Trivia Tuesday
(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 that his own wife is a practicing sorceress.
- What band performed the gothic love song “Temple of Love?”
- In the Victorian-era “language of flowers,” which flower signified Eternal Love?
A) Cypress
B) Hydrangea
C) Primrose
D) Lobelia
E) Marigold - 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?
- What gothic novel involves the second Mrs. de Winter trying to fill the “perfect” first Mrs. de Winter’s shoes?
- In Dracula, 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.
- The spurned Lady Caroline Lamb characterized this Romantic poet as “mad, bad and dangerous to know.”
- “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?
A) The Canterbury Tales
B) One Thousand and One Nights
C) The Iliad
D) Piers Plowman
E) The Decameron - What 2004 Swedish film centers on the relationship between a 12-year-old boy named Oskar and a centuries-old vampire child named Eli?
(Answers below the fold)
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