Literary Answers and Questions Game

[Scheherazade]

OK, here is a game quite similar to the Answer and Questions game we have been playing... but this time we will give answers and questions related to English and Literature (thought it might be suitable since we are on a Literature Forum! :D).

A: 26
Q: How many letters are there in English language?

A: A geisha.
Q: About whose memories did Arthur Golden write about? (Memoirs of a Geisha)

Please remember that we are here to play a game and avoid from asking questions which are too obscure or irrelevant to the subject (Questions which are not related will be deleted) as we have other games for this purpose.

Thank you and happy gaming! :)


Here is the first answer:

Winesburg.

[Basil]

What fictional town provides both the setting and the title for Sherwood Anderson's 1919 collection of stories, Winesburg, Ohio?

Thrushcross Grange

[Scheherazade]

What is the name of the Linton family residence in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte?

101.

[Basil]

The worst thing in the world is in what room number (in 1984)?

1922

[Scheherazade]

In which was year Joyce's Ulysses published in book form?

Mending.

[Basil]

What word precedes wall in the title of Robert Frost's poem, Mending Wall?

Orr

[Scheherazade]

What is the name of Yossarian's room mate in Catch-22?

Calpurnia.

[Basil]

"She was all angles and bones"--What is the name of the Finch's cook (and surrogate mother to Scout and Jem) in To Kill A Mockingbird?

Phlebas

[Scheherazade]

What is the name of the man who is described in The Waste Land Section IV: "Death by Water" by T.S. Eliot?

Tara.

[Basil]

What is:

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~linds4d/tara.jpg

Basil Ransom

[Scheherazade]

What is the name of the main character in Henry James' The Bostanians?

Ham.

[Basil]

What is Scout dressed up as when she is attacked by Mr. Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird??

the sea

[Scheherazade]

What is mentioned, along with the old man, in the title of Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea?

'Tom!'

[mono]

What line begins The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

"The Monk's Tale."

[Scheherazade]

In which one of the Canterbury Tales does Lucifer appear?

Ending.

[Basil]

What part of the poem seemed to give Samuel Taylor Coleridge the most trouble?

Lucy

[Jay]

What was the name of one of the snacks in Dracula?

Henri

[Scheherazade]

What is the name of the artist in CanneryRow by Steinbeck?

Green.

[mono]

What color did Ernest Hemingway call Africa's hills?

"All hope abandon, ye who enter in!" :brow:

[Jay]

What words of encouragement can you find in The Divine Comedy?

"...
Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!"

[Scheherazade]

How does Satan get demons' attention in Paradise Lost?

'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'

[mono]

What advice did Morocco take in The Merchant of Venice?

On the Merrimack River.

[Jay]

What was the first Henry David Thoreau's book about? (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - have to admit I googled for it)

I don’t even like old cars ... I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.

[Basil]

What could be described as a "Holdenism" from Catcher in the Rye? (NG*)

Spring


*NG=Not Googled! :D :D

[Nightshade]

In which season are Keats odes o 1819 (?) collected under?

"Motivless malignat"

[Scheherazade]

How is Iago often described?

17 Cherry Tree Lane.

[Basil]

Where does the Banks family reside/Where does Mary Poppins work? (G*)

mirror


(*G=Googled *sigh*)

[Scheherazade]

What helps Lady of Shalott see the images of the world?

"HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME"

[Basil]

What pub-closing call does T. S. Eliot invoke towards the end of the "Game of Chess" section of "The Waste Land"? (NG)

Christmas

[mono]

What time of year did Ebenezer Scrooge proceed from detesting to loving?

"Out damn spot!"

[Scheherazade]

What was Lady Macbeth's cry as she tried to clean her hands?

Estella.

[mono]

Who did the twisting of names of Pirrip and Philip (Pip) love, and continue to love, despite her absence?

For you, Scher: ;)
"[She] said she would buy the flowers herself."

[Jay]

*falls off the chair laughing my butt off* :D:D:D

*edit* calmer now, I can almost hear Scher groaning :D :p

*keeps giggling*

[Scheherazade]

For you, Scher:
"[She] said she would buy the flowers herself."Why, thank you, Mono! How very thoughtful of you to remember me... and Mrs D!

Here it goes: Why did Clarissa (Mrs Dalloway) leave her house in the morning of the day (it was on a Wednesday if my memory serves me right) which the novel Mrs Dalloway takes place?
*falls off the chair laughing my butt off*

*edit* calmer now, I can almost hear Scher groaning

*keeps giggling**bops Jay most gracefully* Glad to know my misery entertains you! http://www.redhotsweeps.com/forum/images/smilies/flaming.gif

And without further ado, here is my question-answer:


Santiago.

[mono]

Who portrayed the 'old man,' and battled a giant fish, in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea?

Tiresias.

[Scheherazade]

What is the name of the blind soothsayer in Oedipus plays?

Daddy-Long-Legs.

[Jay]

Whom did Jerusha Abbott write letters to?

Picture.

[Miss Darcy]

What is the word to fill in the space in "The _______ of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde?

Edward Ferrars.

[mono]

Who married Elinor Dashwood in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility?

Boo.

[Scheherazade]

What is the nickname given to Arthur Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird?

Manderly.

[mono]

Where did the main character dream she went in Daphne due Maurier's Rebecca?

Paris and London.

[Nightshade]

What are the 2 cities of the Tale?

A small red flower.

[Scheherazade]

Which flower was left with a note when the aristocrats were rescued in The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy?

Midnight.

[mono]

When did Edgar Allan Poe, dreary, while pondering, weak and weary, spot the raven?

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born . . ."

[Nightshade]

Whats the opening line to David Copperfield?

Mostly Harmless

[mono]

Whats the opening line to David Copperfield?
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye, but no worries. ;)

Mostly Harmless
What did Douglas Adams call the galaxy for its hitchhikers?

Seven stages.

[Scheherazade]

According to Jaques(As You Like It by Shakespeare), how many stages are there in human life?

221B Baker Street.

[Miss Darcy]

Where did Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick Watson live?

"Erik is dead."

[mono]

And then it came to me . . .
What did newspapers report in the conclusion of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom Of The Opera?

"Because I could not stop for Death . . ."

[Taliesin]

What is a well-known Dickinson poem about Death and Immortality?


Oop

[Miss Darcy]

What was the name of the Neanderthal rescued by Time in Clifford D. Simak's novel The Goblin Reservation?

Charlotte Collins.

[shortysweetp]

Who is Elizabeth Bennet's friend who marries her cousin in Pride and Prejudice?

Emma Woodhouse.

[Miss Darcy]

What is the name of the heroine of Jane Austen's book Emma?

"All the pictures fairest lined
Are but black to Rosalind."

[mono]

What did Rosalind (I think) read on a carried note in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies."

[AimusSage]

What is the beginning of ''The Gift of the Magi'?


The Raven

[Basil]

After first thinking of the parrot, what bird did Poe decide to make the focus of a poem?

Fire

[Scheherazade]

What destroyed Manderley in Rebecca?

Bananas.

[Basil]

What is the name of a movie written, directed, and starred in by Woody Allen?

Bed

[Scheherazade]

Where does the flea find Donne in 'The Flea'?

A reporter.

[Jay]

What's Clark Kent's occupation when he's not saving the day/world?

Africa.

[mono]

Where did Ernest Hemingway's The Snows Of Kilimanjaro take place?
(hmmm, I really had to think about this one, as silly as it sounds)

Fourteen lines.

[Loki]

How long is the Shakespearean (or any other) sonnet?

"To see the world in a grain of sand..."

[mono]

What line begins a famous poem by William Blake?

In the town of --shire.

(strange answer, I know, but one has many novels to choose from) :lol:

[Scheherazade]

Where is the Lowood School in Jane Eyre?

From Mars.

[mono]

From what mythical god of war did much trouble erupt between Phoebus, Venus, and Vulcan in Ovid's Metamorphoses?

A diary.

[Scheherazade]

What/Who is Kitty in Anne Frank's Diary?

From Mars.

[NNoah3]

Where the men come from? According to John Gray's novel.

"Last Night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."

[Jay]

What is the first sentence of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier?

ocean

[Adelheid]

With what word can you substitute sea for?

route

[avid_reader]

what is another word for path/road ?
Grenvile

[Scheherazade]

What is Richard's surname in The King's General by du Maurier?

'Church Without Christ'.

[mono]

What does a religious young man attempt establishing in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood?

Nineteen lines (and much difficulty in writing!).

(hint: think of poetry) :brow:

[Scheherazade]

How many lines does a villanelle have?

Cal.

[Themis]

Which book by Bernhard Laverty was published in 1983?

An Ideal Husband.

[mono]

What did Oscar Wilde title one of his lesser-known plays?

The Black Sheep.

[Scheherazade]

What is the title of Balzac's book in which brothers Philippe and Joseph Bridau appear?

Marthas.

[Scheherazade]

~ ~ ~ b u m p ~ ~ ~

[Nightshade]

whats Bump mean??????

:confused:

[Jay]

LOL :D

Night, a bump is something you do to forgotten threads when you want to resurrect them :D

[Nightshade]

ahh and here I was thinking she was talking about things that go bump in the night!
(although not this night other type:lol:)

[Pendragon]

Here in SW Virgina "bump" is the only known sound a 'possum makes---when a car hits it! :lol: Sorry, Sher, I have no idea on your book title... :confused:

[Scheherazade]

Marthas.What are the women doing the menial work in the houses called in The Handmaid's Tale?

Baptista.

[Basil]

Who is father to Bianca and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew?


London.

[Jay]

In what town is Mrs Dalloway set? :p

Napoleon

[Miss Darcy]

Who led a war against Russia in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace?

"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!"

[Basil]

What are the first two lines from Hamlet's first soliloquy in Hamlet?

grave

[Miss Darcy]

What do the 1st and 2nd clowns dig for Ophelia in Act Five of the same play?

Bruno Rontini

[FallenMegami]

Who was the spiritual bookseller teacher of Sebastian Barnack?
§ § § § § § § § § § § §
By the green star marked on the door

[Scheherazade]

Since no one seems to know the answer to this question and FallenMegami hasn't come back, I will restart the game.

The new answer/question:

Daisy.

[Pendragon]

Who was the American girl heroine of Daisy Miller by Henry James?

St. Bart's Hospital

[Pendragon]

As I was asked to do, I will answer my own question. All things considered, I really cannot believe no one knew. My answer was: St, Bart's Hospital. The question is: Where did Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson meet? http://www.smileyville.net/mellow/mf_sherlock.gif

A new, and hopefully simpler, answer.

The statue of a bird. :nod:

[Scheherazade]

[

The statue of a bird.Since no one guessed the answer/question to this, I will jump-start the game again (Pen, please do tell us the answer when you have time!)

Green.

[Eva Marina]

What gable was L.M. Montgomery's Anne Shirley of?

Wicked

Edit: Oops! I forgot the next clue!

[Scheherazade]

What gable was L.M. Montgomery's Anne Shirley of?

Wicked

Edit: Oops! I forgot the next clue!How is the Witch of the East is described in 'Wizard of Oz'?

Next clue:

Shirley.

[Basil]

What is the title of Charlotte Brontë's second novel?

Paris

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Which novel was Charlotte Bronte's follow-up to Jane Eyre?

Next clue:

Ivan, Dmitry & Alyosha.

[Scheherazade]

Who was asked to choose the 'fairest' Goddess by Zeus?

*edit*
Ivan, Dmitry & AlyoshaWhat are the names of Brothers Karamazofs?

Next Clue:

Okie.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Ooops - beaten to it - I'll answer that one as well then.

Name one of the 2 cities in A tale of 2 cities?

My clue remains - Ivan, Dmitry & Alyosha

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Will you all stop posting questions while I'm answering - I'm beginning to feel a conspiracy theory coming on!

What is the derogatory term used to describe the dust-bowl refugees in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?

NOW please question my answer before I get too paranoid

Ivan, Dmitry & Alyosha

[Scheherazade]

This has been fun! :D


Ivan, Dmitry & AlyoshaWho are the Brothes Karamazov?

Will.

[RobinHood3000]

What was the first name of Robin Hood's nephew? :D

Prey.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Knowing Robin, this has to be something to do with Michael Crichton!

In Jurassic park, human beings are what, to a velociraptor?


And continuing in the Crichton theme - clue:


Don't sell it!

[Pendragon]

As I was asked to do, I will answer my own question. All things considered, I really cannot believe no one knew. My answer was: St, Bart's Hospital. The question is: Where did Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson meet? http://www.smileyville.net/mellow/mf_sherlock.gif

A new, and hopefully simpler, answer.

The statue of a bird. :nod: Goodness. The question as requested, Scher. What was The Maltese Falcon. :rolleyes:

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Knowing Robin, this has to be something to do with Michael Crichton!

In Jurassic park, human beings are what, to a velociraptor?


And continuing in the Crichton theme - clue:


Don't sell it!

I shall give a clue - it's to do with Michael Crichton's "Rising Sun".

[Scheherazade]

Knowing Robin, this has to be something to do with Michael Crichton!

In Jurassic park, human beings are what, to a velociraptor?


And continuing in the Crichton theme - clue:


Don't sell it!How do you complete Akiro Morita's advice (as it appears in Crichton's Rising Sun): 'If you don't want Japan to buy it,...!'?


Next answer:

27A Wimpole Street.

[RobinHood3000]

Where is heaven on earth for the amateur linguistics student?

221B Baker Street

[Scheherazade]

22B Baker StreetWhere did my namesake sleuth extraordinaire use to live?

A castle.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

For what does Don Quixote mistake the tavern that he and Sancho Panza stay in?


William of Baskerville

[Pendragon]

22B Baker Street


Where did my namesake sleuth extraordinaire use to live?

A castle.
Tsk. Tsk. That's 221B Baker Street, Mes Amis. ;) Take it from a fanatical collector... :nod:

[Pendragon]

For what does Don Quixote mistake the tavern that he and Sancho Panza stay in?


William of BaskervilleWho was the man with the blue coat with the roll of paper in the portrait gallery at Baskerville Hall, who was Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons under Pitt?

The Rachel

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Who was the man with the blue coat with the roll of paper in the portrait gallery at Baskerville Hall, who was Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons under Pitt?


I was referring to a different W of B but you know your Conan Doyle better than me, so the answer stands. Mine was the detective monk in Umberto Eco's The name of the rose.

[Pendragon]

I was referring to a different W of B but you know your Conan Doyle better than me, so the answer stands. Mine was the detective monk in Umberto Eco's The name of the rose.Thank you. I've never read Umberto Eco, but Chapter 13 of The Hound of the Baskervilles has the portrait gallery mentioned, and William Baskerville was there!

The question is still: The Rachel

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Name the ship that brings news of the white whale to the Pequod, but to which Ahab refuses help to search for their lost whaleboat.



Next clue: Charles Highway.

[Scheherazade]

Who is the narrator of The Rachel Papers by Kingsley Amis?

Next clue: green.

[RobinHood3000]

What is the color of the uniform of the superhero starring in Kevin Smith's Quiver?

Garfield Logan

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Who is the narrator of The Rachel Papers by Kingsley Amis?

Kingsley!!! It's Martin Amis. His dad would never have written such glorious filth!


What is the real name of DC comic's Beast Boy?


Next Clue: Moonglum

[Scheherazade]

Kingsley!!! It's Martin Amis. His dad would never have written such glorious filth!Oh yes! I am sorry!

*hangs head in shame for her unforgivable mistake*

*waits for the dead sentence to pass*

The firing squad, please, if possible! As I am little scared of heights, hanging won't agree with me!


XC's answer is still waiting for its question: Moonglum

[Scheherazade]

Name Elric of Melnibone's friend in Michael Moorcock's fantasy books? (Amazoned)

Next Answer:

Apples

[Scheherazade]

ApplesWell, how do you like them apples? No idea what I was thinking of when I asked this but still... Any takers? :p

[Pendragon]

What fruits were William Tell required to use for targets on the head of his son?

Next answer: Willam Tell, Tyrel, and Orion

[Panurge]

Characters created by Louis L'Amour.

Answer: Herbert Quain

[Pendragon]

Characters created by Louis L'Amour.

BRAVO!BRAVO! http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/appl.gif Specifically, The Sackett Brothers



Let's not forget Panurge's answer, now:



Answer: Herbert Quain

[Pendragon]

Author of The God of the Labyrinth


Cuthulhu

[Scheherazade]

The title of famous story by HP Lovecraft: The Call of...?

St Ogg's.

[Virgil]

Oh, cool. I didn't know this game existed. It's like jeapardy.

St Ogg's - Town in The Mill on the Floss


Benjy

[Scheherazade]

What is the name of the youngest of the Compson children in Sound and Fury by Faulkner?


Turkish delight.

[chmpman]

Ah crap, I was too slow.

[RobinHood3000]

Edmund's terrible temptation in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Starbuck.

[Virgil]

Who is the first mate on The Pequod in Melville's Moby Dick?


Posthumus Leonatus

[Scheherazade]

Who is Imogen's husband in Shakespeare's Cymbeline?

Fiver.

[ShoutGrace]

What is the name of the rabbit whose vision prompts the exodus of both himself and a number of others in the novel "Watership Down"?


Admiral Benbow

[Scheherazade]

Admiral BenbowWhat is the name of the inn Jim's parents own in Treasure Island?

Peggotty.

[Pendragon]

What was the name of David Copperfield's nurse? (Lord, I hated that book!)

Three Mile Point

[Pendragon]

What was the name of David Copperfield's nurse? (Lord, I hated that book!)

Three Mile PointOK. That was the first point above New Orleans in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi.

Let's try this:


Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

CHORUS

Punch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

[Pendragon]

OK. That was the first point above New Orleans in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi.

Let's try this:


Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

CHORUS

Punch, brothers! punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!


Doesn't anyone besides me read Twain? That was from his short story "Punch, Brothers! Punch!" You can also find the lines in Robert McCloskey's Centerburg Tales about Homer Price. It is in the story where the rhyme is:

"In a whole doughnut is a nice whole hole.
When you take a big bite, hold the whole hole tight.
If a little bit bitten, or a great bit bitten,
Any whole hole with a hole bitten in it,
Is a holy whole hole--
And it just plain isn't!"

I give up. No one more.


I sat on their clothes-- to keep them from being stolen...

[Basil]

REVIVED

New Answer:

Christmas

[zanna]

Q: When does Lion in Winter take place?

Next answer: Clarence, right hand man to The Boss.

*Pen, did you get it?*

[Pendragon]

Q: When does Lion in Winter take place?

Next answer: Clarence, right hand man to The Boss.

*Pen, did you get it?*Who writes the final chapter of the old book in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

"little grey cells"


BTW:
I sat on their clothes-- to keep them from being stolen... was Twain's excuse in Roughing It for watching the native girls swim in the nude. :blush:

[Scheherazade]

I am not sure if this was meant to be your question, Pen, but in the hope of preventing yet another untimely demise, I will assume so! ;)
"little grey cells" What does Agatha Christie's famous sleuth Hercule Poirot encourage his friend Captain Hastings to use to solve mysteries?

Next answer:

A seagull.

[Jay]

Who/what is Jonathan Livingstone?

Clarissa Dalloway :D

[Shalot]

Who said that she would buy the flowers herself?

Answer: Red Badge of Shame

[Scheherazade]

Answer: Red Badge of ShameWhat is the scarlet letter in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Next answer:

Ham.

[RobinHood3000]

What seems to be markedly less palatable when green?

An axe, stolen from the porter's quarters.

[Jean-Baptiste]

What did Raskolnikov choose as his weapon of choice?

Knight of Resignation.

[Pendragon]

What,in Fear and Trembling, does Kierkegaard make the opposite of the Knight of Faith?

A pea-green boat (yes, this is the question, Scher! http://smilies.vidahost.com/otn/ez/ezpi_wink1.gif)

[Jean-Baptiste]

In what sort of vessel did the Owl and the Pussy-cat go to sea?

"He that thou knowest thine"

[Pendragon]

How Hamlet did sign his letter to Horatio?

The pause in the day's occupation when the light is beginning to lower

[Scheherazade]

The pause in the day's occupation when the light is beginning to lowerWhen is the 'children's hour' according to HW Longfellow?

Next answer:

Susan.

[RobinHood3000]

Which of the four children in C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe got the best gift and became an archer? :D (slight bias...)

Wade, and the Ku Klux Klan

[downing]

Two things which Scarlett couldn't stand?


''I cannot live without my soul!''

[Laindessiel]

What seems to be an invisible and non-existant sentence for Dorian Gray?

"Like the drink, sir. Only not spelled the same."

[Jean-Baptiste]

What's that thing that Steven King's character John Coffey in The Green Mile says about his name? (I confess; I had to search for the answer.)

"Damn it all! all this our South stinks peace."

[Scheherazade]

"Damn it all! all this our South stinks peace."What is the opening line of Ezra Pound's 'Sestina: Alaforte'?

Orhan Pamuk.

[Virgil]

Orhan Pamuk.

Who won the Nobel prize in literature n 2006?


"Peace, peace!
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
That sucks the nurse asleep?"

[Pendragon]

What at the dying words of Cleopatra in Shakespeare's play?


Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acid stains you
Drugs cause cramp
Gas smells awful
Nooses give
Guns aren't lawful
You might as well live

[Laindessiel]

What's the verse pertaining to DevianArt? (Did I get that correctly? I'm not so sure.)

Nazgul.

[Jean-Baptiste]

What are "Neither living, nor dead" former kings known as, in Lord of the Rings?

"Who is it? Who is it?"
"Its Jimmie Rogers. Jimmie Rogers."

[Pendragon]

Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acid stains you
Drugs cause cramp
Gas smells awful
Nooses give
Guns aren't lawful
You might as well live

What's the verse pertaining to DevianArt? (Did I get that correctly? I'm not so sure.)

Actually, it's a famous poem by Hollywood critic and columist Dorothy Parker. :) She was well-known for a tart tongue! Heaven help the book, play, or movie person whom she criticized and didn't like! :lol: Check here http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dorothy_Parker and you'll see what I mean... ;)

[Pendragon]

What are "Neither living, nor dead" former kings known as, in Lord of the Rings?

"Who is it? Who is it?"
"Its Jimmie Rogers. Jimmie Rogers."Who is one of the soldiers shot in Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage? (Possibly one of the world's most boring books!)



The toe of a Persian slipper

[Scheherazade]

Since there are no takers for Pen's question, I will post another one:

Mrs Pearce.

[RobinHood3000]

'oo was 'enry 'iggins's 'ousekeepah?

Raymond and Marie

[Pendragon]

Since there are no takers for Pen's question, I will post another one:

Mrs Pearce.
Remind me not to post on this thread any more, someone. http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/edoom/sad2.gif


The toe of a Persian slipper

Where does Sherlock Holmes keep his pipe tobbacco? That should have been a given. I'm shocked, Scherlock! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/e010.gif And his cigars are in the coal scuttle! Sheesh! http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/edoom/sad2.gif

[Jean-Baptiste]

'oo was 'enry 'iggins's 'ousekeepah?

Raymond and Marie

Who are Meursault's two companions refered to as "the prisoner's mistress" and the man "of more than dubious reputation," in Camus's The Stranger?

"In the Johannesburg mines
There are 240,000 natives working."


Remind me not to post on this thread any more, someone.
I'll do no such thing! :)

[Jean-Baptiste]

Boy! Did I kill this game? I'm sorry. That's from a great non-poem by Langston Hughes entitled "Johannesburg Mines."

How about this one?

"beside the white
chickens."

[Pendragon]

Came from this poem, I think, no?

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

William Carlos Williams


he could balance an eel on the end of his nose!

[Whifflingpin]

What was Father William's party trick?

gleaming in purple and gold.

[Pendragon]

The colors of the Assyrians’ banners as they came down came down "like a wolf on the fold"? :nod:


"Once there was an elephant, who tried to use the telephant..." :)

[Whifflingpin]

Who got his trunk entangled in a telephunk?

wanwood leafmeal.

[Pendragon]

Where do worlds lie where you will weep and know not why? Great poem by the way, Wiff.


"An’ one time a little girl ‘ud allus laugh an’ grin,"

[Pendragon]

Where do worlds lie where you will weep and know not why? Great poem by the way, Wiff.


"An’ one time a little girl ‘ud allus laugh an’ grin,"
So, did I lock it up again? Tsk! Well, before I throw in the towel, let's try these lines from the same poem, OK?

"An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
Ef you
Don’t
Watch
Out!"

[Jean-Baptiste]

Oh that poor Little Orphant Annie...


I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance
in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year
old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether
stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it
will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.

[Pendragon]

A Swift, and Modest Preposal, to be sure...


"Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs"

[Jean-Baptiste]

What would Ogden Nash call a kitten and a mouse, and what would they do?

"Where I lived, and What I Lived For"

[Pendragon]

What did Thoreau call Walden? The nutcake!


"Some are bojums!"

[Pendragon]

What did Thoreau call Walden? The nutcake!


"Some are bojums!"OK. Sorry about that. The answer would be: What is a SNARK? From Lewis Caroll's The Hunting of the Snark

Now for another question:

There are strange things done 'neath the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold.
The arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold.
The northern lights have seen queer sights
But the queerest they ever did see,
Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge
When I cremated Sam McGee.


The question is: Where was Sam McGee from?

[Whifflingpin]

Tenessee, if I remember rightly. Perhaps you can tell me the meaning of "dog-dirty and loaded for bear" in another lively poem by the same author?

[Pendragon]

Well, it's from The Shooting of Dan McGrew, and it tells how he looked as a miner straight from the mines, and that he was armed to the teeth, (he is called "Dangerous" Dan McGrew" in the poem.) Robert W. Service had a way with words, his poems are hard to forget.


New question:
"...but I with mournful tread, walk the deck..."

[Jean-Baptiste]

"...my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead."
Walt Whitman


(calls out from his room).
Is that my little lark twittering out there?
....
Is it my little squirrel bustling about?

[Pendragon]

How long have you been blocking the thread, my dear Jean? I usually get booted by now. http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/acc32.gif

[Pendragon]

Questions called by Torvald Helmer to his young wife Nora as she opens parcels on the table in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.



Once a dream did weave a shade,
O're my Angel-guarded bed...

I could have answered this long ago, but I was testing something I probably should have left alone... http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/whimsical.gif

[Pendragon]

Once a dream did weave a shade,
O're my Angel-guarded bed...

I'l not drag this out. First two lines of A Dream, by William Blake.

Now. It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld...

[Pendragon]

Now. It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld... Come now, come now. Dr. Frankenstein's words upon his completed experiment, from Mary Shelley's classic!

As no one seems interested, I will not leave another line. Maybe someone was offended at me or something. If so, I apologize. I'm only human, subject to like feelings as anyone else, and as I said, I took the wrong approach. My bad. Don't let my mistakes ruin a perfectly good game for the rest of you.

Pendragon

[Scheherazade]

As no one seems interested, I will not leave another line. Maybe someone was offended at me or something. If so, I apologize. I'm only human, subject to like feelings as anyone else, and as I said, I took the wrong approach. My bad. Don't let my mistakes ruin a perfectly good game for the rest of you.

PendragonPen,

This game has never been very popular so please do not think that the reason it does not get many replies is you. And I sincerely do hope that you will be taking part again in future.



The new question:

The Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

[kilted exile]

What is the name of the chancellory suit in Bleak House?

Stephen Blackpool

[Jean-Baptiste]

Ah, he wanted so to marry Rachel...but, Hard Times is hard times.



As no one seems interested, I will not leave another line. Maybe someone was offended at me or something. If so, I apologize. I'm only human, subject to like feelings as anyone else, and as I said, I took the wrong approach. My bad. Don't let my mistakes ruin a perfectly good game for the rest of you.
Sorry, Pendragon. I do love this game, but I haven't been around for a bit, what with school 'n all. But I'm back (sort of) so let's play.


Then half Signior Benedick's toungue in Count John's mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior Benedick's face--

[Pendragon]

Leonato puts together the perfect man for Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, I believe.


I seem sixty and married, but these effects are due to my condition and sufferings, for I am a bachelor, and only forty-one...

[littlewing53]

hi pen...great short story

the invalid's story....mark twain

here's one of my all time favs....hopefully someone feels the same..

"I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man's jurisdiction. I had never before looked up at the sky when there was not a familiar mountain ridge against it. But this was the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it."

[Scheherazade]

Since there are no takers for littlewing's question, I will post another one:

42!

[Jean-Baptiste]

Yes, fine answer, but what is the ultimate question?
Littlewing's clue is from My Antonia by Willa Cather.


Now the sneaking serpent walks
In mild humility,
And the just man rages in the wilds
Where lions roam.

[Pendragon]

Only William Blake would try a Marriage Between Heaven and Hell




And the gunner we had was apparently mad,
for he sat on the after rail;
And he fired salutes with the Captain's boots,
in the teeth of the booming gale...

[Jean-Baptiste]

Oh, what a capital ship, the Walloping Window-blind.


Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with...and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

[Pendragon]

Schooling taught under the sea, the art master was an old conger eel, who taught drawling, and stretching, and fainting in coils...


He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk descending from a bus:
He looked again and saw it was a hippopotamus.
“If this should stay for lunch,” said he, “There won’t be much for us!”

[Pendragon]

No takers?



He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk descending from a bus:
He looked again and saw it was a hippopotamus.
“If this should stay for lunch,” said he, “There won’t be much for us!” Hallucinations ~ Lewis Carroll

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all.

[Shalot]

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI - by O. Henry

For conceited men see all other men as admirers

[Pendragon]

The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupery

"You bring Johnny home and pay me $250 in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands."

[Pendragon]

The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupery

"You bring Johnny home and pay me $250 in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands."Dear me! That was, of course, the words of the father in O. Henry's The Ransom of Red Chief


Carfax Abby

[Scheherazade]

To All> Please do give us the question belonging to the previous answer, not just the name of the literary work it comes from! :)


Carfax AbbeyWhat is the name of the estate bought by the Count in Dracula?

Next answer: Zeena.

[Pendragon]

A sonnet writer like myself should get this: What was Charles Deemer's pen name for writing sonnets? (Make you blush, some of them! :blush: )


Bayport

[RobinHood3000]

What city is home to the magnificant Joe, Frank, and Fenton Hardy??

West Egg

[Hyacinth42]

Which Egg in the Great Gatsby was home to the newly rich?

221B

[Basil]

What was the number on Baker Street where Basil of Baker Street lived (in 221½ Baker Street)?

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/5618/basilmousevy0.jpg

Next answer:

closet

[Scheherazade]

Where is the nightmare in Mercer Mayer's story?

Next answer:

Five

[kilted exile]

What was the number given to the slaughterhouse in Voneguut's book?

All 3 of them were charity boys in Dicken's novels

[Pendragon]

Who are Oliver Twist, Jack Dawkins, (the Artful Dodger), and Charley Bates?

Poker Flats

[kilted exile]

Nope the correct answer/question would be:

What links Robin Toodle, Uriah Heep & Noah Claypole?


Anyway, continue with pens answer:

Poker Flats

[Pendragon]

Nope the correct answer/question would be:

What links Robin Toodle, Uriah Heep & Noah Claypole?


Now you know I'm serious when I say I dislike Dickens, Kilted, but hey, they were all underprivalaged youths in http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Vomit.gif Oliver Twist!

Thank you!

Anyway, continue with Pens answer:

Poker Flats

[Pendragon]

Oh, well, I guess no one reads Bret Hart.

Which town were the unfortunate outcasts outcast from? Would the the answer to the question Poker Flats.

Here, read the story and improve your mind:
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Bret_Harte/The_Outcasts_Of_Poker_Flat/The_Outcasts_Of_Poker_Flat_p1.html


Three leagues, then, the road ran, and turned into a puzzle.

[Pendragon]

Three leagues, then, the road ran, and turned into a puzzle.

Good grief! And Kiz Paws was reading O. Henry!

The answer is "How does one arrive at O. Henry's Roads of Destiny?"

Another link in an attempt to help people read: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1646

You are far from being a bad man-- go and reform


Perhaps three will be a charm... http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/ISNF.gif

[Pendragon]

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/GiveUp.gif

I give up. I don't know, maybe you just don't want to answer my questions. Any road, three with no reply is plenty:

What was the answer they needed to give in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg? Go reform and read it. Here's the link.

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mark_Twain/The_Man_that_Corrupted_Hadleyburg/


It ain't http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l108/AbsalomKane/Smilies/Cricket.gif!

[Scheherazade]

Let's start again:

New answer: A treasure.

[Scharphedin2]

What does Dobbs, Curtin and Howard go in search of in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre? (The literal answer would be gold, but I am sure we can agree that is "a treasure" too)


The Golden Pavillion

[bouquin]

What is the Kinkaku?

There were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.

[Pendragon]

Oddly enough, who are the guys from Three Men in a Boat?

And then, suddenly, the Unknown Last Line of the Saaamaaa Ritual was whispered quite audibly in the room.

[Scheherazade]

OK, here is a game quite similar to the Answer and Questions game we have been playing... but this time we will give answers and questions related to English and Literature (thought it might be suitable since we are on a Literature Forum! :D).

A: 26
Q: How many letters are there in English language?

A: A geisha.
Q: About whose memories did Arthur Golden write about? (Memoirs of a Geisha)

Please remember that we are here to play a game and avoid from asking questions which are too obscure or irrelevant to the subject (Questions which are not related will be deleted) as we have other games for this purpose.

Thank you and happy gaming! :)

A new answer:

Prince Edward Island.

[Tournesol]

Where did L.M. Montgomery set her novel series 'Anne of Green Gables'?


Next answer [I'll make it easy]:

He said "She should have died hereafter" in Act V, scene V

[pbmn]

What did Macbeth say in his final soliloquy?

Paul Baumer

[Tournesol]

Who's name did Erich Maria Remarque use as the protagonist in his antiwar novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front'?



Kino, Juana, Coyotito

[Scheherazade]

What are the names of leading characters of Pearl by Steinbeck?

Green.

[Scheherazade]

What colour is the "mile" in King's famous book?

Wife.

[Guinivere]

Part of the title of a novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim ? (The Pastor's Wife)

first name: an angel
last name: a tree

[Guinivere]

Ok I give..... Is it Gabriel Oak from Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd ? YES

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

[qimissung]

If I'd noticed this sooner I could have answered your first one!

[ex ponto]

Where did Daniel find ''The Shadow of the Wind'' book in the novel of the same name?


Monsieur Rigaud

[Guinivere]

Who treid to blackmail someone in Dickens Little Dorrit ?

Horatio, man of the ocean

[Pendragon]

Oddly enough, who are the guys from Three Men in a Boat?

And then, suddenly, the Unknown Last Line of the Saaamaaa Ritual was whispered quite audibly in the room.

Bye the bye, this was How did Carnaki escape in The Whistling Room, from William Hope Hogenson's Carnaki the Ghost Hunter. Sheesh, somebody could have taken a stab at it before restarting the game... :flare::flare:

[Scheherazade]

Horatio, man of the oceanWhat is Admiral Hornblower's first name in Forester's books?

Next answer: Yarmouth.

[kilted exile]

Where does david copperfield go with peggoty


Next: Andrew Fairservice

[kilted exile]

giving a clue so as to hopefully prevent the thread returning to the abyss. The novel was a book club read & one I have rambled on about on numerous occassions BUT what was the book and who was he?

[Michael T]

What is the name of the shrewd gardener in Rob Roy?



...London and Paris

[OrphanPip]

What is the setting of A Tale of Two Cities?

Next: Yoknapatawpha County

[Scheherazade]

What is the name of the fictional country created by Faulkner?

Next: Hotdogs.

[Ebonon]

What is the name of Jughead's Dog?

Theo.

[Scheherazade]

Reviving:

Black Hawk.

[The Comedian]

I'm thinking Jim Burden, Willa Cather, and the prairie town of the novel My Antonia.

Next: Trappist monks are famous for brewing ale and count this famous author among their rank and file.

[Scheherazade]

Who is Thomas Merton? (Thanks for the Forum discussions!)

Next: Lucy Snowe.

[The Comedian]

Who is Mina's friend in Stoker's Dracula? (I can't quite remember, but I think I'm right; confirmation?).

[JuniperWoolf]

Haha, not your type of question Comedian.
Who is the narrator in Charlotte Bronte's Villette?

Next: Abby Holland.

[Scheherazade]

Any takers?

[Pendragon]

Lucy Snowe

What happens to the baby of the Duchess in Alice In Wonderland?