Hooray for Hermione Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jean

Hermione Jean Granger is the brilliant muggle-born witch, whose parents are dentists. Eventually, she marries Ron Weasley, which may not have been one of her brighter ideas. Who knows?

Answer: Hermione Gingold

Hermione Gingold lived to a ripe old age and kept working throughout. She was in dozens of shows and plays, as well as radio. She had two sons by her marriage to Michael Joseph, although she was a very absent mother by all accounts. Stephen Joseph was a pioneer of 'theatre in the round' and founded the theatre in Scarborough which still bears his name.

Answer: Hermione Baddeley

Hermione Baddeley appeared in many films, including 'Brighton Rock' and 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown'. Her sister, Angela Baddeley, will be familiar to many people as Mrs Bridges in 'Upstairs, Downstairs'.

Answer: Hermione Norris

Hermione Norris has appeared in numerous TV productions, including 'Wire in the Blood' and 'Kingdom'.
Her many stage appearances include a run in 2010/11 as Ruth in a stage production of 'Blithe Spirit'.

Answer: A Winter's Tale

Hermione is the Queen of Sicily, and wife of King Leontes. Heavily pregnant, she is thrown into prison by her husband who believes that she has been unfaithful, and there she gives birth to a daughter, Perdita. There follows a series of events in which people are lost/believed dead/disguised/found and finally reunited. Typical Shakespeare really - with probably one of the best stage directions found anywhere - 'Exit, pursued by a bear'.

Answer: Purple

This deep purple dye gave a colour similar to amethyst.
Another purple dye, also made from Murex, was made by the Phoenicians in Tyre, and it was known as Tyrian purple.

Answer: Helen of Troy and Menelaus

In the story, Helen of Troy ran away with Paris and left her daughter Hermione behind. King Menelaus pursued the runaway couple to Troy, and the ensuing story is told in the 'Iliad', Homer's epic tale of the Trojan Wars.

Answer: Lafayette

Twelve ships of the French Navy have borne this name, and a replica was launched in 2012.
In 2015 she undertook a voyage to America, to reaffirm the ties between France and the USA.

Lafayette fought in many battles on the American side, and served in the Continental Army which, in 1781, blocked British troops under Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown until other French and American forces arrived. He is regarded as a hero in both countries.

Answer: P G Wodehouse

Hermione Bostock is the forceful daughter of Sir Aylmer Bostock , and appears in the novel 'Uncle Dynamite'. Wodehouse's most famous creations are probably Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves.

Answer: Mutiny

HMS Hermione was launched in 1782. In 1797 a number of her crew, driven to desperation by the cruelty and unreasonableness of the Captain Hugh Pigot, turned on the captain and officers and brutally murdered eight of them as well as Pigot.
Fearing retribution for their deeds, the remaining crew set sail for Spain and handed the ship over to the Spanish authorities. The ship was renamed 'Santa Cecilia' and several of the crew remained aboard.
Eventually, the ship was recaptured by HMS Surprise, under Captain Edward Hamilton. The mutiny was regarded as the bloodiest in Royal Naval history, and eventually 33 of the mutineers were brought to trial; twenty-four were hanged, one was transported and the rest were pardoned.
The ship was renamed 'Retaliation', and 1800 renamed again to become 'Retribution'. She was broken up in 1805.