Ray Bradbury Trivia

1. In Ray Bradbury's novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes", just what is the "something wicked"?

From Quiz Something Wicked This Way Comes

Answer: Carnival

At the beginning of the book, a lightning rod salesman (Tom Fury) predicts that a very big storm is coming (which would certainly help sales). But it's not the weather that folks need to be afraid of - it is the carnival and the people who run it.

From Quiz Martian Chronicles

Answer: Nathaniel York

She dreams of him with a rocket in the beginning of the book. She later tells her husband about him and he becomes jealous.

From Quiz Ray Bradbury's Short Stories

Answer: Frost and Fire

Incidentally, the world they live on is highly radioactive, which is the cause of their greatly accelerated lives. Sim and Lyte, the two young people, find a space ship that is able to take the people from the planet to a place where they can live life fully.

From Quiz S is For Space

Answer: 16

Many of these stories were published under other titles, and in other books.

From Quiz Burning Bright

Answer: 10 years

"...since I was 20, ten years ago."

From Quiz Get Burned by "Fahrenheit 451"

Answer: The temperature at which books burn

In the world of "Fahrenheit 451" it was illegal to read books. If you were caught, your house, your books, and possibly you would be burned.

From Quiz The Martian Chronicles

Answer: 3

There were three expeditions. The first one consisted of two men who were killed by a Martian. The second expedition were thought to be mad natives and killed. The third expedition was killed by the Martians who took the form of dead relatives of the crew. Only the fourth expedition found all the Martians dead and started to colonize the planet.

From Quiz 'Fahrenheit 451'

Answer: Mildred

Her name was changed to Linda in the classic movie.

From Quiz 'I Sing The Body Electric' Bradbury

Answer: Walt Whitman

"I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them. They will not let me off til I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul." from "The Leaves Of Grass" (1855) by Walt Whitman (1819-1892).

From Quiz 'Long After Midnight' Bradbury

Answer: Shelly Capon

What an absurd mess! Papa had sat in this Cuban bar confiding in the parrot, El Cordoba, for years. Now Papa (Hemingway) is dead and tourists flock from all over to hear the parrot spout in Papa's voice! Then the parrot begins prattling off Papa's last, and until then, unknown novel! Capon 'parrotnapped' the bird, and was offering it to the highest bidder!

From Quiz Something Wicked This Way Comes

Answer: Nightshade

True to his surname, Jim has a dark nature (a foil for Will's goodness). Given that they are almost polar opposites personality-wise, it's a wonder the two boys are friends at all. But they do have a few things in common: they are neighbours, they grew up and attended school together and "almost" share the exact same birth-time (Will was born one minute before midnight on October 30th and Jim was born 2 minutes later on Hallowe'en - yet another reference to the "lighter" side versus the "darker" side).

From Quiz Ray Bradbury's Short Stories

Answer: Dorian in Excelsus

This story is based on the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. This story is about a man who stays young, while a hidden picture grows old, showing all the hidden depravity of Dorian's life.

From Quiz Burning Bright

Answer: Mildred

A bit of a trick question, Linda was the name of Montag's wife in the 1966 movie (they thought Mildred was too old-fashioned!)

From Quiz Get Burned by "Fahrenheit 451"

Answer: The family

The "walls" were viewing screens. There was a show she could watch on the walls called "The Family". She had only three walls but she wanted Montag to buy the fourth one.

From Quiz The Martian Chronicles

Answer: 1999

The time span throughout the book is 27 years. The first expedition arrives in 1999, and the last people of the Earth come in 2026.

From Quiz 'Fahrenheit 451'

Answer: Beatty

Beatty was the Chief of the firemen.

From Quiz 'I Sing The Body Electric' Bradbury

Answer: We Shadow Forth

The story was first published in "McCalls" magazine as "The Beautiful One Is Here". The children's mother had just died, and their father got them a wonderful 'humanoid-gene mini-circuited, rechargeable AC-C Mark V Electrical Grandmother' from Fantoccini Ltd. 'Imagine a summer that would never end' is the first line of another story in this collection entitled "Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's is a Friend of Mine".

From Quiz 'Long After Midnight' Bradbury

Answer: It spoke fluent French.

It's all true, except the bird couldn't speak French. Ray himself gets into the act and sets out to rescue and return the bird - or does he? This such a funny story!

From Quiz Something Wicked This Way Comes

Answer: Mirror Maze

Despite being warned, Miss Foley enters the Mirror Maze anyway and is disturbed and scared by the images she encounters. In one of the mirrors she sees herself as a young girl, and afterwards decides to try out the carousel. Unfortunately, it doesn't turn out to be a "joy ride" in the end.

From Quiz How Well Do You Know "The Illustrated Man"?

Answer: The black people

The black people in Mars were giddy when news came that white men will come visit them on Mars. Everybody had forgotten all the lynching, suffering and torture that they had endured during their tenure back there down the Earth. Everybody but Willie Johnson, who remembers everything like it was just yesterday. Poisoning the minds of everyone in the planet, the mob of hoping jubilant expectant crowd turns into an angry welcoming committee. And then... the rocket arrives.

From Quiz Martian Chronicles

Answer: yellow buttons

This is discovered when the people from Earth first see a Martian.

From Quiz Ray Bradbury's Short Stories

Answer: The Sound of Summer Running

This story was originally part of the book "Dandelion Wine", but it is also in some of his other books of short stories.

From Quiz S is For Space

Answer: singing "I Love You Fair"

At first the father believes nothing of what she says that the woman is doing.

From Quiz Burning Bright

Answer: Guy

In his afterword, Ray Bradbury says he got the name Montag from a brand of paper.

From Quiz Get Burned by "Fahrenheit 451"

Answer: She got hit by a car

Clarisse McClellan was a friend of Guy Montag's. They used to talk together everyday until she and her family disappeared. Montag asked Mildred about this when they were talking, and Mildred said she had been run over by a car.

From Quiz The Martian Chronicles

Answer: Oxygen

Oxygen contained in atmosphere on Mars was lower and some people had problems with breathing at first. This is why one of the settlers decided that his mission was to plant trees, which were absent on Mars.

From Quiz 'Fahrenheit 451'

Answer: Clarisse

We encountered Clarisse at the beginning of the novel. Later she disappeared.

From Quiz 'I Sing The Body Electric' Bradbury

Answer: A humanoid electrical grandmother

When mother died, the father purchased the Electric Grandmother. She turned out to be the best investment he ever made, didn't she?

From Quiz How Well Do You Know "The Illustrated Man"?

Answer: Atomic war

Hernando was so accustomed to seeing tourists pass by the highway bothering the natives while the tourists take pictures. Hernando had always been fascinated about the highway, until all of a sudden, the tourists stopped coming. Hernando waited and saw a number of cars heading north seemingly in a hurry. The cars passed by him unnnoticing. On the end of this pack of rushing vehicles was a slower car. The people inside told Hernando that the end of the world had come because the atomic war had begun. Later on, Hernando wondered, "What do they mean 'the world'?"

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