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Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) is most familiar in the English-speaking world as the author of 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1910), which has been the basis of multiple adaptations for stage and screen. His 1907 novel 'The Mystery of the Yellow Room' is considered a classic in the locked-room genre of mysteries.
10 Gaston Leroux quizzes and 127 Gaston Leroux trivia questions.
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  The Phantom of the Opera    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
This is for those people who have read this book over three times. I hope that you enjoy it!
Average, 20 Qns, littlp, Jul 17 20
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littlp
Jul 17 20
1513 plays
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  "The Phantom of the Opera" - Book vs. Musical    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Do you know the difference between the book and the musical? Take this quiz to find out!
Average, 10 Qns, Halt, Dec 22 09
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Halt
236 plays
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  Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera Quiz for Experts    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You've seen the musical, but have you read the novel?
Average, 10 Qns, ladymacb29, May 17 07
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ladymacb29 editor
1509 plays
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  A Quiz After Erik's Own Heart   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz only for people after Erik's own heart! Long live "The Phantom of the Opera"!
Average, 10 Qns, operaghost1607, Sep 16 07
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operaghost1607
270 plays
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  For The True "Phantom" Phan    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
Really obscure questions pertaining to Leroux's book, 'The Phantom of the Opera'. No one but a truly obsessed phan like myself would know the answers. Note: none of the questions have to do with the OPERA, they're all about the book.
Tough, 20 Qns, Sultana, Sep 14 06
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Sultana
642 plays
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  The Phantastic "Phantom"    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
A general quiz on the book by Gaston Leroux (not the musical version).
Average, 20 Qns, hannibal32, Mar 11 06
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hannibal32
637 plays
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  How Well Do You Know "The Phantom of the Opera?"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
When it was first published, Leroux's novel sold poorly and even went out of print. Interest was piqued, however, when Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version took the world by storm. But, how well do you know the original book?
Average, 10 Qns, MmeGrantaire, Mar 29 11
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MmeGrantaire
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  Gaston Leroux's Phantom    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is based on the timeless, heartwrenching novel by Gaston Leroux. If you've paid as close attention to the novel as I have, this should be a piece of cake
Average, 10 Qns, sparrow_freaks, May 30 11
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sparrow_freaks
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  Phantom of the Opera !    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you're as big of a Phantom Phan as I am, you'll have NO PROBLEM answering these questions!
Tough, 10 Qns, Daroga, Mar 11 06
Tough
Daroga
997 plays
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  Take this Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 7 Qns
Quiz on one of the creepiest novels ever made!
Average, 7 Qns, heathernicole001, Aug 03 05
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trivia question Quick Question
In whose room does the book open?

From Quiz "The Phantastic "Phantom""




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Gaston Leroux Trivia Questions
1. The first sentence of the novel (the prologue) states that the __________ really existed.

From Quiz How Well Do You Know "The Phantom of the Opera?"

Answer: opera ghost

Leroux claims throughout the remainder of the book that Erik really existed- he even created sources that would help him prove it, such as Moncharmin's "Memoirs of a Manager."

2. In the musical, Christine only has to choose between Raoul and the Phantom. What does she have to choose between in the book?

From Quiz "The Phantom of the Opera" - Book vs. Musical

Answer: Whether to turn the grasshopper or the scorpion

This happens when the Phantom has kidnapped Christine. At this time Raoul and the Persian, in an attempt to save her, have been trapped in a torture chamber. If Christine turned the grasshopper she would be free and could marry Raoul. However, if she did turn the grasshopper, the opera house, (and much of the surrounding city of Paris) would be blown up. If she turned the scorpion, it would kill Raoul and she would have to marry the Phantom, but the opera house would be spared.

3. What is the name of the chapter when Christine tells Raoul about what happened when she went with Erik?

From Quiz A Quiz After Erik's Own Heart

Answer: Apollo's Lyre

It is named "Apollo's Lyre", because the Phantom hides on top of a statue of Apollo with a lyre, while he listens to their conversation.

4. According to Erik, what metal are the scorpion and grasshopper figurines made of?

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom

Answer: bronze

"He said, 'I give you 5 minutes to spare your blushes! Here is the little key that opens the two ebony caskets on the mantelpiece in the Louis-Philippe room...in one of those caskets, you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me that you have said yes. The grasshopper means no.' And he laughed like a drunken demon," Christine tells Raoul and the Persian through the wall.

5. In whose room does the book open?

From Quiz The Phantastic "Phantom"

Answer: La Sorelli

It is interesting to note that the character of La Sorelli never appears in the musical version of "Phantom".

6. "The Phantom of the Opera" had a sequel, written by whom?

From Quiz Phantom of the Opera !

Answer: Frederick Forsyth

The sequel was called The Phantom of Manhattan. (Wasn't very good, it follows the play more than the book...)

7. What did La Sorelli place on a table near the stage door for good luck?

From Quiz For The True "Phantom" Phan

Answer: A horseshoe

'Surrounded by all the dancers, and even followed by the whole body of younger pupils in tights, she went to the doorkeeper's vestibule, near the administration courtyard, and put a horseshoe on the table there...I have not invented that horseshoe...and it can still be seen on the table in the vestibule.' (Ch. 1)

8. What French title of nobility did Raoul have?

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera

Answer: Viscount & viscount & Vicomte & vicomte

9. Who was the only person (in the beginning) to have seen the opera ghost?

From Quiz The Phantom of the Opera

Answer: Joseph Buquet

'He is extraordinarily thin and his dress-coat hangs on a skeleton frame. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils. You just see two big black holes, as in a dead man's skull. His skin, which is stretched across his bones like a drumhead, is not white, but a nasty yellow. His nose is so little worth talking aobut that you can't see it side-face; and the absence of that nose is a horrible thing to look at. All the hair he has is three or four long dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears.'

10. What language was the book originally written in?

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera

Answer: French

Gaston Leroux was French.

11. Who is the first character to speak? (They don't have a huge role in the story).

From Quiz How Well Do You Know "The Phantom of the Opera?"

Answer: Jammes

The first spoken line of the novel comes from Jammes, a ballet girl, who enters the dressing room crying, "It's the ghost!"

12. In the musical, when Christine has to choose, she chooses Raoul, and the Phantom relents and lets them go. But what does Christine choose to do in the book, and what are the consequences?

From Quiz "The Phantom of the Opera" - Book vs. Musical

Answer: She turns the scorpion, but the Phantom lets her leave with Raoul anyway

When she turns the scorpion, she realises too late that this choice will kill Raoul, so she pleads with the Phantom to let him go. The Phantom changes his mind and lets Christine, Raoul and the Persian leave, alive.

13. What was the name of the song that Erik promised to play Christine on her father's violin?

From Quiz A Quiz After Erik's Own Heart

Answer: The Resurrection of Lazarus

The "Kyrie" was what Erik said would be played on their wedding night. "Roi de Lahore" is an opera, and "The Wedding-night Song" is the song Erik sang when he came to Christine after the Masquerade Ball.

14. "Because I spent that evening watching Box 5 and the sham evening which you put there. I did not go to the _______ for a second."

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom

Answer: ballet foyer

Firmin Richard is interrogating Mme Giry after she furtively switched Erik's monthly salary with "play-money."

15. Where in the theatre is Box Five located?

From Quiz The Phantastic "Phantom"

Answer: first left tier

This is most likely the "best seat in the house"; after the boxes already specified for reservation in the Manager's Handbook.

16. Who is Raoul's older brother?

From Quiz Phantom of the Opera !

Answer: Comte de Chagny

17. What does Erik wear if in public, other than the mask?

From Quiz For The True "Phantom" Phan

Answer: A papier-mache nose

'...but Moncharmin says in his memoirs that it was transparent - his exact words are 'His nose was long, thin, and transparent' - and I will add that it may have been a false nose. Moncharmin may have mistaken shininess for transparence.' (Ch. 3)

18. What color was Cesar?

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera

Answer: white

19. Who was Sorelli seeing?

From Quiz The Phantom of the Opera

Answer: Phillipe de Chagny

20. What was the name of the young soprano who heard her Angel of Music?

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera

Answer: Christine Daae

Christine was from Sweden.

21. When they were children, what item of Christine's did Raoul save from the sea?

From Quiz How Well Do You Know "The Phantom of the Opera?"

Answer: scarf

Raoul and Christine were childhood friends who met when Raoul retrieved Christine's scarf from the sea. They meet again at the Opera House when Raoul attends with his brother, Phillipe.

22. Who saw Erik before he died?

From Quiz A Quiz After Erik's Own Heart

Answer: a cab driver

After he leaves the daroga's house, he gets in a waiting cab, and tells the cab driver to take him to the Opera.

23. Joseph Buquet was hanged in the third cellar under the stage, between the farmhouse and a set from which opera?

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom

Answer: Roi de Lahore

The inspectors eventually concluded that it was a "natural suicide," but we all know what really happened.

24. What is heard around Buquet's hanged body?

From Quiz The Phantastic "Phantom"

Answer: the singing of the dead

The music originated in the Phantom's house, and was able to be heard through the secret entrance located near where Buquet was hanged.

25. In Persia, the ruler was called the __________.

From Quiz Phantom of the Opera !

Answer: Shah in Shah & shah-in-shah

Another ruler mentioned in The Phantom of the Opera was the Sultana, but I didn't count her because the Shah in Shah is the SUPREME ruler.

26. Of what is Erik's mask made?

From Quiz For The True "Phantom" Phan

Answer: black silk

It's not white! It's not white! And I might add, it covers his whole face. I believe the correct term is a 'full domino.'

27. On what day of the week did Erik say he would go out on a walk with Christine if she were his wife?

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera

Answer: Sunday

28. Where did Christine tell Raoul of her adventure with Erik?

From Quiz The Phantom of the Opera

Answer: Apollo's Lyre

'He kissed her lips; but the night that surrounded them was rent asunder, they fled as at the approach of a storm and their eyes, filled with dread of Erik, showed them, before they disappeared, high above them, an immense night-bird that stared at them with its blazing eyes and seemed to cling to the string of Apollo's lyre.'

29. What was Raoul's older brother's name?

From Quiz Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera

Answer: Philippe

He was 'close' to the prima ballerina.

30. What kind of angel does Christine believe Erik is?

From Quiz How Well Do You Know "The Phantom of the Opera?"

Answer: Angel of Music

Her late father had promised to send her the Angel when he died, and Erik uses this to his advantage. He becomes Christine's voice teacher.

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