling lists every year here in Iceland. The ridiculuous question of this quiz is this: What does he have in common with our head librarian Hólmkell Hreinsson?
- Both born in January, 1961
9. The good looking Henry Cavill has acted in many movies and episodes. He was blonde in Stardust (2007) and also in the series The Witcher where he played Geralt of Rivia. Who is the author of the book series the tv series is based upon and from where is that author?
- Andrzej Sapkowski from Poland
10. Tommy Wirkola is a Norwegian film director that has among others made the fabulous Død snø (2009) and Violent Night (2022). Once the Municipal Library had the film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) in its collection, which Tommy directed and there was a really interesting man that composed the music to that film. That individual recently won the BAFTA TV awards for best music. Who is the man and what could be so special about him for us here in the north?
- This is Atli Örvarsson, who is of course an Akureyrian!
