Authors A-C: 'B' Trivia

61. "There are but two sentiments to which I am constant," Lord Byron famously said, "a strong love of _____, and a detestation of cant."

From Quiz The Romantic Lord Byron

Answer: Liberty

His "strong love of liberty" inspired him to train and subsidizes the Republican forces in Missolonghi, Greece in their War for Independence. There he died at the age of 36.

From Quiz The Unexpected Dragon

Answer: Talitha

Remember that her Mother had named her Talitha which means 'beautiful' only because her father wanted her to. But her mother had only called her 'girl' while she was growing up beacuse she wanted her to be thought of as ugly. Then Summer and the priest come up with the name Summer after her mother dies.

From Quiz I Am Not Esther

Answer: braid it

Kirby went to live with her relatives after her mom disappeared.

From Quiz "To Protect An Heiress" by Adrienne Basso

Answer: Lavinia

Hawkins (Julian Wingate's valet) killed Lavinia by mistake. He was supposed to be trying to kill Meredith because she said no to Julian's proposal.

From Quiz Robin Hood.. the play

Answer: Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor is the mother of King John, Robin's biggest rival. She also doesn't like her son. She is happy that Marian and Robin get together.

From Quiz Flags of Our Fathers

Answer: James Bradley

James Bradley is the son of the flagraiser Jack Bradley.

From Quiz Samuel Beckett

Answer: French, Italian

He earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1927

From Quiz 'When the Legends Die' by Hal Borland

Answer: food was scarce

They left Pagosa because George killed a man, but left the reservation because there wasn't enough food.

From Quiz Planet of the Apes

Answer: Pierre Boulle

The French Pierre Boulle has also written 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. Rod Sterling wrote the script for 1968 adaptation of the book, starring Charlton Heston. Cornelius Zaius is simply a name I made up composed of two important characters in the book.

From Quiz Poppy Z. Brite

Answer: Courtney Love

It's called 'Coutney Love: The Real Story'.

From Quiz Le Colonel Chabert

Answer: The Restoration

The Hundred Years' War with England took place in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with a hiatus in the late 1340's for the Black Death. The French Revolution began in 1789 and the period it ushered in lasted until Napoleon seized power in 1799, crowning himself Emperor in 1804. His Empire had two phases, the second of which ended in 1815 with his defeat at Waterloo. After his exile to the island of St. Helena, the remaining powers of Europe restored the Bourbon dynasty to the throne of France. It is during this Restoration, with its social (but bloodless) upheaval, that 'Le Colonel Chabert' takes place.

From Quiz The Cautionary Quiz on Belloc's Hilarious Tales

Answer: Read or write

Sarah was unable to read a sign that warned: "BEWARE THE VERY FURIOUS BULL". She climbed into the field where the bull was kept. Luckily the bull was in a playful mood and merely tossed her into a hedge. Sarah was not encouraged to learn her letters by this mishap, however. She was confirmed in her opinion that any writing meant trouble and afterwards kept away from any printed signs whatever they might say.

From Quiz "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman

Answer: She is dead.

Ove constantly talks to his wife, asks her opinion, and does little things around the house that she would either like or that would annoy her. We find out that she died of cancer six months ago and he misses her very much. As he thinks back to their courtship and life together, he describes his life as being in black and white and his wife bringing color into it. He misses her so much that he frequently visits her grave to speak to her and constantly thinks about her. He hasn't packed up or cleaned out anything in the house that belonged to her.

From Quiz Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

Answer: 701 BC

The northern kingdom of Israel had previously been taken captive by the Assyrians. The southern kingdom of Judah survived as their vassals. King Hezekiah, however, made a stand against Assyria by breaking religious idols and refusing to pay tribute. In response, in approximately 701 BC, the Assyrian king Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem. The siege is mentioned on Sennacherib's Annals of his military campaign in Judah and described in the Bible in 2 Kings 18-19 and Isaiah 36-37.

From Quiz James Baldwin

Answer: Bildungsroman

In German, "bildung" means self-cultivation and "roman" means novel. Bildungsroman is a coming-of-age literary genre focusing on the growth of a main character from youth to adulthood. Published in 1953, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" follows the development of a clever teenager name John Grimes in 1930s Harlem.

From Quiz Sandra Brown's Novel "Sting"

Answer: Her talents were useful in his business.

Jordie was well known in the community as an upstanding citizen and event planner. She was a good hostess, and Billy Panella planned to use her reputation and talents to execute his cons and scams.

From Quiz The Pilgrim's Progress

Answer: Christian

Although he was called Christian while making his journey, his original name was Graceless. There is a Hopeful in the story, but he is Christian's companion rather than the main character. The other two are not in the book.

From Quiz Six Decrees of Francis Bacon

Answer: Restoration after decay or decline

Not a word in common use today, although perhaps the concept could use with some promotion, instauration refers to repairing something to its original state after it has deteriorated over time. Bacon was referring to the efforts of the Greek philosophers to establish a logical and systematic approach to the understanding of human thought, a lofty goal which he felt had not been achieved because of the limitations of their approach, and subsequent acceptance of its inherent fallacies. As Bacon says in the introduction, "Being convinced that the human intellect makes its own difficulties, not using the true helps which are at man's disposal soberly and judiciously - whence follows manifold ignorance of things, and by reason of that ignorance mischiefs innumerable - he thought all trial should be made, whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things, which is more precious than anything on earth, or at least than anything that is of the earth, might by any means be restored to its perfect and original condition, or if that may not be, yet reduced to a better condition than that in which it now is."

From Quiz Best Kept Secrets

Answer: Night of Error

The thieves have stolen Mike's brother's personal effects, all but a small nodule of manganese that had rolled under the bed and a diary containing a series of his brother's shorthand codes. The manganese proves to be more than the ordinary mineral it looks like and soon Mike finds himself sailing the seas to distant corners of the globe with a murderous band at his heels and the eruption of an underwater volcano to keep things interesting. "Night of Error" was Bagley's second last novel and was published in 1984.

From Quiz What Do You Know About "The Child Thief"?

Answer: Avalon

The name of this place and that of the original Peter Pan story are not the same. In Barrie's story, Peter leads the Darling children to Nevernever Land. However, Brom refers to this place as Avalon.

From Quiz The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Answer: Ophelia

Ophelia, age 17, is an accomplished pianist, while Daphne, 13, is an avid reader. Both delight in harassing their little sister, but Flavia can definitely hold her own with them. They taunt her by saying she was adopted. Flavia retaliates by dissolving Feely's pearls in acid and infusing a box of chocolates with noxious gas.

From Quiz The Salt Eaters

Answer: Old Wife

Velma remembers a gathering in which her friends, neighbours, and colleagues record notes for an upcoming campaign-- plans, bylaws, jobs, charities-- and the community just doesn't want to listen to it. They decide, however, to formalize their group, calling themselves Women for Action, and lay down ground rules in order to put their priorities into action. They also criticize their guests, men responsible for running for council in town and others who rely on them to get ideas in motion. The ladies' request: recognition and reward. Their work has gone unnoticed far too long. While Velma sits in on the meeting and makes her point, she goes back further, remembering more from her past-- marches, fatigue, protest-- but it all comes back to the meeting...and dinner with Obie...and Miz Minnie performing her ritual at the hospital. Miz Minnie gets in touch with her spirit guide, a person from her past nicknamed 'Old Wife', and realizes she may have met her match in the Henry girl, whose frequency is completely different from her own. The two of them recall her past and how she came into her healing ways while they stall for time. People begin to leave the infirmary, worried that they might not see anything happen, and Minnie decides to set off on her own to pull Velma free.

From Quiz The Sweet Hereafter

Answer: Lydia

Dolores continued to Billy Ansel's house to pick up his children on the way through town; he followed along in his truck on the way to work. Dolores made her way, as usual, to Marlowe Road, the poorest part of the town of Sam Dent, to pick up the final children. Here, she saw the dog she supposes appeared before her at the time of the accident. It was a mangy dog which roamed the neighbourhood. She thought nothing of the dog as it first crossed the road but as she was taking the last stretch of road to the school, she swore that she saw a dog-- no, a blur-- something stop in the middle of the road. Acting upon this she turned the wheel right and hits the brakes. The bus began its tumult over the side of the road. Before the crash happened, Billy Ansel was waving to his children and thinking about Risa Walker, the woman with whom he'd been sleeping. His thought soon turned back to his wife, Lydia, who passed away a few years earlier. He remembered their vacation to Jamaica and how she used to act around him.

From Quiz Kage Baker's "Life of the World to Come"

Answer: Sarah

Sarah used to have him speed count the number of houses (or trees) on the shore. Alec was never wrong, he was her little "Smart Alec".

From Quiz Band Geeked Out

Answer: Connor

Ellie and sophomore Connor are a couple from the end of band camp at the beginning of the book until an upsetting breakup on the night of Ellie's senior prom. Even though Ellie doesn't like Connor at all at first, because he is two years younger than she is, they become good friends.

From Quiz M.C.Beaton ~ The Agatha Raisin Mysteries

Answer: James Lacey

Through many of the first books in this series James Lacey becomes Agatha's on-off romantic interest, helping her to solve many of her cases.

From Quiz 'Ordinary Thunderstorms' by William Boyd

Answer: GBP 100,000

Dr Philip Wang was employed by Calenture-Deutz, a pharmaceutical company. Their board voted to offer a reward of one hundred thousand pounds for information leading to Adam's arrest, although one of the directors felt that offering a reward was inappropriate.

From Quiz Pontypool Changes Everything

Answer: Ellen

Les soon turns onto Highway 7 and cleans up his car with fresh snow. Realizing that he has nothing to worry about as he has only done what a normal person would do in his situation, he turns down a sideroad to call for help at a nearby house. When he stops though, he discovers that the house's residents are also exhibiting the same tendencies as the killer. They chase him across the property before he jumps into the semi-frozen Lake Scugog and fiercely paddles through the freezing-cold waters to a boat dock. Now chilled to the bone, he lays in the boat and waits. Detective Peterson returns home with a rental car and discovers that he finds it difficult to form coherent sentences. Although they make sense in his mind, he can't form the words outwardly. His wife, Ellen, gladly receives him when he gets home and he comforts her when she needs it before they go to bed. Eventually though, the Detective receives a phone call from the police station and an officer decides to come out to help, but when he arrives, Ellen discovers that her husband has changed. He attacks the man at the door, biting into his lips and breaking both of their necks. This doesn't bring him down though; Ellen is forced to kill her husband to save herself from his rage. Les wakes up in the boat and makes his way to a house owned by an elderly couple. He finds it difficult to walk, but they welcome him over. They barely have time to react before he knocks them both out.

From Quiz "Watchers in the Night", by Jenna Black

Answer: Cool Water

In Chapter One, we learn that Carolyn had given Gray a bottle of Cool Water on their first Christmas together. He apparently still uses that brand, because Carolyn smells it on him on at least two occasions in the book.

From Quiz Poet: Ethel Lynn Beers

Answer: The Picket Guard

"The Picket Guard" was first published in "Harper's Weekly" on November 30, 1861 under her initials E B.

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