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1. When Max and her sidekicks make an unauthorised jump to rescue two long-lost St. Mary's people from Boudicca's advancing army, which city do they jump to?

From Quiz The Long and the Short of it

Answer: Colchester

Historians Grey and Blashford were kidnapped by Clive Ronan and abandoned in Colchester just as Boudicca's advancing army arrived to sack the city. Max and her team arrived just in time to save them, in their timeline, even though they have been lost to St. Mary's for ten years.

From Quiz Love's Labour's Lost!

Answer: Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope 1815-1882 is best known as the chronicler of ordinary lives, in the fictional county of Barsetshire, a citadel of rural values always under threat from new ways. "Barchester Towers", which begins with the arrival of Dr Proudie, the new Bishop, centres round the conflict between the "high church" and the "low church" parties. The first is led by irascible, apoplectic Archdeacon Grantly ("Good Heavens!") and the second is led by the hen-pecked Bishop, his formidable wife and Mr Slope, the unctuous self-seeking Bishop's Chaplain. Mr Septimus Harding, Warden of a charitable home for retired wool-carders, is the guileless and truly Christian peacemaker. It is he whose spirited daughter, who also happens to be a rich widow, Mr Slope is fruitlessly courting. His proposal and rejection in the local squire's garden is one of the funniest in fiction, only equalled by Jane Austen's Mr Collins and Lizzie Bennet. His invitation to wander hand in hand to the throne of grace is met with a resounding box on the ear!

From Quiz The Amtrak Wars

Answer: Brickman

Steve is a pilot, trained to scout over enemy territory for Mute incursions into Federation land. He is one of the best pilots ever to graduate from the Academy, but "they" fix his marks to make him lose out on the various top honours, for reasons of their own which do not become clear until much later in the series. "Cloud Warrior" was first published in 1983.

From Quiz The Secret of the Nagas

Answer: Sati

Sati was married to Shiva. She was well trained in war skills.

From Quiz "Innocent" by Scott Turow: Rusty Rides Again

Answer: Barbara

Rusty is accused of murdering his wife, Barbara (who happened to be the murderer in "Presumed Innocent").

From Quiz Terence's "The Mother-In-Law"

Answer: Athens

Despite being a Roman play, the location is indeed Athens! Roman drama was much inspired by Greek drama, and "The Mother-In-Law" is apparently based on a play by Menander, according to the production notice written at the time of the first attempt at putting on the play. It is the fifth play by Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), and the first two attempts at putting on the play failed. Reasons given for this in prologues to the play include distraction of the audience due to a gladiatorial display, and a tightrope walker.

From Quiz The Brothers Leandros

Answer: She said he was a monster

Sophia was an alcoholic prostitute who actively hated Cal, and neglected both her sons. She only bore Cal because she was paid to do so, and named him so that he would "never forget he was a monster".

From Quiz "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale

Answer: 12

There are six stanzas in the poem. Each stanza has two lines that rhyme.

From Quiz Waiting for the Day

Answer: D Day

The novel deals with the six months preceding D Day in June 1944, through the eyes of its various protagonists.

From Quiz Brad Thor Books

Answer: kidnapping of US President

You are swept through Switzerland, the Middle East and the US. Involving the CIA, FBI and foreign authorities.

From Quiz Margaret Truman

Answer: Capital Crimes Series

She started this critically acclaimed series of murder mysteries in 1980 and through 2007 has written twenty-three different books. Her familiarity with the inner workings of the US capital gives her a unique perspective from which to write.

From Quiz Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun"

Answer: Dalton Trumbo

The original novel's introduction was written by the author himself. In a very poignant introduction, Mr. Trumbo criticizes the very fabric of America itself when it comes to war.

From Quiz John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces"

Answer: D.H. Holmes

One of innumerable city department stores which have been swallowed by the chains...

From Quiz The Sorority Trilogy

Answer: Applehead Lake Cheerleading Camp

Greenbriar University is located near the cheerleading camp. Caldonia is the neighboring town where the events of Tamara's "The Forgotten" took place. Santo Verde is also mentioned in the book and is the setting of Tamara's "Bad Things".

From Quiz A Confederacy of Dunces

Answer: Boethius

Author of "The Consolation of Philosophy". Ever tried to read it? As wordy as Ignatius himself.

From Quiz Emily - 606

Answer: 13

Emily was born in 1989, on 17th December, to parents Robert and Linda Jones.

From Quiz "The White Hotel" Quiz

Answer: It is a place the main character visits in her fantasies

The White Hotel, in Elizabeth's fantasies, could be a metaphor for the womb, amongst other things.

From Quiz Amy Tan's "The Bonesetter's Daughter"

Answer: In pages of Chinese calligraphy given to her daughter

While LuLing's daughter speaks some Chinese, the pages of calligraphy are too much for her. She puts off deciphering them for years, until she finds another chapter hidden in her mother's house and finally hires a translator.

From Quiz Casey at the Bat

Answer: Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Thayer (1863-1940) was a Harvard graduate and the editor of the Harvard Lampoon, along with William Randolph Hearst.

From Quiz "The White Hotel" by D.M. Thomas

Answer: Her mother's womb

This is Freud's interpretation (p. 129), although the White Hotel comes to represent many things for Lisa in her life.

From Quiz 'Presumed Innocent' the book

Answer: Rusty Sabich

Rusty Sabich (real name Rozat Sabich) is the chief deputy PA, the novel's central character and also narrates the story. Raymond Horgan is Rusty's {boss;} Dan Lipranzer is a policeman who is Rusty's best {friend;} Carolyn Polhemus is the lawyer whose death provides the novel's story.

From Quiz Sister Fidelma Mysteries

Answer: Peter Tremayne

From Quiz All About Anthony Trollope

Answer: Barchester

Barchester is the county town and cathedral city for the county of Barsetshire.

From Quiz "How to Pronounce Knife"

Answer: Kicked off his shoes

The first thing her father did when he got home was take off his shoes. In Asian countries this is a traditional custom, since it is unthinkable to assume that one would enter a clean home with dirty shoes. In the western world, this custom became popular in 2020, as a prophylactic measure to control the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a very healthy habit which will probably be incorporated into the post-pandemic western world.

From Quiz The Long and the Short of it

Answer: 1066

Max and her team jump back to 1066 to view the Christmas Day coronation of William the Conqueror, but get caught up in a seemingly random situation when a lowly peasant woman is giving birth unaided in a freezing hut. Overcome with compassion, the St. Mary's crew stay and assist her and her older child, and it is only later that Max discovers the historical importance of the daughter in question.

From Quiz Love's Labour's Lost!

Answer: Bertie Stanhope

Perhaps a bit severe! Ethelbert, aka Bertie, Stanhope is another touch of delightful comedy in this Trollopian battle of wills. His father having been for a very long time an absentee clergyman in Italy, " suffering" from an entirely imaginary sore throat, Bertie had spent his time idling and earning a desultory non-living as a sculptor. When the family is forced to return to England by the Bishop's domineering wife, he and his two mischievous sisters are more than a match for her. In one amusing scene, at the Bishop's inaugural party, inappropriately clad in bright blue Eastern looking trousers, he moves a sofa to accommodate his lame sister and in the process traps Mrs Proudie's skirt, causing a great rent in both it and the lady's dignity! In response to her imperious "Unhand me, sir!", he drops to his knees and, comically abject, implores to be allowed to "fly to the looms of the fairies" to effect a repair. He is entirely without malice but sees in Eleanor Bold a way to continue his harmless yet idle life. His sister tells him to propose to her and he is unwise enough to tell Eleanor this. He is puzzled by her reply that he almost got the same reply as Mr Slope!

From Quiz The Amtrak Wars

Answer: Wordsmith, Summoner, and Seer

Mutes who are any of a Wordsmith, a Summoner, or a Seer are very important to each tribe of Mutes, and serve much the same function as the Medicine Man or Witch Doctor has done in tribal societies for thousands of years. The ancient prophecy says that when a child is born who is "Wordsmith, Summoner, and Seer" the enemies of the Bears will be overthrown and the plains will belong to the Mutes again.

From Quiz The Secret of the Nagas

Answer: Kartika, Sati's close friend

Shiva's son was named Kartik after Kartika, Sati's close friend and Veerabhadra's wife, who looked after Sati during hard times.

From Quiz "Innocent" by Scott Turow: Rusty Rides Again

Answer: Dan Lipranzer

Rusty's old friend "Lip" has retired and moved to sunnier climes.

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