World Book Day: the Final Shelfie Quiz ...

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 ....

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.

World Book Day: Shelfie Quiz Number 3 ...

 Well - we must confess: we think we made yesterday's quiz too easy.  We'll reveal the answers in a minute, but first of all, our third Shelfie quiz of the week. This one might be trickier. Today, all our shelfies come from the same Dept: English. Mr Gardner, Dr Pryce, Mr Pirrie, Miss McLaren, Mr Harris and former English teacher Miss Muir have kindly sent in their snapshots, and now it's your turn to work out which books belong to who. So - where does Madame Bovary rub shoulders with Flaubert's parrot? Who's kept their Christmas lights up, and whose bookshelf is shrouded in gloom? Did we realise English teachers were such fans of Mike Brearley?? and whose cactus is that??? Click on this link - Wednesday's Shelfie Quiz - if you'd like to take part.

World Book Day: Shelfie Quiz Number 2 ...

Thanks to everyone who had a go at our first shelfie quiz yesterday. The results were impressive, and you can find out the answers below. But first, today's quiz, which features teachers from the Modern Languages, Science and ICT department. So - you tell us: which teachers arrange their books by colour? Who's working their way through this year's Booker Prize Winner Prophet Song? Who has a lot of books about Bladerunner and who has three copies of Bonjour Tristesse?  Click on the link to take part - Tuesday's Shelfie Quiz - and see if you can identify the shelfies from Miss Byrne, Mr Tofts, Miss Cotton, Dr Holmes, Mr Green and Miss Squire.  

IWD and World Book Day Quiz

There's a lot to celebrate this week. It's International Women's Day on Friday - 

and there are loads of fantastic events taking place, including today's Classics Society presentation on Female Writers in Antiquity (it's not just Sappho, you know), Wednesday's Senior English Society meeting, with Miss Trepanier discussing feminism and narrative form, and Thursday's Sci-Fi/Filmsoc mashup, on women film directors to watch. You can find out more about all the events taking place here.  And as if that wasn't enough excitement for one week, Thursday is World Book Day!!!

This year's festival of all things book-related includes the Kayton Library's second 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' quiz (you can find out more about last year's here). The library also asked teachers some book-themed questions - including 'which book would you save from a burning building?', 'which book influenced you as a child?', 'which book did you throw across the room?' and 'which book have you always wanted to read?' Watch out for the posters based on people's answers: they'll be popping up all over the school.

 
Here on the book blog, we're running a week of 'match the teacher to the shelfie' quizzes.  What is a 'shelfie'? we hear you cry. Well, this photo can probably help you figure it out:

Every day, we'll be posting some shelfies and challenging YOU, the Pauline reader, to work out which bookshelf belongs to which teacher.  Today, Maths, Geography and History go head to head: Miss French, Mr Allon, Mr Isaac, Mr Poyner, Mr Fagan and Miss Milanova have bravely sent in their shelfies.

So, click here to try today's quiz: on whose bookshelves do George Orwell and Pat Barker stand side by side? Where does Alex Bellos hang out with Laura Bates? Ben Stokes and Robert Webb jostle with nineteenth century explorer Richard Burton? Who delivered our first ever digital shelfie? And who hasn't taken their Christmas decorations down yet???

Answers will be revealed tomorrow ... !

The Final Shelfie Quiz - answers revealed!!!

Thanks again to all of you who participated in last week's shelfie quizzes, whether it was by generously contributing a shelfie, or by having a go at the quiz.  Here are the results of Friday's final test of your deductive skills. 

The Final Shelfie Quiz ...

Today is our final quiz - and it features an eclectic mix of shelfies generously contributed by teachers from the Drama, Physics, Economics, and Classics dept - Mr Kerr, Mr Warriner, Mr Jacoby, Mr Block and Miss Waterfield - plus rowing coach Mr Bourne (OP), the head of the US Universities Dept Mrs Graham AND (drum roll ...) the High Master himself, Professor Bailey.

SO - whose literary interests embrace James Bond and the Beatniks? Where does John Colet meet the one ring to rule them all? Who has abandoned shelving altogether and stacks their books in a vertical tower?  And is that another copy of Moby Dick we see before us?  It's your final chance to match the shelfies to the teacher: and here's the link - have fun! 

World Book Day: Shelfie Quiz Number 4 ...

As today is World Book Day, we're delighted to report that yesterday's shelfie quiz had the highest rate of successful identifications so far. Find out how many you got right later in the post.

Today's penultimate quiz features shelfies generously donated by teachers from the History, Biology, ICT and Theology & Philosophy departments.  So - whose shelves go from CSI to cacti, and whose from psychopathology to pumpkins?  Who enjoys travel writing and classic detective fiction, and who likes talking to serial killers? Who loves lists, and who else arranges their books by colour (this is clearly a thing), and whose arm is that???  Mr Watkins's? Dr Brigham's? Dr Bennett's? Dr Langley's? Mr Gaydon's? Miss Ramsay-Overall's? Mr Green's? or Dr Shammas's?  You tell us - here's the link to Thursday's Shelfie Quiz.

World Book Week: Shelfie Quiz Number 3 ...

Yesterday's quiz offered produced some interesting results - find out how many shelfies you correctly identified later on in the post.  Today, we have a selection of shelfies very kindly volunteered by teachers from the Art, Chemistry and Modern Languages depts. Whose interests range from Spike Milligan to metaphysical poetry, or from the Mafia to Milton? Which teacher arranges their books by colour? Whose collection includes The Short and Snarky Guide to Coxing? Who likes fantasy, sci-fi and cooking spicy food - Mrs Holmes? Mr Smith? Mr Lowes? Mrs Mitchell? Miss Kemal-ur-Rahim? Miss Grogan? or Mr Hollands? You tell us: here's the link to Wednesday's Shelfie Quiz. 

World Book Week: Shelfie Quiz Number 2 ...

Thanks to everyone who had a go at our first shelfie quiz yesterday. You can find out the answers, including who all those copies of Moby Dick belonged to, below. 

Today's quiz features teachers from the Maths, Computing and Engineering departments.  Can you figure out whose interests range from Murakami to Monty Don? Where does Hogwarts meet the Night Circus, or Tolkien hunt the White Tiger, or Howard Marks prop up Jack Reacher? Whose bookshelves span coding to cricket, or Dante to Wodehouse? Click on the link to take part in today's quiz - Tuesday's Shelfie Quiz - and see if you can identify the shelfies from Miss Douglass, Mrs Hamma, Mr Allon, Mr Toller, Dr Shravat, Miss Cloete and Dr Harrison.