Auntie's Quiz O' the Week

[Joreads]

2, 7, 4 11 and 12 this time. I love this thread.

[papayahed]

doh! 1,5,9 this time. I don't seem to be doing any better.

[Virgil]

Alright Auntie, another quiz!!

Thank God you had extra in this one, because I needed the last two to get a good score. I got seven: 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12. I should have known festivus but it just wouldn't come to me.

[Virgil]

doh! 1,5,9 this time. I don't seem to be doing any better.

You didn't get a partridge in a pear tree? How many times have you heard that one?

[papayahed]

You didn't get a partridge in a pear tree? How many times have you heard that one?

oh yeah, I got that one too.

[PabloQ]

Got 1.2.5.7.8.12 Did a mental coin flip on 9 and lost. Fell into the same traps as DickZ for 3 and 4.
Do love this thread though.

[DickZ]

Pinch Hitting for Quizzzmistress - 26 December 2008

Trying to compose a quizzz in Aunt Shecky’s place (because she’s busy celebrating the holidays) gives one a clearer understanding of just how hard Auntie works in coming up with her gems. Here’s my sad excuse of a substitute quiz, but before you write it off as a pathetic failure, try to make up one yourself. It’s not so easy.

In fact, I think everybody should try to put together at least one quiz in which all the questions have a common link, since that’s a restriction that Auntie always imposes upon herself. You certainly don’t have to post your quiz because it might be as bad as mine, but I think it would do us all a world of good just to go through the exercise of making one – or at least trying to.

Anyway, here goes:

1. The doctor in A Tale of Two Cities had a last name which matched the first name of the head cheerleader in my high school. What is that shared name?

2. The main lady in The Scarlett Letter had a first name that was identical to the last name of a college classmate of mine. What is that shared name?

3. Jonathan Harker’s fiancée in Dracula had a nickname as that was the same as the first name of one of my students back when I taught Sunday School during my college days. What is that shared name?

4. Jonathan Harker’s fiancée in Dracula had a girlfriend whose first name was the same as that of an early television comedy character, as well as one of my aunts, yielding what is sometimes called the triple concertina of coincidence. What is that shared name?

5. One of the powerful Greek warriors in The Iliad had the same first name as the cleanser in my kitchen. What is that shared name?

6. The main character of Robinson Crusoe found himself a trusty helper who had a first name that matched the last name of a Lost Angeles police sergeant who always caught bad guys on radio and television. What is that shared name?

7. The chief mate on the whaling ship Pequod in the great classic Moby Dick had a last name that matched the name of a coffeehouse near my apartment. What is that shared name?

8. The lady who told all those stories in the Book of One Thousand and One Nights (also called Arabian Nights) had a name that was identical to the lady about whom the great Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a symphonic suite, and on top of all that, she had a name that matches the name of one of our esteemed moderators, thereby yielding another triple concertina of coincidence. What is that shared name?

9. The young boy who goes off to all those adventures on Treasure Island has the same first name as the Lord about whom Joseph Conrad wrote in an entirely separate piece of fiction that had no connection with Treasure Island. What is that shared name?

10. In the great American classic Huckleberry Finn, Huck goes down the Mississippi River on a vehicle that matches the last name of an American movie star whose first name was George and who frequently played the role of a tough gangster. What is that shared name?


Answers:
1. Manette
2. Hester
3. Mina
4. Lucy
5. Ajax
6. Friday
7. Starbuck
8. Scheherezade
9. Jim
10. Raft

[Virgil]

Great try in pitch hitting Dick. I definitely enjoyed it. But I don't think yours was as difficult as Auntie's typically are. I got seven right: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

I hope someday Auntie will let me take a swing at the plate.

[papayahed]

I got three - 2,5,8.

[Virgil]

Yay, Auntie's given me permission to also pinch hit for her. Now I know this comes on the hells of Dick's quiz. So if you haven't taken Dick's pinch hit quiz up in post #67 do so, but here is another for you to try. You get two back to back within the same week.

The subject of my quiz is blood. Yes I've had a bloody week; you might even consider it a bloody year. Read about it if you're so interested in my blog here: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=7049.

So the quiz will center on the nature of blood, mostly in literature. Here you go:

1. What Shakespeare character did not think that “all of Neptune’s ocean” could wash his bloody hands clean?

2. In what state of the United States was Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood set?

3. Which English author came up with the concept of blood consciousness, where certain knowledge is inherent to the blood, the author who happens to be on which I wrote my Master’s thesis?

4. In what William Faulkner novel is the character Joe Christmas castrated and as his blood drains from his body feels his life ebb out of his body?

5. Bela Lugosi is the actor best known for playing Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the greatest of the blood sucking vampires, in the movies; from what country was Lugosi from?

6. Who was the author of a short story where the narrator kills an old man, chops up his body, hides the pieces under the floor boards, and then realizes he hears the dead man’s beating heart?

7. Ann Rice created a series of vampire novels, the first made into a movie with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt; what was the name of that movie?

8. Which two great characters were blood brothers, a ritual of sharing blood from a wound, made famous by the American author Mark Twain?

9. Based on Christ’s last supper, the notion that bread and wine at a Roman Catholic (and some other denominations as well) mass is converted to the body and blood of Christ is call what?

10. In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus sacrifices the male and female version of which animal and uses the blood to attract the dead spirits in the underworld?



I have to echo Dick's words here. This does take a bit of time to put together. Now I really appreciate all the work Aunt Shecky does here. Thank you for let me put this out Auntie and thank you for all the work you do in putting these quizes out.









1. MacBeth (Act II, scene ii)
2. Kansas
3. DH Lawrence
4. Light In August
5. Hungary/Romania chose either
6. Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
7. Interview With A Vampire
8. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
9. Transubstantiation
10. Sheep

[Dark Muse]

Blah I got 5: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7

[Virgil]

Blah I got 5

You didn't get who I did my master's thesis on? I would have thought you would have gotten that one.

[Joreads]

Wow Virgil that was something else I got 6 this time 1,2,4,5,7,6

[DickZ]

Thanks, Virgil, for putting out your quiz.

I got 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8.

I have to get around to reading some of Faulkner's works, as I never have, and lots of people really like him. Then maybe I'll be able to answer #4. But by then someone will say my answer comes too late.

Have a Happy New Year, Virgil, and everybody else for that matter. I won't be back on the internet until 2009.

Does your t-shirt that you're wearing in your blog say BOSTON? Are you a Red Sox fan, too?

[Dark Muse]

You didn't get who I did my master's thesis on? I would have thought you would have gotten that one.

Yes I did, that was # 3 which I said I got.

Sorry if you misunderstood me. I said I got 5 questions right, and the ones I got right were

1, 3, 5, 6, 7