Quiz! What Links...?

Curious Quiz, June 2025

This month’s quiz asks you to guess what links the items in a list. The answers are all related to literature, though not just ‘classics’. Tell me how you did in the comments below and don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe!

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Questions

1. Bear, rabbit, pig, owl, donkey, kangaroo

2. Hamfast, Drogo, Saradoc, Paladin

3. Tie, mask, key on a necklace

4. Wicked by Gregory Maguire, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Dracul by Dacre Stoker

5. The Mill on the Floss, Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights.

6. Omeros, Derek Walcott, The Song of Achilles, by Madeleine Miller, Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, The Last Song of Penelope, by Catherine Webb.

7. Living in a castle, buffeted by winds, rained on, pushing great weights around, fighting in a swamp, trapped in a flaming tomb, being boiled eaten by harpies or scorched by falling fire, sealed in ice.

8. Only a Factory Girl by Rosie M. Banks, “Mad Trist" by Sir Launcelot Canning, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Megadodo Publications.

9. The Spire, William Golding, Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo, The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett.

10. The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer, Sanditon, Austen, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens.

Answers

1. The species of characters in the Hundred Acre Wood (Winnie the Pooh.)

2. The fathers of the four main hobbits from The Lord of the Rings (Sam, Frodo, Merry, Pippin.)

3. Items on the front of the original ‘50 shades’ trilogy.

4. Prequels to books by a different author (The Wizard of Oz, Jane Eyre, Dracula.)

5. Female-authored classics published under male pseudonyms.

6. Stories based on the Trojan War/works of Homer.

7. Some of the fates of sinners in Dante’s Inferno.

8. Fictional books within stories (Jeeves and Wooster books, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.)

9. Novels that revolve around church architecture.

10. Unfinished works by English greats.

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