I’m beginning to think that I should have set a shorter deadline… Only five questions remain unanswered (I’ve had a few e-mail submissions, too). Which is not to say, of course, that the other 45 are all correct, but folks have at least taken a stab at them.
Keep those answers coming!
04 Who started his naval career by fighting a fair duel with unloaded pistols?
A: I think this is Horatio Hornblower.
14 What was the name of the swordsmith through whom Domingo Montoya did business?
A: I’m confused here, Chronos. I thought Domingo (father of Inigo) WAS the swordsmith. Would look it up, but I lent somebody my copy of the book and haven’t seen it since.
18 Our next item up for bids, what is Lot 666?
A: A chandelier in pieces.
41 What are Laughs Brightly and Golden Voice called by their closest companions?
A: Laughs Brightly = Nimitz; Golden Voice = Samantha. 
Man, I love those books!
I’ll have to check these when I have time, of course; this is just off the top of my head. Great fun, Chronos!
07)-- Charles Ingalls’ nickname for Laura is Half-Pint of sweet cider half drunk up
The Skylark was driven by copper.
Regards,
Shodan
23 Where does the moon-bird rest in the peppermint wind?
I know some of these, of course the ones that have already been answered. For those I don’t know I am dying to know which works of literature they come from. At least that way I can give myself a good forehead slap.
10 How might the corpse of Pap Finn be recognized?
Yeste would take orders in Madrid and any he couldn’t fill he took to Domingo.
4. Hornblower.
19. Is this watership down? In which case it’d be something like “O embleer Frith” = “stinking [like a fox] God”
32. Is this Tom sawyer? In which case it’s an apple, a kite in good repair, a dead rat and a string to sing it with, twelve marbles, part of a jew’s-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spoon cannon, a key that wouldn’t unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, a kitten with only one eye, a brass door-knob, a dog-collar-but no dog - the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated window-sash. But I’m not sure if that can be right.
35. Is there any clarification to be had here? His early robot stories were before he invented the laws IIRC, but the robots obviously weren’t stated to be without them. There were some later stories with no-law robots, but they weren’t written by him, were they?
35. Doh! Of course, there was Little Lost Robot with a modified (1st?) law. Not quite ‘without regard’ but I bet that’s what he means. Was the robot still around in the sequal?
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant: A Chronos is faithful, 100%. If, in my judgement, any question needs clarification or correcting, I will do so. In my judgement, that hasn’t happened yet.
And no, you don’t get a bonus point for recognizing the reference there :).
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant: A Chronos is faithful, 100%. If, in my judgement, any question needs clarification or correcting, I will do so. In my judgement, that hasn’t happened yet.
And no, you don’t get a bonus point for recognizing the reference there :).
It occurs to me that this thread might have sunk out of sight before the weekday crowd had a chance to see it, so I’ll bump it once.
Sheesh, I’m already bribing you’uns, what more do you want? 
Well, it’s 23:33 as far as I can tell.
Sorry I’m late in replying, here: I forgot that it was the Fourth of July, and I was at a cookout. The winner, with 26.2 points, is Boyo Jim, in an e-mail entry. The runner up, and only other e-mail entry, was cabbit, with 23 points. The official answers are:
01 Grograman (The Neverending Story)
02 Pevensy (Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
03 Visible light and gravity (“Neutron Star”)
04 Horatio Hornblower (Mr. Midshipman Hornblower)
05 Chinese (The Arabian Nights)
06 Rasoom, Cosoom, Jasoom (Master Mind of Mars)
07 Half-pint of sweet cider, half drunk up (Little House on the Prairie
08 The Church of St. Hillaire (“My Madonna”, by Robert W. Service)
09 It flies through the air (Gulliver’s Travels)
10 By the cross nailed into his left boot-heel (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
11 Sethe (Beloved)
12 Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)
13 Elbereth, Morgoth, Oromë
14 Yeste (The Princess Bride)
15 The Lorax (The Lorax)
16 Medium rare (“The Dragon of Grindly Grun”, in A Light in the Attic)
17 Friday, February 3, 2209 (The Rolling Stones)
18 A crystal chandelier (Phantom of the Opera)
19 Silflay hraka (I also accepted Shade’s answer) (Watership Down)
20 Galadriel (Unfinished Tales)
21 Ice (“Fire and Ice”)
22 Richard Coeur-de-Lion (Ivanhoe)
23 The place where the sidewalk ends (“Where the Sidewalk Ends”)
24 Blonde (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
25 Dyrnwyn be regained (The High King)
26 With a knife between the shoulder blades (The Book of Jhereg)
27 La Longue Carabine (Last of the Mohicans)
28 Yossarian’s (Catch-22)
29 With him watching himself have a heart attack (“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”)
30 One slice of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon (The Very Hungry Catepillar)
31 Sodium (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
32 An apple, a kite, a dead rat and string, twelve marbles, part of a Jew’s harp, a piece of blue bottle glass, a spool cannon, a key without a lock, a piece of chalk, a glass stopper, a tin soldier, two tadpoles, six firecrackers, a one-eyed kitten, a doorknob, a dog collar, a knife handle, an orange peel, or an old window sash (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
33 The Murry family (A Swiftly Tilting Planet)
34 Bicycles (The Rolling Stones)
35 “Sally” and “Let’s get together”
36 Cartoonist (Garfield)
37 Xanthos or Scamandros (The Illiad)
38 Golf (The Hobbit)
39 Chingachgook (Last of the Mohicans)
40 By example: Let there be light (“The Last Question”)
41 Nimitz and Samantha (“Changer of Words”)
42 Nell (The Comedy of Errors)
43 The Second Foundation (Foundation)
44 Because they are not eight (King Lear)
45 A priest that lacks Latin, and a rich man that hath not the gout (As You Like It)
46 Tuba (Bloom County)
47 11 (Contact)
48 Lyle the guinea pig (Frazz)
49 Copper (The Skylark of Space)
50 42 (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
Thank you all for playing!
I am so proud! ;j
How do I collect my prize?
I want to explain my answer to #20: “By what name is Artanis better known?”
My (incorrect) answer was “Sinatra”. I recalled an episode of The Dick Van Dyke show where Rob and Laura buy a painting of an artist named “Artanis”, but become convinced there is another more valuable painting underneath, so they destroy the Artanis to get to what they think is a Grant Wood. Anyway, it turns out that the top painting was done by Frank Sinatra. Sinatra is an anagram for Artanis.
Here are the answers I submitted:
01 What is the name of the Many-Colored Death?
Saruman
02 What was the surname of the Kings and Queens of Cair Paravel?
Pevensey
03 What can penetrate a General Products hull?
visible light
04 Who started his naval career by fighting a fair duel with unloaded pistols?
Flashman
05 What nationality was Alladin?
Indian
06 What are the names of the planets interior to Barsoom?
Mercury, Venus and Earth
07 What was Charles Ingals’ pet name for his second daughter?
Half-pint
08 Where may one see a painting of a woman from off the street, so shameless but oh so fair?
???
09 What is the most remarkable property of the Island of Laputa?
Floats in air
10 How might the corpse of Pap Finn be recognized?
cross in the left boot-heel
11 What former slave has a tree on her back?
Sethe
12 Who is credited with inventing the waterbed?
Robert Heinlein
13 Which Valar are mentioned by name in The Lord of the Rings?
• Manwë Súlimo • Varda Elentári • Ulmo • Yavanna Kementári • Aulë the Smith • Nienna • Oromë • Estë the Gentle • Mandos (Námo) • Vairë the Weaver
• Lórien (Irmo) • Vána the Ever-young • Tulkas Astaldo • Nessa
14 What was the name of the swordsmith through whom Domingo Montoya did business?
Domingo Montoya is the swordsmith
15 Who speaks for the trees?
The Lorax
16 How does the Dragon of Grindly Grun like his damsels?
For I like my damsels medium rare,
and they always come out well done.
17 As precisely as possible, when did Pollux and Castor Stone first set foot on Mars?
???
18 Our next item up for bids, what is Lot 666?
Opera House chandelier
19 How might one cuss another out, in Lapin?
???
20 By what name is Artanis better known?
Sinatra
21 What is great for destruction, and would also suffice for the end of the world?
ice
22 By what name was Le Noir Faineant better known?
King Richard the Lionheart
23 Where does the moon-bird rest in the peppermint wind?
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows
soft and white,
And there the sun burns
crimson bright,
24 What color is Petunia Dursley’s hair?
blond
25 Night turn to noon, and rivers burn with frozen fire, ere what?
Ere Dyrnwyn be regained
26 How does one seriously cramp a wizard’s style?
knife in the back
27 By what name was Hawkeye called (incorrectly, he might add) by his enemies?
Natty Bumpo
28 His name is Mudd. In whose tent were his belongings left after his demise?
???
29 How would the Story of Henry Sugar have ended, were it fiction?
Happily ever after
30 What did the catepillar eat on Saturday?
1 piece of chocolate cake
1 ice cream cone
1 pickle
1 slice Swiss cheese
1 sausage
1 cupcake
1 slice of watermelon
31 By what element is the Nautilus powered?
uranium
32 How much does it cost to whitewash a fence?
???
33 Who had dogs named Fortinbras and Ananda?
Meg Murry
34 Everyone knows that the Rolling Stone gathers no moss. What does it accumulate
on its hull instead?
Bicycles
35 Which two of Asimov’s stories feature positronic robots built without regard for the Three Laws? Robot AL-76 Goes Astray, ???
36 What is Jon Arbuckle’s profession?
cartoonist
37 Against whom was Hephestos matched in the Trojan War?
Aphrodite
38 What sport was invented by Bandobras Took?
Golf
39 What is the Lenni-Lenape word for “big serpent”?
Maxa’xâk
40 How is The Last Question to be answered?
INSUFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
41 What are Laughs Brightly and Golden Voice called by their closest companions?
Nimitz and Cloud Dancer
42 Upon whose globular figure, her name and three quarters from hip to hip, may
one find countries?
Nell the kitchen-wench, in The Comedy of Errors
43 What is located at Star’s End?
2nd foundation
44 Why are the Seven Stars no more than seven?
They are named after seven brothers
45 With whom does Time amble?
With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that hath not the gout
46 What instrument did Opus the Penguin play?
bass
47 In what base should pi be expressed, to find an image of a circle drawn in the digits?
???
48 Who or what is Edwin Frazier’s muse?
???
49 What element did the Skylark use for fuel?
X
50 If the only surviving output from the most powerful computer ever built is to be trusted, what do you get when you multiply six by nine?
42
On it’s way now. Sorry 'bout that, I was too zonked out last night to trust myself using a credit card.
And I’m aware that Artanis is also Sinatra spelled backwards, and it’s also the name of a video-game character, but neither of those is exactly literary.
BTW, Chronos, Thanks very much for reminding me of some old friends I’ll be revisiting this summer; Asimov and Heinlein first among them.
Chronos, my award has arrived.
Thank you very kindly! If you come through my neck of the woods, I’d be delighted to buy you dinner some evening.
I’ve purchased a copy of The Big Lebowski on DVD.