Death and All His Friends Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Book Thief

"The Book Thief" tells the story of a young girl named Liesel Meminger, who is forced to live with a foster family after her mother gives her and her brother up for adoption. Liesel's brother, Werner, dies on the train journey to Munich, and Liesel is left to live alone with her new foster parents, to whom she warms to over time.

The story takes place before and also during World War II, and is told from the point of view of Death, who doesn't like the sheer amount of brutality that goes on during that time. Death is afraid of humans, but must collect the dead because he is the only one who can do that job. "The Book Thief" was on the 'New York Times' Children's Bestseller list for 105 weeks.

Answer: The Wee Free Men

Death, in the "Discworld" series, performs the job that he is known for - guiding souls from this world to the next. As with many other depictions of Death, he is a skeletal figure dressed in black robes with a scythe. His interest in humanity is what influence him to create a house for himself, and even attempt to play the banjo.

This particular form of Death appears frequently in the "Discworld" novels, but usually only has a few lines of dialogue at most.

Answer: The Sandman

"The Sandman" comic book series revolves around a group of seven beings, known as The Endless, who are personifications of various universal concepts. Death is one, with Destiny, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium being the other six. The Death portrayed in this series is different to that of usual depictions of Death. For starters, Death is a woman dressed in normal human clothing, not a thin, skeletal man draped in black robes.

She possesses a friendly attitude and a good nature, a quality that has established her as one of the most popular of the characters in the series.

Answer: Chess

Widely considered as a classic of the film world, Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" is a Swedish film about a knight who returns to his homeland after a crusade to find his country devastated by the Black Death. Death appears to Antonius Block, the main character, and has come to take his life. Block challenges Death to a game of chess - a scene that has become one of the most recognisable in the world.

The personification of Death in this film is perhaps one of the most iconic - and parodied - in the industry.

A pale, tall figure dressed in black robes represents Death in this.

Answer: Meet Joe Black

Fredric March portrays Death in "Death Takes a Holiday", a film in which Death takes on the form of a human and ingratiates himself in human society in the hopes of discovering why people fear him. Perhaps the most recognisable of the remakes is 1998's "Meet Joe Black", with Brad Pitt in the lead role, supported by Anthony Hopkins and Claire Forlani, garnering positive reviews.

Answer: Limbo

Starting in 2001 on the American television channel Cartoon Network, "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" focuses on two children, namely Billy and Mandy, who challenge the Grim Reaper to a game of Limbo (which conveniently takes place in Limbo) when they refuse to let the Grim Reaper take the soul of their elderly hamster.

He loses and is forced to be Billy and Mandy's best friend for eternity. The show ran for 6 years before it ended in 2007.

Answer: Owen Harper

At the end of the previous episode, "Reset", Owen Cooper is shot and subsequently dies. In "Dead Man Walking", Captain Jack Harkness attempts to temporarily resurrect Owen using a resurrection gauntlet so the Torchwood team can say goodbye. However, something goes wrong, and Owen is brought back permanently from the dead, but he is not alive. Death comes into the world, and seeks to consume thirteen souls to enable him to remain in the world. Owen, being dead, fights Death and consumes his energy, sending this personification of Death back into the darkness.

Answer: Castlevania

In the first "Castlevania" game, which was first released in 1986 for the Famicom Disk System, the final boss of the game is Dracula. The Grim Reaper is the second last boss, and is depicted as Dracula's right hand man, his second in command. Fans of the game will know that the fight with the Grim Reaper is quite difficult.

The Grim Reaper appears in other games in the series, again as one of Dracula's minions.

Answer: Maxis

Arguably one of the most successful video game franchises in the world, "The Sims" is a simulation game in which you can create a group of people and choose how they live their lives. The basis of the series revolves around building and furnishing houses, interacting with friends and neighbours and visiting other areas of the world with the expansion packs.

The actions you make your characters perform determine their fates. Should a Sim die, Death, clad in black as per tradition, will appear to take their soul. An urn will replace the body and other characters will mourn the death.

Answer: Conker's Bad Fur Day

"Conker's Bad Fur Day", a 2001 title for the Nintendo 64, is perhaps one of the more controversial video games to have been developed. The game focuses on Conker, a red squirrel, who, after a night of binge drinking, just wants to get home to his girlfriend.

However, his day goes from bad to worse as he finds himself in a variety of dangerous, macabre and unsavoury situations. The game is known for its humour and frequent use of bad language. Although it was not a huge seller for Rare, it has gained a cult following.