# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**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, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/21 "2001-10-06T22:12:46Z")
1. Which Irish writer was the indebted James Joyce addressing when he wrote ‘AEIOU’? A.E. Russell 1. In which literary gem is a housemaid with a deformed shoulder engulfed by quicksands? “The Moonstone,” Wilkie Collins 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? I would guess Philip Larkin as the speaker. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/22 "2001-10-06T22:29:22Z")
DAMNIT. I’m halfway through Name of the Rose. I saw this thread, and thought, “Hey, I could chime in. Yay, etc.” I see #8, something about a medieval monk being poisoned by a book. I say to myself, “Self, if that’s Name of the Rose, I’ll whine like a crack-addled rhesus monkey.” Proceeding to whine. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/23 "2001-10-07T01:58:24Z")
Well all the others I know have already been answered, so… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nostradamus \* > \*\ ***19**. Which character ends up unwillingly supplying a Dickensian talking-book service to a madman in the Brazilian Jungle? \*\* Tony Last, from _A Handful of Dust_. Take my advice and don’t read it for yourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Opus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/858c86/32.png) [@Opus1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opus1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/24 "2001-10-07T04:38:30Z")
23 is Graham Greene’s _The Power and the Glory_. ---
**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 7, 2001, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/25 "2001-10-07T05:37:01Z")
Six more right answers above. Well, six and a half really: **Eutychus55** : 1. Stephen Daedelus/ Portrait…_correct_. **The Man Who** : 2. Sherlock Holmes…_correct_. **pesch** : 3. George {A.E.) Russell…_correct_. 4. The Moonstone…_correct_. 5. Philip Larkin…_correct_. **peepthis** : 6. Tony Last…_correct_\*. **Opus1** : 7. The Power and the Glory…_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 7, 2001, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/26 "2001-10-07T05:45:37Z")
Only five more to go. You can do it: **Unusual Deaths** **06**. In which novel does a man meet his death by dropping from a balloon’s mooring rope? **Madness** **20**. Which character has a schizophrenic breakdown in a 1920’s Riviera bathroom, and in which novel? **Drink** **24**. Mexico again, but this time mescal is the main character’s preferred poison. In which 20th century novel? **Drugs** **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 Philip Larkin referring? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/27 "2001-10-07T11:00:33Z")
#24 : _Under the Volcano_ by Malcolm Lowry? ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/28 "2001-10-07T13:24:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Madness > > 1. Which character has a schizophrenic breakdown in a 1920’s Riviera bathroom, and in which novel? Dick Diver in Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald? > [@](#): > > 1. Mexico again, but this time mescal is the main character’s preferred poison. In which 20th century novel? Something by Aldous Huxley? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/29 "2001-10-07T13:43:09Z")
06 The Baron in the Trees ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/30 "2001-10-07T13:44:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*06 The Baron in the Trees \*\* by Italo Calvino, if you need an author. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/31 "2001-10-07T15:24:24Z")
> [@](#): > > **Unusual Deaths** > > **06**. In which novel does a man meet his death by dropping from a balloon’s mooring rope? At least two will qualify with this one a possibly a third. In _Mysterious Island_ a man falls to his death from a balloon’s mooring rope and the same happens in _Five Weeks in a Balloon_. A man also falls to his death from a mooring rope in _Master of the World_ and the vehicle is sort of a ballon. > [@](#): > > **Drink** > > **24**. Mexico again, but this time mescal is the main character’s preferred poison. In which 20th century novel? I imagine someone has said it, but _Night of the Igauana_. ---
**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 7, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/32 "2001-10-07T15:43:52Z")
**Eutychus55** : 1. Under the Volcano…_correct_. **Francesca** : 2. It’s the right book (So I am reliably informed). **sublight** and **TV time** : 3. I hate questions like this. I read _Enduring Love_ by Ian McEwan a few months ago. The opening chapter features a death which occurs exactly in the manner described. To learn of 4 more possibilities is Bad News. We’ll have to see what happens when the official answers are published. I am asking a Moderator to withdraw the question. 🙂 ---
**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 7, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/33 "2001-10-07T15:47:00Z")
Down to the last three. **Madness** **20**. Which character has a schizophrenic breakdown in a 1920’s Riviera bathroom, and in which novel? **Drugs** **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 Philip Larkin referring? ---
**Author:** ![wariat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@wariat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wariat)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/34 "2001-10-07T15:57:25Z")
At a pure guess - since I couldn’t bring myself to read it -is 29) referring to Frank McCourt and “Angela’s Ashes”? ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/35 "2001-10-07T19:23:29Z")
> [@](#): > > **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 Philip Larkin referring? \*\* Stein? Lindberg? Pound? ---
**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 7, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/36 "2001-10-07T20:31:16Z")
**wariat** and **TV time** : Both incorrect. A couple of clues: **29**. Maybe I was lucky with this one because I read this book recently as well. It’s by Graham Greene. **32**. The poet was British. ---
**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 8, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/37 "2001-10-08T01:35:11Z")
Number 29. What is “Travels With My Aunt,” Alex? ---
**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 8, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803/38 "2001-10-08T13:52:27Z")
OK, wrapping this up now: 20. **Francesca** had the correct book but the character was _Nicole Diver_ (Tender Is The Night). 1. **pesch** is correct with the book and the character is _Henry Pulling_ (Travels With My Aunt). 2. _Philip Larkin_ said this of _Ted Hughes_. Same time next year. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/literary-quiz-2-the-rest-of-the-questions/85803.md?page=1)