Wilbur Smith Trivia

1. The charismatic Lord Andrew Killigren is the Commanding Officer of Michael Courtney's Squadron and also his best friend. He wears a distinct green scarf, but what other item does he always have with him?

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: A silver flask

Andrew's flask is mentioned quite a few times; the flask has a big yellow cairngorm set in its stopper. This is one of the items that is later delivered to Michael.

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: Theunis Kraal

Theunis Kraal is a cattle station, and from an early age Sean is his father's "right hand man" helping him run the business and take care of all the farming tasks.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: Taita

Taita is vain, but intelligent and skilled in many things: music, poetry, warfare, and so on.

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: Fokker fodder

After questioning two newly trained pilots, fresh from England about their experience and training, Andrew exclaims "The Huns are going to love you two".

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: Rhinoceros

Mbejane serves Sean for many years, and it is he who digs Sean out with his bare hands when he is buried in a mine collapse.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: Lord Intef

Intef, the Grand Vizier, is a corrupt and venal official, and gave the order for Taita to be castrated when he discovered Taita's love affair with a slave girl.

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: Yellow

In addition to the bright yellow paint work, it sported a frowning tortoise just below the cockpit with the legend "Don't ask me - I just work here".

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: Candy Deep

They name the mine after Candy Rautenbach, who runs an hotel (and brothel) in the mining camp town. She is rich and invests money when they need capital to start the mine. She later marries Duff and becomes a respectable lady, but is heartbroken when he walks out on her. Candy and Sean remain friends for years afterwards, even when Candy remarries an officer and lives as a respectable businesswoman in the city.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: Lostris

Taita is totally devoted to Lostris, and although frequently exasperated by her antics, can deny her nothing.

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: le petit jaune

Michael sustains some injuries, after crashing his plane. Centaine saves him from more serious injury by smothering the flames on his uniform. She takes him to the chateau where he meets the rest of her family while being bandaged by Anna and Centaine.

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: Sovereign with a hole shot through it

Katrina is in labour when Sean arrives with the priest. When the priest asks for the ring, they realise they don't have one so Sean puts a gold sovereign on the floor and shoots a hole through the middle of it.

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: Kaiser Wilhelm

The pig reminded Michael of a hippopotamus; his pointed ears hung over his eyes.

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: Dirk

Dirk is born to Sean's first wife Katrina out in the bush. Sadly, later on, Katrina catches a fever and miscarries their second child. Michael is also Sean's son, but his mother Anna is married to Sean's brother Garrick, and Sean cannot openly acknowledge him.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: Tanus

Tanus returns Lostris' love, and believes he will find favour with Lord Intef. Intef however, loathes and fears Tanus, having defrauded Tanus' father years earlier.

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: Biggs

Biggs lost his eldest son in the trenches at Ypres. He felt much affection towards the pilots, especially Andrew and Michael.

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: She commits suicide

Katrina is very frail and depressed after her bout of fever and miscarriage. When they return to civilisation, she is madly jealous of Candy and thinks Sean is having an affair. In despair she throws herself down the mineshaft at Candy Deep, and dies.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: Speaking openly of the troubles besetting the land

Using the excuse of the Feast of Osiris, when matters may traditionally be brought to the attention of the Pharoah, Tanus denounces the weak generals who have failed to protect the people from the raids by bandits known as "The Shrikes".

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: No 21 Squadron

No 21 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps was stationed near Mort Homme.

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: Storm

When Storm is conceived, Ruth, her mother, is still married to her first husband Saul, so Sean cannot acknowledge her as his daughter. Saul is killed in the war and Sean courts and marries Ruth when Storm is three years old.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: That Tanus finds and destroys the robber bands

Although Pharoah is angered by Tanus' words, inside, he accepts Tanus' criticism. He sees in Tanus the ideal person to destroy The Shrikes.

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: Otto von Greim

After Michael delivers his challenge to Jasta II, Otto von Greim flies over their airfield and drops Andrew's flask and scarf, with a note that Andrew has been buried with full military honors but also accepting Michael's challenge - and warning him.

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: He finds a lost army payroll in the saddlebags of a dead donkey in the bush

Sean goes back to the scene of Saul's death and sees something at the bottom of a crevasse. When he climbs down to it, he finds a dead donkey with its saddlebags stuffed full of money in several currencies, from the war. There is enough cash to pay off all his debts and Sean's triumph over the bank is all the sweeter because the manager is his boyhood enemy Ronnie Pye.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: He denounces Lord Intef as the leader of The Shrikes

After a long and bloody campaign, Tanus, now called "Akh-Horus" (The Brother of Horus) has destroyed most of the bandit gangs and captured their leaders. One by one they are brought before the Pharoah and denounce Intef as their overall leader. Intef flees, but only after Taita leads Pharoah and Tanus into the secret chambers where Intef has been hiding the wealth plundered from the Kingdom.

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: His wedding day

Michael went up alone to meet Otto von Greim, childishly believing in chivalry. However, the full Jasta of the new type of Albatros fighters was waiting in ambush. Michael was badly wounded and his plane crippled, however he made it back to friendly lines. His plane crashed and he was killed in a ball of fire, with Centaine and Sean watching in horror.

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: Fire

Dirk is bitterly jealous of Ruth and Storm, and also the fact that Michael (who he thinks is merely Sean's nephew) is Sean's partner in the wattle business. In his anger he sets a fire in the wattle stands. One of the native workers is killed and several are injured. Dirk himself is almost caught by the fire. Had the fire taken hold and destroyed more of the crop, Sean would have been ruined.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: Hyksos

The Hyksos bring with them some (to Egyptian eyes) frightening new tools of war. They use horses, hitherto unknown in Egypt, and ride in chariots; until now the secret of making wheels had eluded the Egytpians.

From Quiz Sean Courtney

Answer: He is murdered and thrown into the river

Dirk grows up to be thoroughly evil, and through his wicked schemes Sean and his second wife Ruth are led to believe their daughter desperately needs them. As they rush to her side, Dirk ambushes their car and bludgeons Sean and Ruth to ensure they are both dead. He then throws their bodies into the river to hide the evidence of his involvement.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: Pharoah Mamoset is killed

The chariots and horses overwhelm the Egyptian army and Pharoah Mamoset receives a fatal wound to the stomach. The survivors of the army, along with the nobility including Lostris, Tanus, and Taita, flee southwards.

From Quiz "The Burning Shore" - Wilbur Smith

Answer: Kurt Kohler

In accordance with intelligence supplied by Lothar De la Rey, the U-32 was hunting for an "I" class heavy battle cruiser, the Inflexible; the estimated position placed her where the hospital ship was at the time. During the night the Protea Castle's three funnels and tripod shaped superstructure closely resembled the Inflexible and Kohler decided to release the torpedoes.

From Quiz "River God" by Wilbur Smith

Answer: The slave convinces everyone that Pharoah's spirit visited her

Lostris had already borne a son, Memnon, whose father is of course Tanus, but who was delightedly accepted by Mamoset as his longed-for male heir. When she becomes pregnant again, Taita convinces everyone that the dead Pharoah, still unburied in the hold of the ship, rose from the dead and visited Lostris.

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