Literature Quiz!

BossArky

Answer the previous question, then post your own question.

Q: What was Joseph Conrad's native language?

tSubh Dearg

A: Polish

Q: The "mad wife" in Jane Eyre has her own book about her life, what is its title?

Valmont

aahh, I knew the first one:p

BossArky

tSubh Dearg wrote:

A: Polish

Q: The "mad wife" in Jane Eyre has her own book about her life, what is its title?

Wide Sargasso Sea?

Q: What was the name of Charlies grandpa (edit - yes grandpa, not uncle) who accompanies him on the tour of the chocolate factory in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?

HemmingSay

A: Joe

Q: In Beowulf, who loses an arm to the hero?

edit: and isn't he his grandpa?

BossArky

A: Grendel

B: What island is William Golding's "Pincher Martin" set upon (but not mentioned in the book)?

tSubh Dearg

A: Rockall

Q: Jorges Luis Borges wrote a short story about a famous novel being rewritten by another author, but the rewrite was identical word for word. What was the novel that was rewritten?

sceptre

Don Quixote?

Pitseleh

A. Don Quixote

Edit: Removed my question, I wasn't the first to answer.

tSubh Dearg

sceptre wrote:

Don Quixote?

Correct! Now it's your turn to ask a Q

sceptre

What's the name of the bishop that helps out Valjean in Les Miserables?

BossArky

A: Bishop Myriel of Digne

Q: What is the main event towards the end of SlaughterHouse 5?

tSubh Dearg

A: The fire bombing of Dresden.

Q: Kate Bush is to Emily Bronte as Velvet Underground is to who?

dudara

A: Leopold Sacher-Masoch

Q: In Jack London's The Call of the Wild, what is the name of the dog?

HemmingSay

A: Buck

Q: What's the name of the old man in "The Old Man and the Sea"

BossArky

A: Santiago

Q: Whom does the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls fall in love with?

Deer

Maria

What is the name of the man who betray's Dolores Price at an early age in She's come undone by Wally Lamb? (Not her father)

Hippo

A: Jack Speight

Q: Who was the central bad guy in Jake Arnott's The Long Firm?

Hippo

Didn't think it was that hard.... I'll settle for the name of the money lender in the Old Curiosity Shop instead.

sceptre

Harry Starks for the first, Quilp for the second.

What's the name of the ostensibly deaf servant in "Five Go To Smuggler's Top"?

Sorry but someone's got to insert the odd retro childish red herring and it might as well be me

BossArky

A: Block (Anne dropped a plate behind him to check his deafness, he didn't flinch)

Q: What is the worlds third language in "The Man in the High Castle"?

Mrs. MacGyver

Japanese?

BossArky

Mrs. MacGyver wrote:

Japanese?

Nope.

Hint, a character is on a flight from Germany to the east of the USA when he hears the standard in flight announcements by the pilot, etc. There are 3 major languages in this world.... one is nose-diving in popularity though after losing the second world war(in this book of fiction).

tSubh Dearg

BossArky wrote:

Q: What is the worlds third language in "The Man in the High Castle"?

A: English?

Q: (if I'm right) What is "what tiggers like best" to eat?

BossArky

tSubh Dearg wrote:

A: English?

Q: (if I'm right) What is "what tiggers like best" to eat?

Yep.

Chinafoot

tSubh Dearg wrote:

Q: (if I'm right) What is "what tiggers like best" to eat?

Kanga's extract of malt?

tSubh Dearg

Correct!

Chinafoot

w00t

Ok

Q: In 'Emma' by Jane Austen, what was the name of Emma's governess? (Bonus points for both maiden and married names)

tSubh Dearg

A: Miss Taylor, who became Mrs Weston

Q: Who is the narrator in Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited"?

Chinafoot

A: Charles Ryder

Q: What narrative technique is used in 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens?

Deer

Dual narrative?

Chinafoot

Yup.

Your question.

Deer

In Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell what is Somni's last request?

BossArky

A: to watch an old half-viewed film of "The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", to see what happened

Q: What is the name of the girl who lives with the old woman Pip goes to play with towards the beginning of Great Expectations?

Faerie

It's been a while since I read it, but I think it's Estella?

BossArky

yes. your turn.

Faerie

Ok this is probably an easy question but I can't think of one!

Who is the character of Bram Stoker's Dracula loosely based on?

BossArky

Vlad the Impaler?

Faerie

yup!

BossArky

Q: What did Anne from the famous five always say when they were having a picnic outdoors? I'm not looking for an exact quote, just the general gist of what she was on about.

tHE vAGGABOND

oh, crap,, tip of my....

Must....not...google...

HemmingSay

is it the thing about "lashings of ginger beer"?

tSubh Dearg

BossArky wrote:

Q: What did Anne from the famous five always say when they were having a picnic outdoors? I'm not looking for an exact quote, just the general gist of what she was on about.

Is it something like "Shall I be mother?" I have a sneaking suspicion she said that on at least one occasion.

BossArky

hahah... the memories... but none of those

come on think picnic

rain on

something to do with wasps?

BossArky

no.... think food

Faerie

I was the biggest famous five fan so I think I know this!

Didn't she always say food tastes so much nicer outside?

BossArky

Yes!

Your turn.

Faerie

A famous crime writer also writes under the pseudynom Barbara Vine....name the writer.

Chinafoot

Ruth Rendell

(My mam is a crime story fanatic )


Q: J.R.R. Tolkien produced a 1962 academic publication on which 13th century Middle English text?

Deer

That would be Ruth Rendell!