{"id":13569,"date":"2012-02-07T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T12:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13569"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:33:14","slug":"trivia-tuesday-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13569","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)<\/p>\n

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  1. What is the name of the woman whom Edgar Allan Poe’s narrator “loved with a love that was more than a love?”<\/li>\n
  2. In this dark fantasy by Fritz Leiber, Norman Saylor strains the limits of conjugal love when he learns that his own wife is a practicing sorceress.<\/li>\n
  3. What band performed the gothic love song “Temple of Love?”<\/li>\n
  4. In the Victorian-era “language of flowers,” which flower signified Eternal Love?
    \nA) Cypress
    \nB) Hydrangea
    \nC) Primrose
    \nD) Lobelia
    \nE) Marigold<\/li>\n
  5. What campy 1971 horror film starred Vincent Price as a disfigured man who uses methods based on the Ten Plagues of Egypt to exact revenge against the doctors who let his beloved wife die on the operating table?<\/li>\n
  6. What gothic novel involves the second Mrs. de Winter trying to fill the “perfect” first Mrs. de Winter’s shoes?<\/li>\n
  7. In Dracula<\/i>, Lucy Westenra receives marriage proposals from three men, one of whom helps Jonathan Harker dispatch the Count at the end of the novel. Name him.<\/li>\n
  8. The spurned Lady Caroline Lamb characterized this Romantic poet as “mad, bad and dangerous to know.”<\/li>\n
  9. “Isabella, or the Pot of Basil” is a poem by John Keats about a woman who plants her deceased lover’s head in a pot of basil, which she tends obsessively. It was adapted from a story in what work?
    \nA) The Canterbury Tales
    \nB) One Thousand and One Nights
    \nC) The Iliad
    \nD) Piers Plowman
    \nE) The Decameron<\/li>\n
  10. What 2004 Swedish film centers on the relationship between a 12-year-old boy named Oskar and a centuries-old vampire child named Eli?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Answers below the fold)<\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

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    1. Annabel Lee<\/li>\n
    2. Conjure Wife<\/i><\/li>\n
    3. Sisters of Mercy<\/li>\n
    4. C) Primrose<\/li>\n
    5. The Abominable Dr. Phibes<\/i><\/li>\n
    6. Rebecca<\/i>, by Daphne du Maurier.<\/li>\n
    7. Quincey Morris<\/li>\n
    8. Lord Byron<\/li>\n
    9. E) The Decameron<\/li>\n
    10. Let the Right One In<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.) What is the name of the woman whom Edgar Allan Poe’s narrator “loved with a love that was more than a love?” In this dark fantasy by Fritz Leiber, Norman Saylor strains the limits of conjugal love when he learns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13569"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13576,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions\/13576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}