Archive for June 10, 2008

Tuesday Trivia – All Solved

No difficult ones this week, apparently.

  1. Dashiell Hammett, Somerset Maugham, Fyodor Dostoevsky – Peter Lorre (The Maltese Falcon, The Secret Agent, Crime & Punishment) – solved by Maurinsky
  2. Jane Austen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leo Tolstoy – Maureen O’Sullivan (Pride & Prejudice, various Tarzan movies, Anna Karenina) – solved by Melville
  3. Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Lawrence Sterne – Gillian Anderson (Bleak House, House of Mirth, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) – solved by Hogan
  4. Charles Dodgson, Ernest Hemingway, John O’Hara – Gary Cooper (Alice in Wonderland, A Farewell to Arms or For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ten North Frederick) – solved by Melville
  5. Steven King, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler – Lauren Bacall (Misery, The Confidential Agent, The Big Sleep) – solved by Hogan
  6. Philip K. Dick, Robert Howard, August Strindberg (and Ian Fleming) – Max von Sydow (Minority Report, Conan the Barbarian, Miss Julie (and Never Say Never Again) – solved by Melville (extra credit question solved by Hogan, in a comment that got moderated out, and Melville)
  7. Samuel Clemens, William Thackeray, John Steinbeck – Myrna Loy (A Connecticut Yankee, Vanity Fair, The Red Pony) – solved by Melville

Tuesday Trivia: This Time, It’s Literary

It has been said that movies and literature go together like bananas and sardines1; that banana/sardine synergy is the subject of this week’s Tuesday Trivia quiz. Your task is to identify an actor who has appeared in adaptations of the work of all three listed authors; for example, if I gave you Tom Robbins, William Gibson, and William Shakespeare, you might answer Keanu Reeves (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Johnny Mnemonic, and Much Ado About Nothing or My Own Private Idaho). For extra credit: one of the actors I have in mind also appears in the work of a fourth (unnamed) author (who should be very familiar to Deborah’s readers).

Get it? Got it. Good.

  1. Dashiell Hammett, Somerset Maugham, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    [solved by Maurinsky, comment #6]
  2. Jane Austen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leo Tolstoy
    [solved by Melville, comment #1]
  3. Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Lawrence Sterne
    [solved by Hogan, comment #3]
  4. Charles Dodgson, Ernest Hemingway, John O’Hara
    [solved by Melville, comment #8]
  5. Steven King, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler
    [solved by Hogan, comment #10]
  6. Philip K. Dick, Robert Howard, August Strindberg
    [solved by Melville, comment #2]
  7. Samuel Clemens, William Thackeray, John Steinbeck
    [solved by Melville, comment #13]

Note: I have one person in mind for each of these, but if you identify someone else who qualifies you will of course get full credit (and the question will remain open).

1I just said it, so it has in fact been said.