The Quick-fire Christmas Quiz Part Two

We asked a few more of our wonderful Bookends authors our fiendish Christmas quiz!

Carmel Harrington, author of Cold Feet: The Lost Years

Home OR Away?

Home

Star on top of tree OR Fairy on top of tree?

Star

Roses OR Quality Street?

Quality Street

Turkey OR Alternative?

Turkey

Queen’s Speech OR It’s a Wonderful Life?

It’s a Wonderful Life

Monopoly OR Charades?

Charades

Lights first on the tree OR Lights last? 

FIRST!!!!

Fiona Mitchell, author of The Maid’s Room

Home OR Away?

HOME. We often visit our families in Edinburgh, but this year we’re at home.

Star on top of tree OR Fairy on top of tree?

A star which falls off every couple of days and takes some pine needles with it.

Roses OR Quality Street?

Quality Street. Just don’t go changing the shapes and wrappers like Roses have done.

Turkey OR Alternative?

An alternative. Probably chicken for my family, and a vegetarian strudel for me from a recipe I pinched off my friend, Simon.

Queen’s Speech OR It’s a Wonderful Life?

It’s a Wonderful Life 

Monopoly OR Charades?

Monopoly – the Singapore edition or the junior version.

Lights first on the tree OR Lights last? 

Definitely lights last, that way I can take them off again more easily when they won’t switch on.

Jill Mansell, author of Meet Me At Beachcomber Bay

Home OR Away?

Oh, we always have Christmas at home.

Star on top of tree OR Fairy on top of tree?

We have a homemade angel on top of our tree. Controversial!

Roses OR Quality Street?

Quality Street, please.

Turkey OR Alternative?

Turkey and a baked ham, plus every form of trimming known to man. (I will eat Christmas dinner leftovers for breakfast for the next week. Never get tired of it.)

Queen’s Speech OR It’s a Wonderful Life?

It’s a Wonderful Life. What a dream of a film that is. Let’s hear those bells ring…

Monopoly OR Charades?

Charades, definitely! Played enough endless games of Monopoly when the children were young to never EVER want to play it again…

Lights first on the tree OR Lights last? 

Lights go on the tree first, then you decorate the rest of the tree, then at least two of the strings of lights will break so you have to rush out and buy new ones and pile them on top of everything else, so technically they’ve gone on last but NOT OUT OF CHOICE.

Ed’s note: see picture of Jill’s rather gorgeous tree here, with no sign of last minute light panic.

Rosanna Ley, author of Little Theatre by the Sea

Home OR Away?

Home

Star on top of tree OR Fairy on top of tree?

Fairy

Roses OR Quality Street?

Quality every time

Turkey OR Alternative?

Alternative (as yet unknown)

Queen’s Speech OR It’s a Wonderful Life?

Definitely It’s a Wonderful Life

Monopoly OR Charades?

Could be both. OK, charades.

Lights first on the tree OR Lights last?

Has to be first. Lights on last?? Really?