Murder Most Foul Trivia Quiz

Answer: Daisy Buchanan

"The Great Gatsby" was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was published in 1925.

Jay Gatsby is infatuated with Daisy Buchanan, with whom he had a romantic relationship prior to her marriage. Daisy Buchanan is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom Buchanan is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. Daisy Buchanan hits Myrtle Wilson with Jay Gatsby's car. Jay Gatsby claims to have been driving the vehicle at the time. George Wilson shoots Jay Gatsby for killing his wife and then commits suicide.

Answer: Piggy

"Lord of the Flies" was written by William Golding and was published in 1954. It has featured on the Modern Library's '100 Best Novels' list as well as 'TIME' magazine's 100 best English language novels.

A group of young boys are marooned on an island during World War II. A power struggled develops between Ralph, accepted as leader of the boys and Jack, leader of the choir. Ultimately it is Piggy, an overweight and bespectacled boy, loyal to Ralph who is murdered by Jack with a well aimed boulder. The 'beast' was in fact the body of a pilot still with his parachute attached, who ejected from his aircraft.

Answer: Arthur "Boo" Radley

"To Kill a Mockingbird" was written by Harper Lee and was published in 1960.

The novel is narrated by Scout Finch. Her father, Atticus Finch was tasked with defending Tom Robinson on the charge of indecent assault of Mayella Ewell. Atticus lost the trial, but Mayella's father Bob believed that the family's credibility had been damaged, for which he blamed Atticus. He attacked Scout and her brother Jem in an act of revenge. Arthur "Boo" Radley, the local recluse, saved Scout by turning Bob's knife on him.

Answer: Artist of Gray's portrait

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" was written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1890 in "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine".

Basil Hallward paints a portrait of Dorian Gray, described in the novel as a "beautiful young man". Influenced by Lord Henry Wotton's hedonistic view point wherein the pursuit of pleasure surpasses ideas of good and evil, Dorian offers his soul if the portrait would carry the effects of ageing and not he. The portrait reflects all of Dorian's sins and corruption and becomes hideous. Basil confronts Dorian and upon viewing the now hideous portrait, urges Dorian to make restitution and repent for his sins. In a fit of rage, Dorian stabs Basil to death. Dorian later stabs the portrait in an effort to destroy it and ultimately kills himself. He is found, hideous and disfigured with a knife in his heart and the portrait as beautiful as the day it was painted.

Answer: Esmeralda

"The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" was written by French author Victor Hugo and published in 1831. Quasimodo is the half deaf, half blind hunchback who rings the bells of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Frollo is the Archdeacon of Notre-Dame and both are in love with a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda. Frollo is obsessed with Esmeralda and unwittingly engineers her execution at the gallows, by attempting to kill the man that Esmeralda is in love with, Phoebes. Esmeralda is charged with this attempted murder, and Frollo laughs as she is hanged. Quasimodo pushes him from the cathedral and afterwards lies holding Esmeralda's body in the cemetery until he eventually dies, too

Answer: Cane

"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1886. Dr Jekyll, wanting to explore his dark side without fear of discovery and recrimination, develops a serum which allows him to transform into his "dark" persona named Mr Hyde. Mr Hyde is smaller and shorter than Dr Jekyll, but is infinitely more menacing and prone to anger. In a fit of rage, Mr Hyde beats Sir Danvers Carew to death with a walking stick, half of which remains with the body. Mr Utterson, a lawyer and friend to Dr Jekyll, suspects Mr Hyde of the murder and finds the other half of the walking stick in his rooms. Eventually Dr Jekyll realises that he cannot control the transformations any more, nor can he control the appetites of Mr Hyde and commits suicide in order to "kill" Mr Hyde. Mr Hyde gives no reason for killing Sir Danvers Carew, except that he was able to:

"With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror." (Ch. 10)

Answer: Grima Wormtongue

"The Lord of the Rings" is a trilogy made up of "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King", written by English Author J.R.R. Tolkein and first published in 1954. The events surrounding the death of Saruman and Grima Wormtongue take place after the fall of Mordor.

The duo find themselves in the home of the hobbits, The Shire, where Saruman under the name of Sharkey has taken over. The diminutive heroes of the novel, the quartet of Frodo, Samwise, Merry and Pippin, help to liberate The Shire and free all the hobbits. Frodo magnanimously frees Saruman, but he kicks his servant Wormtongue in the face and insults him. Wormtongue sets on him with a knife and slits his throat, upon which the hobbit archers strike him down.

Answer: Graveyard

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was written by Mark Twain and published in 1876. It is notable for being one of the first novels ever to have been written on a typewriter. Tom and Huckleberry Finn went to the graveyard to perform a ritual for curing warts which entailed throwing a dead cat at the Devil and saying a rhyme at midnight in a graveyard.

They encounter Muff Potter, Injun Joe and Dr. Robinson unearthing a corpse. Muff and Injun Joe try to extort more money from the doctor, but Injun Joe is after revenge too. Dr. Robinson fought bravely, but was stabbed in the chest by Injun Joe, who blamed the murder on Muff Potter who had been knocked unconscious in the scuffle.

Answer: Wife

"Frankenstein or, the Modern Prometheus" was written by Mary Shelley and published in 1818. Elizabeth was not the first to be murdered by the monster. Victor's brother William was his first victim, dying by strangulation as the monster sought to take revenge on Victor's family for the rejection he has suffered.

The monster requests that Victor make him a mate and Victor reluctantly agrees. Midway through the project he decides to destroy the project in fear of creating a more evil being, having decided that his monster was evil.

In retaliation the monster first kills a close friend of Victor, Henry Clerval and attempts to frame Victor for the murder. The monster threatens Victor that he will "be with [him] on [his] wedding night". The night of Victor's wedding to Elizabeth, the monster enters her bedchamber and strangles her.

Answer: Prisoner of war boxcar in WWII

"Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death" was written by Kurt Vonnegut and published in 1969. Paul Lazzaro first threatened to kill Billy Pilgrim in a box car full of American WWII prisoners. Billy and fellow soldier Roland Weary are captured during the Battle of the Bulge and Weary is forced to relinquish his boots. The wooden clogs he is forced to wear wound his feet and he eventually dies of gangrene as a result. He blamed Billy for his misfortune:

"Above all, he wanted to be avenged, so he said again and again the name of the person who had killed him. Everyone on the car learned the lesson well. 'Who killed me?" he would ask. And everybody knew the answer, which was this: "Billy Pilgrim.' "

Paul Lazzaro vowed to avenge Roland Weary and make Billy Pilgrim pay for his death. Billy predicts his own death on February 13th, 1976. On this day he is talking to a crowd in a baseball park in Chicago about flying saucers and the nature of time. He tells the crowd:

"'No, no,' says Billy serenely. 'It is time for you to go home to your wives and children, and it is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.' At that moment, Billy's high forehead is in the cross hairs of a high-powered laser gun. It is aimed at him from the darkened press box. In the next moment, Billy Pilgrim is dead. So it goes."