Answer Thread for Quiz No. 3 (Spoilers!)

[Bill_T]

Hi quiz lovers -- once again, since some of us will want to post our guesses for the trivia quiz right away, I've created this thread for that purpose. That way, people coming to the quiz won't accidentally see other people's guesses while they're still figuring them out.

So, post your guesses here, if you like. But -- as always -- if you're still working out your answers, you might want to close this thread now before going any further. If you'd like to see what others guessed, though, read on.

[Melissa_W Moderator]

1. What is the very Victorian first name of the hero of Samuel Butler's scandalous novel The Way of All Flesh?

2. "It was a dark and stormy night"

3. Thomas Hardy

4. Charlotte Bronte

5. Waterloo

6. Men

7. Charles Brockden Brown is credited as one of the first major American novelists. In his gothic novel Wieland, what unlikely skill does the villain Carwin use to convince the other characters that supernatural events are taking place?

8. Oscar Wilde (??? - I don't recall a play by that name)

9. Herman Melville

10. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

[Bill_T]

Melissa, you know your Victorian lit. (I'm going to tell you that although your answer to No. 6. is very funny, the creatures in question are not human beings.)

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pedsphleb wrote:
1. What is the very Victorian first name of the hero of Samuel Butler's scandalous novel The Way of All Flesh?

2. "It was a dark and stormy night"

3. Thomas Hardy

4. Charlotte Bronte

5. Waterloo

6. Men

7. Charles Brockden Brown is credited as one of the first major American novelists. In his gothic novel Wieland, what unlikely skill does the villain Carwin use to convince the other characters that supernatural events are taking place?

8. Oscar Wilde (??? - I don't recall a play by that name)

9. Herman Melville

10. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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[Melissa_W Moderator]

Then I'll go to my backup answer which was donkeys (I think - the rooks were at David's childhood home).

I think I'm just getting lucky in that you're asking questions about books I've read or heard of (I didn't so so well on the first quiz!). I'm also a HUGE fan of the Booklover's Trivial Pursuit game.

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Bill_T wrote:
Melissa, you know your Victorian lit. (I'm going to tell you that although your answer to No. 6. is very funny, the creatures in question are not human beings.)

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Message Edited by pedsphleb on 04-20-200712:23 PM

[LizzieAnn]

Bill, these quizzes are killing me!!!

This week, I only know two (I hope!):


4. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a biography of Charlotte Bronte.

5. Waterloo

[bentley]

A group of friends and I over a bottle of wine came up with the following (we think the wine helped)and it was a slow night:

1. Ernest
2. "It was a dark and stormy night."
3. Thomas Hardy
4. Charlotte Bronte
5. Waterloo
6. donkeys
7. Carwin was a ventriloquist (voices from above allegedly)
8. Henry James
9. Herman Melville and the novel was Typee
10.Leo Tolstoy and the work was War and Peace

[Melissa_W Moderator]

And Snoopy always uses this beginning when he writes (I saw "Snoopy the Musical" on TV!)

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Stephanie wrote:
2. This is the quintessential "bad beginning" for a book!

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[Bill_T]

Hey, I'm not trying to cause any suffering!

Let me give some clues...

1. The protagonist of Butler's novel shares a name with the eponymous "hero" of a hit play from the same period.

2. This is the quintessential "bad beginning" for a book!

3. His first published work was Desperate Remedies.

4. The author Gaskell wrote her biography of was originally assumed not to be a woman, but a man, partially due to the psuedonym under which she published.

5. The place is known chiefly as the site of an important battle.

6. The creatures in question are conveying sightseers. Betsey calls for her maid, Janet, to help her in driving them away.

7. Using his bizarre talent, Carwin convinces others that they are receiving instructions from divine entities.

8. It wasn't Oscar Wilde (who was a quite successful playwright), but this author and Wilde did meet. It wasn't a success -- our very formal and polite author was put off by Wilde's form of conversation, which privileged wit and one-upmanship.

9. he was the author of an unique pair of nonfiction "sketches", "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids."

10. Intensely spiritual, at the age eighty-two he fled from home "leaving this worldly life in order to live out my last days in peace and solitude;" he died shortly thereafter.

Hope those are helpful!

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LizzieAnn wrote:
Bill, these quizzes are killing me!!!

This week, I only know two (I hope!):


4. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a biography of Charlotte Bronte.

5. Waterloo

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[Bill_T]

Well, after the excellent work by Melissa and Bentley over here it feels almost redundant to post an answer key to this week's quiz. Nevertheless, I've done so, here.