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Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall Trivia Quiz


The questions in this quiz all have something to do with mirrors or reflections.

A multiple-choice quiz by Cath8rine. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Cath8rine
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
391,124
Updated
Oct 20 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. In which palace would you expect to see the famous Hall of Mirrors? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Anyone who looked at the face of the snake-haired Gorgon, Medusa, turned to stone. Who slew her by looking only at her reflection? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. According to the Greek myth, a young man caught sight of his own reflection in the mirror-like surface of a forest pool. He was so entranced by his own beauty that he stared at the image until he pined away and died. The flower named after him sprang up on that spot. Who was this young egotist? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What happens when Dracula looks in a mirror? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. George Smiley, John le Carre's protagonist from the Karla spy trilogy ("The Honourable Schoolboy", "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People"), also appears in several of Le Carre's other spy novels, including one with a mirror-related title. What book is this? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "They Do It with Mirrors" is a mystery novel in which amateur sleuth, Miss Marple, solves a dastardly murder committed during a weekend house party in an old Victorian mansion. Which "Queen of Crime" wrote it? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Which of these objects does not contain mirrors? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" is Lewis Carroll's sequel to "Alice in Wonderland". Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a highly respected Oxford academic. What was his subject? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Three of these famous paintings each has a mirror in it. Which one has not? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What is the difference between a one-way mirror and a two-way mirror? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In which palace would you expect to see the famous Hall of Mirrors?

Answer: Versailles

The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles is 73 meters long. 357 mirrors are framed in the 17 arches opposite the windows, reflecting the marble pillars and statuary, gold columns and crystal chandeliers. Work on the huge room started in 1678 and went on for six years. At that time mirrors were very high-end luxury items and to have so many large ones in one hall added to the extreme opulence of the palace.

After World War One, the peace treaty, known as the Treaty of Versailles, was signed here on 28 June 1919. Today the hall is used by the French government for official state occasions, such as banquets in honour of foreign heads of state.
2. Anyone who looked at the face of the snake-haired Gorgon, Medusa, turned to stone. Who slew her by looking only at her reflection?

Answer: Perseus

Perseus managed to behead Medusa by looking at her reflection in a highly polished shield given to him by the goddess Athena. He kept her head to use as a weapon against his enemies: even after death the sight of it petrified anyone who looked at it. Eventually he gave the head to Athena, who placed it on her shield.
3. According to the Greek myth, a young man caught sight of his own reflection in the mirror-like surface of a forest pool. He was so entranced by his own beauty that he stared at the image until he pined away and died. The flower named after him sprang up on that spot. Who was this young egotist?

Answer: Narcissus

The word "narcissism" has entered the language as a psychological term, describing a personality disorder by which the patient is totally self-centered and suffers from excessive vanity and self-admiration.
4. What happens when Dracula looks in a mirror?

Answer: He has no reflection.

Vampire legends have existed for centuries in many parts of the world. Bram Stoker based his Gothic horror story "Dracula" on the traditional eastern European folklore. His setting for "Dracula" is Transylvania, which is an actual region in Romania. Stoker invented many of the myths surrounding vampires, including the belief that a vampire has no reflection. Traditional folklore makes no mention of this, nor of the vampire's ability to change into a bat, another Stoker embellishment to the legend.
5. George Smiley, John le Carre's protagonist from the Karla spy trilogy ("The Honourable Schoolboy", "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Smiley's People"), also appears in several of Le Carre's other spy novels, including one with a mirror-related title. What book is this?

Answer: "The Looking-Glass War"

George Smiley appears in nine of Le Carré's spy novels, of which "The Looking-Glass War" (1965) is the fourth. Smiley is not always a major character. Sometimes he just has a peripheral role in the plot.

He and James Bond are arguably the two most famous British literary spies, but they are total opposites. Whereas Bond is a suave, well-dressed, handsome ladies' man who knows his way around a casino and is well versed in unarmed combat, Smiley is less of a macho fantasy character and more realistic. He is short and a bit portly, dresses like a middle-aged bureaucrat and keeps a low profile. Nevertheless, the more cerebral Smiley novels are every bit as suspenseful as the action-packed Bond ones.
6. "They Do It with Mirrors" is a mystery novel in which amateur sleuth, Miss Marple, solves a dastardly murder committed during a weekend house party in an old Victorian mansion. Which "Queen of Crime" wrote it?

Answer: Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie created a number of fictional sleuths, but Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are the two who appeared in most of her detective novels. She, together with her contemporaries, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, were known as the "Queens of Crime" during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction": the 1920s and 1930s. This was the period when the conventions governing the "detective puzzle" genre was established. Detective fiction, especially those books of the "cozy mystery" genre, still adhere to those patterns today. Examples of these "rules" are: no supernatural agencies must be involved; not more than one secret passage or hidden room is allowed; no undiscovered poisons may be used; no secret twins must appear unless the reader has been prepared for them; the detective himself may not be the murderer ... and so forth.

Agatha Christie herself broke this last rule, twice! I will not mention the two of her works in which the detective is the murderer, because I don't want to be a spoiler! (If you are really aching to know, message me and I'll tell you!)
7. Which of these objects does not contain mirrors?

Answer: Photocopier

Photocopiers do not use mirrors to reproduce images: rather they rely on electrically charged particles of toner that stick to the "shadow" outline of the original images that appear on a blank page. The copied page then passes through two hot rollers, that fuse the toner on to its surface.

Telescopes contain concave mirrors that intensify and focus the light from celestial bodies, heliographs are mirrors that reflect the sun in order to flash messages over long distances. We have all played with a kaleidoscope: a triangle of mirrors in a tube produce geometric patterns made by the reflection of a handful of beads or other small colourful objects in the tube.
8. "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" is Lewis Carroll's sequel to "Alice in Wonderland". Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a highly respected Oxford academic. What was his subject?

Answer: Mathematics

Making up fantasy tales to amuse the children of his friends was a hobby with Professor Dodgson, who published them under the pen name Lewis Carroll. He was a serious mathematician who published several scholarly treatises, mainly in the fields of linear and matrix algebra and mathematical logic.

Queen Victoria was delighted by Alice in Wonderland and graciously let it be known that she would be pleased to accept the dedication of Lewis Carroll's next work. In due course Her Majesty was presented with a copy of "An Elementary Treatise on Determinants", loyally inscribed to her by the author.
9. Three of these famous paintings each has a mirror in it. Which one has not?

Answer: Johannes (Jan) Vermeer: "Girl With a Pearl Earring"

"Girl With a Pearl Earring" is just a head-and-shoulders portrait of a girl wearing a turban and a pearl earring.

In "Las Meninas", we see the little Infanta Margarita and her entourage in the foreground, while off to one side is the artist Velazquez himself, at his easel, painting them. At the back of the room is a mirror on the wall in which we see the reflection of the king and queen, the Infanta's parents, watching the scene from the same viewpoint as ours.

"The Rokeby Venus" shows the nude figure of a woman reclining on a couch with her back to the viewer. In front of her, a winged cherub holds up a mirror in which her face is reflected.

"A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" shows a bar in the foreground, with an array of bottles and fruit on it. The barmaid is in the centre of the picture, and behind her a large mirror reflecting the room, and the patrons at their tables.

If you are not already familiar with these paintings, I recommend finding them on Google Images - they are well worth a look!
10. What is the difference between a one-way mirror and a two-way mirror?

Answer: No difference, they are two names for the same thing.

We have all seen one-way mirrors being used in the interview rooms on TV police dramas. One detective interrogates the suspect while his/her colleagues watch from the next room, through the glass.

One-way glass is coated with a layer of metal so thin that it is partially transparent. The preferred metal is aluminium (or aluminum if you are in America).

When the glass is placed between a brightly lit room and a darker room, the people in the well-lit room see only their own reflection, while those in the darker room see right through the glass.
Source: Author Cath8rine

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