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Quiz about Just A Minute Part 2
Quiz about Just A Minute Part 2

Just A Minute! Part 2 Trivia Quiz


Pretty positive feedback on the first of these quizzes, so here's another in the same mode. Below are some VERY quick summaries of various novels and stories - just match the plot with the title, or fill in the blank.

A multiple-choice quiz by --xKIWIx--. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
--xKIWIx--
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
86,095
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
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1315
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Question 1 of 10
1. VARIOUS PEOPLE: Let's all tell each other some raunchy and funny stories while we wait for the Plague to pass. (They do. The Plague passes. They go home.) (THE END.) Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. DIMWITTED MAN: Well, I've done some pretty interesting things in my life and I want to tell you about them. (He does.) (THE END.)

Answer: (Two Words, author Winston Groom)
Question 3 of 10
3. (A DOG gets bitten by a bat. Oh dear. Bad news.) WOMAN: Oh dear. Bad news. Never mind, son, let's drive away and get help. (She turns the key. The car won't start. Oh dear. More bad news.) WOMAN: Oh dear. More bad news. (Some time passes. Scary things happen.) (THE END.)

Answer: (One Word, author Stephen King)
Question 4 of 10
4. AUTHOR: From its earliest days, this place has been fascinating. Read on while I weave fact through fiction, and tell you about some of the things which have occurred here in history. (YOU, the READER, take the AUTHOR'S advice. You are, the author hopes, indeed fascinated. 600-odd pages later, you finish the book, satisfied and more informed than you were.) (THE END.) Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. THE COMMANDER: Kate, bear my child. KATE: No. SERENA JOY: Kate, bear the Commander's child. Our future depends on you. KATE: No. CHAUFFEUR (in secret): Kate, I love you. KATE (in secret): Chauffeur, I love you too. Let's form a resistance movement against the dystopia which has developed in this polluted and war-devastated country. (They do.) (THE END.) Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. LUCAS DAVENPORT: Somebody is killing people and leaving strange cryptic notes near the bodies. I must find this killer and stop them. (After numerous red herrings and a journey through the Minneapolis underworld, he does.) (THE END.) Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. (There's a plot in here somewhere, but it's been lost in the author's attempts to be "out there".) (THE END.) Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. YOUNG GIRL: I am in a strange world, yet not so strange because I've actually been here before. Still trippy, though. THE AUTHOR: Reader, I am using my characters as pieces in a game of chess, and filling the story with obscure references to the real world around me. (Then again, maybe it's just a kids' story.) (THE END.)

Answer: (Four Words)
Question 9 of 10
9. TROJAN PRINCE: Well, my city has fallen. Time to leave and build another one. (He leaves, taking his father and son with him but - oh dear - leaving his wife behind. After a long time filled with obstacles and adventures, he does what he said he'd do.) (THE END.) Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. ETHAN HAWLEY: I've got a feeling my life is gonna go from bad to worse round about now. (It does.) (THE END.) Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. VARIOUS PEOPLE: Let's all tell each other some raunchy and funny stories while we wait for the Plague to pass. (They do. The Plague passes. They go home.) (THE END.)

Answer: The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron" is a collection of 100 tales told by seven women and three men in a country villa outside Florence, where they've gone to escape the Black Death. "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer is a similar collection, but the tellers of those stories are participating in a religious pilgrimage, not fleeing disease. "1001 Nights", also called "Tales of the Arabian Nights", are folk-stories collected together to be told by Scheherezade to her husband the Sultan Sdhahriar, and include the tales of such famous characters as Ali Baba and Aladdin. Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" tells the tale of the poet's journey through the afterlife, both Heaven and Hell, in search of his lost love Beatrice.
2. DIMWITTED MAN: Well, I've done some pretty interesting things in my life and I want to tell you about them. (He does.) (THE END.)

Answer: Forrest Gump

Groom's novel "Forrest Gump" is a lot different from the movie which was made from it, somewhat more dark and cynical in tone. Still, an interesting read if you ever wondered what Forrest would be like as an astronaut (in the book, it's one of the things he does which got omitted from the movie).
3. (A DOG gets bitten by a bat. Oh dear. Bad news.) WOMAN: Oh dear. Bad news. Never mind, son, let's drive away and get help. (She turns the key. The car won't start. Oh dear. More bad news.) WOMAN: Oh dear. More bad news. (Some time passes. Scary things happen.) (THE END.)

Answer: Cujo

That is, of course, just the bare outline of the book, which is actually one of my fave King stories. Movie wasn't bad either!
4. AUTHOR: From its earliest days, this place has been fascinating. Read on while I weave fact through fiction, and tell you about some of the things which have occurred here in history. (YOU, the READER, take the AUTHOR'S advice. You are, the author hopes, indeed fascinated. 600-odd pages later, you finish the book, satisfied and more informed than you were.) (THE END.)

Answer: All of these

Not too hard, this one (I hope!). James Michener passed away in 1997, at the age of 90, having produced stunning works of historical fiction dealing with everything from Judaism (in "The Source") to the entire histories of nations and areas (in books like those named above). Michener also wrote copious amounts of quality journalism, non-historical fiction, and non-fiction.

Not bad for a man whose professional writing career didn't start until he was 40 years of age.
5. THE COMMANDER: Kate, bear my child. KATE: No. SERENA JOY: Kate, bear the Commander's child. Our future depends on you. KATE: No. CHAUFFEUR (in secret): Kate, I love you. KATE (in secret): Chauffeur, I love you too. Let's form a resistance movement against the dystopia which has developed in this polluted and war-devastated country. (They do.) (THE END.)

Answer: The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood's scary novel "The Handmaid's Tale" was made into a movie in 1990 starring Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway and Natasha Richardson. The other titles mentioned above are also by Atwood, a prize-winning Canadian writer.
6. LUCAS DAVENPORT: Somebody is killing people and leaving strange cryptic notes near the bodies. I must find this killer and stop them. (After numerous red herrings and a journey through the Minneapolis underworld, he does.) (THE END.)

Answer: Rules of Prey

John Sandford's "Prey" series is just about my all-time fave series! A must-read for anyone who enjoys thrill-a-minute crime mysteries. The series began in 1989 with "Rules of Prey" and now numbers, I believe, fifteen books. Read them!
7. (There's a plot in here somewhere, but it's been lost in the author's attempts to be "out there".) (THE END.)

Answer: All of these

James Joyce with "Ulysses", Thomas Pynchon with "Gravity's Rainbow" and William Faulkner with "The Sound and the Fury" produced books that are considered to be important works of literature, but linear plots are definitely not a feature!
8. YOUNG GIRL: I am in a strange world, yet not so strange because I've actually been here before. Still trippy, though. THE AUTHOR: Reader, I am using my characters as pieces in a game of chess, and filling the story with obscure references to the real world around me. (Then again, maybe it's just a kids' story.) (THE END.)

Answer: Through the Looking Glass

If you guessed "Alice in Wonderland", tough luck! Close, but as they say, no cigar. "Through the Looking Glass" is the sequel to Lewis Carroll's famous story written for his young friend Alice Liddell. Carroll's "meaning" has been debated ever since. Was he lampooning the Victorian society around him under the guise of a simple story? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, a wonderful tale he wove.
9. TROJAN PRINCE: Well, my city has fallen. Time to leave and build another one. (He leaves, taking his father and son with him but - oh dear - leaving his wife behind. After a long time filled with obstacles and adventures, he does what he said he'd do.) (THE END.)

Answer: The Aeneid

Virgil's "Aeneid" tells the mythological story of the founding of Rome, and was written during the reign of the Emperor Augustus primarily to glorify the city and strengthen the "divine" basis of the Roman Empire. The earlier "Odyssey" and "Iliad" by the Greek poet Homer tell parts of the same story - the Trojan War between Troy and the Greek states - but from the Greek point of view.

They deal not with the Trojan/Roman hero Aeneas but the Greek Odysseus, and his attempt to get home to his wife while dodging various god-sent obstacles. Just like Aeneas, he finally gets where he wants to, but it's a helluva ride! The Greek dramatist Aeschylus penned "The Seven Against Thebes", another mythological story telling of an ill-fated expedition against the city of Thebes by seven hostile chieftains.
10. ETHAN HAWLEY: I've got a feeling my life is gonna go from bad to worse round about now. (It does.) (THE END.)

Answer: The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature the year after his novel "The Winter of Our Discontent" was published in 1961. It's a difficult book to read, but ultimately, as with all of Steinbeck's work, rewarding and thought-provoking.
Source: Author --xKIWIx--

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