Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. A magic bullet shoots not the intended target (a white dove) but the marksman's bride-to-be as well as another marksman hiding up a tree. Needless to say, these three are neither lined up in a straight line nor in any other way as close to each other as to make such a trajectory plausible.
2. After suffering from her husband's philandering ways for years, a countess sets a trap, disguises herself as her husband's latest love interest, and, after he has tried to seduce her, reveals herself ... to a great scene of reconciliation and happiness.
3. Two men want to find out if their respective betrothed are truly loyal to them. So the obvious way to go is to announce their departure, come back in disguise, and woo the respective other's bride. All without being recognized, of course.
4. Elvira loses her mind over the fear that her lover might be unfaithful to her when all he did was save the life of a king's widow by interceding on her behalf. After a great mad scene, Elvira's lover comes back to explain it all and her reason is miraculously restored.
5. A desperate gypsy woman, seeking revenge for her mother, kidnaps the son of a count, intending to burn him at the stake ... but in a temporary state of insanity burns her own son instead! Realizing her mistake, she proceeds to raise the kidnapped boy as her own.
6. After two lifelong friends have sworn to renounce the woman they both love, one of them breaks that vow. Enraged, the other orchestrates the couple's arrest, as the woman is a priestess and not allowed to be touched. But he has a surprise change of heart when it turns out all of a sudden that the woman once saved his life (a fact never mentioned before).
7. A Greek king returns home in a storm and, to assuage Poseidon, promises to sacrifice the first person he meets on the shore to the god. Needless to say, that person is his only, much beloved son.
8. Talk about coincidence: As two star-crossed lovers plan to elope, an accidentally dropped gun kills the woman's father. Her brother vows revenge. Later on, the brother finds a new best friend, who of course is none other than the man he swore to kill. And when the disillusioned main character chooses to retire to a monastery, he just so happens to pick the one where his long-lost love is living in disguise as a hermit.
9. Believing her husband to return unexpectedly, a Field Marshal's wife hastily disguises her young lover as a chambermaid to avoid discovery. Her country cousin, a baron, enters the scene ... and propositions the chambermaid.
10. In one of the installments of Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung," Siegfried is tricked into forgetting his marriage to Brünnhilde and falling for the only woman in the entire Ring cycle who is not already related to him by blood or marriage.
Source: Author
PearlQ19
This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor
agony before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
