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As well as the historical fiction series "The Lymond Chronicles" and "The House of Niccolo", Dorothy Dunnett wrote a series of mystery novels (originally published under her maiden name of Halliday) about a painter and spy names Johnson Johnson.
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  The Lymond Chronicles   popular trivia quiz  
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A quiz for all fans of Dorothy Dunnett's wonderful "Lymond Chronicles".
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Until finding a quiz on Lymond (Francis Crawford) last year, I never knew FunTrivia existed. I've been hoping for similar quizzes - so, please enjoy this. Should not be too difficult if, like me and many other fans, you regularly re-read these books!
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Renaissance superman and heart-throb, created by the inimitable Dorothy Dunnett. See if you remember as much as you thought you did!
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Where was Lymond's home (insofar as he had one)?

From Quiz "The Lymond Chronicles"




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Dorothy Dunnett Trivia Questions
1. How many books make up the series often called the Lymond Chronicles?

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: six

"The Game of Kings," the first of these six densely-detailed and lengthy (between 500 and 700 pages each) books was published in 1961.

2. What is Francis's title in "The Game of Kings"?

From Quiz Francis Crawford

Answer: Master of Culter

Master of Culter was the name given to the heir to the title "Lord Culter". Francis lost the title on the birth of his nephew, Kevin.

3. Another of Lymond's mistresses, Kiaya Khatun, was previously the mistress of whom?

From Quiz The Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Dragut Rais

Dragut Rais was a corsair leader, in the service of the Sultan. The Agha Morat was actually more interested in Francis! Prince Vishnevetsky had paid court to the lady in Istanbul, but she turned him down. The Kislar Agha, as the Head Eunuch of Suleiman's seraglio, would not, one assumes, have had a mistress (at any rate, not in the carnal sense...)

4. What was the name of the estate in France from which Francis took the name of his comté?

From Quiz Francis Crawford

Answer: Sevigny

Sevigny, a property near the Loire, which had also belonged to one of his ancestors.

5. The setting for the second book ("Queen's Play") in the Lymond Chronicles is:-

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: France

Following Lymond's (Francis Crawford) clearing of his name in Book 1 ("The Game of Kings") he is asked by the Queen Dowager (Mary of Guise) in Scotland to go to France. She hopes that there Lymond will be able to protect the life of her daughter, the child Queen Mary.

6. Kiaya Khatun was the friend and confidante of Khourrem Sultan, wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. As is attested to by the name by which she is better known, the Sultana was of Slavic origin. What name is she known by?

From Quiz The Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Roxelana

Khourrem Sultan ("the Laughing One") was born in what is nowadays part of the Ukraine. She began her astonishing career in the harem of Suleiman the Magnificent as a slavegirl, but quickly won the heart of the Sultan, supplanting even his favourite concubine and mother of his son, the heir-apparent, Prince Mustafa. (She later instigated the death of this young man, to ensure the succession of her own son.) We are told, in "Pawn in Frankincense", the fourth book of the "Lymond Chronicles", that when Suleiman married Roxelana, it was the first time in several generations that a Sultan had taken a legal wife. The name Roxelana means "the Russian Woman".

7. "Your father's two sons will not meet in this life again". Who were his father's two sons?

From Quiz Francis Crawford

Answer: Gavin and Francis

Francis was the son, not of Gavin Crawford, as he at first believed, but of Gavin's father, Francis Crawford the first.

8. Book 5 ("The Ringed Castle): Who are two key historical figures with whom Lymond interacts closely in this book?

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia and Diccon Chancellor

Lady Dunnett's books were highly crafted to enmesh Francis Crawford and his life, actions and challenges with affairs of both national (Scotland) and international interest. Through this, Lymond meets and deals with all the historical figures cited in the answers above.

9. Why did Lymond marry Philippa Somerville?

From Quiz The Lymond Chronicles

Answer: To protect her reputation

Lymond did actually first meet Philippa when he came to her home to interrogate her father, whom he (wrongly) suspected of being responsible for the charges of treason hanging over him. After she travelled all round the Mediterranean in his company and ended up in the Sultan's harem, all because of her determination to find and rescue Lymond's son, he understood that her reputation was ruined and married her, to save her good name. It was only considerably later that he realised he had fallen in love with her.

10. Who was the mother of Francis Crawford's son?

From Quiz Francis Crawford

Answer: Oonagh O'Dwyer

Oonagh gave birth to Khaireddin, but Francis did not learn of her pregnancy until after the birth.

11. "Checkmate" (Book 6) is set against the back-drop of war between which two nations?

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: France and England

In order to obtain a divorce from his wife (Philippa) and then return to Russia, Lymond agrees to fight for a year for France.

12. When they first met, Lymond gave Philippa a gift, which she promptly threw on the floor and ground under her heel. What was it?

From Quiz The Lymond Chronicles

Answer: A sapphire brooch

Lymond removed the brooch from his own doublet and pinned it on Philippa's night robe. We are told the sapphire was the colour of his eyes.

13. The Castle of Midculter, in which Francis Crawford was raised, is in which county of Scotland?

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire in the Lowlands, like the others in the answers, was historically a Scottish county.

14. Where was Lymond's home (insofar as he had one)?

From Quiz The Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Midculter

Flaw Valleys was Philippa's home.

15. What was the name of the bird Francis had in Russia?

From Quiz Francis Crawford

Answer: Slata Baba

The bird was called Slata Baba. Francis was forced to kill her as Vishnevetsky had put a Tartar baby out as prey for her and she could no longer be trusted to obey her training.

16. In Book 1 ("The Game of Kings") we first meet Kate, an English woman who will become one of Lymond's few close friends. She has one daughter Philippa (10 years). What is the name of her husband?

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Gideon Somerville

While Kate and Gideon are both English, Tom Erskine, Will Scott and Leonard Bailey are all Scotsmen.

17. Lymond had two sisters. What were their names?

From Quiz The Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Marthe and Eloise

Sybilla was, of course, Lymond's mother. Marthe was Lymond's illegitimate half-sister born to his real father, the first Baron Culter (who was also called Francis Crawford) and to Béatris, daughter of Camille de Doubtance. Eloise was his full sister, born to Sybilla and the first Baron Culter. Mariotta was Lymond's sister-in-law, wife of his half-brother Richard.

18. Book 4 ("Pawn in Frankincense"): This features a particularly grueling chess game using live human "pieces." Name the two characters who must play their own "Kings" in this game.

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Graham Reid Malett and Francis Crawford

This chess game is ordered by the Sultana Roxelana who is angered by the intrigues undertaken by both Francis Crawford and Sir Graham Reid Malett at her court in Constantinople or Stamboul. The Sultana decrees that each "piece" taken in the course of the chess game will be killed.

19. To whom does Francis plan to get married after the fall of Calais?

From Quiz Francis Crawford

Answer: Catherine D'Albon

Catherine D'Albon - Oonagh is dead and he is already married to Philippa!

20. Book 4: Name Francis Crawford's (titles of Lymond & Sevigny) close ally who is killed while trying to protect Lymond.

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: Salablanca

We do not really learn how young Lymond is until towards the end of Book 1. Although precociously brilliant, he does make mistakes and is affected deeply by these and losses / deaths of his sisters, friends and allies.

21. Who kills Marthe in mistake for Francis?

From Quiz Francis Crawford

Answer: Austin Grey

Austin thinks he is killing Francis in order to protect Philippa from a disastrous marriage.

22. By the end of the sixth and final book ("Checkmate") Lymond has just turned 32 years old. How old is he during much of the action of the first book ("The Game of Kings")?

From Quiz Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles

Answer: 21 years

Lymond's birth date is November 1, 1526. He was 16 when taken prisoner, along with other Scots nobles, in the war against England and following this, was accused of betraying Scotland. "The Game of Kings" opens in 1547.

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