Answers to Love Quiz
Hi All,
Here are the answers and scores to the "Love Quiz" posted around Valentine's day.Apologies for the "long delay"(an understatement i guess :)).
The quiz mostly revolves around interesting love stories-fictional and real. These, honestly, aren’t the best love stories that I’d pick, but they sure are well known or pretty interesting. (At least, I hope so!!). People who sent in their attempts would have received a copy of the answers within a day. Received about 40 replies which is very satisfying.Some people sportingly admitted to googling while some chose to do it silently. No offence, as the idea of quizzing, i guess is to read up some new stuff based on the questions we hear.
Regards,
Manjith
1. At the age of 12, he went to stay with his maternal uncle in Clarksville, Missouri, to continue his education. He impressed the coach with his archery skills and soon excelled in other sports as well. One evening, when he was on his way to class, he got the news that a ferocious panther had escaped the zoo. He tracked the animal to a girls school and killed it with an arrow just as it was about to attack a girl. Thus began an enduring romance between the boy and the girl. Well…Who met whom?
A: Phantom meets Diana Palmer.
2. Sir Clifford was wounded in the First World War and became paralyzed from waist down. His wife Connie Reid fell into loneliness and finally found solace in the hands of the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors, thus leading to a passionate affair. How do we better know Connie Reid?
A: Connie Reid is better known as Constance Chatterley. The book is “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D.H.lawrance
3. Claude Frollo, the arch-deacon, uses his faithful servant X to kidnap the gypsy girl Y, with whom he has fallen in love. The plan gets foiled and X gets arrested. Y shows great consideration towards X and wins his affection. Later the girl Y got framed by Frollo in a case involving attempted murder and is hanged by the court. X, who had tried desperately to save the girl, is struck by grief and throws Frollo down from the cathedral. After killing his mentor, he entombs himself with the girl’s dead body. Identify X and Y.
A: Quasimodo and Esmeralda in “The Hunchback of Notredame”
4. Dr. Juvenal Urbino, fell to his death while trying to retrieve his parrot from a tree top. On the night after his funeral, Fermina Daza, his aged wife, is taken aback when she is visted by Florentino Ariza, her lover from fifty years ago. A romance that started half a century finally had come back to exert itself. Which memorable book?
A: “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Spanish names should have got people started.
5. Oliver Barrett IV, a Harvard student and the scion of a wealthy upper class family falls in love with Jennifer Cavalleri, a music student of ordinary background. Which celebrated novel of our times? (Pretty Simple, I admit. But a quiz on love may not be complete without this one!)
A: Love Story by Eric Segal. The mother of all romance stories!
6. Lt. Frederick Henry, an American by nationality, serves as ambulance driver in the Italian army during WWI. He falls in love with a British nurse, Catharine Barkley, while recuperating from a mortar wound in the hospital. He decides to take her away from all the madness of war. But fate intervenes and Catharine dies while they were on their way to neutral Switzerland. Identify the fascinating work in the backdrop of the war, penned by a renowned author who himself served in a similar position during the war.
A: “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway. “Ambulance driver” and “madness of war” should have got you to the right answer.
7. He was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. After the death of his parents, he wandered around the world, visiting places like Los Angeles and Paris as an artist. Won a game with his friend Fabrizio, before embarking on a memorable trip.
She was engaged to steel tycoon Nathan Caledon Hockley, giving up her dreams so that she and her mother could escape their financial troubles. She later escaped from Hockley and married a man named Calvert before settling down in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Where did “He” and “She” meet each other and have a brief fling?
A: The Titanic. We are talking about Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater :).
8. Edvige Antonia Albina Maino attended a certificate course in English at The Bell Educational Trust's language school in the city of Cambridge. There, she met her future husband who was studying at Trinity College, Cambridge. Her marriage to him in 1968 took her life on a course that would later see her being named as the ” Third most powerful woman in the world” by the Forbes magazine in 2004. Identify the couple.
A: Sonia Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
9. She was the daughter of King Carl and Queen Isabella of Cockaigne. She was driven out of her country along with her brother by a secret plot made by the evil Hawk. In Alexandria, she used her servants to attack a stranger mistaking him to be Hawk. Later she falls in love with this stranger and they have many adventures together. She renounced her throne to marry him and they finally tied the knot in 1997 or ’98 in a triple wedding ceremony at her kingdom, his father’s “institution” and his house. Which celebrated pair?
A: Narda and Mandrake. The “institution” is of course “Collegium Magicox” run by Theron.
10. This one’s on forbidden love. ‘A’ was a scholar of literature who rented a room in Ramsdale and ended up marrying his house owner named Charlotte. He fell in love with ‘B’, with whom he had an obsessive relationship. ‘B’ escaped from his clutches with the help of a man named Clare Quilty. When Quilty, her lover, tried to force her to act in indecent movies, she escaped from him and married Mr. Richard Schiller. She died during child birth at the age of 17. ‘A’ murdered Quilty and ended up in prison where he wrote the book titled “B” or “The Confessions of a White Widowed Male”. Identify just B.
A: Lolita.
11. Ma Tint Tint, an active member of the YWCA in Rangoon invited this foreign diplomat, a former student of political science at the London School of Economics, to speak to her friends about political freedom. The relationship grew and she ended up marrying him in June 1951. Who was “he”?
A: K. R. Narayanan. “Ma Tint Tint” later became Mrs. Usha Narayanan!
12. She performed as a contralto in La Scala, Milan and as a prima donna in in the Imperial Opera of Warsaw, Poland before retiring in her mid twenties and settling in England. She later married Godfrey Norton. She became famous after Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and hereditary king of a country, paid a visit to a certain man, asking him to retrieve a photograph from her possession. Who is this woman? Or should I say “The Woman”!
A: Irene Adler, or “The Woman” as per Sherlock Holmes.
13. His adopted name was Erik. He had a hideously deformed figure but was an expert illusionist and singer, who at one time even served as an architect to the Shah of Iran. He also helped in the building of the “Palais Garnier” where he fell in love with a singer named Christine Daae whom he had tutored. How do we better know Erik?
A: The Phantom of the Opera. The “Palais Garnier” is the
14. In a letter to her sister Gretl, She later wrote about the meeting:
"I had stayed after closing time to straighten up several things and was standing on the ladder putting something away on the top shelf. Then I heard the door open and saw the boss come in with a somewhat older man carrying a felt hat in his hand. I tried to watch them without their noticing ... When I came down off the ladder the boss introduced us. He said: Mr. Wolff, this is our little Miss ___. Then Hoffmann (her boss) sent me out to get some beer and sausages from the corner pub."
She soon became his companion and they were together till death.
How do we better know this Mr. Wolff?
A: Adolf Hitler. The lady was Eva Braun. Mr. Wolff was one of his aliases while hiding.
15. In mythology, who/what was retrieved by invoking “The Oath of Tyndareus”?This being a love quiz, we can't forget the great conflicts centred on love.
A: Helen of
Scores:
Rajesh Mohan-6.5
Rahul Girish Kumar-15
Devadas Krishnan-13.5
Jacob Dijo- Chose not to answer. Thanks for the comment!
Rajashekhar R-12
Shyam Shekhar Menon-3.5
Bijo George-7
Nupur Maskara-1
Suman Mondal-5
Anurag Gupta-15
Thiagarajan Munusami-12
Praveen V R-13
Atul V Nath-6
Shafeek M K-11
Jeevan D-15
Pranav Kukreja-4
Bildebej-15
Suraj V Kumar-12
Mayukh Bose-7
Anurag Singh-7
Hrishi Varma-6
Amitabha Joarder-15
Harikrishnan Nair-7
Ajith Prasad-5
Ashok-12
Prasanth Kumar-14
Biju James-8.5
Nirupa Somasundaram-10
Haynes M G-12.5
Ravi Ananthan-9
Nivedita Kashyap-12
Anil Raghavan-12
D K Bose-9
Nirmal Joy-12
Vijayanath Vishwanath-11.5
Rajimuth-14
Tirthankar Chakravarty-12
Abid E.H.-8
Arijit Mukhopadhyay-13
Senthil_OR-1
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