The Phoenix Also Rises Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sparky

Sparky is the team mascot for the New Zealand quidditch team (also known as the Moutohora Macaws) and he appears in the fictitious book "Quidditch Through the Ages", which is given to Harry by Hermione Granger prior to his first quidditch match in "Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone" (1997). Whilst Dumbledore proclaims that they (phoenixes) make "highly faithful pets", Newton Scamander, in his work "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", indicates that they are extremely difficult to domesticate and very few wizards have ever succeeded in doing so. When Dumbledore passes away Fawkes performs a lament and then flies away from Hogwarts as a free bird leaving Sparky as the only known "domesticated" phoenix in the series.

Fluffy is a three headed dog that Hagrid obtained from "some Irish fellow", Norbert is a baby dragon that Hagrid hatched and Aragog is a blind Acromantula that Hagrid also owned.

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Answer: To make it age faster

In "The Phoenix", Mr Poldero, the owner of Poldero's Wizard Wonderworld, wanted to turn the phoenix's death (and rebirth) into a public spectacle for profit. As the phoenix in his possession was yet young and healthy, he decided to hasten its death by ageing it through varied means of abuse.

The story is a satire touching on the exploitation of nature for personal gain.

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Answer: Lady Lazarus

The subject of the poem, rather than seeing the attempted suicides as failures, describes them as a kind of rebirth. The poem culminates in the protagonist becoming a firebird with the end lines:

"Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air."

Sylvia Plath suffered with severe depression throughout her life. She attempted to commit suicide on a number of occasions. She was encouraged to write about her experiences and subsequently became a celebrated author and poetess. She unfortunately managed to end her own life age 30.

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Answer: The Executioner

The "Phoenix Force", named after their founder, Mack Bolan, who took the name Colonel John Phoenix after he was seconded by the government to fight terrorism and the KGB, are a five man anti-terrorist squad that works for a top secret organisation known as Stony Man. The series ran into 58 novels spread from 1982 through to 1992. At this point the publishers, Gold Eagle, combined "Phoenix Force" with its sister group the "Able Team" into a new series called "The Stony Man". A group of eight authors wrote these novels under the pseudonym of Gar Wilson.

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Answer: Turtle Dove

Shakespeare's poems were not as well known as his plays and "The Phoenix and the Turtle" is one of his more obscure poems. The turtle in the title is actually a turtle dove which is so called because when it coos it sounds like "turtle".

The poem is an allegorical poem about perfect love represented by the turtle dove. The phoenix is actually Queen Elizabeth I who is often associated with a phoenix. (One portrait of her appears with a phoenix necklace.) The "lover" is Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, a man who had a close relationship with the queen, albeit a platonic one. Other theories exist but this one has the most credibility.

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Answer: It is eaten

"The White Devil" (1600s) is a tragedy loosely based on an Italian noblewoman, Vittoria Accoramboni. In the play, several characters connected to Vittoria were murdered and she was the target of revenge even though her guilt was not conclusively proven.

The phoenix made a brief appearance in the play as a rare delicacy served at a feast.

"Those noblemen, / Which were invited to your prodigal feasts, / Wherein the phoenix scarce could scrape your throats, / Laugh at your misery, as fore-deeming you / An idle meteor which drawn forth the earth / Would be lost in the air." [Act I, scene i, 23-25].

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Answer: The Quiet American

Phuong, whose name is the Vietnamese word for the mythological bird, the phoenix, is desperate to marry a westerner as a way to improve her family's fortunes. She has placed her faith in the hands of the cynical and jaded Fowler who only takes Phuong for granted. When she finds that Fowler has deceived her she pitches her tent with Alden Pyle, a naive young CIA agent, who had fallen in love with her during their first meeting. When Pyle is assassinated she returns to Fowler as if nothing had happened.

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Answer: Aslan

Digory unwittingly released Jadis the Empress of Charn from a self-imposed enchanted sleep by ringing a bell in her ruined palace. Jadis follows Digory and Polly to the newly created Narnia where her evilness begins to affect things. Aslan sends Digory to a garden in the high mountains to retrieve an apple from the Tree of Life. While there, Digory spots the phoenix in the tree and his temptation to take an apple for himself to heal his sick mother is resisted. Digory takes the apple to Narnia and plants it there where it immediately grows into another Tree of Life.

Lewis wrote "The Magician's Nephew" as the sixth in the series but it takes place chronologically before any of the other books and tells the story of the creation of Narnia by Aslan.

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Answer: Conan

This story, originally published in 1932, finds Conan in his forties and having just seized power in the strife torn kingdom of Aquilonia. Unfortunately for Conan the deeds he needs to perform now involve the quill rather than the sword. He's not very good at it and he soon loses the love of the people. A sect known as the Rebel Four recruit a slave who was once a very powerful wizard, and set in motion plans to assassinate Conan. As the wizard is in the process of summoning a mighty demon, a long dead sage returns to aid Conan and imbues the Cimmerian's sword with the mystical phoenix, a totem of the Hyborian god Mitra, the god of good.

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Answer: Granger

"Fahrenheit 451" tells the story of a dystopian world in which books are burned to keep the population illiterate and under the government's control. Granger and his fellow intellectuals read books and commit them to memory in order to preserve their contents. He tells the story of the phoenix but says mankind has one advantage the phoenix does not, mankind can remember its mistakes and learn from them so as not to repeat them.

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