We are back this week, to give you a NEW quiz, featuring couples in literature!
Each clue will give you the name of one person in the couple. Your job is to name the OTHER member of the couple. Lookups ARE allowed this time, so we encourage detail! :-)
The quiz will close Wednesday, around noon, and sometime later we will post the answers and announce the winner IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST.
Luv,
Princesses Jami & Jana
And now......
*drum roll*
The quiz!
Couples in Books:
1. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov & ___________ ___________ _____________
Hint: Russian protagonist murders an old pawnbroker and her lovely niece, finds salvation and love through relationship with pious prostitute.
2. Edward Rochester & __________ , __________
Hint: Poor Mr. Rochester! All he wanted was to love and be loved, and instead found himself blinded after a former "love" set fire to his house. He is later reunited with the love of his life, and his sight is restored. Awwwww....
3. Scarlett O'Hara & _________ , _________ , ________
Hint: Southern belle's world is torn apart by civil war. She marries three men. One for revenge, one for money and the other to answer to her heart's longing. And also for money. Fiddle-dee-dee!
Bonus: Which pairing caused this feisty heroine to marry her brother-in-law out of spite?
4. Radcliffe Emerson & __________
Hint: This British couple and their family scour the Egyptian desert each year in search of finds of great archeological importance, and of course the occasional mystery!
5. Which of the Little Women grew up to marry the following men?
John Brooke & ____________
Theodore "Laurie" Laurence & ___________
Friedrich "Fritz" Bhaer & ____________
6. Ingrid Magnussen & __________
Hint: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" came true for this couple, after this man convinced Ingrid to love him, and then left her. Don't worry, she got him back... OH did she get him back!!!!! *evil laugh*
7. Janie Crawford & __________ , ___________ , _________
Opinionated black woman of the early 1900's wishes to marry for love, and finally does find a passionate, though short-lived marriage of romance. "Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place". Name all three of her husbands.
8. Kay Scarpetta & __________
Hint: FBI Agent who dated our very favorite medical examiner. Perished in a terrible explosion... or did he?
9. F.Scott Fitzgerald's most famous American classic novel features James Gatz, AKA Jay ______, who pursues ________ ___________, who is married to _______ _________, who is in an affair with __________ __________, married to __________ ____________. "a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock."
Bonus: Name the narrator and his brief love interest in this story. "It takes two to make an accident...so we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
10. Adam Trask & __________
Hint: This is one SCARY woman! Starting her life out by burning down her home and family, she later meets Adam, has twin boys, shoots Adam... then abandons her sons to become a prostitute! I'd hate to see the therapy bill for HER sons!!!
5 comments:
1. Sonia Semyonovna Marmeladova,
2. Bertha, his first wife and Jane Eyre
3. to upset and startle those around her, she married Cahrles Hamilton, and for financial security and betterment, she married both Frank Kennedy and Rhett Butler
4. Amelia Peabody
5. John Brooke & Meg
Theodore "Laurie" Laurence & Amy
Friedrich "Fritz" Bhaer & Jo
6. Barry Kolker
7. Logan Killicks
Joe Starks
Tea Cake Woods
8. Wesley Benton
9. F.Scott Fitzgerald's most famous American classic novel features James Gatz, AKA Jay GATSBY, who pursues DAISY, who is married to TOM BUCHANAN, who is in an affair with MYRTLE WILSON, married to GEORGE WILSON. "a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock."
NB made the answers capitals to make it easier ofr you Jana
Bonus
Nick Carraway
Daisy
10. Alice Trask
1. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov & Sonia Semyonovna Marmeladova
2. Edward Rochester & Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason-Rochester
Jana are you watching the new version on BBC? It is more saucy than the original.
3. Scarlett O'Hara & Ashley Wilkes , Rhett Butler , Charles Hamilton
Bonus: Which pairing caused this feisty heroine to marry her brother-in-law out of spite? Beats me...
4. Radcliffe Emerson & Amelia Peabody
5. Which of the Little Women grew up to marry the following men?
John Brooke & Meg March?
Theodore "Laurie" Laurence & Amy March
Friedrich "Fritz" Bhaer & Jo March
7. Janie Crawford & Loga , Joe , Tea Cake
8. Kay Scarpetta & Benton Wesley.
I used to love her books, but the language got progressively worse and I got ticked off when she killed Benton.
9. F.Scott Fitzgerald's most famous American classic novel features James Gatz, AKA Jay They Great Gatzby, who pursues Daisy, who is married to Tom _________, who is in an affair with __________ __________, married to __________ ____________. "a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock."
Bonus: Name the narrator and his brief love interest in this story. "It takes two to make an accident...so we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight." Ahhh!! No idea!
10. Adam Trask & Cathy Ames
Not a single clue on any of these. How pathetic is that?
It's all right, Amy. You can look them up. There's still time! :-)
How did we do?
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