Orson Scott Card Trivia

1. What is Ender's given name?

From Quiz Ender's Game

Answer: Andrew

The story begins with scientists removing the monitor from the back of genius boy Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin's neck. This is just a test for the young boy. Clearly a special case, he continues to be watched over the next day, approaching situations without the direct link to his superiors. When he fights some bullies at school, he considers himself no better than his aggressive brother, Peter, and fears the worst, but when Col. Hyrum Graff arrives the next day to take Ender to the Battle School in the Belt for further training-- a series of lessons that will take ten years to complete, he discovers that he may be the perfect candidate, a combination of his brother, Peter, and his nurturing sister, Valentine. He heads off to play in War Games.

From Quiz Ender Saga

Answer: Ender's Game

"Ender's Game" (1985) is the novel that started the whole series. Not only was it a huge success, but it won multiple awards including the Nebula Award (1985), the Hugo Award (1986) and was a Locus Award nominee (1986). Interestingly, it started out as a short story (1977) but was later expanded to a novel. Card himself explains that the novelization was largely driven to create the character Ender for his novel "Speaker for the Dead."

From Quiz Pathfinder

Answer: He was crushed by a fallen tree.

Father was killed by a tree that fell on him, when he went away into the woods to make Rigg search for him. However, it was a ploy to get Rigg to go find his sister, and we later found out that Father was really alive.

From Quiz Orson Scott Card's First Lines

Answer: Pastwatch : The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

The Earth is dying, despite the best efforts of humanity to repair the damage they've done. The best hope for the future lies with a group of people who observe the past and Christopher Columbus is the key.

From Quiz Lost Boys

Answer: Steuben, North Carolina

The family travels from Vigor, Indiana to Steuben, North Carolina at the beginning of the story.

From Quiz "Shadow of the Giant" Details

Answer: 4

Mazar called the four-dart pen the Mandate of Heaven.

From Quiz The Enemy's Gate is Down

Answer: Shen

Though he becomes best friends with Alai, the first launchy that he makes friends with was Shen, when Ender got back at Bernard for making fun of Shen's wiggling butt.

From Quiz "Ender's Game" part 1

Answer: Andrew

The book is called "Ender's Game" because as a child Andrew's sister could not pronounce his name so she called him Ender. Peter was Ender's brother, and Bonzo was Ender's first army commander.

From Quiz "Ender's Game", by Orson Scott Card: Part 1

Answer: 6

This was unusual for a child, because most people had their's taken out at a much younger age.

From Quiz Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card Part 2

Answer: Petra

She is the top marksman of the group.

From Quiz "Enchantment"

Answer: Judaism

To flee the Communists, Ivan's parents return to the religion of his father's grandmother and his mother's parents. The family takes the surname Shlomo, changes young Vanya's name to Itzhak, and awaits a coveted visa to Israel (though they plan to go to the United States instead). In the meantime, Vanya's father loses his job and the family's apartment due to anti-Semitism.

From Quiz Ender's Game

Answer: Manticore

When Ender goes into the mess hall, he sees the score board and kids in uniform. He sees Manticore and Asp doing a battle.

From Quiz Ender's Shadow

Answer: Aert Van Nes Straat

Achilles' family, formerly Poke's crew, goes there to eat. They attack Ulysses there.

From Quiz The Works of Orson Scott Card

Answer: Ender's Game

Andrew thinks he is playing a game and destroys the Bugger race in this 1985 novel that won the Hugo and Nebula awards.

From Quiz Ender's Game

Answer: Andrew Wiggin

Ender is just his nick-name, that his sister referred to him as when she was an infant. The name stuck. I think it's because he has a habit of 'ending' games, by winning. He is referred to as Ender for virtually the whole story.

From Quiz "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card Quiz

Answer: He needed to win all the other fights.

Ender decided that by "throughly defeating" Stilson, the other boys would leave him alone.

From Quiz Ender's Shadow

Answer: Sergeant

Sergeant believes that he is Poke's second-in-command, though she doesn't really have one.

From Quiz "Ender's Game" Quiz 2 (chapters 4-6)

Answer: 19&nineteen

There can only be 20 boys per launchy group, so hey, process of elimination! 20-1=19!

From Quiz "Ender's Game" Quiz 1 (chapters 1-3)

Answer: brothers

Ender speaks of his desire to be brothers with Peter. Of course, technically they are brothers, but they don't act like it. Ender associated "brothers" as being able to live in the same house- no more fighting.

From Quiz Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow

Answer: Dap

Graff was the one who picked Ender, but he was not in charge of the Launchies. We also find out more about Captain Dap in "Ender's Shadow".

From Quiz Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow

Answer: Andrew Wiggin

I can't really remember why he went by the name Ender - Valentine has trouble pronouncing "Andrew", I think... but Andrew Wiggin is quite the stud. Also the Speaker for the Dead.

From Quiz Ender's Game

Answer: Peter

Peter is Ender's wicked brother who likes to torture animals, and he likes to kill things.

From Quiz Ender's Game

Answer: The Launchies

After leaving home, Ender is launched into space where he gets his first experience of being reoriented in null gravity. He gets picked on almost immediately after Graff singles him out and, in the ensuing taunting, he accidentally breaks a kid's arm, Bernard's. Graff later tells him that to kill the buggers, they need a commander and he needs to find his own way to succeed. Ender is given the lowest bunk near the door on his first day and is introduced to Dap, the Lauchies' 'Mom'; the isolation is almost too obvious. He does, however, manage to show off in front of older students in the games room by quickly adapting to the controls and winning two of three games. He makes friends by standing up for some of the other boys, like Shen, mainly by psychologically defeating Bernard, the boy who taunted him on day one. After a trip into the null gravity room for the first time he also makes a strong bond with Alai, who becomes the bridge leader. After he defeats a supposedly unbeatable giant in a virtual reality game, Ender's superiors decide to move him into an older army, forcing him to leave his new friends behind almost immediately.

From Quiz Ender Saga

Answer: Ender's Shadow

As the author Card notes, "Ender's Shadow" (1999) is not a sequel since the events occur at roughly the same time as "Ender's Game." Instead it is a fresh look at events from Bean's perspective. He is a brilliant child who realizes the "game" of fighting the Buggers is real. It is also revealed that he suffers from genetic manipulation that makes him brilliant, but he will suffer an early death.

From Quiz Orson Scott Card's First Lines

Answer: Enchantment

When Ivan is ten years old his family leaves Russia for the United States but before they do Ivan discovers a beautiful woman lying in the center of a leaf covered clearing. He is haunted by the memory until he goes back to Russia as an adult and awakens Sleeping Beauty.

From Quiz Lost Boys

Answer: Door Man

Each member of the family had a nickname. Dad was Junk Man, Mom was Fish Lady, Stevie was Door Man, Robby was Robot, Elizabeth was Betsy Wetsy and Jeremy was Zap.

From Quiz "Shadow of the Giant" Details

Answer: Bob

Randi left Bob because she believed that she was pregnant with Achille's child.

From Quiz The Enemy's Gate is Down

Answer: Open his locker

He is the last launchy in his group to get his bunk, but is the fastest of them and opens the locker first.

From Quiz "Ender's Game" part 1

Answer: monitor

The government monitored Ender since he was a child to see if he was what they were looking for.

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