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Quiz about Fantasy Character Creators
Quiz about Fantasy Character Creators

Fantasy Character Creators Trivia Quiz


The realms of Fantasy literature have created some truly memorable characters that we will treasure forever. This quiz is simple in layout: I'll provide the character name and maybe a brief description, you decide the author whose pen created him/her.

A multiple-choice quiz by JohntheBear. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
JohntheBear
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
244,030
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
510
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Question 1 of 10
1. Garrett is a typical P.I.: trench coat, hat, billy club, magic potions, several quarrelsome girlfriends, and a dead man in one of his rooms with whom he consults on all of his cases. Oh...did I say typical? Sorry. Who was the author who first put Garrett on the case? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, has been immortalized in books, comics, comic strips, movies and several TV series. Although newer adventures of Tarzan have been penned by numerous authors, who was it that started the Ape Man swingin'? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Runaway ex-King Jorian decided that ruling his kingdom was NOT worth the mandatory price of being beheaded at the end of his five year term. Deciding that his priorities lay elsewhere, he escaped as the apprentice of a magician who set him to stealing magical artifacts.
Who gave us the Reluctant, yet Unbeheaded King?
Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Stile was a jockey in a high tech world who discovered a parrallel world where his magic was supreme-as long as he could rhyme it up right or play it on his magic harmonica/flute/multi instrument.
This fantasy character, among others, made the creator an author with few peers. (pun intended)
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Tasslehof Burrfoot is short, kind, loveable, and although he does not consider himself a thief, keeps finding interesting things in his pack and pockets-but he never remembers putting them there. What team of authors decided it would be wise for Tas to stick his hoopak into the Wars of the Lance and other momentous events on Krynn? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Psychologist Harold Shea thought he'd follow his boss in skipping thru the alternate realities...but the logic equations only wound up dumping him at Ragnarok, and then the Realms of the Faerie Queen, and then...well, he just kept sticking his nose in the business of angry gods, werewolves and evil sorcerors. What author decided that Harold's PhD in Psychology was not really up these kind of challenges? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. One of THE favorite characters in all of modern fantasy literature: Drizzt Do'urden the dark elf. Who created him? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Lord Darcy is Chief Investigator for His Royal Highness Prince Richard of Normandy, solving crimes for the Royal Court, assisted in matters magical by Master Sorceror Sean O'Lochlainn. Who developed this evolution of an alternate history where King Richard survived the arrow and went on to found the Angevin Empire where magic is the ruling science of the age? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. This one is probably a gimme for any fantasy afficionado: Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser - who brought them to us? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Careful now, by Crom! All of the authors listed have written tales of the immortal Conan...but who started the sword swinging in the big Cimmerian's hands? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Garrett is a typical P.I.: trench coat, hat, billy club, magic potions, several quarrelsome girlfriends, and a dead man in one of his rooms with whom he consults on all of his cases. Oh...did I say typical? Sorry. Who was the author who first put Garrett on the case?

Answer: Glen Cook

Glen Cook also gave us the adventures of the mercenary Black Company. DeCamp's Harold Shea would fit in well with the often hilarious adventures that Garrett suffers through.
2. John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, has been immortalized in books, comics, comic strips, movies and several TV series. Although newer adventures of Tarzan have been penned by numerous authors, who was it that started the Ape Man swingin'?

Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Burrough's amazingly fertile imagination also produced John Carter of Mars, Carson Napier's exploration of Venus,and Pellucidar, a tropical prehistoric world at the earth's core-where Tarzan has also visited!
3. Runaway ex-King Jorian decided that ruling his kingdom was NOT worth the mandatory price of being beheaded at the end of his five year term. Deciding that his priorities lay elsewhere, he escaped as the apprentice of a magician who set him to stealing magical artifacts. Who gave us the Reluctant, yet Unbeheaded King?

Answer: L.Sprague DeCamp

DeCamp also contributed to the Conan bibliography with tales of the barbarian legend that followed a more, um, serious bent.
4. Stile was a jockey in a high tech world who discovered a parrallel world where his magic was supreme-as long as he could rhyme it up right or play it on his magic harmonica/flute/multi instrument. This fantasy character, among others, made the creator an author with few peers. (pun intended)

Answer: Piers Anthony

Anthony also brought forth the smash-hit 'Xanth' series; appalling puns and fabulous adventures for all ages.
5. Tasslehof Burrfoot is short, kind, loveable, and although he does not consider himself a thief, keeps finding interesting things in his pack and pockets-but he never remembers putting them there. What team of authors decided it would be wise for Tas to stick his hoopak into the Wars of the Lance and other momentous events on Krynn?

Answer: Weis and Hickman

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have also blessed a huge legion of 'Dragonlance' fans with the 'Death Gate Cycle' and the 'Star of the Guardians' series.
6. Psychologist Harold Shea thought he'd follow his boss in skipping thru the alternate realities...but the logic equations only wound up dumping him at Ragnarok, and then the Realms of the Faerie Queen, and then...well, he just kept sticking his nose in the business of angry gods, werewolves and evil sorcerors. What author decided that Harold's PhD in Psychology was not really up these kind of challenges?

Answer: L. Sprague DeCamp

The stories of the 'Compleat Enchanter' have long been a staple of any fantasy library/collection.
7. One of THE favorite characters in all of modern fantasy literature: Drizzt Do'urden the dark elf. Who created him?

Answer: R.A. Salvatore

Salvatore's dark elf has survived countless adventures in the 'Icewind Dale' trilogy, the 'Paths of Darkness' series, the 'Legacy of the Drow' stories, and many more. "Must" reading for fantasy buffs.
8. Lord Darcy is Chief Investigator for His Royal Highness Prince Richard of Normandy, solving crimes for the Royal Court, assisted in matters magical by Master Sorceror Sean O'Lochlainn. Who developed this evolution of an alternate history where King Richard survived the arrow and went on to found the Angevin Empire where magic is the ruling science of the age?

Answer: Randall Garrett

Garrett's original trilogy was continued by yet more magical crime solving stories by Michael Kurland.
9. This one is probably a gimme for any fantasy afficionado: Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser - who brought them to us?

Answer: Fritz Leiber

No fantasy collection could be complete without these classic sword and sorcery epics.
10. Careful now, by Crom! All of the authors listed have written tales of the immortal Conan...but who started the sword swinging in the big Cimmerian's hands?

Answer: Robert E. Howard

DeCamp and Carter contributed to the Conan mythos in the '60s and '70s, Jordan penned some half dozen books in the last decade.
Source: Author JohntheBear

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