Advent Quiz - Day 14

Question 14

Can you name the artist who painted this portrait of George Mackay Brown which hangs in the Stromness Library?

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Closing date for entries 31st December.
Answers will be published and the winner announced on 5th January 2015.
Don't forget there is a fabulous prize!

Answer: Fred Schley

Advent Quiz - Day 13

Question 13

Can you name the collection of Orkney books bequeathed to Stromness Library in 1928?

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Entries close on 31st December.
Answers will be published and the winner announced on 5th January 2015.

Answer: The Garson collection

Advent Quiz - Day 12

Question 12

Although now stored in the Orkney Archive, the Stromness Library for many years had an original 1725 copy of -  An account of the conduct and proceedings of the late John Gow alias Smith, Captain of the late pirates, executed for murther & piracy committed on board the George gally, afterwards call'd the Revenge; with a relation of all the horrid murthers they committed in cold blood; as also of their being taken at the Islands of Orkney, and sent up prisoners to London. 

Can you name the author?

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Closing date for entries is 31st December, so don't forget to go back and answer any days you may have missed. If you are stuck then a look back throught the blog and/or a trip to the library will help!

Answers will be published and the winner announced on 5th January 2015.

Good Luck!

Answer: Daniel Defoe

Advent Quiz - Day 11

Question 11

The picture above, from the Robertson collection in Orkney archive, is on display in Stromness Library. It shows a tinker family camping in Stromness, but can you identify where in Stromness this is?

Answer: The stone building at the rear of the picture is the old slaughter house, and the area pictured is now the site of the new Stromness Primary School.

Advent Quiz - Day 10

Question 10

Can you name the Orcadian artist who painted the 'Portrait of an Old Woman' which hangs in the Stromness Library?

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Entries close on 31st December. 

The answers will be published, and the winner announced, on 5th January 2015. 

Good Luck!

Answer: Stanley Cursiter

Advent Quiz - Day 9

Question 9

In 1992 the book Sea Haven: Stromness in the Orkney Islands was published. Can you tell us the name of the photographer, the author of the text, and who wrote the foreword?


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Closing date for entries is 31 December 2014.
Answers will be published, and the winner announced, on 5 January 2015.

Answer: Photographer- Keith Allardyce
              Text - Bryce Wilson
               Foreword - George Mackay Brown

Advent Quiz - Day 8

Question 8

Can you name each of these cats who were once library regulars?

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Answer: 1. Bubbles  2. Seamus