In the Same Boat Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Grinch

Both characters hated Christmas, but changed their ways and opened their hearts to others in the end. Scrooge was the main character in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", and the Grinch was the title character in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", by Dr. Seuss.

Answer: Ophelia

Although the nature of Ophelia's death is widely debated--accident or suicide--both were young Shakespearean heroines who died for love.

Answer: Dr. Watson

Both gentlemen provided assistance to famed detectives in literature-Watson to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and Hastings to Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.

Answer: Mary Lennox

Both characters were young girls whose parents died, and were sent to live with elderly relatives. Heidi lived on a mountain in Switzerland with her gruff but kindly grandfather; Mary Lennox was sent from India to England to live with a crotchety rich uncle in the book "The Secret Garden".

Answer: The White Knight

Both characters were gentle and good knights, somewhat otherworldly in their demeanor. Don Quixote needs no explanation: he is a famous creation of Miguel Cervantes who sets out to right the world's wrongs; The White Knight is a character in "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll, whom Alice encounters and assists as he repeatedly falls off his horse whilst recounting to her a litany of his inventions, which include such essentials as anklets to protect his horse from shark bites.

Answer: Black Beauty

Both characters were noble animals that suffered great cruelty at the hands of humans. Happily, they both survived the mistreatment and went on to lives filled with love and comfort in their later years.

Answer: Ahab

Both characters were fictional ships' captains who had body parts removed in confrontations with marine creatures--Hook lost a hand to a crocodile, and Ahab a leg to Moby Dick. Ahab's ultimate fate was worse, as the whale eventually dragged him under the sea. Captain Hook lived on triumphantly in the world of Disney cartoons!

Answer: Pinocchio

This pair consists of two toys who wanted more than anything to become real-and who both realized their dream.

Answer: Hermione Granger

These were two good witches, the first from the "Wizard of Oz" books and the other from the "Harry Potter" series. Glinda was variously characterized as either the Good Witch of the North or the Good Witch of the South, but there is no question that she was a force for good. Hermione was one of Harry Potter's closest friends and a fellow student, and always used her powers for good.

Answer: Maria von Trapp

Aside from the obvious, that Julie Andrews played both characters on the big screen, both were nannies who could sing delightful songs. Mary Poppins is the titular character in the children's book by P.L. Travers, and Maria von Trapp wrote a memoir in 1949, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", on which was based the famous movie "The Sound of Music".