Monday's Quiz Answers!

Thanks to all who participated in Monday's Stupendous Quotes Quiz!

And the winner is....

*drum roll*

ELIZA!!!!! Eliza blogs at The Wings of the Morning, and she did an AWESOME job of guessing the answers.

Eliza, please e-mail Jami or I to claim your "prize".

And now, here are our answers:

#1 "...he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."

Answer: Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights/Emily Brontë - Emily Brontë's dark novel explores what happens after Catherine Earnshaw refuses to marry the brooding Heathcliff, even though he is her equal in nearly every way, except he is lower class. His bitter revenge propels the story. There's madness, pain and unrequited love in abundance. Then...a happy ending?

#2 "he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immoliation"

Answer: The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allen Poe - This is a short story in which a man seeks revenge for the "thousand injuries of Fortunato" Jana says: "Ever been bullied? This story will make you feel warm & fuzzy inside!"

#3 "Life is real! Haven't I lived just now? My life has not yet died with that old woman! The Kingdom of Heaven to her-and now enough, madam, leave me in peace!"

Answer: Crime & Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Russian philosopher, tormented by his murderous acts, falls dangerously ill, is redeemed by relationship with pious prostitute who leads him to God. Jami says: "What I like best is the exploration of guilt suffered by Raskolnikov, because he believed that he had perfectly excellent reasons for killing the old hag and therefore would not suffer for it. More than 100 years later, the book is socially relevant!"

#4 "That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs."

Answer: Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery's irrepressible Canadian red-headed heroine, beloved by many generations of girls. Anne is a chatty orphan girl, beset by numerous adventures and mini-catastrophes. Jami says: "It's her klutzy moments that I identify with, best."

#5 "I have only one thing to say to you, sir … if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"

Answer: Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson - Rip-roaring tale of young Jim Hawkins and his adventure with pirates and strange characters, like Ben Gunn (on Treasure Island) and drunkard Billy Bones, to whom this rum quote is directed. Jami says: "There's plenty of swashbuckling action and suspense in this fun, sometimes gruesome, story. There's even a treasure map! Ahoy!"

#6 "How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved. He doesn't realize that I was a person before I came here."

Answer: Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes - A mentally challenged man's journey into the world of a genius ends as he regresses to his original state.

#7 "You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

Answer: A Christmas Carol/Charles Dickens - Grumpy miser Ebenezer Scrooge experiences four ghostly visitors in this Dickens Christmas-time classic. First, his old business partner creeps him out, then the three ghosts of Christmas stop by: Christmas Past, Present and Yet-to-Come. This last unwelcome spectre so frightens Mr. Scrooge that he completely mends his anti-social ways, and lives a pleasant ghost-free life 'til the end of his days. Jami says:"I find that this story is creepier read than seen."

#8 "Grendel's mother,monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs. She had been forced down into fearful waters, he cold depths, after Cain had killed .his father's son, felled his own brother with a sword."

Answer: Beowulf, Author unknown - Ancient epic warrior vs. scary man-eating monster guy!

# 9 "This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

Answer: Hamlet, William Shakespeare - After the King of Denmark's death by poisoning, Prince Hamlet discovers that his uncle is at the root of the murder plot and that his own princely life is in danger. Also, his sister Ophelia goes mad and drowns under suspicious circumstances. Other quotes attributed to this Shakespearean play include "The play's the thing", "Get thee to a nunnery", "Ah, Yorick, I knew him well", "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" and "To be, or not to be". So, you practically know the whole thing, already! Go read it!

#10 "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."

Answer: The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde - This hilarious story, which is the basis for a movie Leti & Jana both love, involves a tormented ghost, an innocent girl, and a horrible curse. Jana says: "The book is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much funnier than the movie, and not nearly as sappy."