FunTrivia Literature Mix: Vol 2 Quiz

Answer: Sancho Panza

Sancho Panza is a farmer who is raised to a squire by the delusional Don Quixote. After reading several romantic tales of knights wandering the countryside righting wrongs, Don Quixote determines he must do the same. While not the brightest tool in the shed, Sancho is often able to shed light on his master's folly. Sancho is able to provide comic relief as the two adventurers find themselves in trouble again and again.


Question by player BigTriviaDawg

Answer: Scientist

Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was first published in 1818, when she was only nineteen years old. The plot of the novel revolved around a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who, upon creating his own monster, then became horrified and disgusted by it.



Question by player poshprice

Answer: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The story is about a young boy who was turned into the size of a thumb but figures out how to get a ride on the back of a white goose named Martin on his way to hopefully find his home one day and end the curse. Nils initially gets turned into a tomte - a short mythical creature who has a beard - but can only talk to animals. Ms. Lagerlöf spent three years watching and learning about birds and other animal life to help her write her masterpiece.

Question by player BullsGold

Answer: Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming is best known for his spy thrillers featuring James Bond, with the code name '007'. Many of the novels and short stories have been turned into films.

Question by player suomy

Answer: a triangular wall under a pitched roof

John Turner, a merchant and sailing-ship owner, built a house in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1668. Nathaniel Hawthorne set his novel there. The novel begins "Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst." A gable is a triangular section of wall located between the edges of intersecting pitches of roof.

The English word gable may derive from the Greek word kephale meaning "head." If a gable is the head of a house, the roof is its hat.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Sleeping Beauty

Charles Perrault published this fairy tale in 1697. It is said he was inspired to write the story after staying at the beautiful Chateau d'Usse, a castle in the Loire Valley in France. The Brothers Grimm also published a fairy tale called "Little Briar Rose", a variant of Sleeping Beauty. The original fairy tale has a different ending than the Disney version.

The prince's mother turns out to be an ogress who decides to eat Sleeping Beauty and her two children. However there is a fitting conclusion as she ends up being cast into a pit of vipers and THEN everyone lives happily ever after!

Question by player briarwoodrose

Answer: The Bible

The Bible was printed at Mainz, Germany by printer/engraver Johannes Gutenberg. Originally printed in Latin, it is the most read book of all time.


Question by player Evangeline30

Answer: Émile Zola

Written between April 1884 and January 1885, Émile Zola's "Germinal" is titled after one of the months of the French Republican Calendar, which coincided with the thirty or so days following the spring equinox (from the Latin word "germen", meaning seed).

The novel's protagonist, Étienne Lantier, is an idealistic young man who arrives in a bleak mining town in northern France to work as a miner. The severe poverty and awful working conditions of the miners are described in Zola's trademark uncompromising manner, as is the violent repression of the miners' strike.

The novel ends on a note of hope: as hinted in the title, the miners' growing political awareness is compared to the sprouting of new vegetation that would soon "burst open the earth".

Besides his literary work, Zola is known to the general public as the author of the open letter "J'Accuse!..." (1898), which contributed to the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus a few years later.

Question by player LadyNym

Answer: Ramona Quimby

Beverly Cleary wrote a series of children's books featuring Ramona Quimby, including "Ramona the Brave", which was published in 1975. Although most of her books featured female protagonists, she also wrote a series of books about a character named Henry Huggins.

Question by player skylarb

Answer: Sweden

Camilla Lackberg was born in Sweden in 1974, and is a crime novelist whose novels are set in her home country. Her novels have spawned a TV series in Sweden, whilst her 2007 book "Tyskungen" has been adapted into a movie.

Question by player Dizart