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Quiz about Characters And Their Creators 3

Characters And Their Creators 3 Quiz

I will give you a clue to a literary character. All you have to do is identify the author who created the character in question.

A matching quiz by Spontini. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
Spontini

Time
3 mins

Type
Match Quiz

Quiz #
399,828

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
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Questions		Choices
1. A cockney flower girl with an accent that could cut glass becomes a very 'posh' lady.		Douglas Adams
2. A former President of the Galaxy has two heads.		George Bernard Shaw
3. John Thornton rescues a dog from being ill treated. Thornton is killed by the Yeehats later on.		Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. A Doctor of Medicine had a friend who wore an unusual hat.		Charles M. Schulz
5. A young tax lawyer with a surname that sounds like a Scottish animal of the family Cervidae finds himself working indirectly for an organised crime family.		Jules Verne
6. A man dressed head to foot in a thick, long-sleeved coat and gloves and a face covered by bandages, rents a room and demands to be left alone with some laboratory apparatus.		Jack London
7. A man sets out on an extended journey with a Frenchman to win a bet.		Anthony Burgess
8. A youthful anti-hero believes in violence against others for his own amusement.		H. G.Wells
9. A Heuristically Programmed ALgorithmic computer controls the systems on a spacecraft.		John Grisham
10. A cartoon character refers to her friend by an incorrect name.		Arthur C. Clarke

Select each answer

1. A cockney flower girl with an accent that could cut glass becomes a very 'posh' lady.

2. A former President of the Galaxy has two heads.

3. John Thornton rescues a dog from being ill treated. Thornton is killed by the Yeehats later on.

4. A Doctor of Medicine had a friend who wore an unusual hat.

5. A young tax lawyer with a surname that sounds like a Scottish animal of the family Cervidae finds himself working indirectly for an organised crime family.

6. A man dressed head to foot in a thick, long-sleeved coat and gloves and a face covered by bandages, rents a room and demands to be left alone with some laboratory apparatus.

7. A man sets out on an extended journey with a Frenchman to win a bet.

8. A youthful anti-hero believes in violence against others for his own amusement.

9. A Heuristically Programmed ALgorithmic computer controls the systems on a spacecraft.

10. A cartoon character refers to her friend by an incorrect name.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. A cockney flower girl with an accent that could cut glass becomes a very 'posh' lady.

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Eliza Doolittle is the subject of a bet between Henry Higgins (a professor of phonetics) and Colonel Pickering in the play "Pygmalion", written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912. Higgins claims he can pass off Eliza as a Duchess by teaching her to speak properly. The play was made into a film starring Audrey Hepburn as Eliza and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins in 1964.

2. A former President of the Galaxy has two heads.

Answer: Douglas Adams

Zaphod Beeblebrox comes from a planet somewhere near to the star Betelgeuse. He first appeared in a radio comedy broadcast, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in 1978. It was written by Douglas Adams and became a TV series in 1981 and a series of books later on. Zaphod's two heads sometimes argue with each other. Adams unfortunately died in 2001.

3. John Thornton rescues a dog from being ill treated. Thornton is killed by the Yeehats later on.

Answer: Jack London

Jack London (1876 - 1916) was one of the most famous authors in the world. His most famous novel is "The Call of the Wild". The story concerns a dog named Buck who is stolen from his home and sold as a sled dog in Alaska. John Thornton, a gold hunter, rescues him. Buck is by then semi-feral, but accepts Thornton as a friend.

4. A Doctor of Medicine had a friend who wore an unusual hat.

Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dr. John Watson was of course the companion of Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes wore a deerstalker hat. Watson appeared in the first Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet" (1887), and was the narrator of all but four of the Holmes stories.

5. A young tax lawyer with a surname that sounds like a Scottish animal of the family Cervidae finds himself working indirectly for an organised crime family.

Answer: John Grisham

Mitch McDeere is the central character in the novel "The Firm" by John Grisham (1991). The family cervidae includes hoofed ruminant mammals such as deer.

6. A man dressed head to foot in a thick, long-sleeved coat and gloves and a face covered by bandages, rents a room and demands to be left alone with some laboratory apparatus.

Answer: H. G.Wells

The man is of course Griffin, the protagonist of the novel "The Invisible Man" (1897), written by H. G. Wells. Wells became known as "the father of science fiction" along with the writer Jules Verne. His most famous novels are "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896), "The Invisible Man" (1897) and "The War of the Worlds" (1898).

7. A man sets out on an extended journey with a Frenchman to win a bet.

Answer: Jules Verne

Phileas Fogg is the central character in the novel "Around The World in Eighty Days", written by Jules Verne in 1872. An article in the 'Daily Telegraph' newspaper suggesting that it was possible to go around the world in 80 days results in a bet between Fogg and another gentleman. He sets out with Passepartout, a young Frenchman, to prove the article is true.

8. A youthful anti-hero believes in violence against others for his own amusement.

Answer: Anthony Burgess

Alex is a character from "A Clockwork Orange" (1962), written by Anthony Burgess. The book was named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century in 2005 by the American publishing company Modern Library.

9. A Heuristically Programmed ALgorithmic computer controls the systems on a spacecraft.

Answer: Arthur C. Clarke

HAL 9000 is a sentient computer who appears in the film and novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke. While on a journey to Jupiter, HAL takes control of the spaceship. HAL believes he is incapable of error, so when an error occurs, the crew are the obvious cause and HAL takes action to eliminate the problem.

10. A cartoon character refers to her friend by an incorrect name.

Answer: Charles M. Schulz

The comic strip "Peanuts" was created by Charles M. Schulz in 1950. Peppermint Patty, who did not appear until 1966, always calls Charlie by the name Chuck. In January 2000, Schulz announced his retirement. Only 5 original Sunday strips were still unpublished. They were published in the next 5 weeks. Schulz died in February 2000, the day before the last ever strip was published.

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