Georgette Heyer Trivia

1. The novel opens in the country as Lord Anthony, Viscount Sheringham is making an offer for the hand of the current season's beauty. Where is the Sheringham's family seat?

From Quiz Friday's Child

Answer: Kent

Anthony, orphaned of a father, is now the new Viscount Sheringham, head a noble family in Kent.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - "The Toll-Gate"

Answer: 3 days

When Nell rode over across the field to see John on their 5th meeting in 3 days, John instantly realized that Nell must feel exactly the way that he did and so they shared their first kiss.

From Quiz Venetia

Answer: Dr. Bentworth

Dr. Bentworth, Aubrey Lanyon's physician in York was the only one permitted, besides Edward Yardley, to come to Undershaw while Sir Francis was alive.

From Quiz The Butler Didn't Do It

Answer: Why Shoot A Butler?

Whilst on his way to visit relatives, barrister Frank Amberley comes across a parked car with a dead body inside it and a girl attempting to leave the scene of the crime. She swears she didn't do it, he believes her and sets out to find the murderer. Published in 1933, "Why Shoot A Butler?" is Georgette Heyer's second detective novel.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - "The Grand Sophy"

Answer: Sophy is 5'9" tall

Little Sophy, formally known as Miss Sophia Stanton-Lacy, stands five feet nine inches tall "in her stocking feet". Her height is further enhanced by her glamorous fashion sense, a large mouth, and extremely expressive eyes.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - "Faro's Daughter"

Answer: A popular card game

The term "faro" is in reference to a card game that was very popular in nineteenth-century England. It was originally called Pharaon, but was later reduced to "Faro." (John McLeod, "Faro," 2006). Since Deborah works in a gaming-house, she is one of "faro's daughters," a derogatory term for an honorable lady.

From Quiz The Alistair Trilogy: 'Devil's Cub', Part two

Answer: That she is the granddaughter of General Sir Giles Challoner who is one of his father's oldest friends.

This is a revealing chapter where the reader is allowed to glimpse a different side to Lord Vidal who, realising that he has made a terrible mistake and that Mary is a respectable young woman, shoulders what he sees as his responsibilities and determines to marry her. Poor Mary, despite being deeply in love with him and wanting nothing more than to be his wife, is equally determined that Vidal shouldn't ruin his life by marrying beneath him as her own father did.

From Quiz The Alastair Trilogy : 'Devil's Cub', Part One

Answer: Three.

Vidal shot and killed only one of them and appalled his servants by ordering them to drive on and leave the body in the road.

From Quiz The Alastair Trilogy - 'These Old Shades'

Answer: Justin

Although 'Alastair' is the family name, the title Justin Alastair inherited was the Dukedom of Avon. He answers to several names throughout the book - 'Justin' 'Avon','Satanas', and, of course, 'Monseigneur'.

From Quiz The Regency Novels of Georgette Heyer

Answer: A masqerade in Chiswick

From 'April Lady'. It was to be Letty's first masquerade and she had the prettiest pink domino made for it.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - Secrets

Answer: She writes a book featuring a parody of him as the villain Count Ugolino

After an unsuccessful London season, Phoebe writes a satirical novel featuring recognizable characters from London's high society. The villain is Count Ugolino, based on Sylvester, Duke of Salford, whom she dislikes for his arrogance. When he unexpectedly comes to court her, she runs away from home with her neighbor, Tom.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer's Rejected Suitors

Answer: Edward Yardley

Oswald Denny is a young neighbor who also has a crush on Venetia, Jasper Damerel is the man she loves, and Aubrey Lanyon is her younger brother.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer: Name Game

Answer: Nicholas (Nick)

Throughout the book Nicholas's shipmates refer to him as 'Mad Nick'!

From Quiz Georgette Heyer and Her Books

Answer: She was born Georgette Heyer, and became Mrs Ronald Rougier .

Georgette Heyer was named after her father, George, and she had a brother called Boris. After her marriage to Ronald Rougier, Q.C. she always used "Mrs Rougier" in private life.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer Quotes

Answer: Ivo Spencer Barrasford

From Quiz Friday's Child

Answer: She contracted an odiously childish complaint, namely the measles

Mrs. Milborne, the beauty's mama, quite sensible of the ridiculous nature of her indisposition, had it announced that Isabella was very tired but the truth of the matter is that she contracted the measles which she promptly communicated to two abigails and a youthful pageboy.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - "The Toll-Gate"

Answer: Kellands

Sir Peter has been living with his granddaughter Helen (Nell) at Kellands since the death of his favorite grandson and heir, Nell's brother Jermyn, who died in 1815 at the battle of Albuera.

From Quiz Venetia

Answer: Elliston Priory

The Dennys's home is Ebbersley, the Lanyons lived at Undershaw and the Yardleys are from Netherfold.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle

Answer: Newsham & Otley

Miss Sybilla Battery is related to Mr. Guilbert Otley but is looking only after Phoebe's interests.

From Quiz The Butler Didn't Do It

Answer: Death In The Stocks

The local policeman finds a dead body locked into the stocks in the village square. The man has been knifed in the back. Suspicion falls on his half-brother who is his heir and who has no alibi. Scotland Yard are called in but it takes another murder before a cousin of the dead man solves the mystery. "Death In The Stocks" was the first book to feature Sergeant (later Inspector) Hemingway.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - "The Grand Sophy"

Answer: He has saved his family from financial ruin

Charles Rivenhall's father has squandered his wealth and is now burdened by debts and entailed property. Rivenhall has the unexpected good luck of inheriting the entire fortune of a distant cousin, which allows him to save his family AND call the shots. He is never disrespectful to his parents, but he refuses to let them fall into penury again.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - "Faro's Daughter"

Answer: To stop his cousin from marrying a gaming-house "wench"

Mr Ravenscar reluctantly goes to the gaming-house to stop his young cousin Adrian from marrying the gaming-house "wench," Deborah Grantham. It is a task that his aunt, Lady Mablethorpe, has thrust upon him, which ultimately goes awry. He has no real interest in this endeavor until he meets Deborah. Most of his subsequent actions have less to do with Adrian's fate, and more to do with his jealousy and attraction towards Deborah.

From Quiz The Alastair Trilogy : 'Devil's Cub', Part One

Answer: His cousin.

It is the dearest wish of Julian's mother, Lady Fanny Marling, that Juliana should marry her cousin, Lord Vidal - but Juliana has other ideas and her heart is set on Frederick Comyn.

From Quiz The Regency Novels of Georgette Heyer

Answer: Quakerish

From 'A Civil Contract': 'Quakerish, but elegant. You look charmingly,' he tells her. Jenny doesn't believe him but when his aunt, the formidable Lady Nassington, agrees, she starts to feel more confident.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - Secrets

Answer: She has lent money to her brother, Dysart

Nell has lent money, against her husband's orders, to her brother. In order to pay off a debt to her dressmaker and keep her loan to her brother a secret, she tries to find the money, enlisting her brother's aid. Her sister-in-law, Letitia, takes and sells the necklace. Felix is her friend and admirer, nothing more.

From Quiz Historical Novels of Georgette Heyer

Answer: A Civil Contract

The Marquis of Vidal and his wife appear towards the end of "An Infamous Army", though Vidal's father has died, making them now the Duke and Duchess of Avon. From "Regency Buck", we are reunited with Lord and Lady Worth and Lord Worth's brother, Charles. Harry Smith and Johnny Kincaid from "The Spanish Bride" make fleeting appearances on the battlefield.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer: Name Game

Answer: Lavinia or Cordelia

Ninian doesn't get on with his sisters and is particularly angry when his mother brings one of his sisters to Bath with her to coax him home!

From Quiz Georgette Heyer and Her Books

Answer: Deborah "Deb" Grantham of "Faro's Daughter".

Deb was the one with the ribbons. She was trying to persuade young Lord Adrian Mablethorpe that she was not his kind of wife.

From Quiz Georgette Heyer Quotes

Answer: Justin Alastair

Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon is talking to Mary Challoner about Dominic Alastair abducting her in 'Devil's Cub.'

From Quiz Georgette Heyer - "The Toll-Gate"

Answer: A highwayman

Mr. Chirk would give a lot to quit his current profession, buy a snug little farm and turn to "pound dealing" but the luck seems to have eluded him until John comes along.

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