Arts & Books Mixed Bag 14 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Geppetto

Written by Italian writer Carlo Collodi, the story tells the tale of Pinocchio, who was crafted by a woodcarver named Geppetto. Although made of wood, with flowered paper clothes and a hat made of bread, he dreams of becoming a real boy.
The alternatives are all characters in the Pinocchio story: Mangiafuoco is the director of the Great Marionette Theatre; Candlewick (real name Romeo) is Pinocchio's best friend; and Jiminy is the talking cricket who is appointed by the Blue Fairy as Pinocchio's conscience.

Answer: Apollo

Apollo is the god of light, truth, healing, music and poetry in both Greek and Roman mythology. When he insulted the young Cupid for playing with bows and arrows there were unfortunate consequences... Cupid took two arrows, one gold and one lead: he fired the gold one, which incites love, into Apollo, and the lead one, which incites hatred, into Daphne. Apollo pursued Daphne and, realizing that he would catch her, she appealed to her father, Peneus, to open the Earth and change her form.

Her skin turned to bark, her arms to branches and her hair to leaves and she became rooted to the ground. Apollo vowed to tend the laurel tree and used his powers of immortality to ensure that her leaves remained ever green.

Answer: Jonathan Kellerman

A forensic psychologist working for the Los Angeles Police Department, former child psychologist Alex Delaware first appeared in Jonathan Kellerman's 1985 novel "When the Bough Breaks". "Victims", published in 2012, was the 27th Alex Delaware novel.

Answer: Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Russia's national poet, was born into Russian nobility in Moscow in 1799. He wrote his first poem at the age of 15 and in 1825 his most famous play, "Boris Godunov" was published. He died in Saint Petersburg from injuries sustained in a duel at the age of just 37.
The alternatives were all born more than two decades later, Bronte in 1820 and both Carroll and Alcott in 1822.

Answer: Homer

Homer is the odd man out -- he was Greek rather than Roman, and pre-dated the other three by more than 700 years.
Ovid, born in Sulmona, Italy in 43 B.C., was the author of the three major poetry collections, "The Heroides", "Amores" and "Ars Amatoria". Virgil, born in Andes, Lombardy, Italy (now named Virgilio after him) in 70 B.C., is known for "The Eclogues", "The Georgics" and the epic "Aeneid". Horace was born in Venusia, Italy in 65 B.C. His "Odes" are widely considered one of the greatest works of lyric poetry.

Answer: Civil Servant

Born in London around 1343, Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the father of English literature. When he died in 1400, he became the first writer to be buried in "Poet's Corner" of Westminster Abbey. A lifelong civil servant, Chaucer was a member of the Royal Court of King Edward III, and later he was sent to Italy as a diplomat representing King Richard II.

He also served more than a decade as the "Comptroller of the Customs" for the port of London.

Answer: The Three Musketeers

A spy, assassin and messenger working for Cardinal Richelieu, Milady Clarick de Winter is one of the principal antagonists in the classic 1844 Alexandre Dumas (père) novel "The Three Musketeers". During the novel, she uses numerous pseudonyms including Charlotte Backson, Anne de Breuil, Comtesse de La Fère, Baroness of Sheffield and Lady Clarick. In the sequel, "Twenty Years After", Milady's son, Mordaunt, follows in his mother's footsteps as antagonist in chief.

Answer: Egypt

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1899. Writing under the pseudonym Cecil Scott Forester, he is best remembered for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, which tell the story of a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. Another notable work was the 1935 WWI novel, "The African Queen", which was adapted for the 1951 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Morley.

This film earned Bogart his only Oscar.

Answer: Saint Bernard

Stephen King's 1981 psychological horror novel, "Cujo" was adapted for a 1983 film. Cujo begins as a friendly Saint Bernard owned by the Camber family. When he gets his head stuck in a rabbit hole and is bitten by a rabies-infested bat, the nightmare begins.

Answer: Paul Gauguin

Born Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin in Paris in 1848, he remained virtually unappreciated until after his death in French Polynesia in 1903. Today he is acknowledged as one of the most important painters and sculptors of the Symbolist movement.