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91. Noemi is asked by her father to visit Catalina who is going through a tough time. What relation is Catalina to Noemi?

From Quiz "Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Answer: Cousin

Catalina is Noemi's cousin. Catalina is newly married and moved away with her new husband. Noemi hasn't spoken to her cousin in close to a year and assumes that it is because Catalina is enjoying being newly married. A letter arrives that is disconcerting as Catalina suggests she is being poisoned and asks for help. She specifically asks for Noemi to visit her.

From Quiz "The Egg And I" by Betty MacDonald

Answer: He was an insurance salesman.

While on their honeymoon, Bob talked mostly of insurance. But upon their return to Seattle, he began to talk to Betty about a chicken ranch that was for sale, and told her that he always wanted to go into the chicken business. When asked what she thought about it, her answer was, "I knew how to make mayonnaise and mitre sheet corners and light candles for dinner, so, chickens or insurance, I could hold up my end. That's what I thought. That's what a lot of women think when their husbands become dewy-eyed at the sight of their breakfast eggs and start making plans for taking the life savings and plunging into the chicken business!"

From Quiz "The Starless Sea": A Brief Overview

Answer: Zachary Ezra Rollins

Parts of the story are told from the viewpoint of other characters, but Zachary's is the central story line that weaves through the entire tapestry of the tale.

From Quiz Mitford, Nancy 'The Pursuit of Love'

Answer: Lavender Davis

Linda and Fanny knew that they would not be allowed to visit a young man without adult supervision so they said that their friend Lavender had a man visiting her home who had brought up a baby badger. This was well known to be an ambition of Linda's, and although Linda had complained about the food last time she visited Lavender Aunt Said believed them and lent them her car.

From Quiz Paksenarrion the Paladin

Answer: Rangers

With them, she learns to use a bow with more proficiency than she did in the militia. She also helps kill a massive creature, a daskdraudig. While she survives, other rangers die.

From Quiz Paksenarrion the Wanderer

Answer: Tower of the mountains

She tells part-elf Macenion that her name is elven for "tower of the mountains". Macenion tells her she's wrong and that her name means "royal tower" in Aaren, a human language, and explains how the corruption of meaning occurred.

From Quiz Paksenarrion the Soldier

Answer: Full body shave

Korryn beats Paks badly after she refuses to sleep with him. He then claims that Paks attacked Stephi, even though she is so injured she can hardly walk and keeps vomiting. In addition to being discharged from the company, branded, and flogged, Korryn is shaved "like a shorn lamb". This act foreshadows something that happens to Paks in "Oath of Gold".

From Quiz Life and Works of Thomas More

Answer: Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus is the only Dutch humanist amongst these answers (Vives was Spanish, Gillis was Flemish and Rabelais was French). Oddly enough both Desiderius AND Erasmus could be derived from the world 'love' (Desiderius in Latin, Erasmus in Greek). A legend states that his birthname was Geert Geertsz - both parts resembling the Dutch word 'begeerte' (= desire, love) - and that Erasmus himself chose to translate his name in two languages. Nice story. But still: a legend.

From Quiz Cats and Classical Music - Haruki Murakami

Answer: Baseball

Haruki Murakami became a novelist fairly late in life, deciding to write his first novel when he was 29. The story goes that as he was watching his beloved Yakult Swallows play the Hiroshima Carp in Tokyo's Jingu Stadium, and as Dave Hilton came in to bat, he decided that he should write a novel. He then wrote for an hour every evening, completing his first novel after four months. The result was 'Hear the Wind Sing', a broad-scoping novel about love and loss, centred around the Japanese student movement and narrated by an unnamed young man. The other major character is his close friend 'The Rat', who also appears in the subsequent works 'Pinball, 1973' and 'A Wild Sheep Chase'. They are often collectively referred to as 'The Rat Trilogy'.

From Quiz Throne of Glass

Answer: Kaltain Rompier

Celaena has an instant dislike of Kaltain when they first meet. Kaltain has an obsession with the prince and believes that she will be his wife. She also sees Celaena as a threat. Kaltain is ignorant as to the real identity of Celaena and knows her as Lillian. It is also thanks to Kaltain, that Celaena and Nehemia became friends, based on their mutual dislike of her.

From Quiz Bird Box

Answer: Riverbridge

Things began to worsen fast, and after three months many news outlets shifted focus to confirming the rapid uptick in murders and suicides. One day, Malorie headed upstairs to find a slight shift in the curtains; she found Shannon dead in the bathroom, having stabbed herself in the chest with a pair of scissors. Fearing for her life and worried about staying in the house alone and pregnant, she drove herself (cautiously) to the town of Riverbridge, where an alleged safehouse was set up in a residential area. When she arrived, she was welcomed in by five people (four men and one woman) and a dog. They'd all holed up with enough food to last three or four months, and they'd been calling out for survivors. They all believe that something had been touching people, either in their thoughts or vision, for only a brief moment, shifting their thoughts to killing themselves, perhaps because of something incomprehensible. Malorie continues paddling her kids down the river. Still wearing blindfolds, they're told to listen with their keen hearing in case something watches them from the woods or, worse, is stalking them in the water. Sure enough, something brushes by the boat, exiting the river on the other side.

From Quiz A Rumpole Quiz

Answer: The Outer Temple is fictional, i.e. it does not exist

There are four Inns of Court in London, and all barristers in England and Wales belong to one of them. They are: Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple. There never was an Outer Temple, although there have been other inns besides the four that still exist.

From Quiz "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell

Answer: Moriori

The Moriori are the natives on the Chatham Islands, which they call Rekohu. They had a pacifist society until the Maori enslaved and nearly exterminated them. Adam Ewing witnessed Autua being tortured by the Maori. Later Autua was a stowaway in Adam's cabin.

From Quiz 'Indelible Ink' by Fiona McGregor

Answer: Sydney

Marie's house is in Mosman, a wealthy residential suburb in the North Shore region of Sydney. The house has a fantastic view of Sydney Harbour, as well as access to the harbour via a sloping garden and a stairway down the final cliff. Most of the action is centred in the northern suburbs of Sydney, but Moore Park and Kings Cross also play their part.

From Quiz Don Mendo's Revenge

Answer: Magdalena

Magdalena is the only daughter of don Nuño. Don Mendo's desire to keep her reputation intact is what will make him to try to avenge himself. All in vain, because Magdalena is don Mendo's lover at the beginning of the play; then, she marries don Pero and, later, she becomes the king's lover while she is married to don Pero and tries to be Renato's lover.

From Quiz "Shatter Me" and "Unravel Me"

Answer: 19

Juliette asks him for his age multiple times before he answers, saying that he's 19. At first Juliette is shocked that someone so young has so much power, but over the series she comes to understand why.

From Quiz Beautiful Disaster

Answer: Fight

Travis is the best boxer at his university. Everyone knows he is lethal and most are afraid of him. He has a hot temper which causes most to steer clear of him. He never loses a fight!

From Quiz The Cross

Answer: Romania

Joel woke up half-buried in the snow outside Vâlcanul castle in Romania. He was left there by Alex after the battle with Gabriel. When he awoke, he slowly began to remember details of the battle that had taken place at the castle. Joel had been shot and mortally wounded, so Alex turned him into a vampire because that was the only way she could save him.

From Quiz Wildwood Dancing

Answer: Gogu could speak to Jena in her mind

Gogu is an enchanted frog, eldest son of a wealthy landowner, Jena's best friend... need I say more?

From Quiz 'Running Water' by Rohinton Mistry

Answer: Nobel Prize for literature

Rohinton Mistry(1952- )was born in a Parsi family in Bombay. He is a distinguished new generation writer in English from Indian origin. Mistry holds a distinctive position among the commonwealth writers by virtue of his vivid narration, Indo-nostalgic feel and a clear thought. Mistry migrated to Canada and settled in Toronto with his family in 1975. At that time there was a State of Emergency in India. His very first story 'One Sunday'(1983), won a prize for him. He has bagged a number of prestigious international awards till date.

From Quiz John D. MacDonald's "Travis McGee"

Answer: The Alabama Tiger.

Travis occasionally comments on the eternal floating houseparty, hosted by the Alabama Tiger on his yacht, 'Bama Gal.

From Quiz Somerset Maugham's Short Stories

Answer: The Verger

After losing his job, the verger cannot find a tobacconist's shop in the area to buy cigarettes, and opens what turns out to be just the first in a whole chain of shops.

From Quiz The "Treasure Island" Play

Answer: Captain Smollet

Captain Smollet became suspicious of the crew. He had never heard of a crew which had no complaints. He thought that no one was this good, which started his suspicions.

From Quiz "Bonechiller" by Graham McNamee

Answer: Fat Bill's

Fat Bill was under house arrest at that moment and not allowed to run his shop. He was a heavy smoker and Pike knew this. He knew the police would think he had not put out his cigarette properly and that had caused the blaze.

From Quiz 'Dairy Queen'

Answer: Basketball

DJ used to play basketball and was good at it but had to quit when her dad hurt his hip and couldn't do any farm chores.

From Quiz "Deaf Child Crossing" by Marlee Matlin

Answer: purple

Megan's room was entirely purple. Her rug, walls, bedspread were all purple. She often wore purple clothes, had purple hearing aids and even sent Cindy a purple invitation.

From Quiz The Golden Goblet

Answer: The Street of the Crooked Dog

Ranofer walks every day to the Street of the Goldsmiths, which is the location of Rekh's Goldsmith shop.

From Quiz The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie

Answer: Finnegan

Try is the FAD teacher who assigns Finnegan to be Bindy's buddy, because, as Bindy later learns, he was positioned towards her, hoping to be chosen to be her buddy.

From Quiz Peyton Place

Answer: Selena Cross

Selena lives in a one-roomed tar-paper shack with her mother, stepfather and younger brother. Allison lives in a well furnished, comfortable "Cape Cod" with her mother, a business woman who employs Selena in her store and has Selena's mother clean house for her. Jo March features in "Little Women", Jennifer North in "The Valley of the Dolls" and Clarissa Dalloway is the title character in Virginia Woolf's classic.

From Quiz "The Totem" by David Morrell

Answer: Nathan Slaughter

A rather macabre sounding name considering the bloodshed that happens in the book. Gordon Dunlap and Geoffrey Clinker are the same person. Dunlap is a journalist from Slaughter's past and Clinker is his pseudonym when he writes for "Rolling Stone" magazine. Clifford is the first character whom we read about being attacked by a crazed animal in graphic detail.

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