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After escaping the Village of Fowl Devotees, the Beaudelaires meet a musical group called Volunteers Fighting Disease, and go with them to Heimlich Hospital. Esmé and Count Olaf are hot on their heels.
4 quizzes and 45 trivia questions.
1.
  A Horrible Quiz on "The Hostile Hospital"    
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 10 Qns
The eighth book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket is called "The Hostile Hospital". How much do you know about it?
Average, 10 Qns, AdamM7, Mar 06 15
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AdamM7
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  Questions on The Hostile Hospital    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on book number 8 in "A Series of Unfortunate Events". How good is your memory? Check it out!
Average, 10 Qns, triviawhiz444, Feb 21 06
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  What do you know about The Hostile Hospital?    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Left at the cliffhanger that ended book 7 the Baudelaires do not only have Count Olaf and his troupe against them but also have the police after them for Count Olafs murder. It starts with them entering a very strange store.
Average, 15 Qns, funkyduncan, Apr 16 17
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  "The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket    
Multiple Choice
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This is my first quiz. I hope you will like it.
Average, 10 Qns, sivaofclass5a, Apr 16 07
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trivia question Quick Question
Where do the Baudelaires end up in the end of the story?

From Quiz ""The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket"





The Hostile Hospital Trivia Questions
1. "The Hostile Hospital" is the first book in the series to properly continue from where the previous book left off; what unfortunate circumstance were the Baudelaires in at the end of "The Vile Village" and the start of this book?

From Quiz A Horrible Quiz on "The Hostile Hospital"

Answer: Framed as murderers and had to run away

Count Olaf, in an attempt to steal the Baudelaires' fortune, disguised himself as Detective Dupin and framed the Baudelaire children for murder in the previous novel. They were forced to flee, as villagers in the place they were staying were going to burn them at the stake.

2. Where do the Baudelaires send a message to Mr. Poe?

From Quiz "The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Last Chance General Store

When the Baudelaires reach there, they wait for hours and hours, waiting to receive the reply.

3. What type of message do the Baudelaires send to Mr Poe?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Telegram

The Baudelaires send a telegram to Mr Poe STOP. They wait all night for a reply STOP. The word STOP at the end of every sentence is how you end a sentence in a telegram STOP.

4. What was the name of the newspaper that portrayed the innocent Bauldelaire orphans as murdering fiends?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: The Daily Punctilio

The newspaper nearly got the Bauldelaires arrested because of their story.

5. The Baudelaires manage to avoid immediate danger by joining an organisation called "V.F.D." What do the initials in the name of the group stand for?

From Quiz A Horrible Quiz on "The Hostile Hospital"

Answer: Volunteers Fighting Disease

The Quagmires tried to tell the Baudelaires a secret about "V.F.D." at the end of "The Austere Academy"; at the end of "The Vile Village", a man called Jacques said that he worked for a volunteer organisation. The Baudelaires climbed aboard the van just in time to avoid being arrested for murder, wondering if this group was the one they were searching for. Unfortunately, it wasn't.

6. What shape are the balloons which Volunteers Fighting Disease have?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Heart-shaped

Volunteers Fighting Disease (VFD) carry heart-shaped balloons. They can't be the real VFD because they would be carrying eye-shaped balloons.

7. What is the motto of the Volunteers Fighting Disease?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: No news is good news.

That is an odd motto, isn't it?

8. The Baudelaires travel with this organisation to a hospital. What is it called?

From Quiz A Horrible Quiz on "The Hostile Hospital"

Answer: Heimlich Hospital

The Volunteers Fighting Disease attempt to help ill people by handing out heart-shaped balloons and singing at Heimlich Hospital, which Daniel Handler (the author) named after the Heimlich Maneuver.

9. What does the shopkeeper make, to give the Baudelaires food?

From Quiz "The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Cranberry Muffins

The shopkeeper gives it to them free of charge.

10. What instrument does the bearded man play?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Guitar

It is unlikely that the Baudelaires would be standing around listening to someone play the piano or the cello. It is however more likely that they are in a van listening to someone play the guitar or the violin. If you look at the lyrics of the VFD song you can work out that the bearded man is playing the guitar. It says in the text what he plays after the song.

11. What shape are the balloons that the Volunteers Fighting Disease give out?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: heart & hearts

The Volunteers Fighting Disease give you a heart-shaped balloon when you ask for anything. You want a glass of water? You get a heart-shaped balloon. A pillow? You get a heart-shaped balloon. Kind of strange, huh?

12. At the hospital, the children work at the Library of Records, with a staff member called what?

From Quiz A Horrible Quiz on "The Hostile Hospital"

Answer: Hal

Hal is very elderly and has quite bad eyesight. He needs the children to help him in the Library of Records, partially due to the volume of filing work and partially because he has lost some of the keys to the cabinets.

13. What is the shopkeeper's name?

From Quiz "The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Milt

Lou the newspaper deliverer calls out his name - "Milt".

14. What is unusual about the way Heimlich Hospital is built?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: One side is finished and the other side is scaffolding

Lemony Snicket says "The Baudelaires could only half agree with the bearded man for the simple reason that it was only half true. One side was finished with beautiful writing saying Heimlich and the other side was scaffolding and was not looked after.

15. The Daily Punctilio incorrectly reports Count Olaf's name. They print it as what?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Count Omar

The Daily Punctilio gets most things wrong.

16. The Baudelaires sneak into the Library of Records to find a file they hear is about them, the "Snicket file". Which page of the file, a recurring number in the series, do they find?

From Quiz A Horrible Quiz on "The Hostile Hospital"

Answer: 13

The other pages of the Snicket file have been removed, but the last page (#13) was accidentally left behind. It shows a picture of the Baudelaire parents, along with Jacques Snicket and a person who it is hinted may be Lemony Snicket, with the caption "Because of the evidence discussed on page nine, experts now suspect that there may in fact be one survivor of the fire, but the survivor's whereabouts are unknown."

17. What is the meaning of cranioectomy?

From Quiz "The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Beheading

The audience watch with enthusiasm and excitement, as they were watching their first cranioectomy.

18. Esme Gigi Genevieve Squalor claims to be the city's _______ most important financial adviser.

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: sixth

Why you would go around saying that you are number six, I have no clue.

19. Esme captures one of the siblings after cornering them in the library; they are taken to an operating theatre where a "cranioectomy" will be performed on them. Which sibling is this?

From Quiz A Horrible Quiz on "The Hostile Hospital"

Answer: Violet

Klaus and Sunny are small enough to escape out of a chute in the library, but Violet is trapped after Esme knocks over many of the filing cabinets. She is given anaesthetics to make her drowsy, and taken to the operating theatre. "Cranio-" means "head", and "-ectomy" means "removal", so it is clear Olaf plans to kill her.

20. What does Sunny mean by, "Recazier"?

From Quiz "The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: "Why do you want to eat alphabet soup?"

Klaus and Sunny were in a terrible hurry; Sunny asks Klaus what he is doing.

21. What aisle was the thirteenth page of the Snicket file found in?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: The B aisle

The Baudelaires first look in the S aisle for Snicket, then the F aisle for Fires, then the Q aisle for Quagmires then finally the B aisle for Baudelaires.

22. At least one of the Bauldelaire children are trapped in the Library of Records. Who gets trapped?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Violet

Poor Violet. Getting trapped in there nearly killed her...

23. With one sibling in danger, the other to rush to the rescue. They disguise themselves as Olaf's assistants, who are posing as Dr. Tocuna and Nurse Flo. These names are wordplay based on which character?

From Quiz A Horrible Quiz on "The Hostile Hospital"

Answer: Count Olaf

They are anagrams of Count Olaf, as are the hook-handed man's pseudonym, Dr. O Lucafont, and the bald man's name, Flacutono. Anagrams are a big theme in "The Hostile Hospital", as Klaus and Sunny manage to find their sister because her name in a list of patients is an anagram of her real one, and many other names in the list are also anagrams. One character (Carrie E. Abelabudite) is even an anagram of "Beatrice Baudelaire", a hint to the identity of the mysterious woman the narrator (Snicket) constantly refers to.

24. Who has the nickname Ed?

From Quiz "The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Thomas Alva Edison

Lemony Snicket writes that his father only called him Ed.

25. Who gets captured by Esmé Gigi Genivieve Squalor?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Violet

The capture of Violet turns everything around in this story. Right to the worst shelter ever.

26. Count Olaf was disguised as whom?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Mattathias

Jacques was not Count Olaf, but people thought he was. Babs was the first voice behind the speaker, and Lou was the newspaper deliverer.

27. How does Klaus divert the audience of the cranioectomy?

From Quiz "The Hostile Hospital" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Telling them about the history of knives

Fortunately, none of the crew members of Count Olaf were able to recognize that one of his white-faced women has a lot of knowledge.

28. Who do Klaus and Sunny walk around with in chapter 8?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Volunteers Fighting Disease

The Baudelaires walk around singing the VFD song. They escape into a store cupboard where they solve anagrams.

29. Count Olaf gave Violet an alias. What was it?

From Quiz The Hostile Hospital

Answer: Laura V. Bleediotie

It turned out that Laura V. Bleediotie was an anagram for Violet Bauldelaire.

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