Finding My Way Back Home Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Hundred-Acre Wood

Tigger and Piglet are friends of Christopher Robin and live with Winnie-the-Pooh in the Hundred-Acre Wood. The books were written by A.A. Milne, with characters based on the stuffed animals owned by his son. Other characters are the melancholic donkey, Eeyore, and mother/son pair Kanga and Roo.

Answer: Rivendell

Rivendell is an elven sanctuary in Middle-Earth. It is featured in J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Hobbit" and his trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings". Arwen is the daughter of Elrond, the Lord of Rivendell. She falls in love with a human, Aragorn, and eventually chooses to reject immortality to marry him.

Answer: Manderley

The first line of Daphne DeMaurier's novel "Rebecca" introduces the gothic setting: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." The unnamed narrator met and married Maxim DeWinter in Monte Carlo after knowing him only two weeks. They return to Manderlay, Max's home, where housekeeper Mrs. Danvers undercuts the second Mrs. DeWinter at every turn out of her devotion to first wife, Rebecca.

Answer: Bleak House

"Bleak House" is one of Charles Dickens's masterpieces. Esther Summerson is the author's only female narrator. Her patience, modesty, and kindness allow her to avoid the fates of the other characters. The novel revolves around the law case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce.

The hope of a settlement from the case destroys the happiness of most of the family members, while the ongoing court costs eat up the value of the property.

Answer: Wuthering Heights

"Wuthering Heights" is the only novel by Emily Bronte. It describes the tortured love between the orphan Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw Linton. Although Catherine loves Heathcliff, she marries the socially prominent Edgar Linton. The book is now considered a classic, but it was very controversial in its day because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty challenged Victorian conventions.

Answer: Hogwarts

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger are the main characters in J.K. Rowling's wildly successful series of novels. They meet on the train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and join forces to defeat evil.

Answer: Sleepy Hollow

"The Legend of Sleep Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving. Ichabod Crane is an extremely superstitious schoolteacher courting Katerina Van Tassel, only daughter of a wealthy man. His rival is Brom Bones, a local hero who recites the story of the headless horseman who haunts the area. On a ride home from a party, Ichabod encounters a cloaked rider whose head is on his saddle, rather than his shoulders. Ichabod rides away in terror, leaving the way clear for Brom to marry Katrina.

The ending implies that Brom carried out the prank to remove his rival, but...

Answer: Yoknapatawpha County

Yoknapatawpha County is the fictional location where William Faulkner set many of his novels, including "The Sound and the Fury". "The Sound and the Fury" is the first American novel that uses the stream-of-consciousness technique, each section being written from a different point of view.

The first narrator is Benjy Compson, a mentally handicapped 33-year-old man. The second focuses on Benjy's older brother, Quentin. The third is from the point of view of their cynical younger brother, Jason. The final section has an omniscient narrator and includes the thoughts of all of the family members.

Answer: 221B Baker Street

Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective lives at 221B Baker Street, along with his friend, Dr. John Watson. Meals are provided by landlady Mrs. Hudson. Watson eventually marries and moves out of the apartment, but remains friends with Holmes and assists with cases. The stories represent a major development in detective fiction, as they focus on the scientific examination of evidence.

Answer: Brobdingnag

Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" sends poor Lemuel to many locations. The most famous is probably Lilliput, where everything is 1/12 the scale of normal life. Brobdingnag is the opposite: everything is 12 x larger than normal. Other locales visited on his travels include the Country of the Houyhnhnms (populated by a race of talking horses), the flying island of Laputa (where people pursue knowledge without practical application), and Luggnagg (where the inhabitants are immortal but continue to experience the infirmities of old age).