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In the classic German legend, Faust is a scholar who makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The story has inspired many authors to produce their own versions of the tale.
2 Faust quizzes and 15 Faust trivia questions.
1.
  So YouThink You Know Faust?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The legend of a man who sells his soul for power and knowledge is almost as old as time. But do you really know your Faust?
Tough, 10 Qns, WiseTao, Dec 20 24
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  Questions on the Faust Legend    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
From oral history to the written word, the Faust legend has entertained and entranced people for centuries. How much do you know about this legend?
Tough, 5 Qns, thejazzkickazz, Feb 17 18
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Faust Trivia Questions
1. What was the first name of the original Faust (if such a personage ever existed)?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: Johann

If he lived, his dates are approximately 1480-1540. He was both a magician and an astrologer.

2. The Faust legend was derived from late medieval legends of what culture?

From Quiz Questions on the Faust Legend

Answer: German

It is said that there was actually a German necromancer named Faust who was in league with the devil.

3. Faust first appears in print in the "Faustbuch", more formally known as "The History of the Damnable Life, and Deserved Death of Doctor Faustus" (1592). Who was it printed by?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: Johann Spies

In this work, the demon tempter Mephistopheles appears for the first, but not the last, time.

4. What is the earliest known work dealing with the Faust legend?

From Quiz Questions on the Faust Legend

Answer: Faustbuch

The Faustbuch was written anonymously in 1587.

5. Who wrote the opera version of "Faust" in 1859?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: Gounod

The libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre, and is based on Goethe's "Faust" Part I.

6. Faust was next handled by a famous playwright, who titled his work 'Doctor Faustus'. What was his name?

From Quiz Questions on the Faust Legend

Answer: Marlowe

7. The aforementioned 1859 "Faust" opera earned the wrath of Wagner, who called the work "music for ___________". What word completes his insult?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: Sluts

Another critic suggested that because it was so much more popular than the composer's other work, he probably didn't write it. However, after being challenged to a duel, the critic retracted his claim. Coward.

8. Perhaps the most famous version of Faust was written by a German poet and dramatist in the early 19th century. Who was this man?

From Quiz Questions on the Faust Legend

Answer: Goethe & Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Von Goethe & Johann Goethe & Johann Von Goethe

In Goethe's work, as in Marlowe's, Faust flirts with the devil, in the guise of Mephistopheles.

9. Stephen Vincent Benet's short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" features a Faust figure. What was the name of the film made from the tale?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: All That Money Can Buy

In the story, the Faust figure is an impoverished farmer who is saved from the Devil by Daniel Webster himself.

10. What German-born writer, who lived in America between 1939 and 1952, wrote a new version of Faust entitled 'Doktor Faustus' in 1947?

From Quiz Questions on the Faust Legend

Answer: Mann

Thomas Mann used the Faust legend to describe the nihilistic tendencies in German culture during the early 20th century.

11. Berlioz wrote a musical work on the Faust theme. What did he call it?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: The Damnation of Faust

The dramatic cantata incorporated the composer's earlier "Huit Scenes de Faust" (1828).

12. In 1796 an opera called the "La Ceinture du Doctor Faust" was composed. What is a "ceinture"?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: Belt

Hanke wrote the work, based on the older Faustian legend, not the one Goethe concocted.

13. Another Faust opera was "Dr. Faust's Hoellenfahrt". What's a Hoellenfahrt?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: Journey to hell

The 1951 opera was composed by Engelmann.

14. Who wrote "Doktor Faust: Ein Tanzpoem"?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: Heinrich Heine

This mock-epic was written in 1851.

15. There were several Faust movies, the most famous of which was done in 1926. Who starred?

From Quiz So YouThink You Know Faust?

Answer: Emil Jannings

The silent film was directed by F.W. Murnau.

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