Literature Quiz

August 2024

I don’t usually post on a Saturday but I’m testing out the quiz format that I’d like to become a regular feature of ‘Dr King’s Curiosities.’ Let me know if you have any suggestions for quizzes you’d like to see!

The answers to these questions come from a range of stories across time and genre. See how many you can guess and as a bonus challenge, once you’ve got a few keep an eye out for the thing that links all of these answers together. Spotting this connection might help you fill in the rest.

Scroll down for the answers and let me know in the comments how you did. The first person to tell me (in a direct message please) what the secret connection is wins a Curious Quiz award valued approx. 17 francs.

Questions

1. Which language did Shakespeare speak less of than Latin according to fellow playwright Ben Jonson?

2. What must you do when facing a hippogriff according to the world of Harry Potter?

3. In The Crucible, what were the girls doing in the woods when they were caught by the local minister?

4. What was the animal nickname of The Mountain’s brother in A Song of Ice and Fire? (i.e. the Game of Thrones novels)

5. Which religious building is the last word of both a William Wordsworth poem and an ITV drama?

6. What colour was associated with Baroness Orczy’s aristocrat-saving hero?

7. A John Polidori novel published in 1819 is considered the first example of which kind of monster in literature?

8. What does the White Witch take from Aslan to humiliate him at the end of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?

9. The Winter’s Tale is set in two places, Sicilia and which other kingdom?

10. According to Heinrich Hoffman’s Merry Tales and Funny pictures, what part of a disobedient child will ‘the great, long, red-legged scissor-man’ cut off?

Answers

1. Greek

2. Bow

3. Dancing

4. The Hound

5. Abbey

6. Scarlet

7. Vampire

8. Mane

9. Bohemia

10. Thumb

How did you do? Did you get them all right? What about that secret connection between all the answers, have you guessed it yet? Let me know how you did below and remember to subscribe for more quizzes like this and share/recommend this Substack to help it grow.