The LitNet Forum Game Quiz o' the Week

[AuntShecky]

Really "cool" quiz, Virgil! I loved the way the questions were worded, but especially liked the intro (nice and brief, I should learn from you!) My favorite part was that every question had something to do with your theme.

I missed the War and Peace question and The LOTR one. I surprised myself by getting the answer to #12 right. (Made me feel good about meself for a second.)

Thanks so much, Virgil and DickZ for infusing a little life and activity into this thread.

[DickZ]

Thanks, Virgil, for posting the quiz. I only got two right - numbers 2 and 3. I'll have to do some more reading.

[Niamh]

I'll see if i can whip one of these up during the week.

[Virgil]

Thank you guys. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[AuntShecky]

I'll see if i can whip one of these up during the week.

Aw, bless you, Niamh! Here's a cyberhug.
Another quiz, a silly one, will be posted by yours truly around Feb. 14 or so, God and "Pong II" (my PC) willing.

[Niamh]

as soon as i have my assignment done i'll start on one.

[AuntShecky]

This quiz is rated PG-13. Reader discretion is advised.

Question: where would you find lurid imagery, boldface buzzwords, and graphic violence? ( I mean, other than a programming meeting at a cable network.) The answer is a tabloid headline, where lowbrows can find satisfaction for every prurient need. Suffice it to say that a typical tabloid headline makes a sleazy show like Nip/Tuck look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Now, I know for a fact that the literary taste of the typical LitNutter lies considerably farther up the brow than that of the typical "readers" of scandal sheets, but I think all of you can ace this quiz. In the questions below, all you have to do is name the literary couples and/or character(s) to which the tasteless headlines refer. (Nobody will object if you feel like spraying your PC with disinfectant afterward.) Now to the quiz, which we cringe to call

Literary Love, Scandal Sheet Style

1. ROMAN POLITICO DUMPS WIFE FOR EGYPTIAN QUEEN

2. HOTTIE: “MONSTER HELD ME PRISONER –
BUT NOW I LOVE HIM!”

3. LIVE-IN TEACHER FINDS MYSTERY MAN’S WIFE IN ATTIC

4. HUBBY REINS IN FEISTY WIFE;
SETS WOMEN’S LIB BACK 500 YEARS

5. WIFE CHEATS ON CRIPPLED HUBBY WITH GAMEKEEPER

6. DANE’S SCORNED GAL PAL DROWNS SELF;
BODY, STILL CLUTCHING FLOWERS,
FOUND IN NEARBY RIVER

7.PRINCESS SHARES LOVE NEST WITH 7 SHORT GUYS;
CLAIMS: “SIZE DOESN’T MATTER”

8.TROJAN STUD RUNS OFF WITH WORLD’S HOTTEST BABE;
“OF COURSE YOU KNOW THIS MEANS WAR!” KING FUMES

9. TEENS’ FORBIDDEN LOVE DEFIES FEUDING FAMILIES

10.PRINCE FINDS ABUSED GAL’S FEET “PERFECT FIT”;
LUCKY CHARWOMAN SAYS “NO MORE SLEEPING IN THE KITCHEN!”

11. RUSHIN’ TRAIN ENDS LIFE OF STRAYING HOUSEWIFE

12. TWO-FACED SLUT VAMPS STRONG MAN;
HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

13.DRUGGED PRINCESS WAKES UP AFTER CENTURY-LONG COMA; ASKS: “DID I MISS ANYTHING?”



Answers

1. Antony and Cleopatra
2. Beauty (and the Beast)
3. Jane Eyre
4. Petruchio and Katherina (Give yourself full credit if you said “The Taming Of the Shrew.”)
5. Lady Chatterley (and her Lover)
6. Ophelia (Hamlet)
7. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
8. Paris and Helen (The Iliad)
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. Cinderella
11. Anna Karenina
12. Delilah and Sampson
13. Sleeping Beauty

[DickZ]

Great quiz, Auntie. I was afraid we weren't going to have one this week.

I got some right - namely numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13, and I certainly should have gotten number 12 also. I couldn't get number 11 either, and I keep meaning to get into some of the Russians like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky soon, since I'm getting old and better get into them before the bell rings. I've neglected them for all of my life to this point and shouldn't continue doing that.

[qimissung]

Great quiz, AuntShecky. I got them all but number 4. I thought it was "The Doll House" by Ibsen.

[Virgil]

Boy was that fun. I got them all except number 2. I had guessed the minotaur, which is pretty silly.

[AuntShecky]

March is National Women's History Month, so here's a -- you should excuse the expression-- a "quickie" about characters in the midst of the age-old "Battle of the Sexes." HINT: All of the titular (ahem) women were created by men. Your job is just to name these authors of the male persuasion.

Ladies and Gents

Name the author of:

1. Daisy Miller

2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

3. Hedda Gabler

4. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

5. Sister Carrie

6. Madame Bovary

7. The verse drama The Countess Cathleen and a series of poems featuring "Crazy Jane"

8. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

9. Moll Flanders

10. Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman

11. Anna Christie

12. Candida , the 1903 about an older woman loved by a younger man, though she was not by any stretch a "cougar."

and finally,
13. the words and music for Annie, Get Your Gun


Answers:

1. Henry James
2. Edward Albee
3. Henrik Ibsen
4. Stephen Crane
5. Theodore Dreiser
6. Gustave Flaubert
7. W.B. Yeats
8. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9. Daniel Defoe
10. Thomas Hardy
11. Eugene O'Neill
12. George Bernard Shaw
13. Irving Berlin

[Virgil]

Hmm, I got eight of the thirteen. I should have done better. I got correct numbers 1,3,4,5,6,7,9,10.

[DickZ]

Thanks, Auntie, for another great quiz. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time required to take it, as I'm now into Twitter. I had to tweet to 284 stalwart individuals that I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, with the 'jelly' actually being raspberry preserves, and I then had to read what each of the 284 had for their lunches. By the time I finished reading all this, it was time for dinner and another round of tweets, so I was unable to take the quiz.

I'll try again next week, and I hope there will be another quiz then, and maybe at that point I will have broken this painful addicition. And hopefully, there won't be too many Facebook friends to confirm or to invite when the next quiz rolls around, because that can be a big consumer of time as well.

[AuntShecky]

In the course of preparing to write this quiz, the flip-side of last week's snorefest, two startling discoveries revealed themselves. The first was that the majority of women authors have something in common with notorious criminals -- they tend to have three names. The other revelation was even more disheartening, and that's the fact that authors of the male persuasion vastly outnumber female writers. Last week I had very little trouble finding works by male authors with female names in their titles, but this time finding works about men by women authors was as difficult as finding an honest statement in Hollywood on Oscar night. Many of the works I did manage to find fall under the category of children's literature, which like women authors, is often marginalized. Well, it's a darned good thing the women's movement changed all that! (Er. . . . .)

In any event, for the literary works below (one of which is a "trick" question) all you have to do is name the female author.

Gentlemen and Ladies

Who wrote:

1. Little Men

2. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

3. Ethan Frome

4. Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

5. Jacob's Room and Orlando

6. Death Comes for the Archbishop

7. Silas Marner, Adam Bede, and Daniel Deronda

8. A Good Man is Hard to Find

9. Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

10. Song of Solomon

11. The Talented Mr. Ripley

12. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

and finally

13. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes


Answers
1. Louisa May Alcott
2. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3. Edith Wharton
4. Agatha Christie
5. Virginia Woolf
6. Willa Cather
7. George Eliot (This is the "trick" question-- her real name was Mary Ann Evans.)
8. Flannery O'Connor
9. Mary Mapes Dodge
10. Toni Morrison
11. Patricia Highsmith
12. Beatrix Potter
13. Anita Loos


Note: It would be very nice if some members of the LitNet contributed a quiz or two to this thread. How about a quiz about authors and works of Irish heritage? That's just a suggestion.

[Niamh]

I was jsut about to post that i'll sort out an Irish quiz seeing as its coming close to St Patricks Day and then i saw your little green note and smiled.