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Answer: Herbert Quain
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Characters created by Louis L'Amour.
Answer: Herbert Quain
BRAVO!BRAVO! http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/appl.gif Specifically, The Sackett BrothersQuote:
Originally Posted by Panurge
Let's not forget Panurge's answer, now:
Answer: Herbert Quain
Author of The God of the Labyrinth
Cuthulhu
The title of famous story by HP Lovecraft: The Call of...?
St Ogg's.
Oh, cool. I didn't know this game existed. It's like jeapardy.
St Ogg's - Town in The Mill on the Floss
Benjy
What is the name of the youngest of the Compson children in Sound and Fury by Faulkner?
Turkish delight.
Ah crap, I was too slow.
Edmund's terrible temptation in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Starbuck.
Who is the first mate on The Pequod in Melville's Moby Dick?
Posthumus Leonatus
Who is Imogen's husband in Shakespeare's Cymbeline?
Fiver.
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
What is the name of the inn Jim's parents own in Treasure Island?Quote:
Originally Posted by ShoutGrace
Peggotty.
What was the name of David Copperfield's nurse? (Lord, I hated that book!)
Three Mile Point
OK. That was the first point above New Orleans in Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Let's try this:
Quote:
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!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
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:Quote:
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!
"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.
Quote:
I sat on their clothes-- to keep them from being stolen...
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New Answer:
Christmas
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by zanna
"little grey cells"
BTW:was Twain's excuse in Roughing It for watching the native girls swim in the nude. :blush:Quote:
I sat on their clothes-- to keep them from being stolen...
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! ;)What does Agatha Christie's famous sleuth Hercule Poirot encourage his friend Captain Hastings to use to solve mysteries?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Next answer:
A seagull.
Who/what is Jonathan Livingstone?
Clarissa Dalloway :D
Who said that she would buy the flowers herself?
Answer: Red Badge of Shame
What is the scarlet letter in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
Next answer:
Ham.
What seems to be markedly less palatable when green?
An axe, stolen from the porter's quarters.
What did Raskolnikov choose as his weapon of choice?
Knight of Resignation.
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)
In what sort of vessel did the Owl and the Pussy-cat go to sea?
"He that thou knowest thine"
How Hamlet did sign his letter to Horatio?
The pause in the day's occupation when the light is beginning to lower
When is the 'children's hour' according to HW Longfellow?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Next answer:
Susan.
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
Two things which Scarlett couldn't stand?
''I cannot live without my soul!''
What seems to be an invisible and non-existant sentence for Dorian Gray?
"Like the drink, sir. Only not spelled the same."
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."
What is the opening line of Ezra Pound's 'Sestina: Alaforte'?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Baptiste
Orhan Pamuk.
Who won the Nobel prize in literature n 2006?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
"Peace, peace!
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
That sucks the nurse asleep?"
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
What's the verse pertaining to DevianArt? (Did I get that correctly? I'm not so sure.)
Nazgul.
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."
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
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... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Laindessiel
Who is one of the soldiers shot in Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage? (Possibly one of the world's most boring books!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Baptiste
The toe of a Persian slipper
Since there are no takers for Pen's question, I will post another one:
Mrs Pearce.