Ramsdencon February 2002 Multimedia Quiz

Section 2

Literature

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1. Put the following imaginary lands in the order of their invention: Narnia, Utopia, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Lilliput, Oz.

2. Whose first projectile (of at least six) landed on Horsell Common, between Chobham and Woking, which they later destroyed along with Weybridge and Shepperton and then took London by way of Richmond before all dying.

3. Which of these is the odd one out at the end of the play and why: Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia, Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

4. Name two of the four Ministries which run Oceania in George Orwell's 1984.

5. Who commanded in turn the Hotspur, the Atropos, the Lydia, the Sutherland and the Witch of Endor (temporarily) before rising to a rank that had him command more than one ship at a time.

6. What is the name of the play which inspired the film My Fair Lady and who was the playwright?

7. Its Vestibule contains the Futile, then nine Circles contain the Unbaptised and Virtuous Pagans, the Lustful, the Gluttonous, the Hoarders and Wasters, the Wrathful, the Heretics, the Violent, the Malicious Fraudsters and finally the Traitors. Where, and as portrayed by whom?

8. He had problems with a string of girls, including Honoria Glossop, Pauline Stoker, Madeline Basset and Florence Craye plus Roderick Spode and of course Aunt Agatha. Who had the problems, who bailed him out each time and who chronicled the events.

9. What is Harry Potter's enemy's real (as in original) name? If you don't know that you can have one mark for his adopted one.

10. They met when she was accused of a murder committed using Strong Poison, and again in Have His Carcase. He finally pursuaded her to marry him after Gaudy Night after which they went on a Busman's Honeymoon. Who are they?

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