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As well as being the queen of the romantic mystery/thriller genre, Mary Steward also delved into the world of Arthurian legends, with her quintet of novels merging historical fiction and fantasy.
20 Mary Stewart quizzes and 225 Mary Stewart trivia questions.
1.
  Mary Stewart Novels - Settings   great trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Mary Stewart's novels continue to be popular as much for the mysteries as her evocative descriptions of the settings. Can you match the book with the place where it was set?
Average, 10 Qns, zorba_scank, Jul 20 17
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Jul 20 17
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  Wildfire at Midnight    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Gianetta Brooke takes a holiday in June 1953 which brings her into the middle of a murder mystery, and puts her own life in danger. What do you remember about the story, another of Mary Stewart's well written mysteries?
Average, 10 Qns, rossian, Apr 05 23
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rossian editor
Apr 05 23
239 plays
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  Images From Mary Stewart   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I first read the novels of Mary Stewart many years ago, but images and impressions from them have stayed in my mind. Can you identify the novel from the images I describe?
Average, 10 Qns, agony, May 13 23
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May 13 23
436 plays
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  Touch Not the Cat    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Mary Stewart wrote many enjoyable novels, and 'Touch Not the Cat' is among my favourites. With flashbacks in time at the end of each chapter, this is a real page turner. Note - spoilers if you haven't yet read it.
Average, 10 Qns, rossian, Apr 04 15
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rossian editor
188 plays
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  This Rough Magic    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Mary Stewart's novels captivated me. I felt as if I was actually present in the story. This novel is one of my favorites, hope you enjoy the quiz.
Easier, 10 Qns, shelpu, Feb 17 07
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396 plays
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  Madam, Will You Talk?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Written in 1955, "Madam, Will You Talk?" was the first novel by Mary Stewart. In this book, she set the high standard that she maintained throughout all of her works. How much do you remember?
Tough, 10 Qns, zippolover, Apr 13 14
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zippolover
156 plays
7.
  Remember "My Brother Michael" by Mary Stewart?   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Mary Stewart wrote some thrilling romantic mysteries. Here is a quiz about one of them!
Average, 10 Qns, ellabell, Apr 06 07
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ellabell
190 plays
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  The Moonspinners   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"The Moonspinners" by Mary Stewart is one of her Greek stories. A Disney film was made, based very loosely on this book, but that knowledge may not help very much with this quiz! Good luck.
Average, 10 Qns, zippolover, Apr 11 14
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185 plays
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  Mary Stewart and her Mysteries    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Mary Stewart is the author of several pleasant mystery-romantic-suspense novels. These books feature beautifully realised settings and plenty of action, as well as Lady Stewart's trademark style. I hope you enjoy this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, Sallyo, Mar 16 22
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Sallyo
Mar 16 22
359 plays
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  Airs Above the Ground    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This book by Mary Stewart features another of her resourceful heroines. If you have read the book, the questions should be relatively easy. If you haven't, I recommend that you do so first, as otherwise the quiz will spoil your enjoyment.
Average, 10 Qns, rossian, Aug 12 08
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rossian editor
304 plays
trivia question Quick Question
Whose dagger does Myrddin take with him?

From Quiz ""The Crystal Cave: The Dove" by Mary Stewart"




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  "Nine Coaches Waiting" by Mary Stewart    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A young governess finds herself in a house of intrigue, mystery, and murder plots in Mary Stewart's unforgettable Gothic romance.
Average, 10 Qns, ZaZeZo, Feb 25 15
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ZaZeZo
121 plays
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  "The Crystal Cave: Coming of the Bear"    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This is the final book in this great novel. I really enjoyed this book, I hope you all did too.
Average, 15 Qns, savannahjan, Oct 09 03
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savannahjan
331 plays
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  "The Crystal Cave: The Falcon" by Mary Stewart    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This is the second book within this novel. This book is a great interpretation of the King Arthur legend.
Average, 15 Qns, savannahjan, Oct 08 03
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savannahjan
351 plays
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  "The Crystal Cave: The Dove" by Mary Stewart    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
I love stories about King Arthur. And so far, this has been just as good as any other version I've read. I'm making a quiz for each book within the novel.
Average, 15 Qns, savannahjan, Oct 08 03
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savannahjan
385 plays
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  Thornyhold    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Geillis Ramsey sees "Thornyhold" as her own little piece of heaven in this book by Mary Stewart. I think that it is a heavenly read. Play along and see if you agree.
Average, 10 Qns, zippolover, Apr 01 14
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zippolover
126 plays
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  Stormy Petrel    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Mary Stewart returned to Scotland for this romantic mystery novel, published in 1991. How much do you remember about "Stormy Petrel"? Good luck :)
Average, 10 Qns, zippolover, Mar 27 14
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zippolover
131 plays
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  "The Crystal Cave: The Wolf" by Mary Stewart    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This is book 3 in "The Crystal Cave". Two more after this, folks!
Average, 15 Qns, savannahjan, Aug 16 14
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savannahjan
311 plays
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  Rose Cottage    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"Rose Cottage" by Mary Stewart, is a gentle love story and mystery set in 1947, just after the end of WWII, written from the perspective of an old lady looking back in 1997. How much do you remember?
Average, 10 Qns, zippolover, Sep 30 15
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zippolover
126 plays
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  Ludo And The Star Horse    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How well do you remember Ludo's journey in this charming story by Mary Stewart?
Tough, 10 Qns, Rowena8482, Mar 30 12
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173 plays
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  "The Crystal Cave: Red Dragon" by Mary Stewart    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This is book four out of five in the novel. This book was just too beautiful to condense into one meager quiz. One more quiz after this one.
Tough, 15 Qns, savannahjan, Aug 16 14
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Mary Stewart Trivia Questions

1. As the book begins, the heroine, Bryony Ashley, is working on which holiday island?

From Quiz
Touch Not the Cat

Answer: Madeira

Bryony describes herself as not particularly well qualified for work. She has obtained her post as a tourist guide and receptionist through family connections. The first chapter also introduces the main theme of the book - her ability to communicate telepathically with the man, as yet unknown to both her (and us), with whom she has fallen in love. From him, she receives a message to tell her that her father needs her - a message that reaches her before the more traditional method of a telephone call.

2. Why does the novel's heroine, governess Linda Martin, pretend that she cannot speak or understand French?

From Quiz "Nine Coaches Waiting" by Mary Stewart

Answer: Her employer wanted an English girl

Her employer Heloise de Valmy has made it abundantly clear that she requires the new governess to be an English girl. Linda lucidly remembers Madame's insistence upon having an English girl. With some reluctance, she pretends that she can neither speak nor understand French.

3. Friends, Charity and Louise, are on holiday together in France. Where did they first meet?

From Quiz Madam, Will You Talk?

Answer: Teachers in a private school

Prior to her marriage to Johnny Selborne, Charity had been the French Mistress at the Alice Drupe Private School for Girls. Louise was still there as Art Mistress. The book is set not long after the end of WWll and is a slice of life of the time.

4. What are "The Moonspinners" of the title?

From Quiz The Moonspinners

Answer: Naiads of Greek legends

Legends has it that three naiads stroll through the land at night, spinning the light of the moon onto their spindles to make the nights safe for the hunted creatures. When all of the moonlight is on the spindles, the naiads wash it in the sea and the light unravels. Over the following weeks the light returns to the moon and then the naiads start their spinning again. Nicola, the heroine of the book, saw an egret at the start of the story.

5. Geillis Ramsey met her mother's cousin, for whom she was named, three times as a child. The first time she was six and they saw a dragonfly emerge. The second time she brought a dog for her. What did she bring the third time?

From Quiz Thornyhold

Answer: A crystal ball

Geillis Ramsey was a lonely child and the three visits by her Godmother, or Sponsor as she preferred to be known, were lovingly remembered highlights. The first visit was during the last summer at the country parish where her father was vicar. Together the two Geillis watched a nymph emerge from a pond and transform into a dragonfly. They also saw a family of hedgehogs. The second visit was just before cousin Geillis set off on a trip to New Zealand. She brought a collie as a companion for the child. The dog was sent away by the child's mother shortly afterwards and was never seen again. Cousin Geillis returned a third and final time to visit Jilly at her boarding school in the Lake District. Jilly looked into the crystal ball brought by her cousin and saw a flock of homing pigeons. Cousin Geillis had recently bought a house, but did not give any details. Jilly had owned a rabbit for a short time before her mother had returned it.

6. The "Stormy Petrel" of the title refers to what two things?

From Quiz Stormy Petrel

Answer: A bird and a pleasure boat

The storm petrel is the smallest of all sea birds and only comes in to land to breed. In the book, a nesting colony of these birds is on Seal Island, a tiny island visited by the heroine. The "Stormy Petrel" is a boat hired by one of the two main male characters in the book. The other hires a boat called "Sea Otter".

7. At the beginning of the book the heroine, Vanessa March, is asked to accompany a young man named Timothy to Vienna. What is his surname?

From Quiz Airs Above the Ground

Answer: Lacy

Timothy is an important character in the book and is instrumental in the development and resolution of the plot.

8. Where is Ludo's home?

From Quiz Ludo And The Star Horse

Answer: Bavaria

Ludo lives in a small village on a mountainside in Bavaria.

9. Camilla, the heroine, is sitting writing letters in a Greek cafe when, in a case of mistaken identity, she is approached to drive a car to Delphi. To whom is she asked to deliver the car?

From Quiz Remember "My Brother Michael" by Mary Stewart?

Answer: Monsieur Simon

Camilla ends up accepting the keys of the car in a language mix up. She mistakenly says "ne", thinking this means no! In Greek, "ne" means "yes" and so the adventure begins!

10. Unemployed English actress Lucy Waring travels to a foreign country to stay with her sister on an island estate. What country was this?

From Quiz This Rough Magic

Answer: Greece

Lucy's pregnant sister was at her husband's family home on the island of Corfu.

11. A white-walled convent, dozing under the hot Pyrenees sun; a young man with three chestnut horses; a fair, grey-eyed young woman, framed in a farmhouse door - which Mary Stewart novel are these images from?

From Quiz Images From Mary Stewart

Answer: Thunder on the Right

Jenny Silver has come to the Pyrenees to visit her cousin Gillian, who has written her about joining a convent there. Now the nuns are telling her that Gillian is dead - or is she? A story of smuggling, secrets, and just a bit of sex, with a great climax.

12. Who did Merlin meet at the Giant's Dance in the middle of the night?

From Quiz "The Crystal Cave: Coming of the Bear"

Answer: Uther

He requested that Uther meet him there to survey Merlin's work. They discussed what their relationship would be.

13. While Ambrosius is laying siege to Vortigern, he sent a messenger with conditions of surrender. Vortigern sends the messenger back with his __________ cut off.

From Quiz "The Crystal Cave: Red Dragon" by Mary Stewart

Answer: Hands

Vortigern says he will surrender when the messenger's hands grow back.

14. Who is Ambrosius's master engineer?

From Quiz "The Crystal Cave: The Wolf" by Mary Stewart

Answer: Tremorinus

Tremorinus is the master engineer, but Merlin has a great talent and is often asked to complete tasks that Tremorinus cannot.

15. To whom are the spies taking Merlin?

From Quiz "The Crystal Cave: The Falcon" by Mary Stewart

Answer: Ambrosius

While Merlin was trying to escape the palace after his grandfather was murdered, two men capture him and decide to take him to Ambrosius.

16. Who is Myrddin's uncle?

From Quiz "The Crystal Cave: The Dove" by Mary Stewart

Answer: Camlach

Camlach returns home from battles and seems to take a liking to Myrrdin the bastard.

17. The typical protagonist in a Mary Stewart novel is-

From Quiz Mary Stewart and her Mysteries

Answer: Young, female, sensible and loving.

Mary Stewart usually writes about intelligent young women of quiet habits and sensible natures. These heroines are remarkably alike, and are thrust into mysteries and adventures which usually take them by surprise.

18. Bryony has three cousins, one of whom takes little part in the events of the novel, arriving only towards the end. What is his name?

From Quiz Touch Not the Cat

Answer: Francis

Francis is the youngest of the cousins and is away on a walking holiday for most of the book. The other two are twins, named Emory and James, and their role is much more significant. Bryony believes that one of them must be her 'secret lover', since the 'mind talking' is passed down in the Ashley family, meaning that he must be related to her.

19. When Linda meets her new employer's husband, Leon de Valmy, she is surprised to learn what about him?

From Quiz "Nine Coaches Waiting" by Mary Stewart

Answer: He's in a wheelchair

Leon de Valmy had an accident that left him crippled, twelve years prior to the start of the tale. When questioned about the master, Mary Seddon, a servant, tells Linda, "He'd never be one to give up because of a little thing like being crippled for life!"

20. To her shock, Gianetta discovers that one of the hotel guests is her former husband. What is his name?

From Quiz Wildfire at Midnight

Answer: Nicholas

Gianetta's marriage to Nicholas Drury had lasted barely three years. At the time of their wedding she had been nineteen and he ten years older, and a 'man of the world'. Gianetta herself had been brought up in a vicarage and felt like an adolescent with only a thin veneer of sophistication, which she believed had fooled Nicholas. Despite their separation, Gianetta is still wearing her wedding ring and using the name of Drury, but stops both once she discovers Nicholas is at the hotel.

21. How did Nicola Ferris know that she was being watched?

From Quiz The Moonspinners

Answer: She saw a man's face reflected in a mountain stream

Nicola was going for a walk and decided to stop by a stream to have her lunch. She was bending over to rinse her hands when she saw a face other than her own in the water. After she saw the nearby shepherd's hut, she thought it was just a shepherd boy, but the next thing she knew was that a Greek with a knife was standing in front of her.

22. The first meeting with cousin Geillis had a profound effect on Jilly and started Jilly out on her lifelong study and fascination of the flora and fauna of the British Isles. In what area was her special talent?

From Quiz Thornyhold

Answer: Watercolour studies of plants

Jilly was a solitary child, even when away at boarding school. She developed her drawing and painting skills and hoped to attend Art College, but her mother put a dampener on that. She did manage one year at Durham University before returning home upon the death of her mother, to look after her father. He had some of her watercolours framed.

23. What is the name of the Cambridge lecturer who is the main character in the story?

From Quiz Stormy Petrel

Answer: Rose Fenemore

Rose Fenemore and her brother Crispin arranged to spend two weeks away together at the end of summer term. They chose a small Scottish island for the peace and quiet and bird life. The book is written from her perspective. Camilla Haven is in "My Brother Michael", Kate Herrick is in "Rose Cottage" and Gianetta Brooke is in "Wildfire at Midnight". All three are books by Mary Stewart.

24. What relation is Kate Herrick to Annie Pascoe, the lady who has been keeping an eye on Rose Cottage?

From Quiz Rose Cottage

Answer: Goddaughter

Annie Pascoe was Kate's godmother and had been the best friend of Kate's mother. Although a different generation, Annie was a good friend to both Kate and her grandmother.

25. Timothy's parents are divorced, although both feature in the book. What are their names?

From Quiz Airs Above the Ground

Answer: Carmel and Graham

Carmel Lacy is a self centred and selfish woman, but is the character who sets Vanessa off on the adventure.

26. What does Ludo's father do for a living?

From Quiz Ludo And The Star Horse

Answer: Woodcarver

His father is a very famous woodcarver, renowned for his skill at carving. Ludo's dream is to be as good as him one day.

27. At Delphi, Camilla stays at the Apollon Hotel. Due to a shortage of rooms, Camilla moves out after one night. Where does she move to?

From Quiz Remember "My Brother Michael" by Mary Stewart?

Answer: The artists' studio on the hill

Simon invites Camilla to stay with him and the artists at the studio. Among those is a young artist who has been travelling through the hills with a donkey. The donkey plays no part in the story, although a mule is later stolen from a nearby archaeological dig!

28. Lucy's brother-in-law was a member of an influential Italian family. What was his family's business?

From Quiz This Rough Magic

Answer: Banking

His family were Italian bankers.

29. Where was Uther going to be crowned?

From Quiz "The Crystal Cave: Coming of the Bear"

Answer: London

Maridunum is Merlin's hometown, Caerlon is Gorlois's town and Tintagel is where Ygraine is held at the end of the novel.

30. What now famous landmark did Merlin wish to raise?

From Quiz "The Crystal Cave: The Wolf" by Mary Stewart

Answer: Stonehenge

This landmark is called "The Giant's Dance" in this book.

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