The document provides clues to identify literary works, authors, and characters. It includes riddles about: - Salman Rushdie and Midnight's Children, which won him the Booker Prize and Nobel Prize. - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, widely considered the first modern novel from Africa. - Agatha Christie's novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, known for its innovative twist ending.

1. Round 1

2. • X is the only person to have won both the
Booker prize(for her book Y) and an Oscar.
• X is best known for her collaboration with
Merchant Ivory Productions made up of
director James Ivory and late producer Ismail
Merchant.
Identify X and Y

3. • X became the centre of a raging controversy
when she called Princess Katherine (Kate
Middleton) “a plastic princess designed to
breed”
• X also happens to be the winner of two
Booker prizes for the first two books of a
trilogy.
Identify X and name the books.

4. • X is the first novel of the African writer Chinua
Achebe, widely known as the “father of
African literature”.
• X is a postcolonial critique which was included
in the TIME magazine’s “100 best English
language novels from 1923 to 2005”,
describing it as “a novel with great power that
turns the world upside down”.
Identify X.

5. • “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” is one of
Agatha Christie’s best known novels.
• Its innovative twist ending is widely
recognized to have had a significant impact on
the genre.
What’s so special about the ending?

6. • New York Times book review has said about X
“X is the first piece of literature since the Book
of Genesis that should be required reading for
the entire human race. ”
• Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda called it the
“greatest revelation in Spanish language since
Don Quixote of Cervantes”.
• X played a major role in it’s author winning
the Nobel Prize.

7. • In 1968, the Science Fiction Writer’s of America
voted X the best science fiction story ever
written.
• X was written after a casual discussion the author
had with his editor about the following quote by
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “ If the stars should
appear one night in a thousand years, how would
men believe and adore and preserve for many
generations the remembrance of the city of God.”

8. • Name the literary technique employed in the
following scenario:
• When the character in a story continues to live
beyond the normal length of time and this is
subtly depicted by the character being present
throughout many generations.

9. • “ He was hardly more than five feet four
inches but carried himself with great dignity.
His head was exactly the shape of an egg and
he always perched it a little on one side. His
mustache was very stiff and military. Even if
everything on his face was covered, the tips of
his mustache and the pink tipped nose would
be visible ”.
Who am I talking about?

10. • X said about his protagonists “I like to write
about women who are talented and capable,
but most important, retain their femininity,
because men can’t do without it”.
• X happens to be the “seventh best selling
fiction writer of all time”.
Identify X.

11. • The author explains the exigency of his novel
called X “ To capture the unspoken voices of the
people from darkness- the impoverished areas of
rural India and wanting to do so without
sentimentality or portraying them as
mirthless, humorless weaklings as they are
usually”.
• X is also the name of an espionage novel by
Robert Stuart Nathan ,set in China.
• X is the winner of the Man Booker Prize.
Identify X.

12. • X telegrammed Winston Churchill just prior to
the opening of his play ‘Major Barbara’ ,“ Have
reserved tickets for two for first night. Come
and bring a friend, if you have one. ”
• Churchill wired back ,“impossible to come to
first night. Will come to second night, if you
have one”.
Identify X in this famous exchange.

13. • X is the name of the lead character of a
cartoon series created by Gendy Tartakovsky
for Cartoon network.
• X is also the name of the name of the
protagonist of a novel series written by Jeff
Lindsay.
• The first novel of the series called Y was
adapted into a very successful TV show.
Identify X and Y.

14. • X is the seventh novel of the Irish born author
Emma Donoghue.
• X was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in
2010.
• X was inspired from the notorious ‘Joseph
Fritzl case’ that made headlines in 2008.
Name X.

15. • The last line of X is “After all, tomorrow is another
day”.
• X was taken from the following poem
I have forgotten much, cynara! X
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng
Dancing ,to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind
• X was the only novel published during the
author’s lifetime
Identify X.

16. • X was adapted into a movie ,with the lead
actress of the movie winning an Oscar.
• X is a novel written by Berhard
Schlink, dealing with the difficulties post war
German generations have had comprehending
the Holocaust.
Name X.

17. What’s the connection?