Authors D-G: 'E' Trivia

1. How does Bastian obtain the book "The Neverending Story"?

From Quiz The Neverending Quiz

Answer: He steals it from a shop.

Bastian Balthazar Bux loves books (his surname is even pronounced "books"), and a book with a story that never ends is too tempting to pass up. Because he steals it, he's sure he can never go home, so he runs away to the school attic to read it.

From Quiz "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie" The Book

Answer: A member of the Foot Clan

The book opens with several panels on page one showing as a member of the Foot Clan sneaks up on and then pickpockets an unsuspecting New Yorker. The book was drawn by original Turtles creator Kevin Eastman. It's a bit of an oddity, a comic book adaptation of a movie based on a comic book.

From Quiz Enchantress from the Stars

Answer: Elana

The book is Elana writing up a report of what she and her team did on Andrecia. She writes her own sections in first person; Jarel's are in third person. Georyn's are also in third person, but are written like a fairy tale--Elana is always called "Enchantress" or "Lady."

From Quiz "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards

Answer: Paul and Phoebe

The twins were named Paul and Phoebe. Paul, the son, was a healthy baby. However, Phoebe, the daughter, had something wrong with her.

From Quiz "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco

Answer: Gospel of John

The line says "In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God". Since the narrator and the hero are monks and the events take place in a monastery during the Middle Ages, it was an obvious choice for the beginning of the prologue. It expresses the narrator's deep and original faith to the Grace and Mercy of God.

From Quiz Eating Up "Like Water for Chocolate"

Answer: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

The subtitle and the structure of Esquivel's novel reflect the inspiration of women's magazines of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a mix of recipes, household hints, romantic fiction, and personal stories from women's lives. The novel takes more than a few steps across the line into eroticism, however, and even the recipes are over the top. Martha Stewart this is not. The line "A Mystical Mexican Love Story..." comes from a "USA Today" blurb on the cover of the paperback edition that I am using: First Anchor Books Edition, 1995. (The novel was first published in 1989.) "The Bubbling Passion..." phrase comes from the Wikipedia article on the book. "Love in the Time of Cholera" is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

From Quiz I Know My First Name Is Steven

Answer: his father

He was always following his dad around. His dad described him as being like a puppy dog, and his mom said that she couldn't blame him because his dad got to do all the cool things. After they moved from the country to the suburbs, he didn't follow his dad around quite as much. He was able to adjust but he wasn't as happy as he used to be.

From Quiz Repent Harlequin: The Harlan Ellison Quiz

Answer: Ohio

On May 27, 1934, in Cleveland , Ohio...to be exact. Harlan's family moved to Painesville Ohio when Harlan was very young, but they later returned to Cleveland.

From Quiz "Jane Slayre": "Jane Eyre" meets "Buffy Summers"

Answer: Her late Uncle Reed visited her one night and told her so.

Her Uncle Reed had become a vampire (or vampyre, as they were called in the book) one evening while he was bringing young orphaned Jane to live at his home. Once his wife found out, she wanted to be one too and then insisted that their children become vampires also. But Uncle Reed hated being a vampire and hired a slayer to kill him. He now wanted Jane to find her living relatives to pursue training with them and then come back to free his family.

From Quiz The Boys Next Door

Answer: Sean Vader

Towards the end of the book when Lori and Adam are going out Lori realizes she loves Adam, but previously she had a major crush on the middle Vader boy, Sean. In fact, she only started going out with Adam in the first place to make Sean jealous.

From Quiz How to Ruin My Teenage Life

Answer: Perk Me Up!

Working at Perk Me Up! coffee shop is Amy's punishment. Her dad wants her to pay him back for using his credit card without permission.

From Quiz 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter'

Answer: 1964

David and Norah were expecting a child in three weeks when Norah unexpectedly went into labor. Her husband, an orthopedist, delivered both babies in his clinic.

From Quiz A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Answer: Memoir

Eggers tends to use the Real Life nature to his advantage, as he is constantly breaking the fourth wall (a term describing an author who addresses the reader directly) and referring to his memoir-production in featured conversations.

From Quiz "Invisible Man" Basics

Answer: No name mentioned

The fact that the main character's name is never mentioned emphasizes his invisibility.

From Quiz Dusty Fog - the Fastest Gun in the West.

Answer: Dustine Edward Marsden Fog

He was given the name Dustine Edward Marsden Fog, but is usually called only Dusty Fog.

From Quiz The Horse Whisperer

Answer: Judith

'Just turned fourteen, Judith was nearly a year older than Grace and in decisions as weighty as risking the ever-ready wrath of Mrs. Dyer, Grace was happy to defer.' The girls' horses Pilgrim and Gulliver shared the same type of relationship.

From Quiz Jeffery Eugenides "The Virgin Suicides"

Answer: Mary's old cosmetics

Lux's brassiere was exhibit #81, Bonnie's candles were exhibit #57 and Therese's specimen slides were exhibit #62.

From Quiz Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' Quiz

Answer: Italian

Umberto Eco, as well as writing highly entertaining books, is also a professor at the University of Bologna and lives in Milan.

From Quiz She's My "Virgin Suicide"

Answer: Cruel Crux

Strange that they were called the virgin suicides because it was plainly obvious that Lux was not a virgin by the time of her death. Though BleedingWhiteRose offered the explanation that maybe the title referred to the boys since they were dead from the beginning in a way, and wasted their lives obsessing over the girls. So that when the girls suicided, something in them died too.

From Quiz Like Water For Chocolate

Answer: Onion & onions

She was born when her mother was chopping onions and because of that she was born crying.

From Quiz Shusako Endo's "Deep River"

Answer: Cynical

Mitsuko is a cynical woman who constantly picks on her friend, Otsu, for his Christian beliefs.

From Quiz Graham Edwards' Dragoncharm Character Quiz

Answer: Ordinal

Ordinal is a member of the Council. She was leader of the Charmed dragons at South Point.

From Quiz The Neverending Quiz

Answer: Green skin and blue hair

His people, the Greenskins, have green skin and long blue-black hair. Right as he is about to lead a hunt where he will become a hunter, the centaur Cairon shows up and gives him the mission to find out how the Childlike Empress can be cured of her illness. Atreyu is upset at first because he won't get a chance to become a hunter for another year. Then he realizes that finding a cure for the Childlike Empress is much more important than leading a hunt.

From Quiz Enchantress from the Stars

Answer: Dragon

The native Andrecians have no concept of technology. The leveler happens to resemble a dragon, so they try to defeat it as if it were a real dragon. Georyn and his brothers get permission to go after the "dragon," and en route they meet Elana, the "Enchantress."

From Quiz "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards

Answer: His nurse

Caroline Gill was Dr. Henry's nurse. She helped Dr. Henry deliver his children, Paul and Phoebe.

From Quiz "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco

Answer: William of Baskerville

The name itself is a clear reference to Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Also, throughout the novel, William refers to observation and deduction, which are used as detective techniques by Holmes. Finally, the name "Baskerville" reminds us of the most famous of Holmes' adventures, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

From Quiz Eating Up "Like Water for Chocolate"

Answer: Place a bit of the onion on top of your head.

The reader realizes right away that she is in the realm of fantasy, superstition, or "magical realism" when told that Tita could be heard sobbing in the womb and was born in the kitchen when her mother's water broke, her early labor brought on by the crying of the unborn baby, caused by the onions. This also lets us know that Tita, the great-aunt of the narrator, is a person whose intense emotions can have physical effects. The January chapter begins the pattern that continues throughout the book, using the month for a title, and starting with a recipe that includes sardines, chorizo sausage, onion, oregano, chilies, and hard rolls.

From Quiz I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Answer: 109 years

In this time, the five humans haven't aged, and are kept almost immortal by AM.

From Quiz Repent Harlequin: The Harlan Ellison Quiz

Answer: Five

Ellison was first married in 1956. In 1986, Ellison married Susan Toth, his fifth wife.

From Quiz "Jane Slayre": "Jane Eyre" meets "Buffy Summers"

Answer: He reanimated dead students and sold them as servants.

Jane's friend, Helen Burns, told her that a Bokor was a voodoo priest who can create zombies. Jane began to suspect that several of the students at Lowood might be zombies since they reminded her of the Reeds's maid, Abbot, who it turned out was a former student at Lowood. Mr. Bokorhurst would "harvest" dead students and turn them into zombies. Apparently, zombies made excellent domestic servants as long as they didn't eat meat (one taste and they'd go after any flesh they could find).

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