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Quiz about A Snails Grace
Quiz about A Snails Grace

A Snail's Grace Trivia Quiz


It would be awful to imagine our planet's history, art and literature without snails, so let's not even try.

A multiple-choice quiz by LilahDeDah. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
LilahDeDah
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
201,877
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
356
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Question 1 of 10
1. In this 2002 book, author Felipe Fernández-Armesto posits that snails were the first creatures herded and bred for food by humans. Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In Shakespeare's "As You Like It", Rosalind and Orlando discuss snails:

ROSALIND Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I
had as lief be wooed of a snail.
ORLANDO Of a snail?
ROSALIND Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he
carries his house on his head; a better jointure,
I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings
his destiny with him.
ORLANDO What's that?
ROSALIND Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be
beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in
his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife.

What did a snail's horns signify to writers of Shakespeare's era?
Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. To go out in search of snails is known as snailing.


Question 4 of 10
4. "The further off from England, the nearer is to France
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance."

These lines are from "The Lobster Quadrille" by which author?
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Although this artist is more famous for 1910's "Dance" and "The Red Room (Harmony in Red)" from 1908, at the very end of his life this painter crafted "The Snail" from cut, torn and pasted paper arranged in a spiral pattern. Who created "The Snail" in 1953? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which beloved television show featured an episode in which its wacky heroine memorably exclaimed, upon being served escargot in a Paris café, "Waiter! There are snails in this food!" Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Patricia Highsmith's short story "The Snailwatcher" was made into a short film called "Breeding Space". Which of these better known movies was also based on Ms. Highsmith's work? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This 1979 collection of essays by Dr. Lewis Thomas was subtitled "More Notes of a Biology Watcher". What was its main title? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "The Connoisseuse of Slugs", a beautiful poem by Sharon Olds, employs slugs as symbols of what? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. If you are a true snail lover (and really, why wouldn't you be?) you'll know the name of the TV show that introduced the world to these wonderful song lyrics.

Six Snails
Six tiny snails leaving six silver trails,
Six silver trails as shiny as nails,
Six shiny nails with six pointed tips,
Six silk sails on six sailing ships.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ships.
Well the six sailing ships on six spouting whales,
All got home to dinner long before the snails.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 snails.

Answer: (Two Words)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In this 2002 book, author Felipe Fernández-Armesto posits that snails were the first creatures herded and bred for food by humans.

Answer: Near a Thousand Tables

From "Near a Thousand Tables" (subtitled "A History of Food"):
"Paleolithic shell mounds contain snail varieties bigger on average than today's equivalents. It therefore looks as though the snail eaters of the late ice age were already selecting for size. Mounds of this age and kind are so common and in some cases so large that only scholarly inhibitions stop us from assuming that they are evidence of systematic food production."

Snails were cultivated first because they were small, easy to confine and feed, produced valuable protein, and were not dangerous. Kind of makes one look at them in a whole new light, doesn't it?
2. In Shakespeare's "As You Like It", Rosalind and Orlando discuss snails: ROSALIND Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I had as lief be wooed of a snail. ORLANDO Of a snail? ROSALIND Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head; a better jointure, I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings his destiny with him. ORLANDO What's that? ROSALIND Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife. What did a snail's horns signify to writers of Shakespeare's era?

Answer: Cuckoldry

A man with an unfaithful wife was known as a cuckold and was said to "wear a cuckold's horns". Since snails wear horns naturally, they were seen as symbolic of this fate, one of the worst that could befall a man. A woman with an unfaithful husband, however, was not known by any special term.
3. To go out in search of snails is known as snailing.

Answer: True

Similarly, to hunt fish is called "fishing" and to catch shrimp is called "shrimping", but deer or moose hunting is not called "deering" or "moosing". To add to the confusion, if you go "beagling", you're hunting WITH a pack of beagles, not FOR one. Isn't English fascinating?
4. "The further off from England, the nearer is to France Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance." These lines are from "The Lobster Quadrille" by which author?

Answer: Lewis Carroll

Carroll's "Lobster Quadrille" is a parody of Mary Howitt's morally instructive "The Spider and the Fly". Although the snail is the real star of the poem, he gets no billing in the title.
5. Although this artist is more famous for 1910's "Dance" and "The Red Room (Harmony in Red)" from 1908, at the very end of his life this painter crafted "The Snail" from cut, torn and pasted paper arranged in a spiral pattern. Who created "The Snail" in 1953?

Answer: Henri Matisse

Matisse, who died in 1954, was 84 and confined to his bed when he created "The Snail". It was the first of his works to use torn paper and is vibrant and full of color and life.

Although Matisse is quoted as having said "I have painted almost 1,200 pictures. More than 2,500 of them are in the USA.", "The Snail" is in London, and both the other paintings mentioned in the question are in Russia.
6. Which beloved television show featured an episode in which its wacky heroine memorably exclaimed, upon being served escargot in a Paris café, "Waiter! There are snails in this food!"

Answer: I Love Lucy

The episode, which first aired on February 27, 1956, is called "Paris at Last". After her very French waiter insists that there is nothing wrong with the food, Lucy puts...oh dear...KETCHUP on her snails. The unlucky French café which Mrs. Ricardo patronized is called Le Café de la Porte-Montmartre, and it was established in 1882.
7. Patricia Highsmith's short story "The Snailwatcher" was made into a short film called "Breeding Space". Which of these better known movies was also based on Ms. Highsmith's work?

Answer: The Talented Mr. Ripley

Movies based on these four books were all nominated for 1999 Academy Awards. Patricia Highsmith wrote five novels featuring Tom Ripley, a psychopathic con man and bisexual serial killer.
8. This 1979 collection of essays by Dr. Lewis Thomas was subtitled "More Notes of a Biology Watcher". What was its main title?

Answer: The Medusa and the Snail

All of the choices are essay collections by Dr. Thomas, who won the National Book Award for 1974's "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher". His "The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher" contains, in addition to the title essay, others such as "On Magic in Medicine", "On Warts", and "How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum". All of Dr. Thomas's books are both learned and a pleasure to read.
9. "The Connoisseuse of Slugs", a beautiful poem by Sharon Olds, employs slugs as symbols of what?

Answer: Awakening sexuality

Many of Ms. Olds's works concern sexuality. "The Connoisseuse of Slugs" is from 1983 and can be read at www.mrbauld.com/oldspoems.html

In classical painting symbolism, a snail signified resurrection due to its habit of hibernating in the winter and emerging, seemingly reborn, in the springtime. Snails have also appeared as symbols of self-sufficiency, fertility, and many other traits.
10. If you are a true snail lover (and really, why wouldn't you be?) you'll know the name of the TV show that introduced the world to these wonderful song lyrics. Six Snails Six tiny snails leaving six silver trails, Six silver trails as shiny as nails, Six shiny nails with six pointed tips, Six silk sails on six sailing ships. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ships. Well the six sailing ships on six spouting whales, All got home to dinner long before the snails. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 snails.

Answer: Sesame Street

They have a catchy rhythm, those snails.

Look for much, much more snail information at "The Trail of the Snail" website (www.arnobrosi.com/snail.html), where some of the information for this quiz was found.

"And seeing the snail, which everywhere doth roam,
Carrying his own house still, still is at home;
Follow-for he is easy paced-this snail,
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy gaol." (John Donne)
Source: Author LilahDeDah

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