OK. I have to come up with some interesting and fun trivia questions for a trivia contest.
It suddenly hit me--Spoiler Trivia.
We tell the spoiler, they have to pick the classic piece of literature that its from.
1) Dad returns from the wars and goes all crazy on the men hitting on his wife.
2) Drinking and driving may be bad, but drinking and letting some dude who you thought was a friend play with masonry is to die for.
3)They were supposed to escape slavery by going north, but the river keeps taking them farther and farther south.
4) At the end everyone who carried the thing ends up sailing off to the west.
5) The "speckled band" is a poisonous snake that step-dad uses to kill off the girls before they get married.
I need some better ones. Up to the challenge?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
1) The Oddysey 2) Cask of Amontillado 3) Huckleberry Finn 4) The Lord of the Rings 5) ? Poisonwood Bible?
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
4 of 5.
#5 is...Elementary my dear Kath.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
See, my guess for #1 would have been Tommy. I guess it depends on your definition of "classic".
Posted by caliban (Member # 11698) on :
They find God and it turns out he is actually a 'normal person' who has been asleep for a long time.
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
Nth) Poland succeeds in invading Denmark after royal infighting leaves a power vaccuum.
N+1) Verona cops are unable to stop a string of murders ending in a suicide pact between to post-tweens.
N+2)Its a real Jerry Springer situation. The dude's best friend sleeps with his wife, while the dude's illegitimate son, child of a one-time encounter between the dude and his half-sister, tries to take over with a very hostile takeover.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
5. Sherlock Holmes.
caliban: ?
n) Hamlet n+1) Romeo and Juliet n+2) Le Morte D'Artur
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
A) Gold is stolen and a miser deals with the aftermath.
B) A war refugee wanders the earth and then founds a new city.
C) The product of a misguided science experiment wreaks revenge and dies at the North pole.
D) A social aspirant alternately sells her soul and then refuses to deliver, and then dies poor.
Posted by caliban (Member # 11698) on :
Worthing Saga
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
Cal, I was thinking that, but I'm not sure if I'd call Worthing a "normal person"
Kath:
A) The Ring of the Nibelung? B) The Aeneid C) Frankenstein D) Faustus
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
B and C are correct.
A) The "aftermath" is a little kid. D) New York early 1900s society.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
A) Silas Marner
D) House of Mirth?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Yes, on both.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
Does this mean it's my turn to come up with the clues? I hope not because I am terrible at that sort of thing.
Posted by caliban (Member # 11698) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darth_Mauve: Cal, I was thinking that, but I'm not sure if I'd call Worthing a "normal person"
That's why I included the quotes. Even though he isn't normal to us, his progeny considered his minimal talent to be next to normal.
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
x) Man is terrorized by four ghost. He succumbs to the terror giving up half his business, practically kidnapping a young boy, and basically losing a small fortune.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
A Christmas Carol?
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
y) A man loses his best friend to some bad beef, so the man searches for immortality. Eventually he finds it, but loses it to a snake.
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
z) It wasn't really a game at all. (okay, this one's a gimme on this particular forum)
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
z) Ender's Game
y) I really have no idea.
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
Mrs. M, yes.
a) Midlife crisis results in man going crazy and, amongst other things, freeing prisoners, stealing basins from a barber, and physically assaulting an alternative energy installation.
b)Its just like "High School Musical" except no music and everyone dies in the end.
c) Its a road-trip where everyone tells different stories, but no one knows how it ends.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
a: Don Quixote b: Carrie? c: Canterbury Tales
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
H) Man progresses through different stages of intelligences, but it turns out babies just don't like nukes.
O) That vast empire loses its cool when corruption and sloth run rampant.
B1) He runs from the new weapon the whole book but in the end he finds it is fate.
B2) The Pastor did it.
E) They make it to Damascus finally, but little is actually gained.
S) It wasn't that much of a better thing, really.
Hobbes Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
O) The rise and fall of the Roman Empire B2) The poisonwood Bible?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
O) Yes B2) Nope, some of those hints are easier than others...
Hobbes Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
b2) The Scarlet Letter. (though the hint could be "The Pastor did her)
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Ha! Yes, that's right.
Hobbes Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
...the original number 2 sounds like a Chick Tract I once read for fun.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
R32) Dashing humanities PhD thwarts primitive cardiac surgeon and steals his huevos.
Fixed spelling, then changed to more appropriate word.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
H) 2001?
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
E is Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
She learns the meaning of life from her Aunt. You know, the one who works at the condom factory. Now, what letter were we on?
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darth_Mauve: y) A man loses his best friend to some bad beef, so the man searches for immortality. Eventually he finds it, but loses it to a snake.
Gilgamish?
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
quote:Poland succeeds in invading Denmark
Norway.
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
Kwea--yes. Gilgamesh.
Leonide--I though Fortenbra was a Polish prince. I'll have to double check.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
aka1) Two boys help their Papa and their Granny repeatedly outsmart the Union Army during the Civil War, but the South still loses.
aka2) Murder and robbery seem like a good idea in theory, but don't work out in practice. Luckily the murderer encounters an angelic harlot who rescues him from himself.
aka3) Four brothers with very different temperaments manage between them to off their sleazy dad.
aka4) Capitalist with intellectual tendencies teams up with a passionate working class foreman to lose a fortune mining lignite in Crete.
aka5) True love wins the day despite being thwarted by a fox-hunting father, various corrupt and lustful ladies, and the penniless state of our hero who fortunately ends up heir to a large estate. (No relation to the cheesy torch singer by the same name.)
aka6) A pair of destitute British sisters make a wish on the head of a gargoyle in the kitchen of their ancient castle home, and subsequently meet a pair of brothers from America. Drama ensues as the older sister, for money's sake, gets the wrong brother to fall for her, when she really loves the other one. Younger sister then falls for her sister's besotted fiance.
This is fun!
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I'm bending the rules, though. Mine are more like synopses than spoilers.
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lisa: See, my guess for #1 would have been Tommy. I guess it depends on your definition of "classic".
My reaction precisely.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I don't know any of the ones that remain unsolved (other than mine, of course).
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
quote:H) 2001?
Yes.
quote:E is Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
Yes again.
Hobbes Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Here is one:
Even though it is completely unrealistic, and most women would (and should) smack a guy like him IRL, they end up together.
and another:
They survive, and flourish, and find all sorts of animals that never existed together on the same continent....but they don't let actual facts screw up the story. Then they are rescued.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Kwea, is the second one a Robert Heinlein book or story? I remember something similar to that about some kids taking a survival course when the transporter messes up and they end up abandoned on a wilderness planet or something.
Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
quote:They survive, and flourish, and find all sorts of animals that never existed together on the same continent....but they don't let actual facts screw up the story. Then they are rescued.
Swiss family Robinson?
quote:Even though it is completely unrealistic, and most women would (and should) smack a guy like him IRL, they end up together.
Uh, like 4 out of 5 romcoms?
Posted by adenam (Member # 11902) on :
quote:aka2) Murder and robbery seem like a good idea in theory, but don't work out in practice. Luckily the murderer encounters an angelic harlot who rescues him from himself.
Crime and Punishment
Posted by adenam (Member # 11902) on :
quote:Even though it is completely unrealistic, and most women would (and should) smack a guy like him IRL, they end up together.
Twilight
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
Didn't we do this for movies once?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
quote:I don't know any of the ones that remain unsolved (other than mine, of course).
quote:B1) He runs from the new weapon the whole book but in the end he finds it is fate.
quote:S) It wasn't that much of a better thing, really.
These were definitely the hardest of my two clues. I don't know any of the ones still active (other than mine, of course).
Hobbes Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
afr1) The guy I'm trying to throw off a building is me.
afr2) He didn't want the promotion, but ended up running the company better than his dad.
afr3) Even if you've only got one trick, your opponent will fall for it if you make him expect more.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Adenam, C&P is correct for aka2. Good job!
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
afr2) The Godfather?
The first one sounds like Fight Club... but that's just a movie, right?
Hobbes Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
afr3) Harry Potter?
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Hobbes, right on both. Fight Club is a book as well. I hope I was close on what happens--it's been a while since I read it.
Fyfe, right.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Should I give more hints to me last two? They weren't that great and the first one is slightly obscure (otherwise it's a fine hint, the second one is very popular so I made a point of being clever about it but maybe I went over board...)
C) Don't marry for looks, but if he can afford your sister's wedding you 'ought to at least hear him out.
A) Fighting against yourself for the fate of a planet in a dimension you'll never visit can be quite explosive.
L) They broke his will, but if he actually died is still up for debate.
V) That train may never run again, but a new world of materialism awaits!
I) Three daughters is two too many.
N) Not much meat to speak of but it was a good looking skeleton.
Hobbes Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
"S) It wasn't that much of a better thing, really."
Animal Farm?
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
Wouldn't Animal Farm be---"Equality was ruined by those communist swine."
How about:
Rav)She talks all night, ruining the honeymoon and stopping the husband from performing his morning routine.
Ven)He travels through Heck to find his Beatrice.
Dar)With the Captain tied to his obsession, the hero sails away.
rth) "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"--Not!
Mau)You'd have to be crazy to understand this book. If you say you don't understand this book, its a sign that your nuts.
Uve) That stammering bookish nerd actually becomes the best emperor/God of the bunch.
Posted by scholarette (Member # 11540) on :
Dar- is that Moby Dick? Mau- Catch 22?
Posted by adenam (Member # 11902) on :
rth) Candide
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I) is this King Lear?
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Ven: Dante's Inferno?
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
Mucus--Correct Adenam--Correct Scholarette--Dar Correct Mau is also correct, but by being correct it does bring into question your sanity.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Uve is Mistborn.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
quote:"S) It wasn't that much of a better thing, really."
Animal Farm?
Nope.
quote:I) is this King Lear?
Yes.
Hobbes Posted by Mouette (Member # 12038) on :
aka6) A pair of destitute British sisters make a wish on the head of a gargoyle in the kitchen of their ancient castle home, and subsequently meet a pair of brothers from America. Drama ensues as the older sister, for money's sake, gets the wrong brother to fall for her, when she really loves the other one. Younger sister then falls for her sister's besotted fiance.
I Capture the Castle.
Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
quote:Even though it is completely unrealistic, and most women would (and should) smack a guy like him IRL, they end up together.
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