September is New Zealand Book Month, a time to celebrate (and appreciate) our country's authors and illustrators, publishing houses and bookshops.

Think you know your Johnsons from your Joneses? Take our NZ Book Month Quiz and impress us with your local knowledge. Up for grabs is a stack of NZ books, including a couple of 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Award winners. September is New Zealand Book Month, a time to celebrate (and appreciate) our country's authors and illustrators, publishing houses and bookshops.

Think you know your Johnsons from your Joneses? Take our NZ Book Month Quiz and impress us with your local knowledge. Up for grabs is a stack of NZ books, including a couple of 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Award winners.The Big Idea's NZ Book Month Quiz

1. Whose handbook did Maurice Duggan write about?

2. In which book does the character Ellerslie Penrose appear?

3. What are the names of the twins in Maurice Gee's Under the Mountain?

4. What is the name of the place that dreams are caught in Elizabeth Knox's
Dreamhunter and Dream Quake?

5. What name was Frank Sargeson born with?

6. How many lives did Frank Finnigan have?

7. What did the magpies say?

8. Is Lloyd Jones's Biografi fiction or memoir?

9. What sort of tree stands in Bertha's garden in Katherine Mansfield's
Bliss?

10. What sort of creature is the Whistler in Stephanie Johnson's novel of the same name?

To enter
Send your answers to editor@thebigidea.co.nz with 'NZ Book Month Quiz' in the subject line.

The prize
All correct entries will go in the draw to win a stack of five NZ books:

Secret Heart (VUP, 2006) by Airini Beautrais (winner of the 2007 NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry); For Everyone Concerned (VUP, 2007) by Damien Wilkins; Miss Me a Lot Of (VUP, 2007) by Louise Wareham Leonard; The Sound of Butterflies (Random House, 2006) by Rachael King (winner of the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction); and Coming Up Roses (Random House, 2007) by Sarah Laing.

The competition closes at midnight on Sunday 30 September 2007, and the winner will be announced on Monday 1 October 2007.

Terms and Conditions
Competition is open to New Zealand residents only.

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