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Quiz about Someone That I Used to Know
Quiz about Someone That I Used to Know

Someone That I Used to Know Trivia Quiz


This quiz is about characters with the same name, done in the style of obituaries, so all you have to do is put the right character to its description. It dots around time and location to make it a bit more challenging...Hope you enjoy!

A multiple-choice quiz by daenerysmn. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
daenerysmn
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
349,506
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
429
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Question 1 of 15
1. He was a good man, although misunderstood in many ways. Life did not always treat him well, it was in the Caribbean that his hedonistic ways led him into deep trouble. However, when he married for the second time, his wife brought him all the joy in the world and they lived until his death in a house not far from the ruined hall. He will be missed. Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. Alas, she died before her time, and I will miss her. She was married to the wrong man who made her unhappy and only one thing consoled her - the love for her only son. Once she met the Count, everything changed, he made her love him and she quickly spiralled out of control. She never should have gone to the railway station alone. Poor woman! Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Calling this man a man is almost a crime. He was a half god and a great warrior, famous throughout the land and feared by his enemies. His greatest friend, Krishna, helped him through the war with his cousins. His favourite weapon was the bow and he was masterful with it. India will miss him greatly. Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Poor woman from Venice who got into a marriage too complicated for her own pure nature. She was tricked by those around her, but it wasn't her fault and she did nothing wrong. When her husband killed her, his grief was terrible. Requiescat in pace ______________.

Answer: (One Word)
Question 5 of 15
5. He was such a brave boy, travelling from one world to the next almost without fear. He loved his parents above all things except for an extraordinary girl he met on his travels. He went into worlds where humans could show part of their soul in animals that could never leave them. When he found his, it was called Kirjava. May they both find peace and the loved ones they could never see again. Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. She was bold, brave and kind and the world was all the better for having her in it. She supported her uncle and brother with every ounce of her spirit, leading her people to safety when threats loomed. She was once unlucky in love, but thanks to the man who rejected her for another she lived to love again. Now she rests in peace in a tomb in the land of her husband. Does this eulogy correspond more to Galadriel than it does to Eowyn? Yes or No.


Question 7 of 15
7. A more stubborn man never drew breath than him...such passion and such drive, but such a waste of life when he killed himself. Many were hurt by him, not least the woman whom he loved and loved him back, but some were helped for his being in the world, the man who took in the poor gypsy boy for one. May he finally find peace instead of haunting the moors with his lady love, calling for each other all through the night. Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. I remember her when she was a girl with hair as black as ebony but she used to make such mischief with her best friend. She even got drunk once by drinking Marilla's wine mistaking it for cordial, would you believe it! Her life was happy and she loved all people in it...she was a true kindred spirit. Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. Woe is me for having lost this soul! He was lost before, sent to hell and made to serve the Devil. He was not meant to return to serve another but did he or was he the master? When the doctor died, he was to follow soon behind. Poor, tortured being. Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. I know some people will say I'm being silly writing a eulogy for an animal, but she was more like a person. She was high-spirited and she could have a fierce temper, but if one of her friends was ill, she would loyally stay up all night to keep them company. She was treated well at first, but as her circumstances changed, she was not appreciated and probably died a painful death. She will always be remembered fondly and missed. Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. How children suffer so much at the hands of other children astounds me! The poor dead boy was different from the other children, unable to stand up for himself in a strange and exceptional situation, but he did not deserve to die. He was so smart, the only one really to understand, but when do kids that wear glasses ever stand a chance against a mob of boys trying to survive? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. The last human woman to be alive and she is no more...when all but one of the rest of her kind were destroyed for a mundane cause, she sought comfort in literally the only man she could. Though she rejected him on Earth, she loved him in space, a woman of two different names and of extraordinary mathematical intelligence and so, she will be missed. Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. He was an honourable man, and a loyal one. He fought for his best friend to win the throne for him, leaving his wife with child. The only dishonourable deed he ever did was to bring home another woman's child when he returned to the North, but the boy was a credit to him. He died at the hands of his enemies, unlawfully executed with two of his children watching. His family was torn apart forever. Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. She was always a beauty and an unfailingly responsible woman. Being the eldest, she was often left to govern her younger sisters, who had such different personalities that it became almost too difficult for her, but she prevailed. When she had her twins, this served her well. She could never be described as a forward woman, nor an independent one, but to her sister who became an authoress, she always seemed too safe and obvious. I think that's what made her the ideal woman. May flights of angels sing her to her eternal rest. Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Let us raise a glass to this fallen poet...Nasdrovya! He was always a poet at heart, although at times the government forced him to conceal it. Despite his adultery, he was always a moral man and could never see a girl abused by one who took advantage. He was a competent physician and a skilled musician. If only he had not left behind his child who got lost and I, his brother Yevgraf, will never stop searching for her. Rest in peace, my brother! Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. He was a good man, although misunderstood in many ways. Life did not always treat him well, it was in the Caribbean that his hedonistic ways led him into deep trouble. However, when he married for the second time, his wife brought him all the joy in the world and they lived until his death in a house not far from the ruined hall. He will be missed.

Answer: Edward Fairfax Rochester

From Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", Edward Fairfax Rochester is the byronic hero who lives at Thornfield Hall, which his first wife who suffers from a mental disorder burnt to the ground, leaving him partially blind. He then married the eponymous character. George Wickham is the primary antagonist of Jane Austen's novel, "Pride & Prejudice" and Frederick Wentworth is from her novel "Persuasion". Abel Magwitch is a character in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations".
2. Alas, she died before her time, and I will miss her. She was married to the wrong man who made her unhappy and only one thing consoled her - the love for her only son. Once she met the Count, everything changed, he made her love him and she quickly spiralled out of control. She never should have gone to the railway station alone. Poor woman!

Answer: Anna Karenina

From Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina", the title character was unhappy in her marriage to her older politician of a husband when she met Count Vronsky and embarked on an affair. Anna Karenina is a woman devoted to her son, Seriozha, from whom she is separated and along with a miscarriage causes her mental breakdown leading to her suicide. Anna Karenina jumped onto train tracks.
3. Calling this man a man is almost a crime. He was a half god and a great warrior, famous throughout the land and feared by his enemies. His greatest friend, Krishna, helped him through the war with his cousins. His favourite weapon was the bow and he was masterful with it. India will miss him greatly.

Answer: Arjuna

Arjun and his other Pandava brothers are from the Hindu script, the "Mahabharata". They were the sons of Kunti and Madri by the gods. Eventually, Arjuna became Krishna, his best friend's brother-in-law when he married Krishna's sister Subhadra. Arjuna's father was the god Indra and his bow was called Gandiva.
4. Poor woman from Venice who got into a marriage too complicated for her own pure nature. She was tricked by those around her, but it wasn't her fault and she did nothing wrong. When her husband killed her, his grief was terrible. Requiescat in pace ______________.

Answer: Desdemona

Desdemona was the wife of Othello in the Shakespeare play of the same name. Iago plotted Othello's demise by planting false evidence about Desdemona's person and rooms suggesting that she had been adulterous. He also put the ideas in Othello's head, encouraging him to believe that the wife who eloped with him against her father's wishes, was unfaithful to him.
5. He was such a brave boy, travelling from one world to the next almost without fear. He loved his parents above all things except for an extraordinary girl he met on his travels. He went into worlds where humans could show part of their soul in animals that could never leave them. When he found his, it was called Kirjava. May they both find peace and the loved ones they could never see again.

Answer: Will Parry

In Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, Will Parry is the second major character after Lyra Silvertongue. He was the keeper of the Subtle Knife which had the ability to cut portals through worlds, enabling him and Lyra to enter the world of the dead to see Roger and Will's father, John Parry. Will falls in love with Lyra, which culminates in the final book, "The Amber Spyglass" as they declare their love for each other, but are soon told that they can not be together or see each other ever again because each time the knife was used a spectre was made and the worlds were being drained of Dust through the doors between the worlds. All the doors are closed and each child has to be in their own, with their daemons.
6. She was bold, brave and kind and the world was all the better for having her in it. She supported her uncle and brother with every ounce of her spirit, leading her people to safety when threats loomed. She was once unlucky in love, but thanks to the man who rejected her for another she lived to love again. Now she rests in peace in a tomb in the land of her husband. Does this eulogy correspond more to Galadriel than it does to Eowyn? Yes or No.

Answer: No

Eowyn's parents died, so she and her brother Eomer were left in the care of their uncle, the King of Rohan, Theoden. When Theoden was put under Saruman's spell and manipulated by Grima Wormtongue and Eomer exiled as a result, Eowyn continued to support and tend her uncle.

When Aragorn arrived in Edoras, Eowyn fell in love with him, but he did not return her affections. After the Battle of Pelennor Fields, Eowyn was grievously wounded by the Witch King of Angmar, a wound which required Aragorn, as the rightful king of Gondor to use Kingsfoil/Athelas to cure her, leaving her to recover in the same place where Faramir, having recently escaped Denethor's pyre, was recuperating and they fell in love and married.
7. A more stubborn man never drew breath than him...such passion and such drive, but such a waste of life when he killed himself. Many were hurt by him, not least the woman whom he loved and loved him back, but some were helped for his being in the world, the man who took in the poor gypsy boy for one. May he finally find peace instead of haunting the moors with his lady love, calling for each other all through the night.

Answer: Heathcliff

In Emily Bronte's magnum opus "Wuthering Heights", Heathcliff was taken in by Kathy's father and treated as ward by all except Kathy's resentful brother, Hindley. Kathy and Heathcliff are famous lovers as they both are stubborn and are deliberately cruel to each other at times just to achieve the other's distress and anger. Heathcliff killed himself after his son dies.
8. I remember her when she was a girl with hair as black as ebony but she used to make such mischief with her best friend. She even got drunk once by drinking Marilla's wine mistaking it for cordial, would you believe it! Her life was happy and she loved all people in it...she was a true kindred spirit.

Answer: Diana Barry

From L.M. Montgomery's timeless children's book, "Anne of Green Gables", Diana Barry is a girl from a wealthy family who live close to Green Gables and she becomes best friends with Anne. Anne coined the term 'kindred spirit' and she applied it to Diana, also describing her as the bosom friend she had never had before being adopted by the Cuthberts. Diana is known for her dark black hair, which makes the red-headed Anne jealous.
9. Woe is me for having lost this soul! He was lost before, sent to hell and made to serve the Devil. He was not meant to return to serve another but did he or was he the master? When the doctor died, he was to follow soon behind. Poor, tortured being.

Answer: Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles is a character from Christopher Marlowe's text "The Tragical Life and Death of Doctor Faustus". It is still debated whether he is on the side of Faustus or that of the forces of evil, despite being a creature of hell under the Devil's command. All of the magical deeds of Faustus that make him famous around the world are actually done by Mephistopheles.

It is unknown what happens to Mephistopheles after Faustus is dragged down to hell, as that is when the play ends.
10. I know some people will say I'm being silly writing a eulogy for an animal, but she was more like a person. She was high-spirited and she could have a fierce temper, but if one of her friends was ill, she would loyally stay up all night to keep them company. She was treated well at first, but as her circumstances changed, she was not appreciated and probably died a painful death. She will always be remembered fondly and missed.

Answer: Ginger ("Black Beauty")

Ginger is the mare whom at first Beauty finds a challenge to be around, however, soon they become fast friends to the extent that when Beauty was made ill by the stable boy's incompetence and was left all night in a fever, Ginger stayed awake to keep Beauty company until John could attend to him. Once the squire and his family had to leave, the horses were sold on, Beauty and Ginger together.

After Beauty's knees were ruined, he was sold on and he only saw Ginger twice more. She appears on a cab stand when Beauty is owned by Jerry and she is used by a rough driver and instead of the lively healthy looking mare that was, she has become a shell of a horse being worked to death. Beauty next sees her under a tarpaulin dead.
11. How children suffer so much at the hands of other children astounds me! The poor dead boy was different from the other children, unable to stand up for himself in a strange and exceptional situation, but he did not deserve to die. He was so smart, the only one really to understand, but when do kids that wear glasses ever stand a chance against a mob of boys trying to survive?

Answer: Piggy

Piggy is the overweight, short sighted practical boy on the island on which the boys in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" are stranded. Out of all the boys he was the most obvious target. Simon is killed by the other boys as well, but instead of being 'The Smart One' on the island, he is more classed with being the representation of peace and calm. Simon is killed whilst the boys are in a trance dancing around the pig's head. Ralph and Jack both are the alpha-males who emerge, each forming their own group and pitting themselves against each other striving for supremacy over the other.
12. The last human woman to be alive and she is no more...when all but one of the rest of her kind were destroyed for a mundane cause, she sought comfort in literally the only man she could. Though she rejected him on Earth, she loved him in space, a woman of two different names and of extraordinary mathematical intelligence and so, she will be missed.

Answer: Trillian

Trillian, the creation of Douglas Adams as read in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", is a human who on Earth was called Tricia MacMillan, but when she went into space with Zaphod, decided a more spacey name was called for, and so began to call herself Trillian.

The Earth was destroyed by the Vogon species in order to make way for a bypass, being the mundane cause. Arthur Dent was the other human to survive the demolition and he and Trillian start a relationship. If you got the question wrong - "DON'T PANIC!" ;)
13. He was an honourable man, and a loyal one. He fought for his best friend to win the throne for him, leaving his wife with child. The only dishonourable deed he ever did was to bring home another woman's child when he returned to the North, but the boy was a credit to him. He died at the hands of his enemies, unlawfully executed with two of his children watching. His family was torn apart forever.

Answer: Ned Stark

Ned Stark is from George R.R. Martin's epic "A Song of Ice and Fire", although he is executed at the end of the first book in the saga. He fought for Robert Baratheon, his best friend, when he rebelled against Aerys Targaryen, whom Jaime Lannister eventually murdered. Ned is always attributed with the characteristics of loyalty and honour, despite bringing Jon Snow home and claiming him to Catelyn as his bastard when she had just given birth to their first born, Robb.

The Lannisters had Ned executed for spreading the news that Joffrey, Tommen and Myrcella were not the biological offspring of the king. Sansa, with the ladies of the court on stage, watches her father's beheading, whereas Arya, is in the throng, having concealed herself as a peasant boy.
14. She was always a beauty and an unfailingly responsible woman. Being the eldest, she was often left to govern her younger sisters, who had such different personalities that it became almost too difficult for her, but she prevailed. When she had her twins, this served her well. She could never be described as a forward woman, nor an independent one, but to her sister who became an authoress, she always seemed too safe and obvious. I think that's what made her the ideal woman. May flights of angels sing her to her eternal rest.

Answer: Meg March

The March family is the principal household in Louisa May Alcott's book "Little Women". Meg is the eldest of the four sisters and is a traditional girl who wants a stable marriage and a home, so when she marries Laurie's tutor, John Brooke, Jo thinks it's too simple and pragmatic as a marriage.

She went on to marry Friedrich Bhaer and became a published author. Meg gives birth to twins, Daisy and Demi. Beth March dies of complications from scarlet fever in the book and Amy becomes Laurie's wife.
15. Let us raise a glass to this fallen poet...Nasdrovya! He was always a poet at heart, although at times the government forced him to conceal it. Despite his adultery, he was always a moral man and could never see a girl abused by one who took advantage. He was a competent physician and a skilled musician. If only he had not left behind his child who got lost and I, his brother Yevgraf, will never stop searching for her. Rest in peace, my brother!

Answer: Yuri Zhivago

Yuri Zhivago is the title character of Boris Pasternak's novel, "Doctor Zhivago". He was adulterous with Lara Antipova, as he was already married to Tonya, but part of what drew the two together was Lara's relationship with Viktor Komarovsky, who exploited both her and her mother.

At the end of the novel, Lara and Zhivago's child, of which he knew nothing, was lost and she goes to Yuri's brother after Zhivago's death to ask him to help her look for her daughter. Kostya Levin is a character from Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", Pierre Bezukhov is from his work "War and Peace" and Peter Trofimov is the primary love interest in Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
Source: Author daenerysmn

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