Let's Read About Cows Trivia Quiz

Answer: Liechtenstein

"Ludmila" (1955) is based on a folktale from Liechtenstein. Gallico spent some time in Liechtentstein in the 1950s and wrote the story. It is the story of a young girl who owns a weakling cow that does not produce much milk. After praying to Saint Ludmilla, the cow miraculously becomes a star milk producer.

The first editions of the book were printed in Liechtenstein in 1954, and then in England the next year. The first printing in the United States was in 1959.

Liechtenstein is a small principality located between Switzerland and Austria. Vaduz, the capital, is roughly 100 kilometers southeast of Zurich.

Answer: Animal Farm

"Animal Farm" (1945) is Orwell's analogy about the Soviet Union, with pigs taking the place of the rulers of Russia. While none of the cows is named in the book, the cows do have an important role in the revolution that kicks farmer Jones off the land.

Three years later, Orwell wrote the dystopian masterpiece "1984" (1948). It was one of the most important works of the 20th Century, introducing concepts such as 'New Speak' and 'Big Brother'. However, it is set almost entirely in London, so there are no cows.

Answer: Texas

"Going Bovine" is a surreal novel about a young man suffering from mad cow disease, which causes him to have vivid hallucinations. Much of the novel is about a wild quest chasing an evil wizard. By the end, it is uncertain how much of the plot is real and how much is a BSE-induced hallucination. The book does have major scenes in New Orleans, Daytona Beach and Disney World.

Libba Bray grew up in Texas before moving to New York City. She has written several YA (young adult) novels, and is probably best known for her Gemma Doyle trilogy. "Going Bovine" (2009) won the Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, naming in the best young adult novel of the year.

Answer: slaughterhouse

Steven works in a slaughterhouse. I cannot really describe the plot of "Cows" without violating community standards of the website. Suffice it to say that some reviewers have called it "the most disgusting book ever written" and that virtually all of the characters are mentally disturbed.

"Cows" (1998) was the debut novel by Matthew Stokoe, a native of London who has lived in a variety of places around the world. Stokoe is known for his extremely violent and disturbing story telling. "Cows" actually has a violence warning on the cover.

Answer: Worcestershire

Young's Kite's Nest farm is located in Worcestershire. "Secret Life of Cows" is about a cow named Dolly and her daughter Dolly II. Much of the book contrasts Young's sustainable style of farming with modern factory farms. Young goes into detail about the individual personalities of her cows.

Worcestershire, probably best known for its sauce, is located in the west central England. Kite's Nest Farm is located midway between the near the towns of Broadway and Snowshill. It is roughly 50 miles straight south of Birmingham.

Answer: Oregon

"The Half Life" (2005) is set in the Oregon territory of 1820, as well as modern day Portland. It covers the relationship between Cookie Figowitz, a cook, and Henry Brown, trapper in the frontier west, and between two teenage girls in the 1980s. The cook and the trapper eventually travel to China. Some of the plot of "The Half Life" centers on Cookie stealing milk from the only dairy cow in the area.

Director Kelly Reichardt collaborated with Raymond on the 2019 film "First Cow." It is notable as one of the last films of veteran character actor René Auberjonois.

Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is Gabriel Garcia Marquez magical realism story about a mystical Colombian village called Macondo. It tells of seven generations of the Buendia family, who have all sorts of odd and mystical things happen to them.

In Chapter 17, one of the magical things that happens is the cows start to reproduce at a phenomenal rate. Aureliano Segundo instructs the cows to cease their breeding because life is too short to spend it raising magic cattle.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) is one of the giants of Latin American literature, even winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He began his career as a journalist, but moved into fiction in the 1960s. His first novel was "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967). "Love in the Time of Cholera" was published in 1985.

"Conversation in the Cathedral" (1969) is by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. "The House of the Spirits" (1982) is by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende.

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a short poem called "The Cow" which lauds the red and white cow for providing cream for his apple tart. The poem is part of an 1885 poetry collection called "A Children's Garden of Verses". Other natural phenomenon Stevenson wrote about include the sun, the moon, the wind and flowers.

Stevenson (1850-1894) was a native of Scotland, but spent his last years in the South Pacific in Samoa. His best known novels are "Treasure Island" (1883), "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) and "Kidnapped" (1886).

Answer: purple

Burgess (1866-1951) was an author, poet and journalist in San Francisco. While Burgess did do some serious writing, he is best remembered for his nonsense poetry. The full name of the poem in question is " "The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least."
It appeared in "The Lark" a literary magazine that Burgess edited between 1895 and 1897.

In the last issue of "The Lark" Burgess expressed regrets at having written "Purple Cow" as it overshadowed most of his other work.

Answer: Terry Pratchett

At first glance, "Where's My Cow?" is a children's picture book written by Terry Pratchett. He created the book because the character of Sam Vines reads the same book to his son in the city of Ankh-Morpork. However, the book creates three actual levels of reality.

Pratchett is the creator of the Discworld series, which began with the 1983 novel "The Colour of Magic." By the time of his death in 2015, Pratchett had produced 41 books in the series.