Literary Quiz #2: The Rest Of The Questions

Well, my entry has been posted, and the prize of books to the value of £10,000 will shortly be mine, or somebody else’s.

I asked for, and received, help with six questions. For those who want to try to answer the remaining questions, here they are:

Aliases

01. Which three novelists rang the changes on their literary identity by adopting the surname ‘Bell’?

02. Fascinated by doubles, Samuel Langhorne Clemens assumed which literary alter ego?

03. Which Irish writer was the indebted James Joyce addressing when he wrote ‘AEIOU’?

04. Which creator of politicised pigs took his pseudonym from a river in Suffolk, England?

05. She finally adopted the literary persona, Theophrastus Such. What was her more usual male pseudonym?
Unusual Deaths

06. In which novel does a man meet his death by dropping from a balloon’s mooring rope?

07. Which Dickensian rag-and-bone man dies by spontaneous combustion?

08. A medieval monk is poisoned by a book in which international bestseller?

09. In which literary gem is a housemaid with a deformed shoulder engulfed by quicksands?

10. Which Shakespearean duke dies from too much madeira?
Births

11. Which novel rewinds its hero’s life from his moment of death to the moment of his birth?

12. Which Dorset single mother gives birth to a child named Sorrow?

13. Whose birth, along with 1,000 other babies, coincides with the dawn of independent India?

14. Where does a courtier abandon a new-born baby, before exiting pursued by a bear?

15. Which crime writer dreamt up a nightmarish future in which no children have been born for 25 years?
Clothes

16. Who shocks his employer by turning up for work in yellow stockings?

17. Which novel’s opening chapter features boys in black cloaks marching across a scorching beach?

18. Which island-dweller togs himself out in goatskin garments?
Madness

19. Which character ends up unwillingly supplying a Dickensian talking-book service to a madman in the Brazilian Jungle?

20. Which character has a schizophrenic breakdown in a 1920’s Riviera bathroom, and in which novel?

21. Which senior citizen suffers from mental disturbance in wet and windy weather because of his dysfunctional family?

22. A royal lunatic with purple urine is at the centre of whose play?
Drink

23. Which novel confronts a whiskey priest with sobering reality in Mexico?

24. Same country, but this time mescal is the main character’s preferred poison. In which 20th century novel?

25. Chardonnay is the favourite tipple of which calorie-counting girl-about-town?

26. Which clergyman behaves improperly after drinking ‘Mr. Weston’s good wine’?
Drugs

27. Who keeps his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper?

28. Princess Puffer’s opium den lurks in which author’s unfinished novel?

29. Whose mother’s ashes were mixed with cannabis, and in which book?

30. Which poetic narcotic addicts chill out ‘on beds of amaranth and moly’?
Animals

31. The destruction of the whaleship Essex was the inspiration for which novel?

32. ‘We had the old crow over at Hull recently, looking like a Christmas present from Easter Island’. To which of his poetic contemporaries was which poet referring?

33. Who told the tale of ‘a cok and hen’ and ‘a col-fox, ful of sly iniquitee’, and on the way to where?

34. Which old possum wrote about his feline friends?
Food

35. Who is almost eaten by a table-sized crab, millions of years after he narrowly escapes the jaws of albono carnivores in 802,701?

36. Which Christmas dinner of turkey, ham, sauce and celery is disrupted by a row about Charles Parnell?

37. Which character supplemented his preferred meat ration with fava beans and a nice Chianti?

38. Which French cakes inspired a 12-volume novel?

39. Which Shakespearean mother unknowingly dines on her sons baked in a pie?

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Mark Twain

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Verne, Around the world in 80 Days???

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I know this one…

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Don’t know the character, but it’s Salmon Rushide’s Midnight’s Children
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Golding’s Lord of the Flies**? Maybe

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Robinson Caruso?

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats T.S. Elliot

Fenris

Fenris
02. Mark Twain… correct.

  1. Around The World In 80 days… incorrect.

  2. Midnight’s Children …correct book but….

  3. Lord Of the Flies …correct.

  4. Robinson Crusoe …correct.

  5. Dickens; The Mystery Of Edwin Drood correct.

  6. T. S. Eliot …correct.

  1. George Orwell
  2. I don’t know the character but the play is Titus Andronicus (I think)

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Fine. I’ll haul my carcass aaaaaaaaaaaalllll the way downstairs, and try to find the book, then come aaaaaaaalllll the way back upstairs to post that the character is “Saleem Sinai”

Are you happy now?!

Are you?

Me too! :smiley:

Fenris

[sub]I get the easy ones![/sub]

  1. Which creator of politicised pigs took his pseudonym from a river in Suffolk, England?

George Orwell

  1. A medieval monk is poisoned by a book in which international bestseller?

The Name of the Rose

  1. Which novel rewinds its hero’s life from his moment of death to the moment of his birth?

Martin Amis, “Time’s Arrow”

  1. Which crime writer dreamt up a nightmarish future in which no children have been born for 25 years?

P.D. James.

  1. Who is almost eaten by a table-sized crab, millions of years after he narrowly escapes the jaws of albono carnivores in 802,701?

WAG: The hero of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine”

  1. Which character supplemented his preferred meat ration with fava beans and a nice Chianti?

The name’s Lecter, Hannibal Lecter

  1. Which French cakes inspired a 12-volume novel?

“Remembrance of Things Past?” There was something about madelines in it.

01: The Brontë sisters

04: George Orwell

08: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

11: Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis

14: is from A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare, which is set in a fictional Bohemia.

16: Malvolio from Twelfth Night

25: Bridget Jones in the novel by Helen Fielding.

26: Mr Elton in Jane Austen’s Emma

37: Hannibal Lecter, in Silence of the Lambs

38: Madeleines. The enormous novel is Proust’s A la recherche des temps perdus

What a simulpost!

OK.

Fenris, following his exertions up and down stairs etc., is correct with (13) Saleem Sinai.
Gomez has (4) George Orwell correct and he is spot on with the play Titus Andronicus but needs more.
pesch:

  1. Name of the Rose…correct.

  2. Time’s Arrow…correct.

  3. P. D. James…correct.

  4. It’s the right book.

  5. Hannibal Lecter…correct.

  6. OK, the Madeleine it is correct.
    Tansu

  7. Bronte sisters…correct.

  8. OK, Bohemia (on a shore)…correct.

  9. Malvolio…correct.

  10. Bridget Jones…correct.

  11. Mr. Elton…correct.

So, we are left with:
Aliases

03. Which Irish writer was the indebted James Joyce addressing when he wrote ‘AEIOU’?

05. She finally adopted the literary persona, Theophrastus Such. What was her more usual male pseudonym?
Unusual Deaths

06. In which novel does a man meet his death by dropping from a balloon’s mooring rope?

07. Which Dickensian rag-and-bone man dies by spontaneous combustion?

09. In which literary gem is a housemaid with a deformed shoulder engulfed by quicksands?

10. Which Shakespearean duke dies from too much madeira?
Births

12. Which Dorset single mother gives birth to a child named Sorrow?
Madness

19. Which character ends up unwillingly supplying a Dickensian talking-book service to a madman in the Brazilian Jungle?

20. Which character has a schizophrenic breakdown in a 1920’s Riviera bathroom, and in which novel?

21. Which senior citizen suffers from mental disturbance in wet and windy weather because of his dysfunctional family?

22. A royal lunatic with purple urine is at the centre of whose play?
Drink

23. Which novel confronts a whiskey priest with sobering reality in Mexico?

24. Same country, but this time mescal is the main character’s preferred poison. In which 20th century novel?
Drugs

27. Who keeps his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper?

29. Whose mother’s ashes were mixed with cannabis, and in which book?

30. Which poetic narcotic addicts chill out ‘on beds of amaranth and moly’?
Animals

31. The destruction of the whaleship Essex was the inspiration for which novel?

32. ‘We had the old crow over at Hull recently, looking like a Christmas present from Easter Island’. To which of his poetic contemporaries was which poet referring?

33. Who told the tale of ‘a cok and hen’ and ‘a col-fox, ful of sly iniquitee’, and on the way to where?
Food

35. Who is almost eaten by a table-sized crab, millions of years after he narrowly escapes the jaws of albono carnivores in 802,701?

36. Which Christmas dinner of turkey, ham, sauce and celery is disrupted by a row about Charles Parnell?

39. Which Shakespearean mother unknowingly dines on her sons baked in a pie? **
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  1. Krook dies by S.C. in Bleak House.

  2. Alan Bennett’s The Madness of King George.

  3. The Nun’s Priest, on the way to Canterbury.

Haven’t looked at any other answers yet, but just to see if I can do this…

Charlote, Emily, and Anne Bronte, who wrote as Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

Mark Twain

George Orwell?

Um, taking a guess…George Eliot?

erm…The Name of the Rose, I think.

George of Clarence – he’s drowned in a malmsey butt (in Richard III).

Argh, I know this…it’s from The Winter’s Tale…

Malvolio, steward to Olivia in Twelfth Night

Robinson Crusoe?

King Lear.

The Madness of George III (or, as the film version is called, The Madness of King George)

Bridget Jones?

26. Which clergyman behaves improperly after drinking ‘Mr. Weston’s good wine’?

[quote30. Which poetic narcotic addicts chill out ‘on beds of amaranth and moly’?[/quote]

Tennyson’s Lotus-Eaters, I think.

Moby Dick.

Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest, en route to Canterbury.

T.S. Eliot. The poems were later the basis for the musical Cats.

Hannibal Lecter.

Argh…I know this too…and can’t remember the name (well, I know the novel)…

Tamora, in Titus Andronicus.

oh, and the guy nearly eaten by a crab was the unnamed protagonist of The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells.

**05. She finally adopted the literary persona, Theophrastus Such. What was her more usual male pseudonym?**George Eliot?

12. Which Dorset single mother gives birth to a child named Sorrow?
Tess of the D’Urbervilles

31. The destruction of the whaleship Essex was the inspiration for which novel?
Moby Dick???
33. Who told the tale of ‘a cok and hen’ and ‘a col-fox, ful of sly iniquitee’, and on the way to where?
Do you want the character or the author? Well, it’s part of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, heading to Canterbury.

I knew you’d get plenty right, Katisha!

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Gilligan has a hat-trick with:

  1. Krook…correct.

  2. Alan Bennett…correct.

  3. The Nun’s Priest (Canterbury)…correct.
    Katisha:

  4. George Eliot…correct.

  5. Duke of Clarence…correct.

  6. King Lear…correct.

  7. Lotos-Eaters…correct.

  8. Moby Dick…correct.

  9. Tamora…correct.

Plus another 11 answers, making 17 from 19. Impressive.

Pesch and Katisha both have the hero of ‘The Time Machine’ for Q35. The correct answer is the Time Traveller. I concede that one.

Lsura comes in with 4 out of 4, one previously unanswered viz.

  1. Tess Durbeyfield…correct.

Now, we are left with:
Aliases

03. Which Irish writer was the indebted James Joyce addressing when he wrote ‘AEIOU’?
Unusual Deaths

06. In which novel does a man meet his death by dropping from a balloon’s mooring rope?

09. In which literary gem is a housemaid with a deformed shoulder engulfed by quicksands?
Madness

19. Which character ends up unwillingly supplying a Dickensian talking-book service to a madman in the Brazilian Jungle?

20. Which character has a schizophrenic breakdown in a 1920’s Riviera bathroom, and in which novel?
Drink

23. Which novel confronts a whiskey priest with sobering reality in Mexico?

24. Same country, but this time mescal is the main character’s preferred poison. In which 20th century novel?
Drugs

27. Who keeps his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper?

29. Whose mother’s ashes were mixed with cannabis, and in which book?
Animals

32. ‘We had the old crow over at Hull recently, looking like a Christmas present from Easter Island’. To which of his poetic contemporaries was which poet referring?
Food

36. Which Christmas dinner of turkey, ham, sauce and celery is disrupted by a row about Charles Parnell?

36 : Stephen Dedealus’ in “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce.

  1. Sherlock Holmes

-Myron