[lit-ideas] Re: Fictional characters

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 23:57:52 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

Since I'm not winning anything anyway, how about:

2. Dante

4. Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses 

7. Michael Furey in The Dead

9. Penelope waited 20 years for Odysseus.  



-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jan 2, 2007 11:31 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Fictional characters
>
>A quiz about fictional characters. There are no prizes, only timé and  
>areté for those who identify seven or more.
>
>1. Who was 'terribly fond of turbot'?
>
>2. Whose spirit appeared in George F. Babbitt's parlor?
>
>3. Who was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton?
>
>4. Who ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls?
>
>5.'Reader, I married him.' Who was she and whom did she marry?
>
>6. Who, perhaps, had been his competition?
>
>7. Who was buried in 'the lonely churchyard on the hill'?
>
>8. Who is said to have 'a very satirical eye'?
>
>9. Who waited twenty years for whom, and died upon his return?
>
>10. Who said, 'I do my own leg work, and there are a lot of guys who  
>will tell me what I want to know because they know what I'll do to  
>them if they
>don't.'?
>
>11. X took Y from Z, causing Z to sulk until the death of W. Who was Y?
>-----------
>Robert Paul
>Mutton College
>
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