Here’s a quiz, just for fun. Sport in Australian literature – not much, but some. How well do you know it? (Answers will be posted separately.)
Questions
1 What is the title of Nicole Hayes’s young adult novel about AFL?
2 What is the title of Malcolm Knox’s novel about cricket?
3 Name one Tim Winton novel that focuses on surfing.
4 Name Steven Caroll’s novel about the West Indies tour of Australia in the 1960s.
5 Which of Peter Corris’s Cliff Hardy novels has boxing as its theme and boxers as its main characters?
6 Which recent Australian novel is about competitive swimming?
7 Gordon Graham, author of the play The Boys, is also a novelist. What is the name of his novel about an actor playing a champion swimmer brought down by over-eating?
8 Name Frank Hardy’s novel about horse racing.
9 Malcolm Knox’s novel The Life is about which sport?
10 Fiona Capp’s novel about surfing is called what?
Tags: Boxing Day Quiz questions, Frank | Hardy, Gordon | Graham, Malcolm | Knox, Nicole | Hayes, Peter | Corris, sport in Australian fiction, Steven | Caroll, Tim | Winton
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OK, so I got the first one right. 🙂 Knew only four others without checking. (I am a disgrace. Insert shame-faced emoji)
A pass in this quiz is pretty good …
wow. too hard for me. showing my age with the Hardy the only get!
Cliff or Frank?
Don’t think I would have got more than a couple if I hadn’t co-written it and therefore been free to Google the answers. It is a stinker, I agree. There’ll be a nice one about cats in the New Year though … JeanB