No Women Allowed! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Alonso Quijano

A hidalgo is a member of either the Portuguese or Spanish non-titled nobility. The group is given special privileges, like being exempt from taxes; however, they usually do not own any land. Don Quixote, whose real name is Alonso Quijano, is a good man who has just read (and believed) too many stories about chivalry. Consequently, he has a rather distorted view of what chivalry is really like.

Answer: Gunga Din

Rudyard Kipling's 1894 poem, "Gunga Din", tells the story through the eyes of the soldier whose life was saved. The Indian native (after whom the poem is named) is portrayed as the hero while the British soldiers are shown to be shallow and ultimately inferior. In the final three lines of the poem, the soldier admits that Din, by sacrificing his life to save another, is the better man.

Answer: knight

"The Canterbury Tales" was suppose to be 120 stories, four told by each person on their journey to and from the shrine of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury. However, Geoffrey Chaucer died before completing them all. In one of the tales, a tale told by a knight, Arcite and Palamon are captured by King Thesus and fall in love with Emily. Palamon and Arcite decide to fight and while Arcite wins the battle, he dies before he can claim Emily as his wife. Prior to the battle, Palamon prays to the Roman goddess Venus that Emily should be his wife.

The moral of the story is that the Roman gods help those who pray to them.

Answer: Pap

Huckleberry Finn (from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer") was taken from his dad and went to live with the Widow Douglas after he and Tom came into some money. Widow Douglas thinks it is her duty to Christianize Huck; although she is kind to him, Pap is able to regain custody. Pap, who is abusive and violent, is only interested in having a relationship with his son so that he can get more money for liquor.

Answer: Jim Hawkins

Jim Hawkins is the son of the owners of Admiral Benbow Inn. His adventure begins when Billy Bones takes a room at the inn and subsequently dies there. Hoping to find payment in full for the room that was rented, Jim and his mother find a detailed map leading to treasure in Billy Bone's sea chest. With the help of trusted friends like Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney, Jim looks for the treasure. Dr. Livesey narrates chapters 16 through 18 because at that point in the story Jim is separated from his friends.

Answer: Piggy

A plane carrying World War 2 evacuees from Britain crashes on a deserted island. The only survivors are boys in their early teens. Although he is the most intelligent of the boys, Piggy is asthmatic, overweight and has poor eyesight and quickly finds himself ostracized from the group of older boys who take over leadership of the group.

The novel is an allegory to civilization, the push for power, and how quickly civilized society collapses into anarchy with disastrous results.

Answer: Lord of the Rings

Frodo and Samwise are characters from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Samwise is Frodo's gardener and sidekick on their journey to destroy the One Ring. The trilogy ("The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers", and "The Return of the King") tells the story of how Frodo and Samwise took the One Ring to Mount Doom and destroyed the ring to prevent Sauron from conquering Middle-Earth. Throughout the journey, they encounter friends and enemies and try to resist the power of the ring.

Answer: Mr. Monks

Mr. Monks is really Edward Leeforth, the legitimate son of Edwin Leeforth, Oliver's late father. He would like nothing better than to lead Oliver to a life of crime. According to their father's will, Oliver stands to inherit the Leeforth estate as long as he has never sullied the Leeforth name.

As it turned out, Mr. Brownlow, Edwin Leeforth's friend and confident, split the money between both Edward and Oliver. Edward went to America, squandered his inheritance, and died in prison, while Oliver was adopted by Mr. Brownlow.

Answer: Comte d'Artagnan

First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers" was the first of the three books known collectively as the "d'Artagnan Romances". This first story tells the tale of d'Artagnan as a young man, as he leaves home to travel to Paris to join his friends, Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

They all intend to join the famed the Musketeers of the Guard". The other two novels in the series are "Twenty Years After" and "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later".

Answer: Malcolm

Early in the play, King Duncan announces that he will visit Macbeth's castle in Inverness overnight. He also names his son Malcolm as his heir. Meanwhile, the evil Lady Macbeth is busy persuading her husband that he must kill the king while he is visiting the castle.

When the king is found murdered, Malcolm flees to England fearing that his life is in danger, but his flight makes him a suspect in his father's murder and Macbeth claims the throne. There is still plenty of intrigue and skullduggery left in one of Shakespeare's most dramatic works.