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Quiz about Jilted Brides and Grooms
Quiz about Jilted Brides and Grooms

Jilted Brides and Grooms Trivia Quiz


Brides left at the altar, abandoned grooms, and jilted suitors... Can you find them in songs, in movies and in literature?

A multiple-choice quiz by severnriver. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
severnriver
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
283,448
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
1539
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Hayes1953 (10/10), gogetem (7/10), Guest 192 (7/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. A popular American folk song and dance goes:

"I would have been married a long time ago
If it hadn't been for__________________
Where did he come from
Where did he go
Where did he come from
____________________"

Who was the one (whose name goes in the blanks) who ruined the singer's chance for marriage?
Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In the short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", Katherine Anne Porter writes of a woman whose groom abandoned her on her wedding day. When does the story take place? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In this song about a woman rejecting her suitor (who is a farmer), the singer relates:

" Why do you come for me to wed
You can't even make your own corn grain
Single I am and will remain
A lazy man I won't maintain"

What American singer adapted this folk song for her album "New Favorite"?
Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In what Charles Dickens novel does Miss Havisham appear, the rejected bride who never gets over her ruined wedding day? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Here is a case where the groom is left at the altar. In the 1967 film "The Graduate", the character Ben crashes into the wedding of Elaine, whom he is smitten by. Ben and Elaine leave the wedding by public bus, leaving Elaine's groom at the wedding. Who plays the character of Ben? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. This is a case of a rejected "bride" from the Bible, given in Deuteronomy 25. In this section, if a woman's husband dies before they have children, the husband's brother should marry the widow and have a child with her. If the brother refuses to marry her, what happens? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Here is an item from the news, as reported by New York Times News Service in 2008. After discovering that her fiancé has been unfaithful to her, Kyle Paxman of Vermont cancels the wedding. What does she do instead? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In the charming song "Adelaide's Lament", a woman complains that too many broken offers of marriage are literally making her sick:

"In other words, just from waiting around for that
plain little band of gold
A person can develop a cold"

In what musical, based on the lives of gamblers, does that song appear?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The 1999 film "Runaway Bride", starring Julia Roberts, features a bride who does what? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Mr. Collins proposes to one young lady, who rejects his proposal. Who is the young lady? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. A popular American folk song and dance goes: "I would have been married a long time ago If it hadn't been for__________________ Where did he come from Where did he go Where did he come from ____________________" Who was the one (whose name goes in the blanks) who ruined the singer's chance for marriage?

Answer: Cotton Eye Joe

Even though its lyrics are sad, the song "Cotton Eye Joe" has a nice fast beat to it. The popular dance is done with couples or in a line, using a crossover kick step. According to Wikipedia, the term "cotton eye" can mean a variety of things, from a person who is drunken to one who is ill.
2. In the short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", Katherine Anne Porter writes of a woman whose groom abandoned her on her wedding day. When does the story take place?

Answer: While the woman is on her deathbed

On her deathbed, Granny Weatherall drifts in and out of lucidity, remembering her life, her children and her work. The last memory she has before she dies is the one in which her groom leaves her waiting by herself on her wedding day. She just can't seem to shake that memory!
3. In this song about a woman rejecting her suitor (who is a farmer), the singer relates: " Why do you come for me to wed You can't even make your own corn grain Single I am and will remain A lazy man I won't maintain" What American singer adapted this folk song for her album "New Favorite"?

Answer: Alison Krauss

This traditional song is "The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn", and Alison Krauss sings it with the band Union Station. The song is about a boy who works so hard on his corn crop, just to see the "September frost" destroy it. The young man's intended bride is not so understanding, because she thinks he is lazy and refuses to marry him.
4. In what Charles Dickens novel does Miss Havisham appear, the rejected bride who never gets over her ruined wedding day?

Answer: Great Expectations

In "Great Expectations", we meet Miss Havisham as a twisted old woman, who has stopped all the clocks in her house at twenty to nine, the exact time when she learned that her bridegroom abandoned her on their wedding day. Since that terrible day, she has not gone outside her house into the daylight.
5. Here is a case where the groom is left at the altar. In the 1967 film "The Graduate", the character Ben crashes into the wedding of Elaine, whom he is smitten by. Ben and Elaine leave the wedding by public bus, leaving Elaine's groom at the wedding. Who plays the character of Ben?

Answer: Dustin Hoffman

Although Dustin Hoffman storms into the wedding and steals away with the bride, he is technically too late: the couple had already said their wedding vows. This romantic and comedy movie, also starring Anne Bancroft and Katherine Ross, was a huge hit.
6. This is a case of a rejected "bride" from the Bible, given in Deuteronomy 25. In this section, if a woman's husband dies before they have children, the husband's brother should marry the widow and have a child with her. If the brother refuses to marry her, what happens?

Answer: His shoe is loosened and he is spat upon.

According to Deuteronomy 25, verse 9, the rejected widow shall "loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit before him; and she shall answer and say, 'So shall it be done to a man that does not build up his brother's house.'" (Dr. J.H. Hertz edition).
7. Here is an item from the news, as reported by New York Times News Service in 2008. After discovering that her fiancé has been unfaithful to her, Kyle Paxman of Vermont cancels the wedding. What does she do instead?

Answer: She turns the wedding reception into a charity event.

Apparently, Kyle Paxman knows how to turn a lemon into lemonade. Instead of feeling sorry for herself, she made her wedding reception into a charity event for CARE USA, an international aid agency, and the Vermont Children's Aid Society (by asking her invited guests to write checks to the charity). She used her same wedding hall, flowers and caterer.
8. In the charming song "Adelaide's Lament", a woman complains that too many broken offers of marriage are literally making her sick: "In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold A person can develop a cold" In what musical, based on the lives of gamblers, does that song appear?

Answer: Guys and Dolls

Poor Adelaide! All the stalling from a prospective groom has given her "la grippe" and other "psychosomatic symptoms". In addition, she says in "Adelaide's Lament" that fourteen times she was on her way to Niagara Falls to get married; but fourteen times the groom got off in Saratoga instead, leaving her unmarried. This is a charming musical.
9. The 1999 film "Runaway Bride", starring Julia Roberts, features a bride who does what?

Answer: She has a habit of leaving her grooms at the altar.

In this movie, indecisive Maggie Carpenter leaves several grooms after the altar after she gets cold feet. Richard Gere is an investigative reporter who knows a good story when he hears one, and he tracks her down to her home town of Hale, Maryland (which I believe is a fictional town). Of course, they fall for each other.
10. In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Mr. Collins proposes to one young lady, who rejects his proposal. Who is the young lady?

Answer: Elizabeth Bennet

Mr. Collins visits the Bennet household, and one of his reasons for visiting is to size up the five sisters as possible wives for himself. After hearing that his first favorite, Jane, is probably already taken, his eye falls on the spunky Elizabeth. She totally rejects his proposal, saying he could "never make me happy".

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Source: Author severnriver

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