Worldwide Wizards Literary Mix Quiz

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1. Which Graham Greene book tells the tale of a vacuum cleaner salesman turned spy?

Answer: Our Man in Havana

Published in 1958, "Our Man in Havana" tells the tale of vacuum cleaner salesman, James Wormold, who is recruited by British Intelligence during the Batista regime. Although the Revolutionary Government of Cuba allowed the subsequent film to be made in Havana, Castro apparently complained that the book did not fully reflect the brutality of those years.

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2. In "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer, designed which one of Earth's coastal wonders?

Answer: The Fjords of Norway

The characters in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" visit the legendary planet Magrathea, which was home to the now-collapsed planet-building industry, and meet Slartibartfast. It is revealed by Deep Thought, a super computer, that Earth was also a super computer, which was designed to calculate 'the question,' however Earth is destroyed five minutes before it was able to complete its purpose.

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3. Those of you who have read the book, "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London, know that the hero of this book is a dog named Buck. His appearance made him an exceptionally large dog that looked similar to a wolf, perfect as a sled dog for gold seekers in the hard and brutal life in Alaska and Yukon. Buck was a crossbreed of which two breeds?

Answer: Saint Bernard /Scotch Shepherd

In dogs, crossbreeding between two breeds has become very popular due to the belief that doing so increases hybrid vigor without any loss of attractiveness of the dog. It is not to be confused with a mixed-breed dog (also known as a mongrel or mutt), which are less desirable and less valuable than certain planned crossbreeds.

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4. What influential person of the 20th century inspired the calender era that is used in the book, "Brave New World"?

Answer: Henry Ford

"Brave New World" is a futuristic story about what the world would be like if every aspect of our life was predetermined and controlled.

Aldous Huxley set the story in the "year of our Ford 632". Aldous Huxley was inspired to use Henry Ford as his model for a character of the same name because at the time of writing Ford had just come out with the assembly line and Huxley felt that the world was becoming too industrialized.

George Orwell was inspired by the book, "Brave New World", to write "1984".

Certain aspects of Freud's, like conditioning, were added to the fictional character of Henry Ford.

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5. My title is a quote from a Shakespeare play. I can best be described as a foretelling of doom. Can you name me?

Answer: Something Wicked This Way Comes

"Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury describes a demonic circus coming to small town America, and the experiences two thirteen year old boys, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, have when they encounter it and its evil leader, Mr Dark. The title is a quote from "Macbeth".

"Behold Here's Poison" by Georgette Heyer is from "Pericles"
"Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth" by Simon R. Green is from "King Lear"
"And Then Put Out The Light" by E.C.R. Lorac is from "Othello"

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6. In Larry McMurty's, "Lonesome Dove", which character is the orphaned son of prostitute Maggie Tilton?

Answer: Newt

"Lonesome Dove" is an interweaving story of broken relationships that form around one great cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The drive is led by Texas Ranger Woodrow Call who refuses to admit to his one act of human weakness: fathering Newt Dobbs with a prostitute. As Newt proclaims at the end of the book "I ain't kin to no one in this world."

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7. In "A Clockwork Orange", what is the name of the aversion therapy that Alex is forced to undergo?

Answer: The Ludovico Technique

Written in 1962 by Anthony Burgess, "A Clockwork Orange" depicts the life of a young teenager living in a near fascist society who leads his gang on nightly orgies of violence before being imprisoned and forced to undergo an experimental aversion therapy. The book was adapted for the cinema and the resultant 1971 film, directed by Stanley Kubrik, was banned by several cinema chains due to its violent nature.

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8. In the book, "The Stand", the new community is situated in a place called the "Free Zone". Geographically, in the US, where is the Free Zone situated?

Answer: Boulder, Colorado

"The Stand", by Stephen King, is a classic tale of good versus evil in a post apocalyptic world after a "superbug" biologic weapon finds its way into the outside world. The survivors are drawn together by shared dreams of 108 year old Mother Abigail who proves to be real and becomes the spiritual leader of the new community, as they battle against evil which is Randall Flagg.

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9. My favorite book is "Katherine" by Anya Seton. It's historical fiction based on the relationship of Katherine Swynford (nee Roet) and John of Gaunt. John was Duke of?

Answer: Lancaster

Clarence and York are his brothers. They were sons of Edward III. Beaufort is the surname given to John and Katherine's children after they were legitimized.

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10. "The Clan of the Cave Bear" tells the story of Ayla, a Cro-Magnon girl, who is adopted into a Neanderthal family when she becomes an orphan. How old is Ayla when the earthquake the kills her family strikes?

Answer: five

When Ayla's family is killed by the earthquake, Ayla starts searching for another camp of Cro-Magnon people but is attacked by a cave lion. She is near death when a Neanderthal medicine woman named Iza finds her, heals her, and decides to raise her as her own child.

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