Authors H-K: 'J' Trivia

1. Mrs. Grose possessed which role at Bly Manor?

From Quiz The Turn of the Screw

Answer: Housekeeper

The story of what occurred at Bly Manor was compiled in a manuscript read to a group of storytellers shortly after Christmas Eve, and of particular note was the fact that the story appeared to contain a spectre seen by not one, but two children. The manuscript itself was presented by a man who, twenty years earlier, received it from his sister's governess-- a woman he found to be generally very reliable in the way of information. When it was received, he read it. The story pertained to the arrival of a governess at Bly Manor. Upon being met by the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, she was also introduced to one of the two children in her care, a beautiful girl by the name of Flora. The second child would be met upon his return to the manor in two days.

From Quiz How Well Do You Know 'Untraceable'?

Answer: Smoky Mountains

Grace was a 16-year-old who had lived in Smokies all her life with her parents. She loved wildlife and was good at wilderness survival.

From Quiz The Master Reveals His Secrets

Answer: World championships

Phil Jackson was the first NBA coach to win eleven championships.

From Quiz Fifty Shades of Grey

Answer: Katherine

Mousey college girl Anastasia Steele, not really the journalist type, ends up goaded into an interview with, as she says, the "enigmatic CEO of Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.", by her sick roommate, and literally stumbles into his office. Fortunately, it doesn't matter; both his immediate flirting and her cumbersome aloofness and naivety make their first meeting both awkward and enticing at the same time (I assume). She keeps thinking of him as a control freak...he keeps rubbing his index finger against his bottom lip...and yet there's something attracting her to him. Over the coming days she can't seem to stop thinking of Mr. Grey, brushing off her dreams of him as a subconscious desire to purge him from her life, but when he shows up at the hardware store where she works looking to buy varying lengths of ropes and cables, she realizes she may actually like him. A coffee date with him the next day only confirms this fact.

From Quiz 'The Hundred Year Old Man...' by Jonas Jonasson

Answer: To avoid going to his own birthday party

On the day of his 100th birthday and with less than one hour to go to his birthday party, Allan Karlsson decides that he doesn't want to attend the party. So, with creaking knees, he climbs out of the window of his room at the Old People's Home in Malmkoping and heads off, still wearing his slippers. So begins a tale of adventure which takes Allan across Sweden, introduces him to new friends and makes him realize that just because he is one hundred years old, life does not have to come to a standstill. The novel includes flashbacks over Allan's life and explains how he arrived to live out the rest of his life at the Old People's Home.

From Quiz P.D.James Mysteries 1 "Death Comes to Pemberley"

Answer: Jane Austen

At the end of another of her novels, "Mansfield Park", Jane Austen makes it clear that she wishes all her stories to end on a happy, positive note. She, doubtless, would not have approved of this sequel, though the style perfectly matches her own. She was content at the end of "Pride and Prejudice" for all problems and misunderstandings to have been solved. Even Lydia and Wickham seemed to be set fair for a reasonably unembarassing future. Murder was unthinkable! The end of the sequel, however, is ultimately happy for some of the novel's characters. Darcy and Elizabeth are expecting a third child and other family problems are solved.

From Quiz P. D James' Mysteries

Answer: Innocent Blood

"Innocent Blood" is one of several P.D. James books that do not feature either Adam Dalgliesh or Cordelia Gray. Philippa Palfrey was brought up by her adoptive parents and given every advantage: security, nice things, education, a start in life. But Philippa wants more, she wants to discover who her real parents are. A visit to the neighborhood where her parents used to live reveals the shocking truth, shattering Philippa's romantic imaginings. She nevertheless decides to contact her mother, her only surviving parent, and to spend a summer with her before going up to Cambridge. P.D. James masterfully sets up a series of events, each leading inevitably and inexorably to the next, that culminates in an explosion of violence.

From Quiz The Ghost Stories of M.R. James

Answer: Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad

The town of Burnstow is a fictional seaside town in Suffolk, and many landmarks James mentioned in his story (like the golf links and the martello tower) are still there to be seen in 2013. It certainly is an excellent setting for a horror tale, as the landscape is rather bleak and windswept.

From Quiz The Prose of Henry James

Answer: Realism

Literary realism was a reaction against romanticism. It started in nineteenth-century France with Balzac, Maupassant and Flaubert. Then it spread internationally with writers like Leo Tolstoy and George Eliot. James believed that literature had to depict life as it is and represent the different layers in society.

From Quiz What is the Eleventh Sense?

Answer: he can communicate with insects and arachnids

Simon discovers he can understand bugs speaking to him when a cricket pops into his classroom and calls him a doofus.

From Quiz Half Broken Things

Answer: A teapot

Jean knocks over a teapot on her the same day her employer, Shelley, decides to call her and check up on things. Out of the teapot come approximately forty keys to all the locked places in Walden Manor. Though Jean is aghast at the thought that Shelley thinks her irresponsible for breaking the antique teapot, it is the event that sets off a chain of events that will lead to her, Steph, and Michael coming together. Jean offers to mend the teapot, but Shelley objects point-blank. Some things, like an antique teapot, can never be truly mended.

From Quiz "Riven" by Jerry Jenkins

Answer: Petey

Brady Wayne Darby is a street-tough, poor white trash sort of kid living in a trailer park with his mother and younger brother, Petey. Brady does not get along with his mother and longs for the day he can leave her home. For now, he reluctantly attends school, works a menial job after school and winds up caring for Petey most of the time while his mother goes out partying most of the night. Brady fails to see his own potential and winds up making some very poor life choices.

From Quiz The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

Answer: September

A.J. names each of his chapters for the number and name of the month. His first chapter (after the introduction) is labeled, "Month One: September."

From Quiz Three Men in a Boat

Answer: William Samuel Harris

Harris's full name is revealed when he and George are introduced in the very first sentence of the book. He is actually based on a friend of Jerome's named Carl Hentschel. Klapka was Jerome K. Jerome's middle name.

From Quiz "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs

Answer: Playing chess

They were about to play a much deadlier game.

From Quiz Desert Heat

Answer: Lefty O'Toole

Lefty tries to make a daring escape by throwing the car keys into the desert and taking off, but he is shot dead.

From Quiz 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Answer: Peg

Aunt Peg didn't like staying in one place for a long time so she moved a lot. The place she stayed at the longest was at her apartment in New York City.

From Quiz "The Raging Quiet," by Sherryl Jordan

Answer: Fernleigh

Fernleigh is about a day's wagon ride from Marnie and Isake's new house. The closest town to either of those places is Torcurra.

From Quiz The Known World

Answer: I have been a dutiful wife.

She constantly says this either in thoughts or in words that show a type of trance in her thinking. She isn't exactly the greatest thinker of them all for that reason.

From Quiz "Cold River"

Answer: Allison

Lizzy's last name was Allison and she was the only biological child of Michael Allison. Around the time when Lizzy was about nine years old, her father married a widow by the name of Pauline Hood. Lizzy called her Miss Pauline and Pauline had a son known as Timothy. Lizzy's own biological mother actually died when she was only three.

From Quiz Dara Joy and "The Matrix of Destiny" Books

Answer: Disney World

Deana thought at first he was an actor. But Lorgin really thinks the name of the planet is "Disney."

From Quiz Nicole Jordan's Notorious Series

Answer: Hellfire League

The Hellfire League was "an exclusive club of wicked noblemen dedicated to pleasure and debauchery." Damien Sinclair and Lucian Tremayne were both members, Nicholas Sabine, and American and cousin to Lucian, was an honorary member, and finally, though Kell Lasseter, though a club owner was not involved with the Hellfire League before he wed Raven, Nicholas' sister. The Hellfire League, or variations of it, was often found in Regency Romances, and was based on a real gentlemen's club.

From Quiz 'The Barbed Coil'

Answer: Tinnitus

Tinnitus is the disease which manifests itself as "ringing in the ears". People who have tinnitus may hear those sounds all the time or at least from time to time, and they have to avoid any kind of loud noise because it could worsen their condition.

From Quiz 'The Baker's Boy'

Answer: Impregnates Queen with his child

Baralis put a drug in Queen's wine that made her fall asleep and then he manages to enter her chamber through a secret passage and do the deed while she is drugged. No one knows that prince Kylock is not King's son.

From Quiz Gojiro

Answer: Giant Lizard

Once a monitor lizard, he was mutated by radiation from an atomic test after World War Two and became five hundred feet tall.

From Quiz The Fifth Season

Answer: White skin

As Essun prepares to leave Tirimo, she visits the leader of the city, and explains her plan to depart, knowing that her husband, Jija, has killed Uche and kidnapped Nassun. Rask, also discovering her orogene secret, takes her to city gate and grants her access to depart but his own forces attempt to seize the opportunity to strike her down, firing a crossbow bolt with the intent to kill. The action sets Essun off and she uses her powers to level a portion of the city and, to their lack of knowledge, destroy their groundwater supplies. She escapes out into the wilds and spends her first night outside of Tirimo sleeping in the darkness. It's shortly after when Essun meets a young boy named Hoa who, when she first encounters him, is covered in dirt. It isn't until he washes in a pond that he reveals his white skin and hair (to match his ice-white eyes). She believes he may have some form of albinism since he clearly wouldn't be part Sanzed otherwise. They proceed to travel together if only because he can sense where Nassun is, quite a while away on horseback. And so they set out.

From Quiz The Turn of the Screw

Answer: She passed away.

In her first days at Bly Manor, the governess received a letter from Miles' school stating that his presence was no longer welcome as he has acted as 'an injury to others'. In asking Mrs. Grose for reassurance, the governess discovered that her predecessor, while great with the kids, left unexpectedly during her vacation and never returned, having died in her time away. While walking outside in the evening, the governess, still yet to meet the master of the house, paused to see a figure staring at her from the upper window of one of Bly Manor's towers. All sounds seemed to hush around her as they gazed at each other. He never stopped watching, even as he moved around.

From Quiz How Well Do You Know 'Untraceable'?

Answer: Morris

Once when Grace was in the forest, tracking clues to find her missing father, she was rescued by Mo. She found him rather cute and comforting. They fell in love and Mo called her 'Blossom'.

From Quiz The Master Reveals His Secrets

Answer: Zen Buddhism and Daoism

Often associated with riddles which are used to help in meditation, such as "What is the sound of one hand clapping?", Zen is a form of Buddhism most often associated with Japanese culture. Daoism, founded by Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, focuses on uniting one's existence with nature and is much more mystical than China's other dominant philosophy of Confucianism, which is concerned with maintaining a well-ordered society. Shinto is a Japanese religion dominated by ancestor worship. Zoroastrianism was founded in Persia by Zoroaster and is a monotheistic religion. Hinduism is the dominant religion of India which features countless gods and their avatars. Theravada Buddhism is the dominant form in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Shamanism is a religion that takes many different forms in many parts of the world, featuring the roles of spirits in all forms of nature.

From Quiz Fifty Shades of Grey

Answer: Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Anastasia runs off after the coffee date, and her finals become the main priority, since an immediate jump into the workforce is of the utmost importance during this point in her life. After her final exam, though, she returns home to find a non-descript package containing first-edition copies of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", one of her favourite books. It's definitely from Grey, and although she's warned away by her 'inner goddess', for some reason she simply can't. Something compels her so. That night, while celebrating at a bar with Katherine, Anastasia decides to phone Grey on her cell to ask about the books. Soon after, in a frightening turn of events, he tracks her phone signal and shows up at the bar with his brother. They dance until she passes out on the dance floor. In a weirder turn of events, Grey brings her back to his hotel room and they lay it out; he suggests she work at his company, but because she and Katherine are moving (of course, another major life change), she's hesitant to do so. He also states that he wants to date her, but he will not touch her without written consent. He means this literally; there's a contract and everything. She has to leave though, so in a fleeting and pretty gross moment, she sneaks the use of his toothbrush, dries her hair, and heads to work. It doesn't matter; Christian is into that. He promises to helicopter out to Seattle that night before they make out in an elevator.

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