T.H. White Trivia

1. "The Once and Future King" is divided into how many "books"?

From Quiz "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Answer: four

They are titled "The Sword in the Stone", "The Queen of Air and Darkness", "The Ill-made Knight", and "The Candle in the Wind". A fifth book, "The Book of Merlin", was excluded at the time of the original publication. "The Sword in the Stone" was made into an animated version by Disney. The musical "Camelot" is based on the high points of "The Ill-made Knight" and "The Candle in the Wind".

From Quiz "Darkness at Pemberley" Part two

Answer: white

"A stately head, ornamented with white walrus moustaches (uncommon in a butler), dawned solemnly over the brickwork, surmounted over by a bowler hat."

From Quiz T.H. White's "Darkness at Pemberley" Pt. 1

Answer: the Festival Theatre

"Mr. Mauleverer was taking the occupier, an undergraduate named Weans, to the Festival Theatre. He was also taking Mr. Beedon, the history don whose rooms were on A staircase."

From Quiz King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

Answer: Uther Pendragon

Arthur was born as the result of Uther Pendragon, then King of England, taking his mother, Ingraine, against her will. He was given to Sir Ector by Merlyn to raise.

From Quiz T. H. White's "The Once and Future King"

Answer: He resented her

The book's portrayal of Lancelot when he first comes to Camelot is as a young man deeply devoted to the idea of serving King Arthur and becoming his unswervingly faithful knight. He looks forward to a close companionship with the King, and expects the King's full attention to be on chivalry and the Knights of the Round Table. The distracting presence of a Queen disgruntles Lancelot, and he realizes how unfair he is being only after he has snapped at her irritably while she is trying to help him with his falconry.

From Quiz "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Answer: Wart

White says Wart was his nickname because it rhymed somewhat with Art, which was short for his name. He is not called Arthur until the very end of "The Sword in the Stone." Even Merlin calls him Arthur after he becomes king.

From Quiz "Darkness at Pemberley" Part two

Answer: Elizabeth

"He had pieced out the story from Elizabeth Darcy-the Christian name had been in the family since the famous Elizabeth in 1813-"

From Quiz T.H. White's "Darkness at Pemberley" Pt. 1

Answer: Copper Street

Mr. Mauleverer sent Weans to get Mr. Beedon, but Weans got no answer from Beedon. So Weans went back down to tell Mauleverer, and asked him if he should go to Copper Street and yell at Beedon from there.

From Quiz King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

Answer: Merlyn & Merlin & merlin & merlyn

Merlyn was really cool. He lived backwards in time, growing younger as time went forwards.

From Quiz T. H. White's "The Once and Future King"

Answer: It was so black that it was startling

Other descriptions of the Queen in the book call her rose-petalled, dashing and having hair that reminds Lancelot of the sea.

From Quiz "Darkness at Pemberley" Part two

Answer: She was killed in a car crash

A fat man asked if Sir Charles Darcy and his wife, Lady Darcy, would go get a small cargo of liquor, that had been smuggled in from Holland. Sir Charles agreed, he happened to be drunk, so his wife drove the car down for him, he drove back. Four police men waved him over (it had been raining), and a dark car rushed at his car broadside. Sir Charles woke up in the hospital ward; Lady Darcy had been killed outright.

From Quiz T.H. White's "Darkness at Pemberley" Pt. 1

Answer: a gramophone started playing

"In the silence which followed, a gramophone began to play inside the room." In much of Part 1, Inspector Buller is trying to figure out how the gramophone started playing.

From Quiz King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

Answer: Wart

'Wart' was derived from 'Art', short for 'Arthur'.

From Quiz T. H. White's "The Once and Future King"

Answer: Morgause

Various versions of Arthur's story present Mordred as the son of Morgause or Morgan le Fay, but the basic story is that Arthur was tricked into conceiving him with one of his sisters. In "The Once and Future King" Morgause deliberately seduces Arthur, Mordred is born of the union and a young Arthur is persuaded to attempt Mordred's death in a Herod-like slaughter of innocents. When Mordred arrives in Camelot as a grown man, he is bent on revenge.

From Quiz "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Answer: Turning him into various animals

Among the animals into which the Wart is turned, as part of his education, are a falcon, a fish, a hedgehog, and a snow goose. From these lessons he learns about use of power, both physical and political, and use of force.

From Quiz "Darkness at Pemberley" Part two

Answer: general disgust

"'Why,' asked Charles, 'did you resign then?' 'General disgust.'"

From Quiz T.H. White's "Darkness at Pemberley" Pt. 1

Answer: 6

First Weans, then Mauleverer, the Master of the college, the Chaplain, the porter, and finally Miss Edgeworth.

From Quiz King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

Answer: Fish

He was turned into a fish and went for a swim in the moat.

From Quiz "Darkness at Pemberley" Part two

Answer: Vitty Kerumby

"She was mounted on a horse called Vitty Kerumby-a name deviously derived from Webster's White Devil-a huge white mare with a bold eye who leapt her fences like a battleship, and had been round Olympia with half a fault."

From Quiz T.H. White's "Darkness at Pemberley" Pt. 1

Answer: an automatic with silencer

"Well, sir, I wouldn't rush to any conclusions, but I see it this way. The wounds were inflicted with the same weapon: the automatic with silencer on the table there, which was found in this man Beedon's hand."

From Quiz King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

Answer: Sword & a sword

'The Sword in the Stone'.

From Quiz "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Answer: He was ugly as an African ape

White says "He was ugly as an African ape." Lancelot sees his appearance as appropriate because while everyone else sees him as a man of virtue and purity, and thinks of him as the greatest knight in the world, he knows in his heart he has betrayed his best friend by sleeping with his wife. He feels his ugly appearance reflects his hidden sin and the lies that live in his heart.

From Quiz "Darkness at Pemberley" Part two

Answer: he tried to drop a tile on his head

"By the way, your friend Mauleverer nearly got his chances spoilt for him this morning. A tile came off the stable roof just as I was passing. It missed me by inches and broke into eight pieces at my feet."

From Quiz T.H. White's "Darkness at Pemberley" Pt. 1

Answer: cocaine

"Actually," said the sugeon, "I knew the old man took cocaine. But how did you?" "His eyes struck me as curious, so I got him to take his spectacles off and had a good look at him. The pupils were contracted to pinpoints."

From Quiz King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

Answer: Guinevere

Queen Guinevere of Camelot: pretty, smart, adulteress.

From Quiz T. H. White's "The Once and Future King"

Answer: Piggy

King Pellinore is devoted to his "Piggy", who is the daughter of the Queen of Flanders. Another name in the book that you wouldn't find in heraldic engravings or medieval poetry: Wart. This is Arthur's childhood nickname in both "The Sword in the Stone" portion of the book, and in the Disney movie of the same name--it is also alluded to in the first scene of the musical "Camelot", in which Guenevere (note the spelling change for the play script) asks Arthur, "Are you sure you heard them properly?"

From Quiz "Darkness at Pemberley" Part two

Answer: soap

"Blast you! It's soap."

From Quiz T.H. White's "Darkness at Pemberley" Pt. 1

Answer: a poet

"'It comes to this,' said the Inspector, 'you can suspect anybody once you entertain suspicion. It's an extraordinary thing how remote human beings are from one another. We go here and there like cats, meeting, fraternising, diverging. Sometimes we have alibis and sometimes not. But always, inside, everybody is incalculable and secret, always locked up and impenetrably alone. the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.' 'You ought to have been a poet.' said the doctor."

From Quiz King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

Answer: Sir Lancelot

Guenever had an affair with Arthur's best knight, Sir Lancelot.

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