[NSC] REMF Quiz - LITERATURE

[The Large One]

1. What does BFG stand for in Roald Dahl’s 1982 children’s book?

2. What was the first name of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple?

3. First published in 1997, which was the first Harry Potter novel, written by JK Rowling?

4. What are the two cities in Charles Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities’?

5. Who was the creator of the character Caractacus Pott, and in which book?

6. Frederick Forsyth’s ‘The Day of the Jackal’ is a fictionalised account of the assassination attempt of which European political leader?

7. According to the poem by Samuel Taylor-Coleridge, what kind of building in Xanadu did Kubla Khan decree?

8. Which novel of 1898 tells of an alien invasion in Woking?

9. Who, according to the German folk tales emanating from the 15th Century onwards, made a pact with Mephistopheles, a representative of the Devil?

10. Borachio is a villian in which Shakespeare play?

 

[catfish]

1- Big Friendly Giant
2 - Jane
3 - The Philosopher's Stone
4 - London & Paris
5 - Ian Fleming in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6 - Charles DeGaule
7 - A Stately Pleasure Dome
8 - War Of The Worlds
9 - Dunno
10 - Dunno

 

[Questions]

1- Big Friendly Giant
2 - Jane
3 - The Philosopher's Stone
4 - London & Paris
5 - Ian Fleming in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6 - Charles DeGaule
7 - A Stately Pleasure Dome
8 - War Of The Worlds
9 - Dunno
10 - Dunno

And in swoops swatty

 

[Goldstone1976]

1- Big Friendly Giant
2 - Jane
3 - The Philosopher's Stone
4 - London & Paris
5 - Ian Fleming in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6 - Charles DeGaule
7 - A Stately Pleasure Dome
8 - War Of The Worlds
9 - Dunno
10 - Dunno

Faust.
Much ado about nothing

 

[maffew]

5/10 Please with that

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Harry Potter let me down there

 

[Superphil]

We got 9/10 in that round, got the last one wrong.

 

[Albalbion]

1. What does BFG stand for in Roald Dahl’s 1982 children’s book? - Big Friendly Giant

2. What was the first name of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple? - No idea

3. First published in 1997, which was the first Harry Potter novel, written by JK Rowling? - Philosophers Stone

4. What are the two cities in Charles Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities’? - London and New York?

5. Who was the creator of the character Caractacus Pott, and in which book? - Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

6. Frederick Forsyth’s ‘The Day of the Jackal’ is a fictionalised account of the assassination attempt of which European political leader? - Hitler

7. According to the poem by Samuel Taylor-Coleridge, what kind of building in Xanadu did Kubla Khan decree? - No Idea

8. Which novel of 1898 tells of an alien invasion in Woking? - ??

9. Who, according to the German folk tales emanating from the 15th Century onwards, made a pact with Mephistopheles, a representative of the Devil? ?

10. Borachio is a villian in which Shakespeare play? - Merchant of Venice?

Not a clue with most of them

 

[pearl]

London and Paris

Much Ado About Nothin'

 

[Thunder Bolt]

We got 9/10 in that round, got the last one wrong.

We got 8/10. Our wrong answers were 7 & 10.

 

[hart's shirt]

1. What does BFG stand for in Roald Dahl’s 1982 children’s book? Big ******* German

2. What was the first name of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple? Miss

3. First published in 1997, which was the first Harry Potter novel, written by JK Rowling? Harry Pothead and the Philosopher's Stoned

4. What are the two cities in Charles Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two Cities’? Brighton and Croydon

5. Who was the creator of the character Caractacus Pott, and in which book? Brian Cant in The 1975 Playaway Annual

6. Frederick Forsyth’s ‘The Day of the Jackal’ is a fictionalised account of the assassination attempt of which European political leader? Jeremy Corbyn

7. According to the poem by Samuel Taylor-Coleridge, what kind of building in Xanadu did Kubla Khan decree? Olivia Newton John's house

8. Which novel of 1898 tells of an alien invasion in Woking? The 1898 UKIP Manifesto

9. Who, according to the German folk tales emanating from the 15th Century onwards, made a pact with Mephistopheles, a representative of the Devil? Bill Archer

10. Borachio is a villain in which Shakespeare play? The long boring one

 

[The Large One]

1- Big Friendly Giant
2 - Jane
3 - The Philosopher's Stone
4 - London & Paris
5 - Ian Fleming in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6 - Charles DeGaule
7 - A Stately Pleasure Dome
8 - War Of The Worlds
9 - Dunno
10 - Dunno

Faust.
Much ado about nothing

Between you - 10/10.

 

[Uter]

Between you - 10/10.

Did you award bonus points to smart arses who knew that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written in the (then called) Dudley Hotel in Hove (now boarded up sadly)?

 

[tinycowboy]

We got 8/10. Our wrong answers were 7 & 10.

Same here. Although I didn't actually attend the real thing.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Same here. Although I didn't actually attend the real thing.

We knew the 'stately' bit and thought it was stately home rather than pleasure dome.

10 We just guessed at something Italian, like Merchant of Venice or Two Gentlemen of Verona.

 

[The Large One]

We knew the 'stately' bit and thought it was stately home rather than pleasure dome.

10 We just guessed at something Italian, like Merchant of Venice or Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Close. Much Ado About Nothing is set in Messina.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Close. Much Ado About Nothing is set in Messina.

Romeo & Juliet is also set in Verona. Mr Shakespeare liked Italy for some reason.

 

[hart's shirt]

Close. Much Ado About Nothing is set in Messina.

Well I'm not surprised. He's a great footballer.

 

[The Large One]

Romeo & Juliet is also set in Verona. Mr Shakespeare liked Italy for some reason.

That said, Messina (on the island of Sicily) was ruled by Aragon on those days.

 

[tinycowboy]

10 We just guessed at something Italian, like Merchant of Venice or Two Gentlemen of Verona.

The problem is that you can read the play, but you can forget the names of all the major characters unless you're starring in a production or you studied it at school. I could name all the major characters of Macbeth (studied for O level) very easily, but virtually none of the characters in any other play, apart from the obvious ones, despite having read most of them at some point or another....