NEW YEAR BOOK QUIZ... with prizes

New for 2011: A Book Quiz

Time to stretch that grey matter after the recent holidays and exercise your brain power on this tricky quiz.

**There are prizes of books for the top 3 winners**

If more than one person answers all 30 questions correctly, the names will go into a hat and drawn at random, otherwise the winners will be those 3 people who submit the most correct answers.

Entry information 
Please send your numbered answers to:
speculativebookreview@googlegroups.com with BOOK QUIZ in the subject line.
Include your full name... I will ask you for your address only if you are a winner.
The competition is open to anyone, worldwide, but for anyone outside Europe, if you win I will post your prize books by surface mail.
Closing date for entries: Sunday 30th January 2011

The Prizes

The following list of 10 books will be offered as prizes:

And God Created Zombies - Andrew Hook (signed, hardcover)
The Left Hand of God - Paul Hoffman (hardcover)
I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore (hardcover)
The Prince of Mist - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (hardcover)
The Stars Compel - Michaela Roessner (hardcover)
Cry of the Newborn - James Barclay
Cosmonaut Keep - Ken McLeod
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
The White Mare - Jules Watson

The winner will receive their choice of 5 from the list
The runner-up will receive their choice of 3 from the remaining 5
Third place winner will receive the last 2 books

The Questions:
All books referred to are in the Speculative Fiction genre and many have been reviewed here.
**No book or author is included more than once**
Also, all the answers relate to books I own... if you are on Goodreads, then you can check my books there.

Openings
Which books (with author) open with the following lines:
1. In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part…

2. It began on a train, heading north through England, although I was soon to discover that the story had really begun more than a hundred years earlier.

3. I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

4. An everyday doomsayer in sandwich-board abruptly walked away from what over the last several days had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum.

5. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

People
Name the books (and author) in which the following characters appear:
**All the books are in the Gollancz Masterworks series**
Fantasy –
6. Suldrun
7. Jeff Winston
8. Brendan Doyle
9. Severian
10. Robert Luczak

Science Fiction -
11. Marjorie Westriding Yrarier
12. Paul Atreides
13. Charlie Gordon
14. David Mingolla
15. Robert Neville

Places
Name the books (with author) which are set in the following locations:
16. Villiren
17. Botanica
18. Airstrip One
19. Gilead
20. Jacob’s Ladder
21. Starhaven
22. The Garden of the Eloi
23. Rakhat
24. Thaiburley
25. The Arameri Palace

Closings
Which books (with author) close with the following lines:
26. “What is this place?” Maya cried.
“This is home,” Hiroko said. “This is where we start again.”

27. He was dreaming, the hunter could see, but his eyes were wide open, staring up at the sickle moon.
‘Adisla,’ he said, ‘I will find you.’

28. ‘I hope she makes it,’ Jude said.
‘To Buffalo? I don’t see why she wouldn’t,’ Marybeth said.
‘Yeah,’ Jude said, although he wasn’t sure that was what he had really meant at all.

29. Whichever lover had given Kerry the guitar must have been the person who stole it all those years ago.
He made to leave with it but stopped, staring again at the beautiful flowers. He thought about Kerry lying sick in the hospital.
“Oh to hell with it. I’ll take the old beat-up thing I got from that bag lady. I always could play better than anyone else on any old guitar.”
He left Kerry’s guitar where it lay, and was not dissatisfied.

30. Virgil reached for me and I took his mitt without hesitation.
He pulled me to my feet, and slowly smiled.
We walked toward the infinite dead horizon that lay ahead.
My name is Filippo Argenti. This is my journey.

The winners will be announced on Sunday February 6th 2011 when the answers will also be posted.
Good luck!