Congratulations to Debra Lipp, Contracts Assistant, Penguin Young Readers Group, who was the winner of last issue's Bird Quiz. Respondents with 100 percent scores for the following Quiz will be eligible to receive five Penguin books that are mentioned in this edition.
Please e-mail your answers to penguinquiz@us.penguingroup.com. Good luck!
1. How many awards has Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man, published by Penguin Australia, won in 2009?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9
2. Who was the author of DK's Evolution Revolution, which reached No. 1 in the UK children's non-fiction charts in February?
a. Adam Hart-Davies
b. Johnny Ball
c. Robert Winston
d. Alvin Hall
3. The Penguin "Feathers" refers to:
a. a new Penguin UK children's series
b. members of the Penguin China online club
c. a Penguin sales recognition program
d. a new Penguin Canada series
4. At what number on the Australian Bestseller Charts did Blood Promise debut?
a. 1
b. 3
c. 4
d. 2
5. In 2009, Nora Roberts achieved ten New York Times bestsellers. How many were #1 bestsellers?
a. Two
b. Four
c. Five
6. Seven Hitchcon 09 celebrated which anniversary of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
a. 20th
b. 25th
c. 30th
d. 35th
7. Which of these titles was published by Puffin India to launch its Feluda Mysteries comic series?
a. The Killer of Ka
b. The Night of Kamini
c. A Bagful of Mystery
d. Trouble in Gangtok
8. Penguin became the first international publisher to sign a distribution agreement for eBooks in which territory?
a. South Africa
b. Australia
c. India
d. China
9. What mini-figure was packaged with DK's #1 New York Times Bestseller, LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary?
a. Jabba the Hutt
b. Princess Leia
c. Han Solo
d. Luke Skywalker
10. Which author won South Africa's 2009 Exclusive Books Boeke Fiction Prize?
a. John van de Ruit
b. Damon Gulgut
c. Kathryn Stockett
d. Chinua Achebe
11. Who collects the Green Sheep from its travels in the video for the Penguin Australia book, Where is the Green Sheep?
a. The Yellow Sheep
b. The Red Sheep
c. The author Mem Fox
d. The Blue Sheep
12. Which title won the Indiaplaza Golden Quill Jury Award for Best Book 2009?
a. Ta Professor by Manohar Shyam Joshi
b. The Wishmaker by Ali Sethi
c. Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy
d. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
13. How many books have been published so far under Penguin UK's Particular imprint?
a. 6
b. 7
c. 8
d. 5
14. Which Top Gear personality was involved in Ladybird's Reading Dads Campaign?
a. James May
b. Richard Hammond
c. Jeremy Clarkson
d. The Stig
15. With what title was the Allen Lane imprint launch in India?
a. Better India: A Better World by N.R. Narayana Murthy
b. The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
c. Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani
d. The Difficulty of Being Good by Gurcharan Das
16. How many books are there in the Doctor Who Darksmith Legacy series?
a. 5
b. 10
c. 15
d. 20
17. Which Canadian authors published under Penguin Canada's new Hamish Hamilton Canada literary imprint were short-listed for Canada's prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction?
a. Two Much Happiness and Fall
b. Fall and Some Great Things
c. Fall and The Disappeared
d. Through Black Spruce and Fall
18. Penguin Group (USA) launched the second season of "From the Publishers Office" and to date has over how many page views?
a. 15,000
b. 100,000
c. 150,000
d. 50,000
19. Which UK city did DK Eyewitness Travel name a top city to visit in 2009?
a. Bournemouth
b. Bristol
c. Brighton
d. Bath
20. In which year did the Security Service first grant Christopher Andrew authorisation to write his 'open' history of the MI5?
a. 1989
b. 2000
c. 2002
d. 2009
21. What is the name of the new Penguin South Africa publishing programme that was launched in August 2009?
a. Penguin Prize for African Writing
b. Penguin African Writers Series
c. The Best of Penguin African Writers
d. Penguin South Africa Writing Series
22. Rough Guides launched how many travel guide applications for the new Vodafone 360 App shop?
a. 20
b. 22
c. 200
d. 222