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 > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, >digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html