Tuesday Trivia

Match each literary character below with his star-crossed lover:

Lancelot, Tristan, Pedro Muzquiz, Popocatépetl, Troilus, James Gatz, Maurice Bendrix, George, Tea Cake, Jude Fawley, Narcissus, Philip Pirrip, Robert Lebrun, Maurice Hall

• Isolde (Any set of even-older-than-King-Arthur tales)


• Guinevere (Any set of King Arthur tales)


• Estella Havisham (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations)


• Daisy Fay (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)


• Criseyde (Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida)


• Susanna Bridehead (Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure)


• Edna Pontellier (Kate Chopin, The Awakening)


• Alec Scudder (E. M. Forster, Maurice)


• Sarah Miles (Graham Green, The End of the Affair)


• Ellen Weatherall (Katherine Ann Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall")


• Janie Crawford (Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God)


• Echo


• Josefita De La Garza (Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate)


• Iztaccíhuatl (Aztec Myth)

Last Week's Answers



What are the four things that Ernest Hemingway once wrote that a man must do to demonstrate his manhood?


Plant a tree, fight a bull, write a book, and have a son.




Where did mystery writer Agatha Christie acquire her extensive knowledge of poisons?


Christie worked in a hospital dispensary during World War I




What famous writer made the first written reference to tennis in English literature?



In 1380, Geoffery Chaucer wrote of "playen racket to and fro " in Troilus and Criseyde.



Where does the book Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald get its name?



The title comes from Keats' poem “Ode to a Nightingale.”



Which British poet had an “M” for “murderer” branded on his left thumb?



Ben Jonson was branded as part of his punishment for killing an actor in a duel in 1598.