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The Authors Electric Inaugural Quiz - by Karen Bush and Susan Price

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Sue Price  I was whiling away a few minutes with the Guardian quiz... And then I watched Pointless... And then Have I Got New for You ... and I realised: I love quizzes. People love quizzes.       Karen Bush does too, so we put our heads together and, with help from Karen Bush the Quibblo site, concocted this quiz. It's over there, to the right, on the sidebar.      Karen set the questions: I endured the usual faff and fankle with passwords and log-in security puzzles.       It's a quiz on children's books (since we write for children.) See if you can get ten out of ten.        There was one question about Dick King-Smith , but Quibblo wouldn't allow me to put it up. It said, primly, 'Please remove the inappropriate term 'dick.' Ooooh, Missis! Be have!       So, despite Dick King-Smith being a highly respected and loved writer for childre...