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Sleepy Hollow Name Game Trivia Quiz

Can you match these characters from Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" to what they're associated with?

A matching quiz by F6FHellcat. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
F6FHellcat

Time
5 mins

Type
Match Quiz

Quiz #
395,440

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
101

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Questions		Choices
1. Dutch navigators on the Tappan Zee would shorten their sails and implore protection of me for the crossing. Who am I?		Yost Van Houten
2. I am an 18 year old coquette and the love interest of the story for both Ichabod and Brom. Who am I?		Katrina Van Tassel
3. I'm best known by my nickname of Brom Bones. But can you tell me my actual name?		Hans Van Ripper
4. Nobody remembers my real name. The good folk of Sleepy Hollow know me by a more terrifying name, one which takes into account my most noticeable physical attribute. Who am I?		Ichabod Crane
5. I am the architect who designed the school house to stop thieves by studying an eel-pot. Who am I?		St. Nicholas
6. My "History of New England Witchcraft" was the favorite book of Ichabod Crane. Who am I?		The Headless Horseman
7. It was my party to which Ichabod was invited and my daughter whose hand he and Brom sought. Who am I?		Baltus Van Tassel
8. Mine was the last house to board the schoolmaster and I let him borrow my plow horse Gunpowder so he could make an entrance at the party. Who am I?		Old Brouwer
9. The story was told at Van Tassel's of how I met the Headless Horseman and was obliged to ride his goblin horse with him. Who am I?		Cotton Mather
10. I am a Connecticut Yankee who, as I liked to say, merely tarried in Sleepy Hollow. Who am I?		Abraham Van Brunt

Select each answer

1. Dutch navigators on the Tappan Zee would shorten their sails and implore protection of me for the crossing. Who am I?

2. I am an 18 year old coquette and the love interest of the story for both Ichabod and Brom. Who am I?

3. I'm best known by my nickname of Brom Bones. But can you tell me my actual name?

4. Nobody remembers my real name. The good folk of Sleepy Hollow know me by a more terrifying name, one which takes into account my most noticeable physical attribute. Who am I?

5. I am the architect who designed the school house to stop thieves by studying an eel-pot. Who am I?

6. My "History of New England Witchcraft" was the favorite book of Ichabod Crane. Who am I?

7. It was my party to which Ichabod was invited and my daughter whose hand he and Brom sought. Who am I?

8. Mine was the last house to board the schoolmaster and I let him borrow my plow horse Gunpowder so he could make an entrance at the party. Who am I?

9. The story was told at Van Tassel's of how I met the Headless Horseman and was obliged to ride his goblin horse with him. Who am I?

10. I am a Connecticut Yankee who, as I liked to say, merely tarried in Sleepy Hollow. Who am I?

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Dutch navigators on the Tappan Zee would shorten their sails and implore protection of me for the crossing. Who am I?

Answer: St. Nicholas

Irving had used St. Nicholas in "A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty" which he wrote under his Diedrich Knickerbocker penname. Also known as "Knickerbocker's History of New York" and "The Knickerbocker Tales", it was Irving's first major book.

Here St. Nicholas is only briefly mentioned in passing and does not actually appear in the story beyond that one mention.

2. I am an 18 year old coquette and the love interest of the story for both Ichabod and Brom. Who am I?

Answer: Katrina Van Tassel

A coquette is a woman who flirts. Irving says that Katrina "was withal a little of a coquette" and points to the way she dressed as evidence of her coquettish nature. Why, she dared to wear such a provokingly short petticoat that it showed off her ankles! At the time the story is set, a woman showing off her ankles must have been somewhat scandalous.

3. I'm best known by my nickname of Brom Bones. But can you tell me my actual name?

Answer: Abraham Van Brunt

Irving tells us that Brom is the Dutch abbreviation for Abraham. His frame and great powers of limb earned Abraham von Brunt his nickname.

4. Nobody remembers my real name. The good folk of Sleepy Hollow know me by a more terrifying name, one which takes into account my most noticeable physical attribute. Who am I?

Answer: The Headless Horseman

We don't know anything about who the Headless Horseman was in life, beyond being believed to have been a Hessian trooper. We do know he lost his head to a cannonball and that he rides forth looking for it. He is also referred to as the Galloping Hessian.

5. I am the architect who designed the school house to stop thieves by studying an eel-pot. Who am I?

Answer: Yost Van Houten

Why anyone would want to break in and steal from the school house is anyone's guess. But Van Houten designed the place so thieves could get in easily enough, but would find it very difficult to get back out.

6. My "History of New England Witchcraft" was the favorite book of Ichabod Crane. Who am I?

Answer: Cotton Mather

Ichabod had read several books all the way through, particulary Mather's. We can surmise he must have read it numerous times as he had perfect mastery over the book. In fact, he would regale the party goers at Van Tassel's party with large extracts from Mather's book.

7. It was my party to which Ichabod was invited and my daughter whose hand he and Brom sought. Who am I?

Answer: Baltus Van Tassel

Van Tassel was one of the wealthiest farmers in Sleepy Hollow. Katrina was his only child; thus, anyone who married her would be likely to inherit his riches, particularly his farm. Ichabod certainly anticipated being Van Tassel's heir.

8. Mine was the last house to board the schoolmaster and I let him borrow my plow horse Gunpowder so he could make an entrance at the party. Who am I?

Answer: Hans Van Ripper

Van Ripper was a bad tempered old Dutchman and a furious rider. In fact, Gunpowder had been his favorite steed before becoming his plow horse. As the farmer who was boarding Ichabod the night he vanished, Van Ripper became the executor of his estate. As such, he consigned the books belonging to Ichabod (a copy of Cotton Mather's "History of Witchcraft", a "New England Almanac", and a book of dreams and fortune telling) to the fire.

He also decided his children no longer needed to go to school, as he believed no good came from reading and writing.

9. The story was told at Van Tassel's of how I met the Headless Horseman and was obliged to ride his goblin horse with him. Who am I?

Answer: Old Brouwer

Old Brouwer was supposed to be a heretical disbeliever in ghosts, according to the tale told of him. Whether he was still a disbeliever or not after meeting the horseman we don't know. The Headless Horseman obliged him to climb up on his horse and ride behind him all over the hollow until they reached the church bridge.

There the horseman became a skeleton and threw old Brouwer into the brook. Then with a clap of thunder it sprang away over the tree tops.

10. I am a Connecticut Yankee who, as I liked to say, merely tarried in Sleepy Hollow. Who am I?

Answer: Ichabod Crane

As is well known, Ichabod was the schoolmaster of the story. A native of Connecticut, Ichabod could have only been one of two things, according to Irving. We are told when we meet Ichabod that every year at that time Connecticut sent forth "legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters."

Source: Author F6FHellcat

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