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2 Shogun quizzes and 15 Shogun trivia questions.
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  10 Questions about Shogun   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I recently watched the TV miniseries "Shogun" for the first time since the 1980's. Why don't you revisit it with me?
Easier, 10 Qns, askpau, Mar 12 04
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  5 Questions: Shogun Multiple Choice Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
'Shogun' was an excellent book and an epic mini-series. What do you remember from it?
Average, 5 Qns, chippewa, Mar 12 04
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Shogun Trivia Questions
1. Who wrote the novel "Shogun"?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: James Clavell

James Clavell specialized in novels set in the Far East. His other works include "King Rat", "Tai-Pan" and "Whirlwind".

2. What was the name of Blackthorne's ship?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: Erasmus

Erasmus. You did pretty good if you picked this up from the movie alone! It's mentioned a lot more in the book.

3. Who plays the Englishman John Blackthorne in the miniseries?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: Richard Chamberlain

Blackthorne was played by miniseries king Richard Chamberlain. John Rhys-Davies (aka Gimli the dwarf) played the Portuguese pilot Rodrigues in the same series. Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews were in "Brideshead Revisited", another blockbuster miniseries.

4. What does Blackthorne do to show Lord Yabu that he distrusts the Jesuit priest?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: rips the cross from his neck and stomps on it

We do not see this priest again. In the book he breaks it into pieces.

5. The Japanese find "Blackthorne" to be a mouthful and give him a new name that means "pilot" (of a ship) in Japanese. What is it?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: Anjin

Blackthorne is called "Anjin-san". Gaijin means "foreigner" (some people consider this term rude), hakujin means "white man" and "fujin" means "wife" or "Mrs."

6. What was the name of the priest who became Blackthorne's chief nemesis?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: Father Alvito

7. At first (and arguably throughout), Blackthorne has a very limited Japanese vocabulary. He seems to use one word a lot - it is the Japanese word for "I understand". What is it?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: Wakarimasu

"Wakarimasu" means I (or you/he/she/it/we/they) understand(s). Wakarimasen means I (or you, etc.) do not understand. Ikimasu and ikimasen mean to go or not go.

8. How do Blackthorne and his men in the pit decide who is to be executed?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: draw straws

Ommi instructs them that Blackthorne is not to be the one executed. However when Vinck begins to climb the ladder, Blackthorne puts up a fight and the samurai grab another man and take him to be boiled to death.

9. What is the name of the warlord, played by the great Toshiro Mifune, who takes Blackthorne under his protection?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: Lord Toranaga

Lord Toranaga is engaged in a battle for control of Japan with his rival, Lord Ishido.

10. What is the main reason Blackthorne wants to return to the ship before they take him to Osaka?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: to get the secret rutter

The stolen rutter was Blackthornes "death sentence" if it fell into the wrong hands

11. Blackthorne wants to open trade relations with Japan but finds upon his arrival that another European power has beaten him there. Which country is already trading with the Japanese?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: Portugal

The Portuguese are based in the southern port of Nagasaki and their "Black Ship" carries treasure from the Far East back to Portugal every year.

12. What is a shogun?

From Quiz Shogun

Answer: Military ruler

The title "shogun" was bestowed by the emperor on the supreme military ruler of Japan. The emperor himself was a figurehead until political power was restored to the Emperor Meiji in the so-called "Meiji Restoration" in the 19th century. At the end of the series, Lord Toranaga is well on his way to becoming shogun.

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