Places in Literature Trivia

1. In Jacquelyn Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean" (1999), a family deals with the aftermath of what crime?

From Quiz Authors Write about Wisconsin

Answer: Kidnapping

"The Deep End of the Ocean" focuses on Beth Cappadora and the kidnapping of her son. The family lives near Madison, Wisconsin. Years later, a young man who looks like her abducted son arrives. The novel deals with the consequences of his return. The novel was Oprah Winfrey's first selection for her book club in September 1996. Jacquelyn Mitchard was a columnist at the Milwaukee Journal for over two decades and also taught at the University of Wisconsin. The idea for "The Deep End of the Ocean" came to her in a dream and the novel was published in June 1996. It was a New York Times bestseller.

From Quiz Fictional Places in Literature

Answer: Doctor Dolittle

Hugh John Lofting was born in 1886 in Maidenhead, Berkshire and served with the Irish Guards during World War I, but he is best-remembered today as the author of the popular children's books featuring Doctor Dolittle. The character first appeared in letters written from the trenches of WWI and the first of Lofting's twelve books, "The Story of Doctor Dolittle", was published in 1920. The full title of the book was actually "The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts Never Before Printed". Lofting died in 1947 and the final three books were published posthumously over the following five years. The final installment, published in 1952, was "Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures".

From Quiz The Places You Go

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Xanadu

The story is that Coleridge wrote his poem "Kubla Khan" in 1797 following a dream he had under the influence of opium. It was almost twenty years after the writing of the unfinished poem that Coleridge published it at the urging of Lord Byron.

From Quiz Are You Sure This Land is Magical?

Answer: Narnia

Lewis created the world of Narnia, a landmass "fronting The Great Eastern Ocean" as a setting for his series of seven children's novels titled "The Chronicles of Narnia." The first book in the series is "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Aslan, a lion with the power of speech, is the main character in the "Narnia" series. Avalon is an island in the medieval tale of Arthur Pendragon, a legendary king who purportedly saved Britain from the Saxons. In Norse mythology Valhalla is a vast regal hall, ruled by the god Odin, where soldiers killed in battle go in the afterlife.

From Quiz If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now!

Answer: Mrs Danvers

"Rebecca" was first published in 1938, and remained in print throughout the twentieth century. In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock produced perhaps the most famous film version of the story, starring Joan Fontaine and Sir Laurence Olivier as Mr and Mrs De Winter.

From Quiz A Pen and a Prayer

Answer: The Name of the Rose

"The Name of the Rose" was written by Umberto Eco and originally published in Italian under the title "Il nome della rosa". In 1986 the book was made into a film starring Sean Connery as William of Baskerville and Christian Slater as Adso of Melk. The novel has also inspired several play adaptations, video games and a board game.

From Quiz Location, location, location

Answer: Troy

Schlieman was an amateur archaeologist who used descriptions in the epic poem to locate the ruins. Ilium is another name for the city.

From Quiz Houses in Fiction

Answer: Tara

In Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel 'Gone with the Wind,' the house on Tara, a Georgia cotton plantation, was a rambling structure that didn't much resemble the palatial residence that appeared in the movie. Nonetheless, it's the idea of Tara that keeps Scarlett going. Through her efforts, Tara survives and prospers, but she herself loses everything in the process. Seven Oaks, of course, is Ashley's home, which is destroyed by the Yankees. The exterior used for the movie Tara was built on a lot at Selznick Studios, and there is some mystery as to what exactly happened to it. It certainly bears a close resemblance to the Selznick mansion, which has cause a lot of confusion over the years. The exterior for Seven Oaks was only a matte painting and the barbeque scenes were filmed in Busch Gardens.

From Quiz Mister Topsy-Turvy

Answer: Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift wrote and published "Gulliver's Travels" in 1726. Its original title contained 24 words: "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships." The book was an immediate success and is accepted as one of the true masterpieces of English literature.

From Quiz The Half-Open Cellar Door...

Answer: The Cask of Amontillado

In "The Cask of Amontillado", a bitter and envious man tricks his neighbor, Fortunato, into going to his wine cellar to try an expensive wine to determine if it is authentic or not. Fortunato agrees to go, tempted by the prospect of savoring the rare Amontillado, and indeed drinks his fill of the valuable grog, while the trickster bricks shut the entry to the room in the wine cellar, thereby trapping Fortunato and condemning him to an agonizing death. The other stories listed are all by Poe, but they do not have a wine cellar as a central plot element.

From Quiz Where Angels Fear to Tread

Answer: Neverwhere

"Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman was first published in 1996, and was nominated for a British Fantasy Society Award. It was also made into a BBC television series, in which the Angel was played by Oscar winning actor Peter Capaldi.

From Quiz Literary Locations

Answer: Maycomb

Lee claims she based the characters and events on those found in and around her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.

From Quiz Places in Literature

Answer: A peak in Darien

"Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise - Silent, upon a peak in Darien." John Keats - "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". 1816

From Quiz Famous Places That Never Existed

Answer: Lilliput

It's the small men island depicted by J. Swift in his "Gulliver's Travels" (1726). Everything is on a small scale in Lilliput: for instance, the capital, Mildendo, has walls two and half feet high. Westmannaeyar is a real archipelago in Iceland, while Lineland is a country shaped like a straight line from Edwin A. Abbott's book "Flatland".

From Quiz Cities in Literature

Answer: London and Paris

'A Tale of Two Cities' is set in the period of the French revolution and the subsequent Jacobin reign of terror. The novel tells the story of Frenchman Charles Darnay and Englishman, Sydney Carton and, as is common with Dickens, is a book concerned with social justice and redemption.

From Quiz The Literary Polymath

Answer: Casablanca

From the great 1942 movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman (Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan were considered for the parts of Rick and Ilsa, according to the legends which have grown around the film). Casablanca is on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, which was a French protectorate during WWII. Hence the appearance of Claude Rains as the pragmatic, somewhat corrupt, fence-sitting gendarme Capt Renault, possibly a metaphor for the puppet Vichy French government itself. But he comes good in the end, and chucks his bottle of Vichy water in the bin. And yes, I know that Ilsa didn't really say "Play it again, Sam". But she should have! So how did a film question get into a literary quiz? Well in 1997, Stephen Humphrey Bogart (yep, Bogey's son) came up with his novel "The Remake - As Time Goes By", in which R J Brookes, the private-eye son of two famous Holywood parents, gets annoyed when the sleaziest producer in Holywood plans to do a sleazy sequel to one of America's best-loved movies "As Time Goes By" in which his parents starred. Sound familiar? Studio people start to get bumped off, and guess who gets the blame? And, because life always imitates art, in 1998, a writer called Michael Walsh came up with "As Time Goes By", the continuing adventures of Rick, Renault, Lazlo and Ilsa. I expect Mr Walsh keeps looking over his shoulder for R J Brookes...

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Answer: The Magic Faraway Tree

The Magic Faraway Tree is home to many of Enid Blyton's best-loved characters, Moonface among them. Once you reach the top you can enter the portal to whichever fantasy land happens to be visiting at the time - but watch out! Not all of these strange countries boasts a happy and welcoming atmosphere.

From Quiz Through The Literary Keyhole

Answer: Thornfield Hall

Jane spends her early childhood at Gateshead Hall, home of her aunt, Mrs Reed, and her cousins, Eliza, Georgiana and John. After an argument with John, Mrs Reed locks Jane into the red-room, which is supposedly haunted by the ghost of her uncle who died in that same room. Moor House is the home of the Rivers family, with whom Jane stays for a while, working as a school teacher. Ferndean Manor is another house belonging to Mr Rochester, located about 30 miles from Thornfield. Charlotte Bronte is thought to have based Ferndean on Wycoller Hall in Pendle Witch Country, Lancashire. The ruins of Wycoller Hall are still accessible to tourists today.

From Quiz A Perfect World!

Answer: Nowhere land

Sir Thomas More's "Utopia" combined serious recommendations for a socialist society with comically ridiculous proposals.

From Quiz Ideal Countries In Literature

Answer: The Island of the Lotus Eaters

Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809 and died on October 6, 1892. A typical fragment: "In the afternoon they came into a land In which it seemed always afternoon All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream."

From Quiz Imaginary Places

Answer: Middle-Earth & Middle Earth

"The Lord of the Rings" is one of my favorite books. I can't wait for "The Two Towers" to come out!

From Quiz Pubs In Literature

Answer: The Tabard

The Tabard was a real tavern which had its ups and downs over the centuries. Destroyed by fire in 1676, it was rebuilt as the Talbot. It was a popular coaching inn, but declined with the advent of the railways. The building (no longer a tavern) was demolished in 1873. Talbot Yard, off Borough High Street, marks the site.

From Quiz Literary Locales

Answer: California

His first success?

From Quiz Authors Write about Wisconsin

Answer: Vince Lombardi

"When Pride Still Mattered" is about legendary football coach Vince Lombardi (1913-1970). He coached the Packers from 1959 to 1967 and led them to five championships, including the first two Superbowls. David Marannis is a Washington Post reporter who is well known for his work on politics and sports. He has written biographies of Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Barack Obama. He has also done books about Roberto Clemente and the 1960 Olympics.

From Quiz Imaginative Writers, Imaginary Places

Answer: Never-Never Land by J M Barrie

J M Barrie first used Peter Pan's name in an adult novel called "The Little White Bird" in 1902. Just two years later, Barrie made Peter the star of a play called "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up." The play ran in London for over ten years. Then in 1911, Barrie put Peter and Wendy in a novel called "Peter and Wendy." Barrie died in 1937. The place where Peter Pan and the Lost Boys live was first called the Never Never Land, a name which later became Neverland.

From Quiz Fictional Places in Literature

Answer: Greyfriars

Billy Bunter was created by English writer Charles Harold St. John Hamilton, writing under the pen name Frank Richards. Bunter (full name William George Bunter) first appeared in the first issue of "Magnet" comic in 1908. Following the closure of "Magnet" in 1940, the first novel, "Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School", was published in 1947. Hamilton died in 1961 and the last Bunter novel was published posthumously in 1967.

From Quiz Are You Sure This Land is Magical?

Answer: Brigadoon

The village of Brigadoon was brought to life on Broadway in New York City in a play of the same name in 1947. In 1954 Brigadoon was recreated in a Hollywood musical starring Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Van Johnson. A 1966 television production starred Robert Goulet. Drumnadrochit is a popular tourist village on the shore of Loch Ness in Scotland. Alloway is the hometown of Scottish poet Robert Burns. The Wondrous Isles are a creation of the 19th-century English artist, writer, textile designer and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood William Morris. In his fantasy novel, "The Water of the Wondrous Isles," Morris blends imaginary and supernatural worlds.

From Quiz If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now!

Answer: Charles Ryder

The full title of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel is "Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder", and it was first published in 1945. After Waugh's death, a hitherto unknown piece of writing featuring Charles Ryder as a boy was found among his papers, and published posthumously in several collections of his short stories.

From Quiz A Pen and a Prayer

Answer: Noel Streatfeild

Noel was the daughter of William Streatfeild, the Bishop of Lewes. "A Vicarage Family" was closely based on her own childhood experiences and was followed by two more autobiographical books, "Away from the Vicarage" and "Beyond the Vicarage".

From Quiz Location, location, location

Answer: The Hound of the Baskervilles

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is one of only four full-length novels featuring Sherlock Holmes.

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