World Book Day: Shelfie Quiz Number 4 ...

Thanks to all those of you who had a stab at matching yesterday's tomes to their English teacher owners. We'll let you know if you got them right in a moment - but now for our penultimate Shelfie Quiz. Today, our shelfies have been kindly donated by teachers from the Art, Film & Video, Economics, Sports and Philosophy Departments, plus - as today actually IS World Book Day -  our sixth shelfie is from the Kayton Librarian herself (and if you haven't yet visited the Library's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' quiz, do check it out: it's great fun, and there's a Nando's voucher in it if you win!).  

So - click on the link if you want to guess which books belong to Mr Grant, Miss Khan, Miss McGreevy, Mr Maguire, Mr Mahmoud and Mrs Cummings - Thursday's Shelfie Quiz - and in the meantime, here are the answers to yesterday's.

As many of you noticed, the books in Shelfie 1 were ingeniously arranged: not just Madame Bovary cosying up to Flaubert's Parrot, but also Joan Didion twinned with Joan Smith, Mansfield Park next door to Howard's End and All the Pretty Horses nose to tail with The Power of the Dog.  So the question seemed to be: which English teacher has a playful sense of humour? Pauline quizzers gave their first vote to Mr Pirrie, and their second to Dr Pryce.  But both of these were wrong: the author of these wittily creative juxtapositions was of course ...

... Mr Harris, bowling a googly, as only 16% of you got this one right.  Shelfie 2 was much more helpful, with lots of good clues: Shakespeare and Grammar for Grownups? Greta Thunberg and Sustainable Living? Book of the Year Babel??? Yes, this bookshelf clearly belonged to ...

... Miss Muir, as 40% of you correctly deduced.  Although we strongly suspect that for the Head of Eco Soc, 40% green isn't enough!

The spines on Shelfie 3 threw some of you off: P G Wodehouse, for instance - a hint that this shelf belonged to Miss McLaren, who would rescue Jeeves and Wooster from a burning building? Was philosophical former English captain Mike Brearley (also on Miss Muir's bookshelf) a clue to cricketer (and theologian) Mr Harris? 48% of you thought so. But look more closely: James Shapiro's 1606: The Year of Lear, Elia Kazan's The Understudy, Michael Frayn's Stage Directions, and the memoirs of Sir Alec Guinness, the original Obi-Wan Kenobi (although as far as we know he never appeared in Doctor Who) - yes, this shelfie could only belong to ...

... Mr Pirrie. But a mere 9% of you guessed this one correctly (well played, Mr Pirrie!). Shelfie 4 was much more straightforward: H G Wells? Sarah Waters? Lots of film books? sparkly Christmas lights? These bookshelves obviously belonged to ...

... Miss McLaren, and 54% of you got this one right.  Our penultimate shelfie spanned centuries of poetry: Chaucer, Donne, Milton, Keats, Shelley, Eliot, Pound - plus comedian Tim Key (sandwiched snugly between Wordsworth and Yeats).  36% of you felt that a shelf so learned and literary could only belong to the Head of English himself ....

... Mr Gardner.  And you were right.  Our final shelfie had not just a cactus, but a few red herrings - play-writing, the Bible - that pointed several of you in the direction of Mr Pirrie and Mr Harris.  But look more closely, and there's The Tempest, plus - lurking in the shadows - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (we'd say this was subliminal marketing for next week's play, rapidly selling out: book your tickets now!).  Yes, this shelfie belongs to ... 

Dr Pryce.  And over a third of you got it absolutely right.  Thanks again to all the English teachers for bravely exposing their literary taste to the light of day - and good luck with today's quiz!