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  "The Sarantine Mosaic": Fiction and History   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
In creating "The Sarantine Mosaic" Guy Gavriel Kay was inspired by Byzantine history. Your task is to guess where the author's inspiration comes from and where Sarantium differs from historical Byzantium. Beware of SPOILERS!
Average, 10 Qns, ninedin, Jun 08 07
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  Deep Roots - 'The Summer Tree' in detail   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The first book in one of my favourite fantasy series, this quiz is about some of the more obscure details in 'The Summer Tree' by Guy Gavriel Kay. How carefully were you reading?
Tough, 10 Qns, garina, Mar 14 07
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  Guy Gavriel Kay -- What Place in what Novel?    
Multiple Choice
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This is a quiz on the fantasy novels by Guy Gavriel Kay. Can you name the novel where the following settings are found? Note: the three volumes of "The Fionavar Tapestry" are treated as a single unit for this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, Ampelos, Jun 21 13
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  Who's Who in 'Tigana'?    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Hi, I'm Devin di ... (sigh) Devin d'Asoli and I'm wondering how much you know about my friends and enemies in the Palm.
Average, 15 Qns, Zanette, Jul 04 03
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  Fionavar Tapestry Book One 'The Summer Tree'    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you haven't read the series by Guy Gavriel Kay, read it and then do my three quizzes.
Average, 10 Qns, wallos, May 22 17
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  'A Song For Arbonne' Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
A fairly tough quiz on Guy Gavriel Kay's stand-alone fantasy novel, 'A Song For Arbonne.' (Sorry that not all the accents are right, but the computer wouldn't let me make all of them).
Average, 15 Qns, Chemil, Feb 03 07
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  The Lions of Al-Rassan    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
What sorts of details did you pick up the last time you read "The Lions of Al-Rassan"? If you have not finished the book, I highly recommend you wait to take this quiz, since it does contain some information about the ending.
Tough, 10 Qns, anathia, Sep 12 10
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trivia question Quick Question
What is the name of the city where the Autumn Fair is held?

From Quiz "'A Song For Arbonne' Quiz"




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Guy Gavriel Kay Trivia Questions
1. In what novel would you find Pendaran Wood?

From Quiz Guy Gavriel Kay -- What Place in what Novel?

Answer: The Fionavar Tapestry

Pendaran Wood is an ancient and mysterious forest in the country of the Lios Alfar (Kay's equivalent of Elves). People enter it at their peril as the paths do not remain in the same place. It may have been inspired by Tolkien's Mirkwood.

2. In "Sailing to Sarantium" Trakesia is an equivalent of which of the historical lands?

From Quiz "The Sarantine Mosaic": Fiction and History

Answer: Greece

Trakesia represents Greece and the center of the Greek-speaking empire. After the division of the Roman empire in 395 C. E., Greek remained the main language spoken in Byzantium, with the influence of Latin, never strong in the East, slowly declining.

3. The Overture mentions that Rakoth Maugrim is bound beneath which mountain?

From Quiz Deep Roots - 'The Summer Tree' in detail

Answer: Rangat

If you didn't get this right, go and read the book again! Rangat Cloud-shouldered is an overwhelming presence on the landscape, so no-one would forget. Starkadh is the stronghold of Rakoth, Banir Tal is one of the mountains under which the Dwarves live, and the Carnevon mountain range is east of Brennin and Cathal.

4. Who is the one called Pigeon?

From Quiz Who's Who in 'Tigana'?

Answer: Alessan

Alessan di Tigana bar Valentin is the Prince of Tigana.

5. What is the name of Loren Silvercloak's psuedonym whilst on Earth?

From Quiz Fionavar Tapestry Book One 'The Summer Tree'

Answer: Lorenzo Marcus

The other names are made up of mixtures of other characters. Carde is the name of one of Diarmuid's men. Vincent is Dave's (Davor) brother, and Laine is Kevin's surname.

6. Who killed King Almalik I?

From Quiz The Lions of Al-Rassan

Answer: Ammar ibn Khairan

Ammar disguised himself as a palace slave and handed Almalik I a orange with poison on it from the towel that he had. This was while the king was vociferously ordering his generals to seek and bring Ammar to him.

7. What is the name of the city where the Autumn Fair is held?

From Quiz 'A Song For Arbonne' Quiz

Answer: Lussan

Apparently not quite as wild as Midsummer- but plenty of killings do happen there.

8. In what novel is Mont Sainte-Victoire a crucial setting?

From Quiz Guy Gavriel Kay -- What Place in what Novel?

Answer: Ysabel

Mont Saint-Victoire is a real limestone mountain ridge in the south of France, a favourite setting for the artist Cezanne. In Kay's novel it is the place where a terrible slaughter of Celts took place at the hands of the Romans around 100 BC and where the climax of the novel takes place. The main character is a 15-year-old Canadian schoolboy who finds himself drawn into a centuries-old web of intrigue, love, and magic.

9. Lorenzo Marcus was speaking and chairing a panel at the Second International Celtic Conference. Who else is named as being on the panel?

From Quiz Deep Roots - 'The Summer Tree' in detail

Answer: Vince Martyniuk

Dave is only at the conference because his brother Vince is speaking. Loren Silvercloak is Marcus' real identity, Matt Soren is there but as his secretary, and Rachel Kincaid, besides being a cellist rather than an academic, has been dead for ten months at this point in the story.

10. Which lady was a singer in Menico's troupe and did a suicide-dive from a bridge in Tregea?

From Quiz Who's Who in 'Tigana'?

Answer: Catriana

Catriana di Tigana also kills the Barbadian emissary to Senzio before jumping to her death from his window.

11. The five travellers from Earth are Dave, Jennifer, Paul, Kevin and ...

From Quiz Fionavar Tapestry Book One 'The Summer Tree'

Answer: Kim & kimberly & kimberley

Kimberly replaced Ysanne as the Seer of Brennin.

12. What did Jehane leave at Husari ibn Musa's house?

From Quiz The Lions of Al-Rassan

Answer: Her urine flask

The beautiful urine flask was passed down from her father, and to Jehane, it represented all she loved about her family and her career. It was also a highly useful tool for Jehane to study the illnesses that appeared in her patients' urine samples.

13. Who or what does Bertran de Talair still claim to love even after the death of Aelis?

From Quiz 'A Song For Arbonne' Quiz

Answer: Arbonne

He says this on page 281 (of my edition) when King Daufridi of Valensa asks him what he still loves.

14. In what novel would we find Kitai?

From Quiz Guy Gavriel Kay -- What Place in what Novel?

Answer: Under Heaven

Kitai is Kay's name for his recreation of China under the Tang dynasty (7th-9th c. AD). His story loosely follows the events of the An-Shi rebellion in the 8th c. A sequel of sorts, "River of Stars", was published in 2013, recounting events a few hundred years later.

15. During the reign of Justinian, the main controversy in the Christian church was the problem of Christ's nature and the influence of Monophysitism. Which of the faiths of the Sarantine world is an equivalent of the Monophysitic heresy?

From Quiz "The Sarantine Mosaic": Fiction and History

Answer: the Helladikan faith

In his reworking of Christian controversies Kay used the model from Greek mythology, creating a Christ-like/Phaeton-like figure of Helladikos the Charioteer, son of God, whose very existence is a source of great controversy for Sarantine theologians. The Zubir is a pagan symbol of the Odin-like forest god; Perun is one of two main gods of Kay's Persia. The Jaddite faith is the dominant religion of the Sarantine world and an equivalent of Christianity.

16. At various points during the story, we encounter or are told of four of the Five's fathers. Whose father is not mentioned?

From Quiz Deep Roots - 'The Summer Tree' in detail

Answer: Paul Schafer

The major person in Paul's background seems to be Rachel; his parents are not mentioned. Rakoth takes the shape of James Lowell at first when he rapes Jennifer, we are told about how Kim's parents met when she is with Ysanne, and Dave's issues with his father Josef are a huge part of his character. Kevin's father is a major part of his life and the two have a very close relationship.

17. Who is called Pigeon two and the companion of the one called Pigeon?

From Quiz Who's Who in 'Tigana'?

Answer: Baerd

Marius, the King of Quileia, named Alessan and Baerd Pigeon one and two many years earlier in Quileia. Baerd is the son of Saevar and the brother of Dianora.

18. What is the name of Loren Silvercloak's source?

From Quiz Fionavar Tapestry Book One 'The Summer Tree'

Answer: matt soren

Matt Soren, the gruff and courageous dwarf, foresook his position as King of the Dwarves and became Loren Silvercloak's source, binded to him for as long as they should live- well, almost.

19. What is the doctor's symbol?

From Quiz The Lions of Al-Rassan

Answer: The owl

The owl represents the 'white moon and the pursuit of knowledge,' which we learn after Mazur ben Avren gives Jehane the elegant owl mask for the Ragosa festival. The owl is sacred to medicine because an owl's head had been carved in the staff of Galinus, the father of all physicians.

20. Where does Gorhaut lie relative to Arbonne?

From Quiz 'A Song For Arbonne' Quiz

Answer: North

This is part of the reason the Gorhautians want to invade {Arbonne;} it's so nice and sunny there :).

21. What novel is set in the Peninsula of the Palm?

From Quiz Guy Gavriel Kay -- What Place in what Novel?

Answer: Tigana

"Tigana" along with "The Fionavar Tapestry" is Kay's most compelling work. The setting (the Peninsula of the Palm) is a loose analogy of mediaeval Italy and features a three-way power play between two sorcerers (Brandin and Alberico) and the freedom-fighters of the lost land of Tigana.

22. When they cross to Fionavar, the guard outside the room they arrive in is very rude to Loren until Matt adjusts his attitude a little. What was the guard's name?

From Quiz Deep Roots - 'The Summer Tree' in detail

Answer: Vart

Vart is one of the guards who dislikes the mages and supports the Chancellor. Drance is one of Diarmuid's men, Brendel is one of the lios alfar, and Tarn is the guard who meets them on the second (or third for Paul and Jennifer) crossing, but is still a page in the first book.

23. He was believed to be dead and he killed his own son. What is his name?

From Quiz Who's Who in 'Tigana'?

Answer: Sandre

Sandre was the Duke of Astibar and a wizard. His son was taken by the Barbadians and tortured. Sandre used magic to bring his son some poison and end his suffering.

24. Where are the five wardstones located?

From Quiz Fionavar Tapestry Book One 'The Summer Tree'

Answer: Eridu, Brennin, Cathar, The Plain, and Daniloth

The Eridu wardstone was broken and Rakoth Maugrim was released.

25. Which hand does Prince Hazem ibn Almalik lose in the course of the novel?

From Quiz The Lions of Al-Rassan

Answer: Right

After rubbing his runny nose multiple times with his right hand--which is a vile sin in the religion of Ashar, as well as a filthy habit--Hazem touches Yazir with his right hand. Yazir's brother, Ghalib, loses his patience with the prince, and chops the offending hand off without warning.

26. What is the name of the singer who falls in love with Blaise?

From Quiz 'A Song For Arbonne' Quiz

Answer: Lisseut

It's interesting to speculate if perhaps Blaise is the father of Lisseut's child (mentioned in the note at the end).

27. Part of what novel is set in the Anglcyn Lands?

From Quiz Guy Gavriel Kay -- What Place in what Novel?

Answer: The Last Light of the Sun

The Anglcyn lands represent the Anglo-Saxon kingdom in England during the period of the Viking invasions. In Kay's novel the Vikings appear as "Erlings" and the Welsh kingdom as "Cyngael".

28. "Most hated by the Dark, for their name was Light." The representative of the lios alfar, Na-Brendel, belongs to which Mark?

From Quiz Deep Roots - 'The Summer Tree' in detail

Answer: Kestrel

Brendel of the Kestrel Mark is the only named lios alfar we meet in The Summer Tree. Those of the Swan Mark are dedicated to Lauriel the White and do not go to war. The Eagle and Swallow Marks do not exist (as far as I know!).

29. Who was the son of the King of Ygrath whose death caused so much pain to be visited on what is now Lower Corte?

From Quiz Who's Who in 'Tigana'?

Answer: Stevan

Brandin, Stevan's father, crushed the army of Tigana and cast a spell so that none not of Tigana could hear or remember "Tigana", the other main city was renamed Stevanien.

30. Who is the God of the Summer Tree?

From Quiz Fionavar Tapestry Book One 'The Summer Tree'

Answer: Mornir

Mornir brought the rains to the drought-stricken lands because of Paul's (Pwyll)'sacrifice' on the Summer tree. Paul was the known as twiceborn, as he did not lose his life after three nights on the Summer Tree.

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