Crime Fest Quiz 2011

We were lucky enough to have Martin Edwards join our Friend Feeders team (aka the International Bloggers) at the Crime Fest 2011 quiz last Thursday.

As well as Martin and myself from the UK the team included Danish blogger Dorte and Australian blogger Kerrie and their husbands (not shown!).

Though the questions set by Peter Guttridge were incredibly hard and/or obscure I knew that with Martin involved we had a good chance of repeating the 2010 win and he we did.

Kerrie, Dorte, Me with Martin standing-up.

The prize was 3 bags of books and audio-books which have found good homes.

CrimeFest Quiz Prize

When the team I happened to be on won the 2010 CrimeFest quiz, the prize came in the form of a large cardboard box full of books, audio books and Lewis DVDs, from which we helped ourselves. Here's what I took:



The James Patterson audio book is unabridged and will fit nicely into my teenage fiction interest. I don't normally listen to abridged books but the Kate Atkinson one is read by Jason Isaacs...

(Thinking it about it now, I have a feeling the Lee Child audio book was in my book bag...and not a prize.)

Crime Fest Quiz 2010

I'm pleased to report that your erstwhile correspondent was part of the winning team, the Monkey Coalition, at the quiz tonight at Crime Fest. The team comprised readers Rik, Carol and myself and authors, Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards and Cath Staincliffe. The prize was a large mixed box of books, talking books and DVDs which we plundered to our own personal satisfaction. I'm afraid I had little to do with our success, rather it was Martin and Rik who stole the show!

Crime Fest Quiz Winners

Here are the euromonkeys, winners of the Quiz at Crime Fest last week, click on the photo to enlarge:

Rik, Carol and Ann Cleeves (and Mr Monkey):


Ann, Rafe McGregor and Martin Edwards (Donna is in the background):



Martin and Maxine:

News from Crime Fest - quiz, Colin Dexter

If you read the Friend Feed Crime and Mystery fiction room then you'll already know that several familiar bloggers and euro crime reviewers were part of the winning quiz team on Thursday night. The "euromonkeys" were: Authors - Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards and Rafe McGregor, Bloggers - Maxine (Petrona), Me and Euro Crime reviewers - Rik and Carol. Photos to follow.

Also, overheard at Crime Fest is the good news that the next volume of the anthology, Best British Mysteries, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and due for publication in 2010 will contain a new short story by Colin Dexter featuring Inspector Morse. Other contributors include P D James and John Harvey.

Guardian's Ian Fleming Quiz

The Guardian has an Ian Fleming quiz and I managed to get 007/10 even though I've only read one book so far. (A few lucky guesses helped). Try the quiz, here.

Crime Quiz on Penguin website

Just for a bit of fun, there's a 2008 Crime Quiz on the Penguin UK website. I got 8/10. US readers may struggle with the UK TV questions (3 & 4).

More quizes can be found on their website, here.