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What Do I Quote Vol. 3 Trivia Quiz


Having enlarged my English library by quite a number of books, I'm back with another "What Do I Quote" quiz. Identify the book the given quote is from. Good luck! I've tried to avoid spoilers, but you never know, so watch out.

A multiple-choice quiz by PearlQ19. Estimated time: 11 mins.
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PearlQ19
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11 mins
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Multiple Choice
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276,788
Updated
Jul 23 22
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which literary character has the following New Year's resolutions (opening the first installment of the series of novels written about that character)?

"(1) I will help the blind across the road; (2) I will hang my trousers up; (3) I will put the sleeves back on my records; (4) I will not start smoking; (5) I will stop squeezing my spots; (6) I will be kind to the dog; (7) I will help the poor and ignorant; (8) After hearing the disgusting noises from downstairs last night, I have also vowed never to drink alcohol."
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Question 2 of 10
2. Which highly original and critically acclaimed pseudo-historical novel begins like this?

"Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic. They were gentleman-magicians, which is to say they had never harmed any one by magic - nor ever done any one the slightest good. In fact, to own the truth, not one of these magicians had ever cast the smallest spell, nor by magic caused one leaf to tremble upon a tree, made one mote of dust to alter its course or changed a single hair upon any one's head. But, with this one minor reservation, they enjoyed a reputation as some of the wisest and most magical gentlemen in Yorkshire."
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Question 3 of 10
3. While in Dublin, I bought a German novel that was translated into English, mostly out of "professional curiosity". Have you read it, too? Here's an excerpt...

"One part of the avalanche split off to the west of the Faroe Islands and came to a halt in the underwater banks surrounding the Icelandic Basin. Another part headed along the mountain range between Iceland and the Faroes. But the bulk thundered down the Faroe-Shetland Channel as though it were a chute. The same basin that had absorbed the Storegga Slide thousands of years earlier was filled by an even bigger avalanche, pushing forwards relentlessly. Then the edge of the shelf broke away. Over a stretch of fifty kilometres the shelf snapped off. And that was just the start."
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Question 4 of 10
4. Which heroine's unmistakable voice is telling us this bit of information about the world she is living in?

"It had only been two years since Addison v. Clark. The court case gave us a revised version of what life was, and what death wasn't. Vampirism was legal in the good ol' U.S. of A. We were one of the few countries to acknowledge them. The immigration people were having fits trying to keep foreign vampires from immigrating in, well, flocks. All sorts of questions were being fought out in court. Did heirs have to give back their inheritance? Were you widowed if your spouse became undead? Was it murder to slay a vampire? There was even a movement to give them the vote. Times were a-changing."

Answer: (Two Words, first and last name)
Question 5 of 10
5. One of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time (at least in my humble opinion) contains this passage:

"Why don't you go?" she said. "We none of us want you. He doesn't want you, he never did. He can't forget her. He wants to be alone in the house again, with her. It's you that ought to be lying there in the church crypt, not her. It's you who ought to be dead, not [her]." She pushed me towards the open window. I could see the terrace below me grey and indistinct in the white wall of fog. "Look down there," she said. "It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you jump? It wouldn't hurt, not to break your neck. It's a quick, kind way. It's not like drowning. Why don't you try it? Why don't you go?"
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Question 6 of 10
6. It will not take you long to figure out where this quote comes from:

"How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs Weasley. George's fingers groped for the side of his head. "Saint-like," he murmured. "What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?" "Saint-like," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see... I'm holy. Holey, Fred, geddit?" Mrs Weasley sobbed harder than ever. Colour flooded Fred's pale face. "Pathetic," he told George. "Pathetic! With the whole wide world of ear-related humour before you, you go for holey?"

Answer: (Full title, 6 Words. No clue.)
Question 7 of 10
7. From which of Stephen King's works comes this excerpt?

"In February he starts looking at me funny, out of the corners of his eyes. I keep expecting him to yell at me or even whip out his old pocketknife and and carve on me. He hasn't done anything like that in a long time but I think it would almost be a relief. It wouldn't let the bad-gunky out of me because there isn't any - I saw the real bad-gunky when Paul was chained up in the cellar, not Daddy's fantasies of it - and there's nothing like that in me. But there's something bad in him, and cutting doesn't let it out. Not this time, although he's tried plenty. I know. I've seen the bloody shirts and underpants in the wash. In the trash, too. If cutting me would help him, I'd let him, because I still love him. More than ever since it's just the two of us. More than ever since what we went through with Paul. That kind of love is a kind of doom, like the bad-gunky. 'Bad-gunky's strong,' he said. But he won't cut."
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Question 8 of 10
8. Let's go back in time to another English classic. Where does this excerpt come from?

"I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed. The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fire-side, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, 'She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and child-like disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner - something lighter, franker, more natural as it were - she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy little children.' "
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Question 9 of 10
9. Following the "Da Vinci Code", many books have been written that are concerned with religious conspiracies. Here is an excerpt from one, but which one is it?

'There are thirty-six tzaddikim in each generation. You know perhaps that in Hebrew, each letter also has a numerical value? In Hebrew, thirty-six is expressed by the Hebrew characters lamad, which is like an English l and vav, which is equivalent to the letter v in English. Lamad is thirty and vav is six. In Yiddish, these [...] men are known as the lamadvavniks: the thirty-six just men who uphold the world.'
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Question 10 of 10
10. Thriller author Jeffery Deaver has published quite a number of books, and they all bear the same characteristics: a fast-paced plot with numerous unexpected twists and an unpredictable ending. The one this excerpt is from is no exception, and yet it is quite different from Deaver's other works. Which one is it?

"Paul's grandfather was proud of his country of ancestry, as was Paul's father, who insisted the children study German and speak their native language in the house. He recalled absurd moments when his mother would shout in Gaelic and his father in German when they fought. [...] 'How would it work? I'm not saying yes. I'm just curious. How would it work?' - 'There's a ship taking the Olympic team, families and press over to Germany. It leaves day after tomorrow. You'd be on it.' - 'The Olympic team?' - 'We've decided it's the best way. There'll be thousand of foreigners in town. Berlin'll be packed. Their army and police'll have their hands full.' - Avery said, 'You won't have anything to do with the Olympics officially - the games don't start till August first. The Olympic Committee only knows you're a writer.' [...] 'Think about it, Paul. We're giving you a chance to erase the past. Start all over again. What kind of button man gets that kind of deal?' "
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which literary character has the following New Year's resolutions (opening the first installment of the series of novels written about that character)? "(1) I will help the blind across the road; (2) I will hang my trousers up; (3) I will put the sleeves back on my records; (4) I will not start smoking; (5) I will stop squeezing my spots; (6) I will be kind to the dog; (7) I will help the poor and ignorant; (8) After hearing the disgusting noises from downstairs last night, I have also vowed never to drink alcohol."

Answer: Adrian Mole (created by Sue Townsend)

First published in 1991, "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾" became quite a success, and further Adrian Mole books followed. I've only just started reading them, but I enjoyed the first book very much. Adrian is like a male, adolescent Bridget Jones and just as funny! Adrian's most striking characteristic is that he is a self-proclaimed intellectual who always gets things wrong ("Rupert Blake", "It's like a mariner round my neck", etc.).

The books also work as a satirical depiction of the social and political situation in Great Britain in the 1980s.
2. Which highly original and critically acclaimed pseudo-historical novel begins like this? "Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic. They were gentleman-magicians, which is to say they had never harmed any one by magic - nor ever done any one the slightest good. In fact, to own the truth, not one of these magicians had ever cast the smallest spell, nor by magic caused one leaf to tremble upon a tree, made one mote of dust to alter its course or changed a single hair upon any one's head. But, with this one minor reservation, they enjoyed a reputation as some of the wisest and most magical gentlemen in Yorkshire."

Answer: "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" (Susanna Clarke)

First published in 2004, this charming and really extraordinary novel depicts a nineteenth-century England where magic has only been studied in theory for many years - until Mr. Norrell emerges, the first practical magician in centuries. The eponymous Jonathan Strange is another magician who challenges Mr. Norrell, and soon the two become rivals. What is interesting about the novel is the old-fashioned style and spelling (e.g. Oxford-street) and the countless footnotes from publications about magic (e.g. "The History and Practice of English Magic" (1816) by Jonathan Strange; "A Complete Description of Dr Pale's fairy-servants, their Names, Histories, Characters and the Services they performed for Him" (1799) by John Segundus; etc.). Even the typeface fits the time the story is set in.
3. While in Dublin, I bought a German novel that was translated into English, mostly out of "professional curiosity". Have you read it, too? Here's an excerpt... "One part of the avalanche split off to the west of the Faroe Islands and came to a halt in the underwater banks surrounding the Icelandic Basin. Another part headed along the mountain range between Iceland and the Faroes. But the bulk thundered down the Faroe-Shetland Channel as though it were a chute. The same basin that had absorbed the Storegga Slide thousands of years earlier was filled by an even bigger avalanche, pushing forwards relentlessly. Then the edge of the shelf broke away. Over a stretch of fifty kilometres the shelf snapped off. And that was just the start."

Answer: "The Swarm" (Frank Schätzing)

First published in 2004 in Germany, "The Swarm" became a huge hit, topping Germany's bestseller lists for over two years and selling over two million copies in German alone. It is an ecological thriller, a skillful blend of fact and (science) fiction: something in the oceans is starting to turn against mankind; normally peaceful animals are attacking, tides and currents are shifting... Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" came out at roughly the same time as the novel, and when author Frank Schätzing saw the trailer for the movie for the first time, he wondered for a moment whether his book had already been turned into a movie.
4. Which heroine's unmistakable voice is telling us this bit of information about the world she is living in? "It had only been two years since Addison v. Clark. The court case gave us a revised version of what life was, and what death wasn't. Vampirism was legal in the good ol' U.S. of A. We were one of the few countries to acknowledge them. The immigration people were having fits trying to keep foreign vampires from immigrating in, well, flocks. All sorts of questions were being fought out in court. Did heirs have to give back their inheritance? Were you widowed if your spouse became undead? Was it murder to slay a vampire? There was even a movement to give them the vote. Times were a-changing."

Answer: Anita Blake

Laurell K. Hamilton's "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter" series began in 1993. The first installment in the series, "Guilty Pleasures", is where this quote was taken from. As of late 2007, there are 14 Anita Blake novels plus a novella ("Micah") and two short stories contained in the anthology "Strange Candy". Anita Blake is an animator, meaning she raises the dead for a living.

She is also the legal vampire executioner for the state of Missouri. In the course of the series, she acquires other powers and a number of lovers among whom she is never able to choose.

She's also a tough-as-nails woman who can do everything the men around her can, and often do it better. Despite the very graphic sex and violence scenes, the Anita Blake novels are a great read, highly original and pretty funny, too. If you like horror, that is ;)
5. One of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time (at least in my humble opinion) contains this passage: "Why don't you go?" she said. "We none of us want you. He doesn't want you, he never did. He can't forget her. He wants to be alone in the house again, with her. It's you that ought to be lying there in the church crypt, not her. It's you who ought to be dead, not [her]." She pushed me towards the open window. I could see the terrace below me grey and indistinct in the white wall of fog. "Look down there," she said. "It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you jump? It wouldn't hurt, not to break your neck. It's a quick, kind way. It's not like drowning. Why don't you try it? Why don't you go?"

Answer: "Rebecca" (Daphne du Maurier)

"Rebecca", first published in 1938, has remained a fascinating and timeless novel to this day. Falsely classified as "gothic romance" when it first came out, it is a compelling and unrelenting story of guilt and secrets. Hitchcock did a very good movie version of the book in 1940. "Rebecca" tells the story of a young woman (we never learn her name) who marries a rich widower and goes to live with him in his beautiful manor in Cornwall, Manderley.

But she does not fit into his world; she is intimidated by the demonic housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, and she is self-conscious and unsure. And above everything, there is the shadow of her husband's late wife, Rebecca, which she just cannot seem to overcome.
6. It will not take you long to figure out where this quote comes from: "How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs Weasley. George's fingers groped for the side of his head. "Saint-like," he murmured. "What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?" "Saint-like," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see... I'm holy. Holey, Fred, geddit?" Mrs Weasley sobbed harder than ever. Colour flooded Fred's pale face. "Pathetic," he told George. "Pathetic! With the whole wide world of ear-related humour before you, you go for holey?"

Answer: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

In July 2007, the seventh (and last) Harry Potter book hit the stores, and it's been one hell of a read and a coherent ending to the whole series. Too bad J.K. Rowling just won't be persuaded to write another one... I made this a fill-in-the-blank question without any clue because I figured that those who have read the Deathly Hallows will certainly remember that scene and not need a clue, and those who haven't read it - or any Harry Potter book - still wouldn't know which one the quote is from, even if I gave them four to choose from. And I didn't want to make it easier than it already is ;)
7. From which of Stephen King's works comes this excerpt? "In February he starts looking at me funny, out of the corners of his eyes. I keep expecting him to yell at me or even whip out his old pocketknife and and carve on me. He hasn't done anything like that in a long time but I think it would almost be a relief. It wouldn't let the bad-gunky out of me because there isn't any - I saw the real bad-gunky when Paul was chained up in the cellar, not Daddy's fantasies of it - and there's nothing like that in me. But there's something bad in him, and cutting doesn't let it out. Not this time, although he's tried plenty. I know. I've seen the bloody shirts and underpants in the wash. In the trash, too. If cutting me would help him, I'd let him, because I still love him. More than ever since it's just the two of us. More than ever since what we went through with Paul. That kind of love is a kind of doom, like the bad-gunky. 'Bad-gunky's strong,' he said. But he won't cut."

Answer: Lisey's Story

"Lisey's Story", published in 2006, tells the story of Lisey Landon, widow of writer Scott Landon, who has to deal with the aftermath of her husband's death and his scary legacy. In contrast to its predecessor, "Cell", "Lisey's Story" is a subtle psychological story rather than the straightforward horror of the "phonies".

A note on international publication: the German title of this book is "Love". Not "Liebe" (German for love) but "Love". Talk about Anglicization, huh?
8. Let's go back in time to another English classic. Where does this excerpt come from? "I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed. The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fire-side, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, 'She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and child-like disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner - something lighter, franker, more natural as it were - she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy little children.' "

Answer: "Jane Eyre" (Charlotte Brontë)

"Jane Eyre" is probably one of the most well-known novels of all time. First published in 1847, it has inspired countless adaptations and other works (Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair", for instance). The expression "madwoman in the attic" refers to one of the key plot points in "Jane Eyre" and has entered everyday language, referring to a secret.

It is also the title of a book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that examines Victorian literature from a feminist perspective.
9. Following the "Da Vinci Code", many books have been written that are concerned with religious conspiracies. Here is an excerpt from one, but which one is it? 'There are thirty-six tzaddikim in each generation. You know perhaps that in Hebrew, each letter also has a numerical value? In Hebrew, thirty-six is expressed by the Hebrew characters lamad, which is like an English l and vav, which is equivalent to the letter v in English. Lamad is thirty and vav is six. In Yiddish, these [...] men are known as the lamadvavniks: the thirty-six just men who uphold the world.'

Answer: "The Righteous Men" (Sam Bourne)

In "The Righteous Men", first published in 2006, reporter Will Monroe stumbles across a seemingly unrelated series of murders all over the globe, and when his wife is kidnapped, he rushes to solve the mystery of the righteous men. Apart from suspense and action, the book also contains fascinating information about Jewish tradition.

A similar novel, "The Book of Names" by Jill Gregory and Karen Tintori was published in the same year.
10. Thriller author Jeffery Deaver has published quite a number of books, and they all bear the same characteristics: a fast-paced plot with numerous unexpected twists and an unpredictable ending. The one this excerpt is from is no exception, and yet it is quite different from Deaver's other works. Which one is it? "Paul's grandfather was proud of his country of ancestry, as was Paul's father, who insisted the children study German and speak their native language in the house. He recalled absurd moments when his mother would shout in Gaelic and his father in German when they fought. [...] 'How would it work? I'm not saying yes. I'm just curious. How would it work?' - 'There's a ship taking the Olympic team, families and press over to Germany. It leaves day after tomorrow. You'd be on it.' - 'The Olympic team?' - 'We've decided it's the best way. There'll be thousand of foreigners in town. Berlin'll be packed. Their army and police'll have their hands full.' - Avery said, 'You won't have anything to do with the Olympics officially - the games don't start till August first. The Olympic Committee only knows you're a writer.' [...] 'Think about it, Paul. We're giving you a chance to erase the past. Start all over again. What kind of button man gets that kind of deal?' "

Answer: Garden of Beasts

Published in 2004, "Garden of Beasts" takes the reader back to Berlin, Germany, 1936, during the Olympic Games. The hitman Paul Schumann is made an offer he can't refuse: the CIA wants to send him to Nazi Berlin to assassinate a (fictitious) colonel, who is responsible for the rearmament of Germany. Wanting to prevent Germany from building an army, the CIA hopes that with this colonel dead, Hitler's plans will be spoiled.

This book may not be Deaver's best, but it is hugely interesting. I particularly liked the way Deaver spoke of Germany and Germans of that time. (Often the problem with such novels is that they present a very one-sided view - it looks as if all Germans were Nazis and nothing else). Deaver really tries to stay neutral and fair. Thanks for playing!
Source: Author PearlQ19

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