Authors D-G: 'F' Trivia

1. When we first meet Tilly and Geoff, which event is about to take place?

From Quiz Anne Fine's 'Raking the Ashes'

Answer: Harry's wedding

The book starts 'in medias res', rather than right at the beginning of the plot. Geoff's son Harry is due to get married to Tara, his bossy fiancée who he met while in hospital, and Tilly is annoyed that Harry has arranged the wedding in the first week of June without OK-ing it with Geoff and Tilly first, as he should know by now that June is when the oil rig inspections take place, and Tilly has to attend. Geoff claims that Harry forgot, but this turns out to be a lie. The inspections are cancelled, so Geoff and Tilly end up attending the wedding anyway. This scene is recounted much later in the book.

From Quiz Eric Flint's "Ring of Fire" Series

Answer: 1632

"1632" was published in 2000. While some of the novel is set in 1631, the climatic scenes of the novel are set in 1632. The second novel, "1633", was published in 2002. Several novels in the series include 1634 as part of their titles. "1633" is clearly a sequel to "1632", but after that there are several story threads that run at the same time and overlap each other in novels as well as the short stories and novellas in the "Ring of Fire" books (actually named "Ring of Fire," "Ring of Fire II", etc.) as well as the "Grantville Gazettes" (both in-print and on-line). The basic premise of the series is that the neglectful action of a group of aliens created a beam of energy (known as the Ring of Fire) that transported a spherical area centered on Grantville from the present back to the past.

From Quiz Been Down So Long

Answer: It Looks Like Up to Me

The title is not original with Fariña--the phrase was in a blues song from 1928.

From Quiz Gone Girl

Answer: Head

The novel's first few sentences are: "When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. The shape of it, to begin with. The very first time I saw her, it was the back of the head I saw, and there was something lovely about it, the angles of it". Near the end of the tale, Nick scrutinizes "the back of her skull". "Gone Girl" was published in 2012.

From Quiz Part One of 'Birdsong,' by Sebastian Faulks

Answer: England

Stephen was brought up in an institution in England. When he was old enough to work, he went into the textiles industry - the reason behind him going to France. In the city of Amiens, he stays with the Azaire family and gains experience from the head of the family, and owner of a textiles factory, René Azaire. Despite being only twenty years of age, Stephen is fluent in French and is able to get by with ease in France.

From Quiz Beastly Book

Answer: New York

"Beastly" takes place in New York City. Kyle originally lives in Manhattan; after his transformation he moves to Brooklyn, another part of the city, as a way to hide.

From Quiz Novelist Shelby Foote

Answer: Jefferson Davis

Foote starts volume one ("Fort Sumter to Perryville") with Jefferson Davis' resignation speech to the U.S. Senate in early 1861. He concludes volume three ("Red River to Appomattox") with a reporter's post-war interview with Davis, wherein the Confederacy's president asked the journalist to "Tell them that I only loved America." Foote remarked in Ken Burns' "The Civil War" that he found Davis to be a warm and personable fellow.

From Quiz The Alexandra Cooper Mysteries: Likely to Die

Answer: Jeep Cherokee

This is one of the few books in the series where Alex is seen driving a personal car and not riding along with Mike or Mercer in an NYPD cruiser. In the twelfth book, "Hell Gate," Alex appears to have replaced her Cherokee with a Chevrolet Suburban.

From Quiz "Seven Tears Into the Sea" by Terri Farley

Answer: California

They said at the beginning that she was headed to California to help her grandma with the hotel.

From Quiz "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

Answer: Cello

Mia started playing the cello when she was young. She was a natural. She applied to Julliard. She attended a classical music camp each summer.

From Quiz Colin Forbes' "Cover Story"

Answer: Alexis Bouvet

Alexis, a journalist like her husband, was murdered by Oleg Poluchkin in Tallinn. Helene Stilmar was a suspect of Tweed's, wife of the US Secretary of State. Laila Sarin was a contact of the SIS, a newspaper reporter and daughter of Mauno Sarin, the Fiinish head of the Protection Police. Ingrid Melin was another foreign agent of Tweed's, loyal to him and operating in Sweden.

From Quiz "1632": The Novel

Answer: At a wedding reception

By starting with a wedding, the author provides a plausible reason for including a more diverse group of characters in the book. Wedding guests from outside of West Virginia include the bride's college friend Sharon Nichols and her father, originally from inner-city Chicago, and the groom's upper class parents from Pittsburgh.

From Quiz Vince Flynn Characters

Answer: Mitch Rapp

Rapp is the star of all but one of Flynn's novels.

From Quiz "Alas, Babylon " by Pat Frank

Answer: The Bible

In Revelation. "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgement come." (KJV)

From Quiz The Women's Room

Answer: The ladies' restroom at Harvard University

"The Women's Room" was first published in 1978. At that time there were buildings on Harvard campus that were forced to allow woman to enter for the first time in the history of the school.

From Quiz The Jane Austen Book Club

Answer: Jocelyn

Jocelyn thought of the idea for an all-Jane Austen book club. She picked the members by herself, which besides herself, were Bernadette, Sylvia, Sylvia's daughter, Prudie, and Grigg Harris. The prologue of the story began with who each member thought their Jane Austen was.

From Quiz Henry Fielding: Concepts and Characters

Answer: Partridge

Nightingale is Mrs. Miller's lodger, Sancho Panza is the servant of Don Quixote (one of Fielding's inspirations), and Wemmick would be a character in "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens (who was in turn inspired by Fielding, naming one of his own sons "Henry Fielding Dickens").

From Quiz Elsie Dinsmore, Life of Faith Series

Answer: Her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore

Elsie is being raised by her grandparents because her mother died when she was born and her father is in Europe. Later in the book though, her father returns from Europe and raises her in his father and stepmother's house.

From Quiz Lori Foster Romances

Answer: Mack, Cole, Zane and Chase

The four Winston boys all helped to run a bar, Cole the oldest falls for Sophia, Chase for her assistant Allison, Mack for a photographer, and Zane. The first book was originally released in the 'Hot Chocolate' anthology book, the second book was originally released under the 'Charmed' anthology and the third, released in the 'Sinful' anthology.

From Quiz A Million Little Pieces

Answer: Cleveland, Ohio

On the very first page of the book, it states: "James Frey is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He is married and lives in Los Angeles. "A Million Little Pieces" is his first book." There are also refrences through out the book.

From Quiz "Shadow Spinner," by Susan Fletcher

Answer: Third thoughts

Marjan and her Auntie Chava are going to the harem to sell off some of Auntie Chava's jewels from when they were rich, to help pay taxes. Marjan begged to come along, but remembering, "Once a woman enters those gates, she never comes out alive," Marjan is having "third thoughts" about going through the doorway.

From Quiz Brian Froud's "Goblins!"

Answer: Overloading electrical outlets

Laantorn is the goblin of fire - his favourite activity is to knock over the candles in peoples' homes. He also likes electricity, and in particular, making electrical appliances malfunction and smoke. If you plug five or more plugs into one electrical outlet, using an adaptor, Laantorn will immediately be summoned, seeing it as an invitation into your home.

From Quiz Christiane F: "We Children from the Zoo Station"

Answer: Berlin

She moved to Berlin when she was six years old.

From Quiz Debbie Federici's "Sign of the Crescent"

Answer: Ménière's disease

Taryn's disease, Ménière's disease, is when a wave of vertigo passes over you, causing you to have almost no control of your body. The disease was named after Prosper Ménière, a French otologist, who first described it.

From Quiz "Wise Child" by Monica Furlong

Answer: Juniper

No one in the village wanted her to live with Juniper but no one else would take her.

From Quiz "The Bone Doll's Twin" by Lynn Flewelling

Answer: Dyrmagnos

Seriamaius is the Necromancer's God, Rhiminee is the future capital and Cerana is one of the wizards who took refuge in Keep with Arkoniel.

From Quiz The World Of The Dark Crystal

Answer: Zkhsithia

Instaral means both "Alone" and "Perfect". Instoria is linked to the word "Instaral", meaning "Incomplete". Abiranariba means both "First" and "Last".

From Quiz "Spartacus " by Howard Fast

Answer: 71 B.C.

Birth of the great Roman poet Virgil, near Mantua, in Cisalpine Gaul, follows one year later.

From Quiz "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert

Answer: Emma

Emma is introduced as Mademoiselle Emma Rouault in part 1, chapter 2.

From Quiz "Across the Grain"

Answer: Griffin

Will Griffin was a young man who lived with his older sister Paige. His mother died from an illness and his father was long gone. Will and his sister lived in a place called Imperial Beach before they moved to a town called Agua Seca that was in the middle of the desert.

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