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H. P. Lovecraft was virtually unknown during his lifetime, being published almost exclusively in pulp magazines. His creation of the Cthulhu Mythos in "The Call of Cthulhu" established a universe that has since been built on by other horror writers.
12 quizzes and 125 trivia questions.
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  HP Lovecraft Presents:The Quiz That Should Not Be   top quiz  
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A quiz about one of the greatest horror writers in history, and the Mythos he created!
Average, 10 Qns, drowsteel, Dec 17 11
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  Lovecraftian Locales 2   best quiz  
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I'll give you a statement from one of Lovecraft's stories, and you identify the specific tale. Not all scenarios take place in Arkham.
Average, 10 Qns, Czolgolz, Jul 03 07
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  Lovecraftian Locales editor best quiz   top quiz  
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Ever wish you could travel to some of those magical fantasy lands from the works of H.P. Lovecraft? Well, you can't. I mean, they're imaginary and everything. In the meantime, I'll describe a scene and you tell me what Lovecraft story we're in.
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  The Cthulhu Mythos   popular trivia quiz  
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Everyone knows Lovecraft never coined the term "The Cthulhu Mythos", but let's see how much you do know about Lovecraft and his infamous creations.
Average, 10 Qns, cthulhu4pres, Jan 14 07
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  Some Lovecraft Questions   popular trivia quiz  
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These are mostly basic Lovecraft questions, with a few surprises mixed in.
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  HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and other Stories    
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A brief, ten question quiz on HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and some of his other works. Some are easy, and some are hard.
Average, 10 Qns, dtouiey, Aug 12 17
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  The Lurking Quiz    
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H.P. Lovecraft has influenced modern horror in literature and film. If you're a Lovecraft fan, or a fan of Great Cthulhu (Cthulhu Fhtagn!) then this quiz is for you!
Average, 10 Qns, Ilovemydog, Nov 10 07
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  The "Necronomicon"    
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How well do you know the blasmephous tome? This quiz will cover both the history and known contents of the "Necronomicon".
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  The Necronomicon    
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Here is a test on the mystical, mysterious and dark Necronomicon. I've thrown in questions concerning both Lovecraft's Necronomicon as well as the Simon (Sumerian) Necronomicon. Good luck. You'll need it.
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  H.P. Lovecraft    
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How much do you know about the life and work of H.P. Lovecraft?
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trivia question Quick Question
Pope Gregory IX banned all editions in 1232, which of course only drew more attention to the book. Where was it printed for the first time?

From Quiz "The "Necronomicon""




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  Lovecraft Plots    
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This is a quiz on the works of one of the greatest horror writers ever, H. P. Lovecraft.
Average, 10 Qns, the-mulk, Oct 04 09
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  Lovecraftian gods    
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A bunch of Lovecraft questions. Most of them are very hard and you might have to do some research for them.
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H. P. Lovecraft Trivia Questions
1. What do the initials "H.P." stand for in "H.P. Lovecraft?"

From Quiz HP Lovecraft Presents:The Quiz That Should Not Be

Answer: Howard Phillips

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born August 20th, 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. He would die there in 1937... only 46 years old. In his short life, he wrote stories which would change science fiction and horror writing forever. Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen King both regarded Lovecraft as a powerful influence on their own writing.

2. What book, written by the Mad Arab, contained a great deal of information about the Mythos?

From Quiz HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and other Stories

Answer: Necronomicon

Though the Necronomicon was the correct answer, some others are in Lovecraft stories. The Pnakotic Manuscripts are mentioned, but never explained. "The King in Yellow" is a play that causes the reader to go insane, and a real book by Lord Dunsany. "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Deep Ones" isn't.

3. If someone were to ask you, "Excuse me, but have you seen the yellow sign?", who would he be referring to?

From Quiz The Cthulhu Mythos

Answer: Hastur

It was originally invented by Robert W. Chambers; Lovecraft incorporated it into his works.

4. What was Abdul Al-Hazred's original Arabic title for the "Necronomicon"?

From Quiz The "Necronomicon"

Answer: Al-Azif

"Necronomicon" is the name of the Greek translation. El-Khaliyeh are the great deserts of southern Arabia, and "Quanoon-e-Islam" is the fake title on the cover of Joseph Curwen's copy.

5. Who was the "Mad Arab"?

From Quiz The Necronomicon

Answer: Abdul Alhazred

The Mad Arab, or Abdul Alhazred, is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia -- the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients -- and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told.

6. What do the first two initials of H.P. Lovecraft's name stand for?

From Quiz Some Lovecraft Questions

Answer: Howard Phillips

7. Man buys ancestral home, only to learn his family's cannibal history. Man goes mad while exploring catacombs and eats fellow explorer.

From Quiz Lovecraft Plots

Answer: The Rats in the Walls

' These dreams were not wholesome...'

8. What young collaborator of Lovecraft finished some of his work after his death and is commonly recognized as the key force in keeping Lovecraft in print?

From Quiz H.P. Lovecraft

Answer: August Derleth

A teenage Derleth began corresponding with Lovecraft. After his death, he took some of Lovecraft's incomplete works, finished them off and published them. Derleth helped found Arkham House and played a key role in keeping Lovecraft's work in print until it was discovered by a broader audience.

9. Who is 'the Unspeakable'?

From Quiz Lovecraftian gods

Answer: Hastur

According to the mythos, Hastur was the half-brother of Cthulhu.

10. The characters used by numerous other authors are often referred to as being in a "Mythos" named after one of Lovecraft's most famous characters. A dark god who sleeps beneath the sea in the dead city of R'lyeh, who is this character?

From Quiz HP Lovecraft Presents:The Quiz That Should Not Be

Answer: Cthulhu

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of Lovecraft's best known works, and inspired a role-playing game, numerous short stories, video games, plush toys, a Presidential campaign, and even a movie or two. The Cthulhu Mythos generally refers to anything which references Lovecraft or the creatures he created.

11. What are the Old Ones?

From Quiz HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and other Stories

Answer: A race of starfish-headed half-vegetable pods

The Old Ones once ruled the earth, but now are endangered or extinct. They star in "At The Mountains of Madness", and are mentioned in "The Shadow Out of Time".

12. Who did HP Lovecraft call his favorite writer of all time?

From Quiz The Cthulhu Mythos

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

He had often commented that Poe had the best sense for horror of any writer.

13. The title "Necronomicon" came with the first translation, into Greek. Who translated it, and gave it this famous name?

From Quiz The "Necronomicon"

Answer: Theodorus Philetas

This translation was done in A.D. 950, but the book had circulated in secret among philosophers for almost 200 years. The title "Necronomicon" has been said to mean "An Image of the Law of the Dead", "Book of the Names of the Dead", "Book of Dead Names" and several other options.

14. Well, off to merry old England. Here we are at a pleasant little madhouse at Hanwell. A man named de la Poer gibbers and scratches at the padded walls, screaming at something only he can hear. What does he hear?

From Quiz Lovecraftian Locales

Answer: The Rats in the Walls

One lousy instance of cannibalism and you're the neighborhood weirdo.

15. Where does Great Cthulhu lie, dead but dreaming?

From Quiz The Lurking Quiz

Answer: R'lyeh

R'lyeh lies deep beneath the sea. You do not want to go Scuba diving there.

16. Which text contains the following couplet: 'Happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, And happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes.'?

From Quiz The Necronomicon

Answer: Ibn Schacabao

The name "Schacabao" is not a proper Arabic name. It has thus been subjected to much the same speculation as "Alhazred". Possibilities include: Ibn Shayk Abol, "Son of the Sheik Abol". Ibn Mushacab, "Son of the Dweller" (shacab, "to sit, inhabit, dwell" plus mu-, personalizing element). Some derivate of the Hebrew term shakhabh, "bestiality".

17. In which New England state is Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham located?

From Quiz Some Lovecraft Questions

Answer: Massachusetts

The town itself is fictional, but is based on Salem.

18. Tragedy befalls family after a strange entity takes up residence in their water well.

From Quiz Lovecraft Plots

Answer: The Colour out of Space

'....the colour...it burns...cold an' wet, but it burns...'

19. The bulk of Lovecraft's work, in addition to the contributions of countless contemporaries and admirers', involves a shared world of powerful, monsterous beings. What is this world most commonly called?

From Quiz H.P. Lovecraft

Answer: Cthulhu Mythos

Though Lovecraft never referred to it as such, the term Cthulhu Mythos has come to represent this body of work.

20. Who is 'the Blind Idiot God'?

From Quiz Lovecraftian gods

Answer: Azathoth

Azathoth is thought to be the creator of all things.

21. Which Lovecraft character revives dead bodies, Doctor Frankenstein style, with an injection? In the Re-Animator movies, he is portrayed by Jeffrey Combs with a syringe of glowing green fluid.

From Quiz HP Lovecraft Presents:The Quiz That Should Not Be

Answer: Herbert West

The book was called "Herbert West: Reanimator", and doesn't closely resemble the movies. Herbert West is a great character, and has appeared in many other media forms: comic books, video games, musicals, and movies.

22. In what sunken city does Cthulhu wait dreaming, dead but alive with his kin, until the stars are right?

From Quiz HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and other Stories

Answer: R'lyeh

R'lyeh lies in the Pacific Ocean, and will rise again when the stars are right. Cthulhu will then perform a grand resurrection, and the great old ones shall walk the Earth once more. Atlantis is a fictional sunken city, which does appear in a Lovecraft story. Fhtagn is a word chanted by Cthulhu cultists, and Y'hanilei is the city of the deep ones, also sunken.

23. Which religious leader attempted to destroy all known copies of the book around A.D. 1050?

From Quiz The "Necronomicon"

Answer: Patriarch Michael of Constantinople

Hiamaldi appeared in a Mythos story by Brian Lumley, and both Clitanus and St. Augustine are mentioned in some of Auguste Derleth's stories. Patriarch Michael is mentioned by Lovecraft in his "History of the Necronomicon". In real life, Michael Cerularius was patriarch of Constantinople from 1043-1057, and held to be one of the men responsible for the schism between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.

24. When will Cthulhu awaken?

From Quiz The Lurking Quiz

Answer: When the stars are right.

According to the mythos, when the stars are right (in proper alignment) R'lyeh will rise and Great Cthulhu will awaken from eons of slumber.

25. The term "Necronomicon" roughly translates into English as:

From Quiz The Necronomicon

Answer: The book of the dead

"The Book of Dead Names" (i.e. ikon=book, necro=die or dead, and nom=name). Or, "The book of the law of the dead".

26. What is the name of the university found in Arkham?

From Quiz Some Lovecraft Questions

Answer: Miskatonic

In his Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson has made various characters alumni of Miskatonic U.

27. What fellow writer did Lovecraft 'kill' off in his 'The Haunter of the Dark'?

From Quiz H.P. Lovecraft

Answer: Robert Bloch

The thinly veiled character, Robert Blake meets his fate in The Haunter of the Dark. This was Lovecraft's literary counterpunch for Bloch's The Shambler from the Stars, in which a character hinted to be Lovecraft comes to his end. Both stories appeared in Weird Tales, Lovecraft's a year after Bloch's.

28. Which god generally appears as a cluster of floating spheres?

From Quiz Lovecraftian gods

Answer: Yog-Sothoth & yog-sothoth & yog-soggoth

Yog-Sothoth is a being who is one with all space and time, and is thought to be the gateway through wich the other gods will enter the world.

29. In the quaint little town of Innsmouth, the locals don't ever want to see you leave. They also love their visitors from the sea. Who are the visitors from the sea?

From Quiz HP Lovecraft Presents:The Quiz That Should Not Be

Answer: Deep Ones

In "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", we get a detailed look at the town of Innsmouth. The inhabitants cross breed over many generations with the fish/frog people from the sea, after old Obed Marsh struck a pact with them years ago. The movie "Dagon" is about the Spanish town of Imboca ("boca" being Spanish for "mouth") which has a similar populace.

30. Who is the Crawling Chaos?

From Quiz HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and other Stories

Answer: Nyarlathotep

Though Nyarlathotep first appeared in the story entitled the same as his name, the term "The Crawling Chaos" was used in "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath".

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