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101 Damnations Trivia Quiz

People have long believed in an afterlife of one sort or another, and almost all of these have had a Hell of some kind. How many of these ten examples and representations of Hell, both religious and in various media, do you know?

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
5 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
330,513

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which poet wrote "A Season in Hell" in 1873? Hint

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dante Gabriel Rosetti

Robert Browning

Arthur Rimbaud

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Question 2 of 10

2. One famous depiction of the Christian Hell was originally found in the mediaeval manuscript "Hortus deliciarum", written by Herrad of Landsberg in the latter half of the 12th century. Which of these options is TRUE regarding Herrad? Hint

Herrad was a woman

Herrad was an illiterate peasant boy and the manuscript was thought to be written, through him, by God

Herrad was burned at the stake for heresy

Scholars think that "Herrad of Landsberg" was a pen name for Pope Pius VI

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Question 3 of 10

3. In which Marvel comic books would you find the Hellfire Club led by the Black King, Sebastian Shaw, and the White Queen, Emma Frost? Hint

Superman

X Men

Spiderman

Batman

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which sculptor was originally commissioned to deliver his piece "The Gates of Hell" in 1885, but ended up still working on it when he died in 1917? Hint

Edgar Degas

Auguste Rodin

Umberto Boccioni

Aristide Maillol

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which author wrote "The Hellfire Club", first published in 1996? Hint

Peter Straub

James Herbert

Whitley Streiber

Stephen King

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Question 6 of 10

6. Many people will know that Hell's Kitchen is a name given to an area of New York city. One of the earliest uses of the term was in 1835 when a famous person was quoted as saying "In my part of the country, when you meet an Irishman, you find a first-rate gentleman; but these are worse than savages; they are too mean to swab Hell's kitchen." Who said it? Hint

P.T. Barnum

Davy Crockett

Martin van Buren

Mickey Spillane

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which Western film, first released in 1985, had the tagline "And Hell Followed With Him"?

Answer: (Two Words 4,5)

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Question 8 of 10

8. In the comic strip "Dilbert", there is a lesser version of Hell, reserved for the souls of "people not evil enough to go to Hell". What is it called? Hint

Darn

Stoke

Heck

Brim

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Question 9 of 10

9. In Jainism, the word Naraka is used for the place of Purgatory or Hell where souls go after death. The realm is divided into seven parts - which of these is NOT one of them? Hint

Sharkara prabha

Mahatamaha prabha

Tranta prabha

Dhuma prabha

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Question 10 of 10

10. The phrase "Hell on Earth" is often used to describe an intolerable place or situation, but there is also a Hell on the Moon! The crater Hell was named for one Maximilian Hell, an astronomer. Which of these options is true of him? Hint

He was almost blind

He was an ordained priest

He was Grand Duke of Prussia

He stood trial for heresy

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which poet wrote "A Season in Hell" in 1873?

Answer: Arthur Rimbaud

In Rimbaud's native French the poem is entitled "Une Saison en Enfer". Rimbaud was (in)famous for his prodigious consumption of absinthe, and also his use of opium, which scholars think greatly influenced his work.

Answer: Herrad was a woman

"Hortus deliciarum" translates as "Garden of Delights", and it was written between 1167, when Herrad became Abbess of Hohenberg Abbey in France, and 1185.
Sadly the original manuscript was lost when the City of Strasbourg was bombed in 1870, but copies of various parts of it are still extant.

3. In which Marvel comic books would you find the Hellfire Club led by the Black King, Sebastian Shaw, and the White Queen, Emma Frost?

Answer: X Men

Devised by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, the Hellfire Club first appeared in the "Dark Phoenix Saga", in "X Men" comics issues 101 - 108, in 1976 and 77.
Although the club's characters have featured in some of the animated TV episodes, they were renamed the Inner Circle as producers felt Hellfire was unsuitable for a children's show.

4. Which sculptor was originally commissioned to deliver his piece "The Gates of Hell" in 1885, but ended up still working on it when he died in 1917?

Answer: Auguste Rodin

The enormous sculpture, in bronze, is now in the Musee Rodin in Paris. Various figures from the whole work were also turned into individual pieces of art by Rodin, including The Thinker and The Kiss. The work was based on Dante's "Inferno".

5. Which author wrote "The Hellfire Club", first published in 1996?

Answer: Peter Straub

Peter Straub has won numerous awards for his books, and "The Hellfire Club" was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1997.
He also wrote "The Talisman" (1984) and "Black House" (2001) in collaboration with Stephen King.
"The Hellfire Club" tells the story of housewife Nora Chancel, taken hostage by a man accused of four murders, who then goes on the run from the police. Although nominally a horror novel, it also contains some very funny scenes, and a thrilling denoument.

Answer: Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett was actually referring to a slum area properly named Five Points, in Manhattan; the name then gradually came to apply to the area it now refers to which is roughly bounded by 34th Street, 57th Street, 8th Avenue, and the river.
Hell's Kitchen was the setting for the 1961 film "West Side Story" which was filmed on location in the area.

7. Which Western film, first released in 1985, had the tagline "And Hell Followed With Him"?

Answer: Pale Rider

"Pale Rider" both starred and was directed by Clint Eastwood. The reference in the title comes from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, when it is said that Death "rides a pale horse".

8. In the comic strip "Dilbert", there is a lesser version of Hell, reserved for the souls of "people not evil enough to go to Hell". What is it called?

Answer: Heck

Heck is ruled over by "Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light", using his enormous spoon as an instrument of doom.
"Dilbert" is drawn by Scott Adams and first appeared in 1989. Since then the strip has been syndicated world wide and appeared in over 2000 publications.

9. In Jainism, the word Naraka is used for the place of Purgatory or Hell where souls go after death. The realm is divided into seven parts - which of these is NOT one of them?

Answer: Tranta prabha

Each of the seven Hells is named for the element it has most of. Thus from first to seventh they are Gems, Gravel, Sand, Mud, Smoke, Darkness, Dense darkness.
Dhuma means smoke, Mahatamaha is dense darkness, and Sharkara means gravel. The souls of the dead don't stay there forever, but it can be billions of years before they are freed to move on to their next life, depending on the karma they have accrued in their last life.

Answer: He was an ordained priest

Maximilian Hell was appointed as the director of the Grand Observatory in Vienna, Austria, in 1756.
He was an ordained Jesuit priest, and as well as astronomy, he did important work in various other fields of physics. His work proved so valuable that he was even elected to the Swedish Royal Academy of Science in 1771.

Source: Author Rowena8482

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