Hello, Here is the Letter "E" Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Elegance of the Hedgehog

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" is a novel written by professor of philosophy and writer Muriel Barbery (1969-), which was published in 2006 and translated into more than forty languages.

The story involves the residents of an upper-middle class apartment building located on one of the most elegant streets in Paris. The building has eight apartments occupied by bourgeois families. The widow Renée Michel, the concierge, has been in charge of the building for 27 years, and lives a discreet and humble life as expected from a concierge. However, she is in fact a person of refined taste and excellent knowledge. The story develops when an unstable teenager, Paloma Josse, who lives in the building, becomes close to Renée.

Answer: Eyre

Located 647km from Adelaide, Lake Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre - formed about 200 million years ago, is the lowest point below sea level on the Australian continent.

Lake Eyre, 144km long and 77km wide, is the biggest Australian saltwater lake. When the lake is flooded by the rains which fall in the desert, it shelters countless species of fish, flowers and water birds. As its water evaporates, it acquires a pink tint caused by pigment found within a specific type of salt-loving algae. The lake attracts tourists year-round.

Answer: Elurophobia

Elurophobia, also called ailurophobia, felinophobia is characterized by an irrational fear of cats, even in their absence. This is not a simple fear or dislike of cats.

Phobia of cats, similar to other phobias, can cause physical and psychological symptoms. The most common symptoms are breathlessness, nausea, dizziness, pain in the chest, trembling, etc. There are several treatments that can alleviate or even eliminate the symptoms of elurophobia. Among these treatments is psychotherapy, often used in conjunction with hypnosis, behavioral therapy and meditation to help control anxiety. Antidepressants and anti-anxiety can be used, especially at the beginning of the treatment.

Equinophobia, entomophobia and ephebiphobia refer to fear of horses, insects and teenagers respectively.

Answer: Eindhoven

Eindhoven, a town that was elevated to the category of city in 1232, located in the province North Brabant, is one of the largest cities in the Netherlands. Its economic activities were linked to the textile, tobacco, hat and match making industries.

In 1891, the brothers Gerard and Anton Philips founded a small light bulb factory that became one of the largest electronics companies in the world -- Koninklijke Philips N.V. The founding of this company attracted many high-tech companies making the city an industrial and technology hub. Today Eindhoven is a major center for teaching, research and cooperation among research institutes and industries.

Answer: T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was from a distinguished family which included clergymen, educators, a president of Harvard University and three American presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Rutherford B. Hayes. He was a poet, essayist, playwright and editor, being considered one of the greatest English-speaking poets of the 20th century and one of the leaders of the Modernist movement in poetry.

He first drew attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) and later for "The Waste Land" (1922), "Four Quartets" (1943) and others. His seven plays also had an excellent reception, the best known being "Murder in the Cathedral". T. S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, for his contribution to poetry.

Answer: Ebro

The Iberian Peninsula's second longest river is the Ebro, which is also the longest river in Spain. The Ebro has its source in the Cantabria Mountains, in Fortibre, Cantabria. The river crosses Spain in the east southeast direction, passes through about 20 cities until it reaches the Ebro Delta in the province of Tarragona.

The Ebro Delta is one of the largest wetlands of the western Mediterranean and is widely used for agriculture.

Answer: Eritrea

Italian Eritrea was founded in 1890, as a colony of the Kingdom of Italy in Africa and received a large influx of Italians. In 1936, Eritrea was incorporated into Ethiopia, forming Italian East Africa. In 1941, during World War II, all Italian colonies were taken over by the Allies and Eritrea came to be governed by the British military administration.

In 1952, by a United Nations decision, Eritrea set up a government with a local parliament, forming a federation with Ethiopia. In 1962, Ethiopia annexed Eritrea, annulling its parliament. The Eritreans did not accept this situation and waged a war that lasted 30 years, until May 24, 1993, when Eritrea achieved its independence.

Answer: A. A. Milne

Eeyore is a fictional character that appears in the Winnie-the-Pooh books; is characterized as pessimistic, depressed and somber donkey and very close to the title character Winnie the Pooh, a fictional teddy bear. Although almost 100 years old, these characters are very popular, especially in film and television adaptations by the Walt Disney Company.

Eeyore and Winnie were created by the English writer Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956), known as A. A. Milne. Although Milne was a noted writer of poems, plays and novels, the success of his books of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served the British Army in World War I and the British Home Guard in World War II.

Answer: Edvard Munch

Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a famous painter and printmaker. Many of his paintings reflect fear, pain, anguish that he probably felt since childhood. At that time he had to live with the illnesses and deaths of his mother and sister and soon after, with the deaths of his father and brother. According to the artist, illness, insanity and death had always accompanied him.

His most famous work is "The Scream", 1893, inspired by a hallucinatory experience. With the same background landscape found in "The Scream", Munch produced, in 1894, "Anxiety", an oil-on-canvas painting in which pale faces appear in the form of a procession, as in a burial. These two works can be seen at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

Answer: Elizabeth

"Elizabeth", released in 1998, is a biographical film directed by Pakistani Shekhar Kapur and starring Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Fanny Ardant and Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Elizabeth I assumed the throne, at the age of 25, after the death of her half sister. The pressure for Elizabeth to marry was strong, because it was assumed that the birth of a heir would give her more security and support from the people. Elizabeth, nicknamed "Virgin Queen" at the beginning of her reign, faced many threats, including from the Pope. The film shows the transformation of the queen from a girl to a sovereign who dominates the men around her. The film ends with the "Virgin Queen" saying: "I am married... to England!". In 2007, Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush reprised their roles in the sequel "Elizabeth: The Golden Age".