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The fifth book of the "Outlander" series sees Claire and Jamie helping their daughter and her 20th-century husband settle into North Carolina life in the years just before the American Revolution.
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  "The Fiery Cross" Part VI   great trivia quiz  
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"The War of the Regulation." Another great part! This book just keeps getting better and better!
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  "The Fiery Cross" Part I - "In Media Res"   popular trivia quiz  
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Ten questions on Part I of "The Fiery Cross".
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  "The Fiery Cross" Part V   popular trivia quiz  
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10 questions on part V of "The Fiery Cross"- "'Tis Better to Marry Than Burn." Finally, a part you can really sink your teeth into!
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  "The Fiery Cross" Part II    
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10 questions from "The Chieftain's Call."
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  "The Fiery Cross" Part VII   popular trivia quiz  
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"Alarms of Struggle and Flight." I suppose if you've followed "The Fiery Cross" this far, you're ready for another ten questions. :)
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  "The Fiery Cross" Part III    
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Part III of "The Fiery Cross" - "Alarms and Excursions". This was a short, rather uneventful, part of "The Fiery Cross", so I've only made five questions out of it.
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  "The Fiery Cross" Part IV    
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Another brief part of "The Fiery Cross", though it had a few gems that made me laugh out loud! Here are five questions on "I Hear No Music But the Sound of Drums."
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What colony is William Tryon to become the new governor of?

From Quiz ""The Fiery Cross" Part VI"





The Fiery Cross Trivia Questions
1. What does Roger say that makes Brianna cry?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VII

Answer: "Brianna."

His larynx was injured when he was hanged, making it a real effort for him to speak. The first time he says anything afterwards, much to everyone's surprise, was "STOKH!" ("STOP!") when his son Jemmy was about to scald himself with a hot coffee pot. Afterwards, Brianna asks him if he can say her name. He can, though almost inaudibly, and Bree is just happy that he hasn't entirely lost his ability to speak.

2. Where was Brianna supposed to be for the duration of the battle?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VI

Answer: The Sherstons'

She ended up helping Claire, but she was supposed to be with Penelope Sherston, as she had been commissioned to paint her portrait.

3. What does Claire call Phillip Wylie that particularly enrages him?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part V

Answer: "puppy"

She first calls him this when he made advances on her in the stables. It didn't help any that Dr. Fentiman calls him so after Betty's death.

4. Who is the first patient to try Claire's homemade penicillin?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part IV

Answer: Josiah Beardsley

He was Claire's first, followed soon thereafter by his brother Keziah. They both had tonsillectomies.

5. What was the name of Josiah Beardsley's brother?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part III

Answer: Keziah

At the age of two or three, Josiah and Keziah had travelled with their families from an unknown country (they were too young to remember) but the rest of their family died on the voyage. Being unable to pay for their passage, they were indentured for thirty years and bought by Mr. Beardsley.

6. The chieftain's call is what?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part II

Answer: the fiery cross & fiery cross & a fiery cross

It is revealed in one chapter (also called "The Fiery Cross", same as the novel's title) that the fiery cross was what lairds and chieftains among the Highland Scots used to call their clansmen to battle. The wood cross was set alight, then doused with either blood or water, and the resulting charred cross (though still referred to as being fiery) was taken through the countryside.

7. Under what charges was Father Donahue arrested?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part I - "In Media Res"

Answer: Being a Papist

He was arrested to keep from performing his priestly duties, but Jamie, Claire, Brianna, and Marsali sneak Joan and Jemmy into Lillywhite's tent and get them baptised anyway.

8. What is contained in the package sent from London?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VII

Answer: astrolabe & an astrolabe

A surveying device. Since Jamie knows the outcome is in favour of the Rebels, he also knows that for a period of time he will be a traitor and his land will probably be seized. He will have a better chance of getting it back following the Rebel victory if he has documentation of exactly which land is his.

9. Who was Roger sent to fetch back from the Regulators?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VI

Answer: Hermon Husband

Husband was the unofficial leader of the Regulators. Roger was able to convince Husband that Governor Tryon was serious this time about quelling the rebellion, but the rest of the Regulators didn't follow Husband's advice to leave.

10. What is the name of the slave who was murdered?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part V

Answer: Betty

She is first drugged with laudanum (which is suspected to have been by accident, the drug meaning to be for Duncan). The perpetrator then killed her by slipping ground glass into her food or drink so she wouldn't be able to tell anyone who gave her the drugged punch.

11. Why doesn't Mrs. Bug have children, according to her?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part IV

Answer: It would kill her husband

After suffering numerous miscarriages, Mrs. Bug went to see a carline (a sort of healer who uses herbal remedies and charms) for a cure. He gave her a small charm and a prayer to say to keep a babe, but warned her that to do so would mean her husband's death... or so he had gathered from her "reading". Claire, although she doesn't agree with the carline's morals, concedes that perhaps it is easier for Mrs. Bug if she thinks it was her choice not to have children.

12. How long had Mrs. Beardsley been married to her husband?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part III

Answer: Two years, three months, and five days

This made Claire remember the marks she had seen on the Beardsley's doorpost, and wondered if Franny had been keeping count from the very beginning of her marriage.

13. Who got in a fight with Rosamund over tomato sauce?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part I - "In Media Res"

Answer: Ronnie Sinclaire

It was an old superstition that said that tomatoes were poisonous. This was because when pewter bowls were used, the acid from tomatoes mixed with the pewter to create a poisonous substance.

14. Who sent the package from London?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VII

Answer: Captain William Ransome

It was sent at the behest of John Grey, but the package itself was from Jamie's son, William.

15. What is stamped on the badges given to Jamie's militia?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VI

Answer: "FC"

"FC" - standing for "Fraser's Company".

16. Whose appearance at the party is Brianna shocked to hear about?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part V

Answer: Stephen Bonnet

Stephen Bonnet is the OTHER man who might be her son Jemmy's father.

17. What name did Private Ogilvie overhear near Portsmouth, Virginia pertaining to Stephen Bonnet?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part IV

Answer: Karen

He couldn't remember if it was a woman or a ship. He also heard the name "Butler", but he couldn't remember if that was even about Bonnet.

18. Why had Josiah run away from home?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part III

Answer: He was badly treated by the Beardsleys

Although being marked a thief was undoubtedly the straw the broke the camel's back, it was an act of desperation due to the fact that he and Keziah weren't fed enough. Jamie: "...ask yourself, Sassenach: would ye leave a decent home to go and live in the woods alone, to make your bed in cold leaves and eat grubs and crickets 'til ye learned to hunt meat?"

19. Where was the riot?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part I - "In Media Res"

Answer: Hillsborough

Lieutenant Hayes comes to the Gathering with a declaration from William Tryon that the rioters are to be turned in to him.

20. What type of gem is it that Jemmy accidentally swallows?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VII

Answer: A sapphire

Jemmy got into Claire's surgery and destroyed the amulet given to her by Nayawenne, the Tuscaroran medicine woman with whom she was acquainted. The amulet contained a raw sapphire, that Jemmy mischanced to swallow.

21. What do William MacKenzie's friends call him for short?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VI

Answer: Buck

William Buccleigh MacKenzie.

22. What is the correct response to this toast (as per Part V): "To beauty"?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part V

Answer: To privacy

This toast is given on the stone bench in the garden first by Jamie and Claire, and later by Roger and Brianna. It was a sweet coincidence. :)

23. What did Roger have the honour of being on Hogmanay to many of the homesteads on Fraser's Ridge?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part IV

Answer: firstfoot & the firstfoot & their firstfoot & first foot

It was said that if a tall, dark man is your first visitor in the New Year, it is an omen of good luck.

24. Who killed Mr. Beardsley?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part III

Answer: Jamie Fraser

Mr. Beardsley had suffered an apoplexy (a stroke) that left him paralyzed, while drunk and trying to kill his wife. Franny had been torturing him slowly to death for about a month before the arrival of the Frasers. Knowing that he would be paralyzed his whole life, and that his gangrenous foot would have to be amputated, Mr. Beardsley signed that he would like Jamie to take his life, and it was done.

25. What nationality are the settlers that Jamie sends Roger to find along Boiling Creek?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part II

Answer: Dutch

He couldn't find them: "I've been riding up hill and down dale for the last ten hours... Looking for a mythical family of Dutchmen." - Roger MacKenzie

26. What is a "thief-taker"?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part I - "In Media Res"

Answer: A bounty hunter

Harley Boble was the thief-taker that Jamie scared with a poorly-cured sausage.

27. Who pleads with William MacKenzie for Roger's life?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part VI

Answer: Morag MacKenzie

William's wife. She remembers that Roger was the one to help her, William, and their son Jemmy on board the "Gloriana" from Scotland.

28. There is a statue in the Innes' garden that a number of young ladies can't help but exclaim over. It is of which Greek hero?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part V

Answer: Perseus

What Claire thought was just a slab of rock at the statue's feet was actually Medusa's head.

29. What kind of dance did Jamie perform for the entertainment of his guests?

From Quiz "The Fiery Cross" Part IV

Answer: Sword

A sword-dancer's skill was said to reflect the outcome of the next day's battle, which is where the tradition originated. Later it was used for entertainment (such as Jamie's dance on Hogmanay) and for competition.

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