What's The Link? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Kafka

The other three are English language essayists or non-fiction writers: England's William Hazlitt and Walter Bagehot, and America's Oliver Wendell Holmes. Franz Kafka, the great Czech writer of surrealistic fiction, is the odd one out.

Answer: Michael Ayrton

Michael Ayrton was an artist as well as writer, and mazes cropped up in many of his artworks. Daedulus is the subject to Ayrton's "The Maze Maker", a fictional "autobiography" of the Greek artisan. Stewart wrote romantic fantasies, Caldwell historical novels and Hamilton was a non-ficton writer on mythology.

Answer: The Big Sleep

"The Big Sleep" is the famed 40's adaptation of the Raymond Chandler mystery starring Humphrey Bogart. The rest are fantasies about dreams, the afterlife and time travel.

Answer: Peter Rabe

Spillane is Mike Hammer's creator, Goodis gave us "Dark Passage", and Thompson is best known for "The Killer Inside Me". Rabe's novels appeared at the same time as the others.

Answer: A. E. W. Mason

Christie's sleuth, Hercule Poirot, is Belgian, Barr created Eugene Valmont and Simenon created Inspector Maigret. Mason was Hanaud's creator.

Answer: Geoffrey Household

Household's 1939 "Rogue Male" made him an overnight success. Greene wrote "This Gun For Hire", Ambler "Journey Into Fear" and LeCarre is famed for his tales of realistic espionage.

Answer: Irene Adler

Some Sherlockians suspected Adler, the woman who outwitted Holmes in "Scandal In Bohemia", as being Nero Wolfe's mother. Bridgid tangled with Hammett's Sam Spade, Della is Perry Mason's faithful secretary and Rebecca is the (dead) title character of the famed novel and movie.

Answer: Daphne DuMaurier

DuMaurier's "Don't Look Now" was filmed by Roeg. Stephenson's "Leiningen Versus The Ants" was lensed as "The Naked Jungle". Connell's classic "The Most Dangerous Game" has been filmed many times. Among Finney's work filmed are "Assault On A Queen" and "Five Against The House".

Answer: Arrowsmith

"Elmer Gantry" is about a corrupt evangelist, "Dodsworth" about a retired businessman and "Babbit" a study of a small-town tycoon. "Arrowsmith" is about a doctor.

Answer: Birds

"Kafka" and "Rabe" mean raven in Czech and German, and "Adler" is German for eagle. "Rogue Male" was filmed as "Man Hunt" starring Walter Pidgeon, and Howard Hawks directed "Big Sleep". DuMaurier's horror story "The Birds" was memorably lensed by Hitchcock. Mason's best known book is "The Four Feathers"; feathers (found only on birds) were used by Daedulus in his and his son Icarus' disastrous attempt at flight, and feather is the basis of the word "fletcher", another term for arrowsmith (since feathers are used on arrow butts).