Congratulations to all those of you who did Thursday's quiz: we'll reveal the answers in a moment, but first, our final quiz. It's a veritable clash of the titans, as Mr Blurton, Dr Field, Dr Gilks, Miss Gill, Mr Harrison, Mr Nilsson, Mr Stewart and Miss Warner go Head to Head. You know them as leaders - but do you know them as readers??? Click on the link -
Friday's Shelfie Quiz - and find out ....
Meanwhile, yesterday's answers - most of them cleverly signalled by the shelfie-takers themselves, with some carefully curated clues. Peer closely at Shelfie 1, and you can see some definite indicators of its owner. England rugby? Check. A Visual Guide to Human Anatomy? Check. Motorbikes and Tottenham Hotspur? Double check. The Old Epsomian magazine was the final clincher. Anonymous 8th former: 'this has got to be Mr Maguire!'
And you were absolutely right. Shelfie 2 featured some classic contemporary literature, as well as Paul Klugman,
How Markets Fail and what makes a company go from
Good to Great. But the dominant thread was the big reveal - the Brownlee Brothers'
Swim Bike Run? the autobiography of female World Number 1 Ironman triathlete Chrissie Wellington?
Training for Triathletes and
Chasing Excellence? You all knew it straight away: 'it's Miss McGreevy!'
And indeed it was. You had to look closely at Shelfie 3 to spot the clues: not just Harry Potter and Terry Pratchett, but many, many photo albums. The giveaway was Taekwon-do, and those of you lucky enough to hear her assembly on the sport knew immediately that this shelf belonged to ...
... Miss Khan. Shelfie 4 reflected a huge range of knowledge and interests - from Anita Loos to Douglas Adams, Emily Bronte to Edward St Aubyn, Marilyn French, Marge Piercy, urban gardening, origami, from The Silk Roads to the Thames Path and beyond ... No catalogue numbers, but a comprehensive collection of battered, well-read, well-loved Anne McCaffreys - yes, this shelfie undoubtedly came from ...
Mrs Cummings. As 58% of you correctly concluded. Shelfie 5 also included a wide range of different subjects, prominent among them philosophy, but also history and ethics, Shakespeare and pedagogy, from The Teacher's Toolkit to Outsmart your Brain. A mighty 79% of you knew who this was ...
... the polymathic Mr Mahmoud, Director of Teaching and Learning, and also teacher of Philosophy, History and RS. Finally, Shelfie 6. The depth of erudition on display - from Duchamp to Derrida, Camus to Calvino, Baudrillard to Bruno Schulz, Auden, Paul Auster, Saint Augustine - along with the sheer quantity of books on this shelf led some of you to guess Mrs Cummings. But there was a giveaway just off centre: B R Tilghman's But Is It Art? 58% of you definitely thought it was, correctly judging that Shelfie 6 belonged to ...
... Mr Grant. Thanks again to all these teachers, who shared their shelfies and thoughtfully planted a few pointers in their midst - and good luck with the final quiz!
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