John Green Trivia

1. Who is the speaker in 'Looking for Alaska'?

From Quiz 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green

Answer: Miles Halter

Miles Halter is the protagonist of the novel 'Looking for Alaska'. The novel is written from his perspective of the story. He is a smart 16-year-old guy who gets good grades. He leaves his hometown in Florida, and moves to a boarding school in Alabama in search of a 'Great Perhaps'.

From Quiz "Paper Towns" by John Green

Answer: Orlando, Florida

Q lived in the fictional subdivision of Jefferson Park in Orlando, Florida. He was an average teenage boy. He did well in school; he hung out with his friends, Ben and Radar; he played video games; and he was kind of in love with the amazing enigma that was Margo Roth Spiegelman.

From Quiz The Fault in Our Stars

Answer: The Price of Dawn

It is from "An Imperial Affliction" that "The Fault in Our Stars" takes its epigraph. Hazel's review of "The Price of Dawn" is that there are too many bodies and not enough adjectives, though she claims to find the book's protagonist, Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, vaguely likeable, despite his killing over one hundred individuals. Gus lends Hazel the book after they watch a film together after meeting at the Cancer Support Group. He writes his phone number on the title page. "Midnight Dawns" and "Requiem for Mayhem" are the first two sequels to "The Price of Dawn". The Dutch Tulip Man is a character in "An Imperial Affliction".

From Quiz An Abundance of Katherines

Answer: 19

Colin has gone out with 19 Katherines, all of whom he thinks dumped him. He refers to the Katherines as K1, K2, K3, etc.

From Quiz 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green

Answer: Jake

Jake is Alaska's boyfriend throughout the novel. The Colonel points out that Alaska hadn't cheated on Jake, which is a first. Alaska claims to love Jake deeply, but she does cheat on him with Pudge on the night before her death. It is not certain whether she cheated on Jake because she loved Pudge or whether she acted merely on an impulse when she made out with Pudge.

From Quiz "Paper Towns" by John Green

Answer: a dead body

One day, the two kids rode their bikes to the park only to find a dead body slumped against a tree. Margo became very interested in the case and did some investigating. It turned out the man was Robert Joyner, and he had killed himself.

From Quiz The Fault in Our Stars

Answer: Caroline

Caroline Mathers died of a brain tumour while she was still dating Gus. This tumour, according to Gus, altered her personality and made her fairly unlikeable as her life reached its conclusion. Kaitlyn is Hazel's friend, Monica is Isaac's ex-girlfriend, and Anna is Peter Van Houten's daughter.

From Quiz "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Answer: Augustus

Augustus Waters had osteosarcoma and had had his leg amputated. He was in remission at the beginning of the book, but later relapsed. He was very smart and funny.

From Quiz An Abundance of Katherines

Answer: The Other Hassan (TOH)

Colin and Hassan refer to Lindsey's friends as SOCT, TOC, and Jatt. TOC is Lindsey's boyfriend.

From Quiz 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green

Answer: Pudge

Miles was ironically nicknamed 'Pudge' by the Colonel because of his skinny figure.

From Quiz The Fault in Our Stars

Answer: Lidewij Vligenthart

Lidewij quits her job after realising how horrible Van Houten can be. She takes Hazel and Gus to the Anne Frank house. The entire trip to Amsterdam is because she passed Hazel and Gus's emails on to the alcoholic author.

From Quiz "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Answer: An Imperial Affliction

The fictional novel, "An Imperial Affliction" by Peter Van Houten, was about a girl named Anna, who was diagnosed with cancer. The end of the book cut off in the middle of a sentence, leading the reader to believe she either died or became too weak to continue. Hazel felt that the ending left many questions unanswered and tried to contact the author, but he had become a recluse in the Netherlands.

From Quiz An Abundance of Katherines

Answer: Tourette's

When Colin and Hassan first meet Katrina, Colin pretends to be a French man with Tourette's. He shouts out random words/phrases in French.

From Quiz 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green

Answer: Chip Martin aka the Colonel

Pudge got to the room first on his first day at Culver Creek. His parents helped him transfer his stuff to his room. He felt that Alabama was way hotter than Florida, and also the dormitory did not have an air conditioner, so took a shower to refresh himself. Pudge got out of the shower wearing a towel just as the Colonel entered the room and was, therefore, embarrassed to meet his roommate for the first time wearing just a towel.

From Quiz The Fault in Our Stars

Answer: Swedish hip-hop

In one of his YouTube videos, author John Green stated that he listened to a lot of Swedish hip-hop while writing scenes featuring the fictional author. Much of Van Houten's philosophy on literature reflects Green's own views, including the idea that books belong to their readers; that is, an author holds no additional information about the universe of the story beyond what is written in the text. Van Houten mentions his love for Swedish hip-hop when Hazel tries to find out what becomes of the characters in "An Imperial Affliction" after the novel ends. Hazel struggles to understand how Van Houten doesn't know what happens to his characters.

From Quiz "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Answer: Isaac

Isaac was a member of the cancer support group. He had cancer in his eyes. At the beginning of the book he had already gotten one of his eyes removed. Later, after he got his second one removed, he was depressed for a while because his girlfriend broke up with him. He was very good friends with Augustus.

From Quiz An Abundance of Katherines

Answer: He made an elaborate 99 word sentence

Colin made up an elaborate sentence about catfish. Each word's first letter would stand for a digit of pi. Eg. 1- A, 2-B, 3-C, etc.

From Quiz 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green

Answer: Bufriedos

Maureen is the cook at Culver Creek. The bufriedo is a deep fried bean burrito. Pudge mentions that he experienced his first culinary orgasm while eating it. Bufriedos are usually served during Fridays in Culver Creek. The term 'bufriedo' was coined by Alaska in the novel.

From Quiz "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Answer: The Genie Foundation

The Genie Foundation granted wishes to terminally ill children. Hazel "wasted" her wish when she first found out she was terminal at 13. She and her parents went to Disney World. Augustus had been saving his wish.

From Quiz An Abundance of Katherines

Answer: a mix-up of the letters in a word to make a new word (listen silent)

Colin frequently makes anagrams in his mind to amuse himself. An anagram is a mix-up of the letters in a word to make a new word. A homonym is a word that sounds the same, but has a different meaning. A palindrome is a word or sentence that is spelled the same backward and forward. An antonym are words that are opposites.

From Quiz 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green

Answer: In Dolores's trailer with the Colonel

Pudge decided on staying at Culver Creek for Thanksgiving in the hopes of spending time alone with Alaska. But on Thanksgiving, the Colonel invited Pudge and Alaska over to spend Thanksgiving with him and his mother at the insistence of his mother.

From Quiz "Paper Towns" by John Green

Answer: a poster in her window

When Q noticed a poster of folk singer Woody Guthrie in Margo's window that wasn't there before, he thought it was a clue meant for him. He, Ben, and Radar got Margo's little sister, Ruthie, to let them into her house and they investigated her room. There, they found hundreds of vinyl records, one of which was a Woody Guthrie album. On the back of it, one song, "Walt Whitman's Niece", was circled. This led them to a book of poetry by Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass", on Margo's bookshelf.

From Quiz "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Answer: Peter Van Houten's assistant

Augustus was able to contact Peter Van Houten by e-mailing Lidewij. Lidewij was very nice and helped Augustus and Hazel set up their trip. In the end, she ended up quitting her job as Peter's assistant because of the way he treated them.

From Quiz An Abundance of Katherines

Answer: Katherine 1

Katherine 1 and 19 is a Katherine that Colin dates twice. She is his first and last Katherine. We are not told if any of the other Katherines are repeats, so it is possible that there are more.

From Quiz 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green

Answer: "The General in His Labyrinth"

Alaska wants to find out what the labyrinth is. Pudge agrees to figure it out for her on the condition that she gets him a girlfriend.

From Quiz "Paper Towns" by John Green

Answer: Song of Myself

"Song of Myself" was one of the poems in "Leaves of Grass". Margo had highlighted a lot of it. Q read the poem multiple times throughout the novel trying to get into Margo's mindset and learn more about her.

From Quiz "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Answer: Amsterdam

Peter Van Houten, the author of "An Imperial Affliction", lived in Amsterdam. Augustus and Hazel wanted to meet him, and Hazel wanted her questions answered. Augustus, Hazel, and Hazel's mom all went.

From Quiz An Abundance of Katherines

Answer: Katherine 3

Colin thinks that every Katherine has dumped him. But, when he asks Katherine 3 just to be sure, she tells him that he is the one who dumped her.

From Quiz 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green

Answer: Forgiveness

Pudge concludes that the way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. He never finds the answers to the mystery of Alaska. He forgives her, just as he thinks she forgives him for not being a good enough friend.

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