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Quiz about Literary LXG
Quiz about Literary LXG

Literary "LXG" Trivia Quiz


I found "LXG" to be a thoroughly entertaining movie. The question is, what do you remember about the original literature from which the characters were drawn? ***Spoiler Warning***

A multiple-choice quiz by reedy. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
reedy
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
141,322
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
587
Last 3 plays: Rumpo (9/10), andymuenz (2/10), calmdecember (7/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. The character of Rodney Skinner was not the original 'Invisible Man,' and it is even mentioned in the movie that he stole the formula to further his career of thievery. What was the name of the original 'Invisible Man' as found in H.G. Wells' 1897 masterpiece? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Sean Connery's character is the sharp-shooting Allan Quatermain from a number of stories by H. Rider Haggard, the most well known being: 1886's "King Solomon's Mines" and 1887's "Allan Quatermain." In the novel "King Solomon's Mines," Quatermain recounts his adventure after it has happened while laid up in Durban with an injury. He sustained this injury in an encounter with a lion. How many lions had he shot previous to encountering this one? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The role of Dorian Gray was masterfully played by Stuart Townsend, and by the end of the movie we actually get to see the 'Picture' of Dorian Gray. In Oscar Wilde's 1891 "The Picture of Dorian Gray," what is the name of the artist who painted said picture? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula" in 1897, beginning (or rather, continuing) a popular fascination with all things vampirish. In "LXG," Peta Wilson reprises the role of Mina Harker, heroine of Stoker's novel. Mina mentions in the movie that her husband Jonathan had worked with the reknowned vampire hunter Professor Von Hurtig.


Question 5 of 10
5. Naseeruddin Shah fills the role of Captain Nemo, a decidedly important character in the movie, whose technological marvel, the Nautilus, allows the League to travel with such speed. Jules Verne's 1869 adventure, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" also expounds on the Nautilus' extraordinary speed, citing, for example, how long it took to travel from Greece until clear of the Strait of Gibralter. How long did it take? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. The year 1886 saw the publishing of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strage Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." "LXG" depicts Edward Hyde as a large, grotesque monster of a man, yet in the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde actually retain the same features and size.


Question 7 of 10
7. Richard Roxburgh plays a triple role in the film, beginning as 'M' (an obvious reference to James Bond) recruiting the members of the League on behalf of England to stop the villainous 'Phantom' (an obvious reference to "The Phantom of the Opera," complete with mask and disfigured face) from starting a world war. The movie has a big timeline discrepancy here, however. The movie takes place in 1899, while Gaston Leroux didn't write "The Phantom of the Opera" until which year? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Roxburgh is revealed to be the villainous 'Phantom,' who in turn is revealed to be none other than Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis Professor James Moriarty. Considered by Holmes to be his intellectual equal, Moriarty's genius is also evidenced in the movie. The question is, do you know in which field of study Moriarty was educated? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. The obligatory American presence in this movie is filled by Shane West in the role of Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain introduced the character in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in 1876. His appearance in this movie as a Secret Service Agent is, of course, pure speculation, as Twain's writings of Tom's life after the events of the novel did not include that profession. However, at the end of the novel, Judge Thatcher did hope that Tom would become one of two things. Name one of them.

Answer: (One Word)
Question 10 of 10
10. One of the comparatively obscure characters of the film, played by Terry O'Neill, quotes a famous line upon his introduction. In which novel can be found the opening line, "Call me Ishmael"?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The character of Rodney Skinner was not the original 'Invisible Man,' and it is even mentioned in the movie that he stole the formula to further his career of thievery. What was the name of the original 'Invisible Man' as found in H.G. Wells' 1897 masterpiece?

Answer: Hawley Griffin

"The Invisible Man" has seen many incarnations over the years, in written form as well as in movies and television. The silver screen has seen versions of H.G. Wells' classic in early films such as 1933's "The Invisible Man" (starring Claude Rains), 1940's "The Invisible Man Returns" (starring Vincent Price), 1944's "The Invisible Man's Revenge" (starring John Hall), and more recently in 1992's "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" (starring Chevy Chase) and "Hollow Man" (starring Kevin Bacon).
2. Sean Connery's character is the sharp-shooting Allan Quatermain from a number of stories by H. Rider Haggard, the most well known being: 1886's "King Solomon's Mines" and 1887's "Allan Quatermain." In the novel "King Solomon's Mines," Quatermain recounts his adventure after it has happened while laid up in Durban with an injury. He sustained this injury in an encounter with a lion. How many lions had he shot previous to encountering this one?

Answer: 65

Haggard's novel, "King Solomon's Mines," was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," which was originally published in 1883. The story goes that when Stevenson's book came out, Haggard didn't think much of it, and bet his brother 5 shillings that he could write a better one. Six weeks later, "King Solomon's Mines" was completed.
3. The role of Dorian Gray was masterfully played by Stuart Townsend, and by the end of the movie we actually get to see the 'Picture' of Dorian Gray. In Oscar Wilde's 1891 "The Picture of Dorian Gray," what is the name of the artist who painted said picture?

Answer: Basil Hallward

In the preface to Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Wilde states, "All art is quite useless."
4. Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula" in 1897, beginning (or rather, continuing) a popular fascination with all things vampirish. In "LXG," Peta Wilson reprises the role of Mina Harker, heroine of Stoker's novel. Mina mentions in the movie that her husband Jonathan had worked with the reknowned vampire hunter Professor Von Hurtig.

Answer: False

The name is Professor Van Helsing. Bram Stoker's first novel was also in the same vein (if you'll pardon the pun) as his later work "Dracula." It was a collection of eight eerie fairy tales for children. There is speculation that Stoker's early childhood may have contributed to his penchant for writing horror, as he spent almost all of the first seven years of his life virtually bedridden due to an undetermined illness.
5. Naseeruddin Shah fills the role of Captain Nemo, a decidedly important character in the movie, whose technological marvel, the Nautilus, allows the League to travel with such speed. Jules Verne's 1869 adventure, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" also expounds on the Nautilus' extraordinary speed, citing, for example, how long it took to travel from Greece until clear of the Strait of Gibralter. How long did it take?

Answer: 48 hours

"I estimate that the Nautilus covered a track of some 600 leagues under the waves of this sea, and this voyage was accomplished in just twenty-four hours times two. Departing from the waterways of Greece on the morning of February 16, we cleared the Strait of Gibraltar by sunrise on the 18th."
6. The year 1886 saw the publishing of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strage Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." "LXG" depicts Edward Hyde as a large, grotesque monster of a man, yet in the novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde actually retain the same features and size.

Answer: False

Interestingly, Hyde is actually smaller than Jekyll in the novel, as can be attested to in the following passage: "The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed. Again, in the course of my life, which had been, after all, nine tenths a life of effort, virtue and control, it had been much less exercised and much less exhausted. And hence, as I think, it came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter and younger than Henry Jekyll. Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other."
7. Richard Roxburgh plays a triple role in the film, beginning as 'M' (an obvious reference to James Bond) recruiting the members of the League on behalf of England to stop the villainous 'Phantom' (an obvious reference to "The Phantom of the Opera," complete with mask and disfigured face) from starting a world war. The movie has a big timeline discrepancy here, however. The movie takes place in 1899, while Gaston Leroux didn't write "The Phantom of the Opera" until which year?

Answer: 1911

Although written as a novel in 1911, Roxburgh's work received its fame primarily through its adaptation to the stage by Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose musical rendition of "The Phantom of the Opera" has entertained theatre enthusiasts since it first opened in London's West End at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1986. It opened on Broadway in 1988.
8. Roxburgh is revealed to be the villainous 'Phantom,' who in turn is revealed to be none other than Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis Professor James Moriarty. Considered by Holmes to be his intellectual equal, Moriarty's genius is also evidenced in the movie. The question is, do you know in which field of study Moriarty was educated?

Answer: Mathematics

Sherlock Holmes first appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet", published in 1887. James Moriarty, however, did not make his first appearance in that novel. Rather, he was not seen until 1893's "The Final Problem." Moriarty received the reputation as being Holmes' most notable opponent despite having made appearances in only two novels, the other being 1915's "The Valley of Fear." Sherlock described him as the "Napoleon of crime."
9. The obligatory American presence in this movie is filled by Shane West in the role of Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain introduced the character in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in 1876. His appearance in this movie as a Secret Service Agent is, of course, pure speculation, as Twain's writings of Tom's life after the events of the novel did not include that profession. However, at the end of the novel, Judge Thatcher did hope that Tom would become one of two things. Name one of them.

Answer: Soldier

Judge Thatcher intended to see that Sawyer would attend the National Military Academy, and afterwards, Law School, to give him the best chance to do either. Twain, in his wisdom, left it there, citing that the story, "being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.

When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes of juveniles, he must stop where he best can."
10. One of the comparatively obscure characters of the film, played by Terry O'Neill, quotes a famous line upon his introduction. In which novel can be found the opening line, "Call me Ishmael"?

Answer: Moby Dick

"Moby Dick" was written in 1851 by Herman Melville, and chronicles Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the white whale that cost him his leg.
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