# Literary Quiz #2: The Rest Of The Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 6, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803 "2001-10-06T17:32:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/1 "2001-10-06T17:32:37Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/2 "2001-10-06T17:40:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nostradamus \* > \*\ ***02**. Fascinated by doubles, Samuel Langhorne Clemens assumed which literary alter ego? \*\* Mark Twain \*\* > [@](#): > > **06**. In which novel does a man meet his death by dropping from a balloon’s mooring rope? > \*\* Verne, Around the world in 80 Days??? \*\* > [@](#): > > **07**. Which Dickensian rag-and-bone man dies by spontaneous combustion?\*\* I know this one… \*\* > [@](#): > > **13**. Whose birth, along with 1,000 other babies, coincides with the dawn of independent India?\*\* Don’t know the character, but it’s Salmon Rushide’s Midnight’s Children \*\* > [@](#): > > **17**. Which novel’s opening chapter features boys in black cloaks marching across a scorching beach?\*\* Golding’s Lord of the Flies\*\*? Maybe \*\* > [@](#): > > **18**. Which island-dweller togs himself out in goatskin garments?\*\* Robinson Caruso? \*\* > [@](#): > > **28**. Princess Puffer’s opium den lurks in which author’s unfinished novel?\*\* The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens \*\* > [@](#): > > **34**. Which old possum wrote about his feline friends? > \*\* Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats T.S. Elliot Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/3 "2001-10-06T17:48:33Z")
**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_. ---
**Author:** ![Gomez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/4 "2001-10-06T17:56:31Z")
1. George Orwell 2. I don’t know the character but the play is Titus Andronicus (I think) ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/5 "2001-10-06T17:56:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nostradamus \* > \*\ ***Fenris** > 13. Midnight’s Children …_correct book but…_. \*\* 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! 😃 Fenris ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/6 "2001-10-06T18:02:19Z")
[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. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/7 "2001-10-06T18:03:41Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/8 "2001-10-06T18:05:12Z")
What a simulpost! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/9 "2001-10-06T18:55:40Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/10 "2001-10-06T19:04:32Z")
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? \*\* [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/11 "2001-10-06T19:29:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/12 "2001-10-06T19:50:18Z")
Haven’t looked at any other answers yet, but just to see if I can do this… > [@](#): > > **01**. Which three novelists rang the changes on their literary identity by adopting the surname ‘Bell’? Charlote, Emily, and Anne Bronte, who wrote as Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. > [@](#): > > **02**. Fascinated by doubles, Samuel Langhorne Clemens assumed which literary alter ego? Mark Twain > [@](#): > > **04**. Which creator of politicised pigs took his pseudonym from a river in Suffolk, England? George Orwell? > [@](#): > > **05**. She finally adopted the literary persona, Theophrastus Such. What was her more usual male pseudonym? Um, taking a guess…George Eliot? > [@](#): > > **08**. A medieval monk is poisoned by a book in which international bestseller? erm…_The Name of the Rose,_ I think. > [@](#): > > **10**. Which Shakespearean duke dies from too much madeira? George of Clarence – he’s drowned in a malmsey butt (in _Richard III_). > [@](#): > > **14**. Where does a courtier abandon a new-born baby, before exiting pursued by a bear? Argh, I know this…it’s from _The Winter’s Tale…_ > [@](#): > > **16**. Who shocks his employer by turning up for work in yellow stockings? Malvolio, steward to Olivia in _Twelfth Night_ > [@](#): > > **18**. Which island-dweller togs himself out in goatskin garments? Robinson Crusoe? > [@](#): > > **21**. Which senior citizen suffers from mental disturbance in wet and windy weather because of his dysfunctional family? King Lear. > [@](#): > > **22**. A royal lunatic with purple urine is at the centre of whose play? _The Madness of George III_ (or, as the film version is called, _The Madness of King George_) > [@](#): > > **25**. Chardonnay is the favourite tipple of which calorie-counting girl-about-town? Bridget Jones? **26**. Which clergyman behaves improperly after drinking ‘Mr. Weston’s good wine’? [quote **30**. Which poetic narcotic addicts chill out ‘on beds of amaranth and moly’?[/quote] Tennyson’s Lotus-Eaters, I think. > [@](#): > > **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? Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest, en route to Canterbury. > [@](#): > > **34**. Which old possum wrote about his feline friends? T.S. Eliot. The poems were later the basis for the musical _Cats._ > [@](#): > > **37**. Which character supplemented his preferred meat ration with fava beans and a nice Chianti? Hannibal Lecter. > [@](#): > > **38**. Which French cakes inspired a 12-volume novel? Argh…I know this too…and can’t remember the name (well, I know the novel)… > [@](#): > > **39**. Which Shakespearean mother unknowingly dines on her sons baked in a pie? \*\* Tamora, in _Titus Andronicus._ ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/13 "2001-10-06T19:51:20Z")
oh, and the guy nearly eaten by a crab was the unnamed protagonist of _The Time Machine,_ by H.G. Wells. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/14 "2001-10-06T20:01:58Z")
\*\*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. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/15 "2001-10-06T20:09:21Z")
I knew you’d get plenty right, **Katisha**! sub[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/16 "2001-10-06T20:09:55Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/17 "2001-10-06T20:12:43Z")
**Lsura** comes in with 4 out of 4, one previously unanswered viz. 1. Tess Durbeyfield…_correct_. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/18 "2001-10-06T20:17:09Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/19 "2001-10-06T21:11:49Z")
36 : Stephen Dedealus’ in “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/20 "2001-10-06T21:21:10Z")
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