Authors Q-S: 'R' Trivia

1. When looking for a summer home to rent, why did Rachel Innes select Sunnyside?

From Quiz The Circular Staircase

Answer: Her niece and nephew cajoled her into it

Rachel Innes was a middle-aged spinster who was a foster mother to her niece and nephew, Gertrude and Halsey. All three were quite wealthy. Halsey and Gertrude were in their early twenties and intended to spend the summer with their aunt at Sunnyside. While searching for a house to rent, Rachel liked Sunnyside but was not sure about renting it. Gertrude and Halsey convinced her to rent it. Rachel later discovered that Halsey and Gertrude were friends with the Armstrong family who owned Sunnyside. Rachel was only vaguely familiar of the Armstrongs but did know some people who lived in the nearby town.

From Quiz Mary Renault Classic Fiction

Answer: Theseus

Theseus volunteered to be one of a team of girls and boys who were sent each year by Athens to become sacrificial offerings in the Bull Ring in Crete. He led a successful revolt against the Cretan king and returned to Athens to take the throne.

From Quiz Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

Answer: Smart Aid

Jacob's mother's family owns the drugstore chain. Jacob is set to inherit part of the company. He persistently tries to get himself fired (to no avail). (Jacob's father is an "amateur ornithologist" and volunteer, not needing to earn money.) Jacob's not too thrilled with the prospect of his future.

From Quiz "Santiago" by Mike Resnick

Answer: A Myth of the Far Future

The book was first published in 1986, and was followed by its direct sequel "The Return of Santiago" in 2003. Between 1989 and 2015, Mike Resnick was nominated for thirty-seven Hugo Awards, winning five of them.

From Quiz Futility or The Wreck of the Titan

Answer: New York

The Titan sailed from New York and was going to London, unlike the Titanic, which had sailed from England and was traveling to New York on its maiden voyage. This was not the Titan's "maiden voyage" however. The story follows John Rowland, a member of the crew.

From Quiz Out to Old Aunt Mary's

Answer: His brother

"Wasn't it pleasant O brother mine...", are the opening words of the poem. The words show a memory to be cherished. And somehow, by these opening lines, we are left to wonder if something special brought on these reminiscences.

From Quiz Even Tom Robbins Gets the Blues

Answer: Pan

"Jitterbug Perfume" was first published in 1984. Tom Robbins' fourth novel, it is about immortality and the importance of smell. Pan is decaying as people lose belief in him after the birth of Christ. He is brought to the New World to live in the untouched wilderness of North America, where Christianity hasn't taken a strong foothold yet.

From Quiz Feluda: The Immortal Character by Satyajit Ray

Answer: Tapesh

Tapesh is a young schoolboy who appears in most of Feluda's stories as his assistant. He is also Feluda's cousin and the narrator of the Feluda series.

From Quiz All Quiet on the Western Front

Answer: Stanislaus Katczinsky

Katczinsky once got the men four tins of lobster!

From Quiz "The Fire Kimono" by Laura Joh Rowland

Answer: Takugawa Tadatoshi

He disappeared the day of the Great Fire and was never seen again. Until a Shinto priest discovers his corpse beside a fallen tree, everyone assumed the Shogun's cousin to have been just another casualty of the inferno. Of the other answer choices, Lord Matsudaira is the Shogun's living cousin and Sano's rival, Etsuko is the Chamberlain's mother, and Lady Reiko is his wife.

From Quiz Billy Bunter

Answer: The Magnet

"The Magnet" first appeared in 1908 and ran for 32 years. In 1940, due to a paper shortage caused by World War II, the publication came to a premature end.

From Quiz Shantaram

Answer: A series of armed robberies of banks and building societies

The Pentridge Prison, which finally closed in 1997, was an exceptionally brutal maximum security prison, with prison guards inflicting horrific, indiscriminate beatings to prisoners.

From Quiz What If...You Always Went Back to Page 1?

Answer: Don't Tell Irene

Too bad for Haley. I never chose this path in the book, but I was very cautious after my first experience with the second book.

From Quiz A Country Life Through the Eyes of Miss Read

Answer: Fairacre

My first school was larger than Fairacre with four teachers and a Headmaster. Very different to the schools my children attended.

From Quiz "The Interpretation of Murder" by Jed Rubenfeld

Answer: Carl Jung

Freud had been invited by G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark University, to give a series of lectures on the history of Psychoanalysis. In all Freud gave five lectures and was paid $714.60. Spinoza is considered one of the great rationalists during the 17th century. Jung is considered one of the founding fathers of 'Analytic Psychology'. He first met Freud in 1907 when they collaborated on the study of schizophrenia and he joined Freud on a visit to the U.S.A. in 1909. Rene Descartes was a philosopher during the early half of the 18th century and has been called the "Father Of Modern Philosophy", his major opus 'Meditations on First Philosophy is a standard text in most universities. Bertrand Russell was born in Wales and is known as a logician and philosopher who helped found 'Analytic Philosophy' with Frege and Wittgenstein

From Quiz Green Mars

Answer: Zygote

The name of the main hidden colony is Zygote. At the start of the book the Martian rebels have been defeated and are scattered throughout the far southern hemisphere. The Zygote colony was the first hidden colony created by Hiroko, the primary agricultural specialist from the original 100 colonists.

From Quiz Red Mars

Answer: Ares

The spaceship Ares takes the first 100 colonists to the planet Mars, where they will build the first colony and infrastructure for later humans to use.

From Quiz "Haroun and the Sea of Stories": Chapters 1-4

Answer: Alifbay

Alifbay is derived from the Hindustani word for alphabet.

From Quiz Baby-Sitting is a Dangerous Job

Answer: Foster

The family has three children, one boy and two girls. At first she is wary about sitting for the kids, but goes ahead and takes the job.

From Quiz My Desperate Love Diary By Kelly Ann

Answer: Liz and Stephanie

Chris is Kelly Ann's mate she has known since primary school, G is the guy she is in love with, Linda is Chris's girlfriend, Shelly is G's girlfriend, Julian is Stephanie's brother, and Angela is Kelly Ann's sister.

From Quiz More 'Revelation Space'

Answer: Bernsdottir

Bernsdottir discovered the first Shroud a few decades before 2373 while Philip Lascaille was the first human to penetrate the outer limits of a Shroud that was named after him.

From Quiz Revelation Space

Answer: North Nekhebet

The obelisk was the first piece of evidence found on Resurgam of the Amarantin that became the Shrouders, and eventually led Sylveste to the artificial planet of Cerberus.

From Quiz Quoting "Scarlett" by Alexandra Ripley

Answer: Bachelors

This is talking about the Saint Cecilia's ball. The bachelors are saying that there is nothing else like it.

From Quiz "S" is for Samurai

Answer: Tokugawa Shogunate

The Tokugawa clan held the shogunate from 1603-1868. This period is also known as the Edo Period. Rowland is using real historical characters, with some poetic license.

From Quiz The Creepiness That Is "Dreamwatcher"

Answer: Laney's

Deirdre constantly monitors her daughter's dreams for signs of the Black Dreams that destroyed her husband.

From Quiz 'One Golden Hour' by Maureen Reynolds

Answer: 1877

The book began with Tessa's wagon ride into town with Hal Witherby. The trail was dusty and bumpy, and Tessa was wearing a wide straw hat to protect her face. We learned later the hat was more to hide behind, than to protect against the elements. Harper City, Kansas is a real town, but not actually named after the the main male character. It was named after Sgt. Marion Harper. The town was named for him in 1863, after he died in a Civil War battle.

From Quiz Jennifer Roberson's "Sword Dancer" Series

Answer: Sandtiger

"Sandtiger" was the name he gave himself after he killed one of these ferocious desert beasts. For his efforts he got a necklace of sandtiger claws, four deep scratches on his cheek, and his freedom from slavery to the Salset.

From Quiz Salt

Answer: Kesaph

Salt had originally held the name Nebel 2, but it was only for identification back on Earth. Many people ended up calling it Salt because it was basically a big solid planet made of salt. Although Barlei suggested Kesaph (Hebrew for 'silver') because of the image of the planet in space, the idea wasn't too popular. Salt has no moons or rings, and its sun, Hadros, is Greek for 'unicorn' (although Barlei isn't too fond of that name either).

From Quiz 'Wagons West' Series, Part 1

Answer: Sam Brentwood and Whip Holt

Sam Brentwood and Whip Holt came to the home of Otto and Cathy van Ayl on Long Island, NY because that is where the wagon train to the Oregon territory begins. They will become the wagonmasters, Sam leading them to Independence, Missouri, and Whip leading them the rest of the way.

From Quiz How Much Do You Know About 'Lawless and Tilley'?

Answer: Brett and Clare

The two detectives full names are 'Detective Inspector Brett Lawless' and 'Detective Sergeant Clare Tilley'.

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