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The Beaudelaires accompany Kit Snicket to the Hotel Denouement, where a number of characters from earlier books make an appearance. They end up jumping of the roof of the burning hotel in a boat with Count Olaf, using a makeshift parachute made from sheets.
6 quizzes and 60 trivia questions.
1.
  "The Penultimate Peril" - Book #12    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you drop any small thing into water, it will cause a ripple effect, thus changing everything reflected on its surface. On the other hand, avoiding the twelfth story of the Baudelaire children entirely, might actually change things for the better.
Average, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Dec 06 05
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kyleisalive editor
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2.
  The Denouement Files    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is on "The Penultimate Peril", by Lemony Snicket. Let's see what you know about Hotel Denouement!
Average, 10 Qns, Rachel xx, May 01 08
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Rachel xx
219 plays
3.
  Frank, Ernest, Dewey, or Joe    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
In Lemony Snicket's "The Penultimate Peril", there is a set of triplets. Things happen to each of them. What happens to whom?
Average, 10 Qns, Bladebla, Apr 27 07
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Bladebla
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4.
  "The Penultimate Peril" by Lemony Snicket    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The quiz you are doing now is on the second last book scribbled down by Lemony Snicket.
Average, 10 Qns, sivaofclass5a, Nov 11 19
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sivaofclass5a
Nov 11 19
569 plays
5.
  Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Hotel Denouement's clock has just chimed 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the Baudelaires have just left its top floor as a raging fire burns within. Can you recall the events earlier in Lemony Snicket's "The Penultimate Peril" that led up to this?
Tough, 10 Qns, Aunini, Sep 11 15
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Aunini
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6.
  The Penultimate Peril    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is the twelth book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
Average, 10 Qns, booklover123, Oct 01 07
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booklover123
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trivia question Quick Question
What was the weapon that made Count Olaf an orphan?

From Quiz "The Denouement Files"





The Penultimate Peril Trivia Questions
1. "The Penultimate Peril" begins in a moving taxi, taking them to the Hotel Denouement. Which Snicket sibling is the driver?

From Quiz Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

Answer: Kit

Kit was introduced in the ending of the previous installment in the series, "The Grim Grotto". Jacques sadly died in the seventh book, "The Vile Village", while Lemony is the author of the series and doesn't make an appearance within it.

2. What was the "important date" in the Hotel?

From Quiz The Denouement Files

Answer: Thursday

Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire had to work as concierges at the Hotel Denouement. They observed everyone to try to see if they were Volunteers or Villains.

3. Who is not named as one of the managers of Hotel Denouement, but does exist?

From Quiz Frank, Ernest, Dewey, or Joe

Answer: Dewey

Frank and Ernest take all the credit, and Joe doesn't exist.

4. In what type of vehicle is Kit Snicket driving?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Taxi

Surprisingly, Kit drives when she is pregnant.

5. At brunch, the Baudelaires are told they will be concierges at the Hotel Denouement, in addition to what other role/title?

From Quiz Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

Answer: Flaneurs

While all these roughly mean the same thing, flâneur refers to someone who loafs, loungers, strolls or saunters. Interestingly, it was the poetry of a real-life Charles Baudelaire that was drawn upon to bring scholarly interest to the term.

6. Which manager did Violet meet as she continued her duties as a concierge?

From Quiz The Denouement Files

Answer: Frank

Frank tried to stop her giving the harpoon gun to Carmelita, but was unfathomable. Actually, if Violet HADN'T given the gun to the "young girl on the roof", one of the managers wouldn't have died.

7. Who is a legendary figure among V.F.D.?

From Quiz Frank, Ernest, Dewey, or Joe

Answer: Dewey

Most members don't think that he actually exists, and that he's an urban legend or something.

8. In what way was Hotel Denouement built to be 'invisible'?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: It is built far away that its reflection on the water confuses the passers-by

The Hotel was a headquarters to the V.F.D where everybody meet.

9. Who runs the Indian restaurant?

From Quiz The Penultimate Peril

Answer: Hal

After members of V.F.D. went to Heimlich Hospital to find out what happened, Hal came to the hotel to help out, or rather to make bad Indian food.

10. What is 'La Forza del Destino'?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" - Book #12

Answer: An opera

This opera was the one which the Baudelaire parents saw on their last night alive. Through the story, it is brought up time and time again because of the way that it coincidentally has some common events. For example, at one point, a character is shot and killed when a gun is accidentally shot.

11. Upon arriving at the Hotel Denouement, the Baudelaires are each assigned separate tasks. Violet's task takes her to the sunbathing salon on the rooftop, where she encounters which rude former classmate?

From Quiz Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

Answer: Carmelita Spats

"The Penultimate Peril" is the fourth book in which the Baudelaire siblings have had to deal with Carmelita Spats, after "The Austere Academy", "The Slippery Slope" and "The Grim Grotto". She is rowing a boat (currently named after her) in the swimming pool.

12. Who is the real J.S?

From Quiz The Denouement Files

Answer: They all are

They all have the initials J.S, so they are all the real J.S. When a message was sent to J.S, Jerome and Justice Strauss both thought that it was for them. Jerome said that sometimes he felt like an impostor.

13. Who is not a member of V.F.D?

From Quiz Frank, Ernest, Dewey, or Joe

Answer: Joe

He does not exist, so can't be a member of V.F.D. You sort of have to exist to be part of something.

14. What are the Baudelaires supposed to be?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Flâneur

The word Flâneur in French means a person who serves other people.

15. What does the clock say when it strikes the hour?

From Quiz The Penultimate Peril

Answer: Wrong

In many chapters in the book, you can hear the clock ring this.

16. What number can be found on the elevator doors in the Hotel Denouement?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" - Book #12

Answer: 118

The Baudelaire orphans dress up as concierges and begin their new jobs as flaneurs in order to find out who at the Hotel Denouement is a volunteer and who is an enemy. Their managers, Frank and Ernest, were particularly confusing to distinguish. Both looked identical, yet one was an enemy and one was a volunteer. The Hotel Denouement was also quite odd. Not only was the building on a weird angle, but the whole building was organized by the Dewey Decimal Library System. 118 was the force and energy section, so the elevators were placed in it.

17. Klaus's task requires him to take his former sawmill colleague Sir (from "The "Miserable Mill") to the sauna. Which other workmate is accompanying him?

From Quiz Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

Answer: Charles

Phil was the optimistic man they met there, but he disappeared suddenly after they were reunited in the previous book, "The Grim Grotto". The other two are made up. They previously encountered Sir and Charles while working at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill in Paltryville, where all the workers were (illegally) paid in coupons. Apparently, this is still the case.

18. Who did the Baudelaires NOT recognise in the Hotel?

From Quiz The Denouement Files

Answer: They recognised them all

They also saw Mr Remora, Mrs Bass and Vice Principal Nero. The Baudelaires had to work as concierges at the Hotel, and to observe everyone as a Flaneur.

19. Who has a catalogue the size of the hotel?

From Quiz Frank, Ernest, Dewey, or Joe

Answer: Dewey

He collects all the information he finds and sorts it by the Dewey decimal system.

20. What was the name of the decimal system which the rooms are cataloged by?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Dewey Decimal System

The Dewey Decimal System was named after the triplets with the surname Denouement.

21. What are the names of Dewey's two brothers?

From Quiz The Penultimate Peril

Answer: Frank and Ernest

Frank and Ernest are indeed the names of his brothers, but you never know which is Frank, the volunteer, and which is Ernest, the villain.

22. While performing her duties as a concierge, what was Violet forced to bring to Carmelita and Esmé?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" - Book #12

Answer: A harpoon gun

The Baudelaires split up to perform their errands for various people in the hotel. Violet took the job up on the roof where the rooftop sunbathing salon was located, and she was forced to retrieve a harpoon gun for Carmelita (who was now a ballplaying cowboy superhero soldier pirate). Luckily, no one could recognize Violet as a Baudelaire because of her disguise.

23. Sunny's task takes her to a restaurant as she is accompanying some former teachers. Which type of food is served at the restaurant?

From Quiz Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

Answer: Indian

The Indian restaurant is being run by Hal, the visually impaired man they met during "The Hostile Hospital". The food, sadly, is not up to scratch.

24. Who had Sunny turn the laundry room door into a Vernacularly Fastened Door?

From Quiz Frank, Ernest, Dewey, or Joe

Answer: Dewey

It is a diversion to make everyone think the sugar bowl fell into the laundry room.

25. What does Carmelita Spats proclaim herself as?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" by Lemony Snicket

Answer: Ballplaying cowboy superhero soldier pirate

Carmelita even bellows at Violet, who was supposed to serve them, to bring a harpoon gun.

26. _________ Baudelaire offered to help Count Olaf get his boat off of the roof.

From Quiz The Penultimate Peril

Answer: Violet

Klaus offers help on opening the Vernucularly Fastened Door, Violet offers to get his boat off the roof, and Sunny burns down the hotel.

27. While performing his duties as a concierge, Klaus ended up discovering that Sir and Charles were staying at the Hotel Denouement. What other unfortunate book can Sir and Charles be found in?

From Quiz "The Penultimate Peril" - Book #12

Answer: The Miserable Mill

Klaus decides to take the task at room 674, the lumber processing and wood products room. When he arrives, he runs into Sir and Charles (who don't recognize him in the concierge disguise), and he has to take them to the sauna just down the hallway. He ends up sneaking in on a conversation, and he puts birdpaper on the window shutters for Frank or Ernest.

28. Afterwards, the Baudelaires rejoin each other, where one of the identical sibling hotel owners joins them - which one?

From Quiz Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

Answer: Dewey

Dewey is the third Denouement sibling, who doesn't get as much recognition as his brothers. He tells the children he has spent his whole ife collecting V.F.D. secrets.

29. What was the weapon that made Count Olaf an orphan?

From Quiz The Denouement Files

Answer: Poison darts

Earlier in the book, Count Olaf says to the children "I guess the sub-sub-librarian hasn't told you the story about your parents, and a box of poison darts"...

30. Who is the sub-sub-librarian?

From Quiz Frank, Ernest, Dewey, or Joe

Answer: Dewey

He puts any information he finds into his catalogue, which is under the pond.

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