Literature Quiz!

BossArky

Next question?

carpenoctem

Anton17 wrote:

How did Chloe die in Glamorama?

She dies of hemorrhaging after someone puts poison in her drink? (I think that's what happened?!)

What is the occupation of John Eliot in Tom Holland's "Supping with Panthers"?

Skellington

was he a doctor?

if yes, then,
what were the names of lukes children in 'the dice man'?

carpenoctem

PunK05 wrote:

was he a doctor?

Yup And a brilliant book it is too... well, I thought so anyway.

Haven't read The Dice Man so I'll pass that one...

Valmont

Anton17 wrote:

Sticking with Bret Easton Ellis,

How did Chloe die in Glamorama?

I'll intervene and point out that I've followed this thread with interest but the two questions I actually know I have missed:(

doonothing

larry and... annie or evie i cant remember which!

stickin with the diceman.. what were the names of luke's wife and his lover?

Skellington

Yeah it was Evie.

Wife and lover are Lil and Arlene.

Again keeping with the Dice Man.
What type of building did Larry find his father in, in The Search For Dice Man and where was it located?

BossArky

Anyone got the answer to this? I think 4.5 months is long enough! If no answer by 1st of May feel free to post new question.

Skellington

Skellington wrote:

Again keeping with the Dice Man.
What type of building did Larry find his father in, in The Search For Dice Man and where was it located?

A Zen monestery in Kyoto.

I'll keep the next one handy.
In what novel was the character Queegueg from?

ZorbaTehZ

*Queequeg?
Moby Dick, if so.

Q: (The Three Musketeers) With their adventures over, what does Aramis decide to do?

BossArky

A: He becomes Bishop of Vannes, a title given to him by Nicolas Fouquet and later he became the Superior General of the Jesuits. When he comes back from exile, he is a Spanish noble and known as Duke of Alameda.

Q: Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?

Skellington

BossArky wrote:

Q: Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?

That'd be Thomas Grey?

Sticking with this theme:
Who wrote "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"?

ZorbaTehZ

J.D. Salinger.

Maybe we can do well-known first lines? (I'll post two in case this doesn't work)

First Lines: "Mother died today." (Aujord'hui, Maman est mort)

OR

First Lines: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. . ."

brianthebard

Well the second one is A tale of two cities.

First line: "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everyone seemed sorry."

luckat

Mmmmm...sounds like Turgenev? Goooooggggglllleee.....

luckat

Oh, Hardy, Jude the Obscure. Well, not so far away...maybe.

Who 'looked at the job with repulsion' and said "I'm through with overproduction"?

brianthebard

*tut tuts* google luckat?

luckat

The shame!

mawk

Mrs Carmichael

what is scout finch's full name?

ZorbaTehZ

Jen/Jan Louise(sp) methinks?

Using google defeats the purpose of the thread tbh. . .

First Lines: "Call me Ishmael."

luckat

Oh come on! Moby-Dick! Back to that again!

First lines: Arms and the man I sing...

ZorbaTehZ

Well that was easy - Virgil's Aenied.
I remind you this is a literature quiz (emphasis on the literature).

From one of my favourites:
First Lines: "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

luckat

What, Virgil isn't literature? Hmmm...Robert Cohn - wouldn't be Gatsby, would it?

sceptre

Naw, it's Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises".

First line: "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Acadfemy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection..."

ZorbaTehZ

Ah, another one of me favorites, "The Age Of Innocence".

First Lines: ". . .there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen who keep a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound."

tupelopenny

Don Quixote

First Lines: ". . .there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen who keep a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound."[/QUOTE]
How many Irish Nobel winners for Literature & who are they?

ZorbaTehZ

Yeats
Shaw
Beckett
Heaney

Q: How about how many french ones? Name them if you can.

tupelopenny

I will have to pass on that one, would have no idea.

mawk

Sully Prudhomme, Frédéric Mistral, André Gide, Albert Camus (awarded as french even though he was algerian) and 9 of their other countrymen and women.

so 13 in all but ill be jiggerd if i know any other names.


ok... an easier one this time.

what would you do with a pangalactic gargle-blaster?

John

Drink it of course!

"Printing in the infernal method" is a reference to what?