Ken Follett Trivia

1. Who has an unexpected encounter with Adolf Hitler on the evening of the Reichstag fire?

From Quiz Winter of the World

Answer: Lloyd

Lloyd and his mother Ethel are visiting the von Ulrich family in Berlin. On the evening of the fire they are having dinner in Robert von Ulrich's restaurant. Maud is still shaken up after a raid by Brownshirts on the office of 'The Democrat', the weekly magazine she's writing for. Upon leaving the restaurant they become aware of a fire nearby. They decide to take a look at what's happening and become witnesses of the Reichstag fire. Lloyd gets separated from the others and decides to take a closer look at the building, when Hitler and a couple of his cronies appear to inspect the damage. He overhears Hitler ranting and Göring saying they should use this to crush the communist party.

From Quiz Fall of Giants

Answer: There's an explosion in the coalmine

Ethel has been working at Ty Gwyn for seven years when she's asked to fill in for the housekeeper who is taken ill. This comes at an awkward time as they are preparing for a visit from King George V. Ethel does a terrific job and Fitz is really impressed with her. He had been fearful that Maud might upset the king, but she avoids the subject of women's suffrage. Just as everything seems to be going perfectly, they feel a tremor in the ground. An explosion in the coalmine has cost the lives of eight miners. The day after the accident the king visits Aberowen to pay his respects to the bereaved families. This all happens in January 1914, a couple of months before the murder of Franz Ferdinand and the start of the first world war.

From Quiz Edge of Eternity

Answer: Winter of the World

The "Century Trilogy" follows three generations of families from around the globe, linked by and living through each of World War I ("Fall of Giants" - published in 2010), World War II ("Winter of the World" - published in 2012) and the concluding decades of the twentieth century ("Edge of Eternity" - published in 2014).

From Quiz "Winter of the World" by Ken Follett

Answer: She came down to dinner in trousers and with a moustache drawn on her face.

While his father disapproved, Boy was fascinated. Much later she used the same method again to lure him into a marriage proposal.

From Quiz The Key to Rebecca

Answer: Through the Sahara desert, on foot.

Wolff walked through the Sahara desert for two months, but his efforts to enter Egypt unobserved were in vain as he ran into British soldiers straight away near Assyut, a town in upper Egypt.

From Quiz "World Without End" by Ken Follett

Answer: Mattie Wise

Mattie Wise was the wise woman who was accused of doing witchcraft and fled Kingsbridge because they were going to kill her. She made healing potions and helped a lot of people; the accusations were false.

From Quiz "World Without End" : Ken Follett

Answer: a letter

After killing the two men-at-arms chasing him, Sir Thomas had Merthin bury a letter for him. His arm was slashed in the fight, so Merthin did the digging for him. Merthin was told the letter contained a dangerous secret and that whenever Merthin hears that Thomas has died, he is to dig it up and give it to a priest.

From Quiz "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett

Answer: 12th

People in 12th century England were very much concerned with the afterlife. As life was so fleeting, the church was the one anchor the people could hold on to.

From Quiz 'The Third Twin'

Answer: Security

Jeannie found the cap in his room and was thus convinced that he was the rapist.

From Quiz 'Code to Zero'

Answer: Claude

His full name was Dr. Claude Lucas. He preferred to be called Luke though.

From Quiz 'Jackdaws' by Ken Follett

Answer: The intelligence supplied by MI6 was incorrect.

MI6 was the British intelligence agency. They estimated the number of men guarding the exchange to be around twelve. Also they assumed that the Gestapo personnel employed at the exchange would be unarmed. However they were wrong on both accounts leading to the failure of the attack.

From Quiz Fall of Giants

Answer: Because Lev is wanted for murder

The night before Grigori is leaving for America, Lev shoots someone during an argument involving stolen cigarettes. He meets Grigori by the docks and asks him for his ticket and passport so he can flee to America. Grigori has looked after his no-good brother all his life and, reluctantly, hands over the ticket. On his way back home, Grigori meets Katerina, who tells him she's pregnant with Lev's child. Grigori promises to take care of her and the baby although he knows she's still in love with Lev.

From Quiz Edge of Eternity

Answer: Her husband, Hans

Rebecca was rescued and adopted by Clara Von Ulrich (later Carla Frank) following a harrowing experience at the tail end of the holocaust years. Having met Hans later in life it was she who proposed to him, having been surprised that he did not ask himself. Tragically, she discovers early in the novel that he had married her solely for the purpose of allowing him to spy on her English/German liberal family.

From Quiz "Winter of the World" by Ken Follett

Answer: She thought he was a coward

Well, he was a bit of a womaniser, but that wasn't the point. She thought he was afraid to step on the Nazis' toes because he wanted to keep his job. This was true in fact, but she didn't know he was spying for the Russians at that time.

From Quiz The Key to Rebecca

Answer: Corporal Cox

Captain Newman was suspicious of Wolff, and ordered Corporal Cox to stay on him. This left Wolff with no choice but to kill Cox and escape.

From Quiz "World Without End" by Ken Follett

Answer: Wulfric

Wulfric broke Ralph's nose because Ralph was harassing his fiancé, Annet. Annet didn't end up marrying Wulfric because he didn't inherit his father's lands when he died. She married someone else shortly after.

From Quiz "World Without End" : Ken Follett

Answer: Earl Roland

Ralph wanted nothing more than to be a knight. He found his chance in the bridge collapse. He saw the earl in the water and swam out to him, while fighting off other people who needed saving. He cut the earl loose from his horse and swam him to shore. He made sure everyone knew he was the one who saved Roland's life, but he still didn't get made a knight!

From Quiz "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett

Answer: England

Although the novel does take place in both France and the Middle East, it is set mainly in England.

From Quiz 'Code to Zero'

Answer: Rocket Scientist

He had been working on the project to launch America's first space satellite. Elspeth had married him to pass on space secrets to the Soviets.

From Quiz 'Jackdaws' by Ken Follett

Answer: His left ear had been wounded by a bullet and only the lobe remained.

Paul was an American who had been injured in a shootout with the Gestapo. His right kneecap had also been wounded and hence he was forced to retire from the army. He was in charge of the Jackdaws mission.

From Quiz Edge of Eternity

Answer: Cuba

Tania is a journalist for TASS (Russian news agency), who writes and distributes the illegal newspaper "Dissident" in her spare time, together with fellow writer Vasili Yenkov. During a poetry meeting at Mayakovsky Square they distribute the newspaper among the crowd. When the meeting turns into a riot Tania is arrested. Luckily she doesn't have a copy of "Dissident" in her possession. Nevertheless she is taken to the KGB headquarters for questioning. Her brother Dimka, who is a high official, her uncle Volodya, who is a general in the Red Army, and her editor manage to get her out without punishment on the condition that she accepts an assignment abroad. In Cuba a post is open so she is sent there. She is in Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis. Her friend Vasili Yenkov is not so lucky. He was in possession of five copies of "Dissident" when he was arrested and is sent to a labour camp in Siberia. In the 1980s Tania works as a journalist in Poland.

From Quiz Winter of the World

Answer: They are executed for desertion

Lloyd, his cousin Dave and close friend Lenny Griffiths all volunteered to fight Franco's rebel army in the Spanish civil war. During the Battle of Belchite Lloyd's platoon is ordered to take the town church without cover or sufficient ammunition by the incompetent Red Army Colonel Bobrov. As predicted the attack is a complete failure and only three men escape unscathed, two others injured. After they have reported back to Bobrov he executes the uninjured survivors for desertion. Lloyd and Lenny are injured and transferred to prisoner escort duty. Lloyd goes back to England, disillusioned with communism. Later in the novel Bobrov, now a general, is present in Moscow when the Germans are advancing towards Russia's capital. He is killed when he tries to flee Moscow.

From Quiz Fall of Giants

Answer: Cardiff

Shortly after disembarking Lev finds out he's not in New York but in Cardiff. It seems that the Vyalov family, who has sold the ticket to Grigori, has ripped him off. After a while Lev is offered a job as a strikebreaker in the Aberowen coalmines. Lev eventually earns enough money to continue his journey to the USA by cheating in high stakes card games.

From Quiz Edge of Eternity

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr

George Jakes is an aspiring young lawyer who chooses to work for the Kennedy administration, thinking that he will be able to support the civil rights movement from within. He falls in love with Verena, a young woman working for Martin Luther King, Jr when he boards a greyhound bus in Washington to protest segregation in the Deep South of the USA.

From Quiz "Winter of the World" by Ken Follett

Answer: Via Spain

It wasn't his first time in Spain, he'd been fighting there in the civil war before. Later he used the knowledge gained on that journey to help other Allied soldiers escape from France.

From Quiz The Key to Rebecca

Answer: They are different names of the same woman

Elene Fontana was a young Jewish girl from Alexandria living in Cairo. She tried to get into Palestine, but was refused because of the quota imposed by the British. She agreed to work with Vandam, and slowly became attracted to him.

From Quiz "World Without End" by Ken Follett

Answer: Merthin

Merthin, Ralph, Caris and Gwenda were all in the forest when they saw Thomas kill two knights. Merthin was the only one who stayed; the other three ran off because they were scared.

From Quiz "World Without End" : Ken Follett

Answer: Wulfric

Gwenda worshipped the handsome Wulfric and wanted to be married to him. He was in love with Annet and only had eyes for her. When the bridge collapsed and his parents and brother were killed, he lost everything and became a landless laborer. Annet promptly dumped him and married another man. It took time and a lot of work, but Gwenda eventually won Wulfric over.

From Quiz "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett

Answer: cathedral

Tom never fulfills his dream to build England's greatest cathedral because he is killed during a raid at the building site.

From Quiz 'The Third Twin'

Answer: 8

The women were told they were being given hormone treatment for sub fertility. Instead, Genetico was carrying out experiments on them about cloning.

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