Fictional Characters Flashcards
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The first words he ever spoke to his assistant were “How are you?… You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive”
Sherlock Holmes
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Stieg Larsson created the girl with the dragon tattoo by imagining this fictional Swedish girl as an adult
Pippi Longstocking
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick’s neighbor is this wealthy title bootlegger
Gatsby
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This inhabitant of 221B Baker Street had been a surgeon in the British army
Dr. Watson
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mrs. Danvers is Maxim de Winter’s sinister housekeeper at Manderley in this novel by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Rhett Butler has a long-term affair with this Atlanta prostitute
Belle Watling
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a Melville work, Billy Budd’s last words are “God bless” this captain
Captain Vere
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This character, created in Europe in the 19th c., has a name that can be translated as “eye of pine”
Pinocchio
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a play, Blanche DuBois visits this sister in New Orleans
Stella
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Scout’s brother in “To Kill a Mockingbird” is Jeremy, better known by this nickname
Jem
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Title nickname of Harry Angstrom, a character in several of John Updike’s novels
Rabbit
$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The title of this Dumas novel, the last adventure of the 3 Musketeers, refers to a mysterious Bastille prisoner
the Man in the Iron Mask
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Created by Charles Portis, this U.S. Marshal helps 14-year-old Mattie Ross track her father’s killer
Rooster Cogburn
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Lemuel is the first name of this doctor & adventurer who set off on his travels in 1699
Gulliver
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This unhappy salesman has sons named Biff & Happy
Willy Loman
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| At the end of this Ibsen play, Nora Helmer claims her independence & walks out on her family
A Doll’s House
$4000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Chronicles of Narnia”, this nephew of the evil King Miraz is the rightful heir to the throne
Prince Caspian
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the professor of symbology who is the protagonist of “The Da Vinci Code” & “Angels & Demons”
Robert Langdon
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| What a happy ending: this title orphan of a Dickens novel is adopted by Mr. Brownlow
Oliver Twist
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This character in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper
the Headless Horseman
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She is the narrator of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Scout
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| 2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story
McBoing-Boing
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a story by Rudyard Kipling, this mongoose protects an English family from snakes
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, Lucy peers into an old wardrobe & discovers this magical land
Narnia
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Snipp, Snapp & Snurr, who star in a series of books, are brothers from this Scandinavian country
Sweden
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In the Grimm tale “The 12 Dancing Princesses”, 12 sisters dance so much that they wear out these every night
their shoes
$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This orphan befriends a goatherd named Peter when she’s sent to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps
Heidi
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She’s the title heroine “Of Green Gables” in a classic 1908 book
Anne
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Spoiler alert: This March sister dies in “Little Women”
Beth
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This E.B. White character slept in a tiny bed made of “four clothespins and a cigarette box”
Stuart Little
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy lived with Aunt Em & this uncle, a farmer
Uncle Henry
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| On Oct. 2, 1872 he & his servant leave London in an attempt to go around the world in 80 days
Phileas Fogg
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Playwright Clare Quilty is Humbert’s rival for the love of this girl
Lolita
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the character mentioned in the first line of “Atlas Shrugged”
John Galt
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He first appeared in Kipling’s 1892 story “In the Rukh” as an adult who now & then refers to his very odd childhood
Mowgli
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In book titles, this inquisitive monkey “Visits the Library”, “Goes to the Beach” & “Goes to a Costume Party”
Curious George
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Please look after <a>this</a> bear from Darkest Peru, thank you
Paddington Bear
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title girl lives at a convent school in Paris; she has her appendix out in the first story about her
Madeline
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The book about this title stuffed hare is subtitled “How Toys Become Real”
the Velveteen Rabbit
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Alice in Wonderland”, it “vanished quite slowly… ending with the grin, which remained some time”
Cheshire Cat
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s Huck Finn’s African-American raftmate
Jim
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Henry James’ Isabel Archer gets some European culture, so her story can be called “The Portrait of” this
a Lady
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Capote woman is introduced wearing pearls; “It’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re forty”
Holly Golightly
$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Jocasta has 2 sons (or are they grandsons?), Eteocles & Polynices, with this man
Oedipus Rex
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Johann & Gotthold are 2 of the Buddenbrooks, the title family in a novel by this German author
Thomas Mann
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Fellowship of the Ring”, Gandalf warns this young hobbit to “keep” the ring “safe, and keep it secret!”
Frodo
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The middle name of this funny “First Grader” is Beatrice, but she just likes to use the initial B. & that’s all
Junie B. Jones
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Little Women”, she’s the tomboy among the 4 March sisters
Jo
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Major Major Major is a major character in this book
Catch-22
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Floral first name of Henry James’ Miller & F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Buchanan
Daisy
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Benjamin Suddlechop & Sweeney Todd operated barber shops on this street
Fleet (Street)
$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title James Hilton character taught classics at Brookfield School
Mr. Chips
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Zenobia Pierce is the wife & cousin of this Edith Wharton title character
Ethan Frome
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 24-book work Homer chronicled his journey home
Odysseus
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A plot twist in an Oscar Wilde play hinges on her fan
Lady Windermere
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Relationship of J.D. Salinger’s Franny & Zooey
siblings
$1600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Sister of Stepan Oblonsky, she’s a Tolstoy title lady
Anna Karenina
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew manipulates some ball bearings in the palm of one hand.</a>) He’s the 1951 novel character whose constant habit I’m imitating
Captain Queeg
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a last-minute change in his manuscript, Charles Dickens renamed Little Fred this
Tiny Tim
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In works written about 300 years apart, Nick Bottom & Pinocchio find themselves transformed into these
donkeys
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A Nagasaki geisha who had a child with a man named Glover was the model for this title character
Madame Butterfly
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, he’s the reclusive owner of the factory
Willy Wonka
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He pretty much stopped treating people after his parrot Polynesia taught him how to talk to animals
Dr. Dolittle
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Robinson Crusoe gave this name to a native he saved from cannibals on a certain day of the week
Friday
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 2001 tale by Alice Hoffman, Aquamarine is a beautiful & brokenhearted one of these creatures
a mermaid
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Jack Stanton, the governor of a Southern state, was a leading character in this 1996 roman a clef by “Anonymous”
“Primary Colors”
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This author’s 7 Glass children, including Franny & Zooey, were on the radio quiz show “It’s a Wise Child”
J.D. Salinger
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 1972 book, Hunter S. Thompson sent Raoul Duke & Dr. Gonzo to this city to cover the Mint 400 race
Las Vegas
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the Winston Groom title character who had an IQ near 70
“Forrest Gump”
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The politics in Prague turn Tomas from medicine to washing windows in this conundrum from Kundera
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Character from an 18th century tale who felt “Above an hundred arrows discharged on my left hand”
Gulliver
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A 1965 novel by this author introduced his alter ego, sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Virgil’s “Aeneid” begins after Aeneas & his family escape this war-torn city
Troy
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Any one of the Brothers Karamazov (hint: one isn’t so “terrible”)
Alexei (or Dmitri or Ivan)
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Oliver Twist”, Bill Sikes is an accomplice of this gang leader
Fagin
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This 1816 Jane Austen title character is “of no feeble character”
Emma
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the title husband of Mrs. Persis Lapham
Silas Lapham
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 1963 book this character found out his family motto in Latin would be “Orbis Non Sufficit”
James Bond ("The World Is Not Enough")
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title character’s sister Gretel wins the silver skates (so why isn’t the book named for her?)
Hans Brinker
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In stories by J.D. Salinger, Franny Glass’ brother Zachary is better known by this nickname
Zooey
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| 4-letter name shared by a character in Dickens’ “Bleak House” & a Jules Verne captain
Nemo
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a Dostoyevsky novel, it’s the “silly” title nickname of Prince Myshkin, whose love for 2 women leads to tragedy
“The Idiot”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Absalom! Absalom!”, it’s the “mythological” name of Thomas Stupen’s daughter, known as Clytie for short
Clytemnestra
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Title hero whose boarding school’s motto is “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus”, “Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon”
Harry Potter
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Interview with the Vampire”, Louis tells a reporter of his initiation into the world of the undead by this vampire
Lestat
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Count Vronsky & the husband of this title character have the same first name: Alexey
“Anna Karenina”
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Constance Reid is the maiden name of this character mentioned in the title of a D.H. Lawrence novel
Lady Chatterley
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Migrant ranch hands Lennie & George dream of buying a farm in this Steinbeck work
“Of Mice and Men”
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In this Edith Wharton novel, Newland Archer marries May Welland but is tempted by Ellen Olenska
“The Age of Innocence”
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He also created Bridget, a wife for his Poor Richard Saunders
Benjamin Franklin
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Cat’s Cradle” his Felix Hoenikker creates Ice-Nine, a substance that can freeze the world solid
Kurt Vonnegut
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He based Nora Charles of “The Thin Man” on his friend Lillian Hellman
Dashiell Hammett
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Nickname of British fictional hero Hugh Drummond
“Bulldog”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Old Bailey legal eagle who’s been the subject of many a John Mortimer tale
Rumpole
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A 1993 anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction is titled this character “is Dead”
Charlie Chan
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Agatha Christie’s mysteries solved by this detective were often chronicled by his sidekick Arthur Hastings
Hercule Poirot
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| At the end of “Crime And Punishment”, he is serving an 8-year term for murdering an old woman
Raskalnikov
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Producer Irving Thalberg was the model for Monroe Stahr, the title character of this Fitzgerald novel
The Last Tycoon
$900 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title character is missing in the unintentionally last chapter of a Dickens mystery
Edwin Drood
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Tom & Maggie Tulliver’s epitaph, “In their death they were not divided”, ends this George Eliot book
The Mill On The Floss
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Get too close to this beloved of Quasimodo & he might just ring your bell
Esmeralda
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He & his dog Wolf were hunting squirrels in the Catskills when he fell asleep
Rip Van Winkle
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Vanity Fair” Sir Pitt Crawley proposes to her but she’s already secretly married to his son Rawdon
Becky Sharp
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Last name of Soames & Irene, the 2 principal characters in John Galsworthy’s 3 novel “saga”
Forsyte
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Roxane married Christian de Neuvillette not knowing his love letters were written by this poet & soldier
Cyrano de Bergerac
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Hardy hero may be “obscure” but he does have a last name: Fawley
Jude
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Colette heroine is the granddaughter of a courtesan, who trains her to continue the family tradition
Gigi
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Maggie & Tom Tulliver are the children of a miller in her 1860 novel “The Mill on the Floss”
George Eliot
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This title Defoe heroine has many misfortunes, including marrying her own brother by mistake
Moll Flanders
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “I have not a fault to find with her person”, says Mr. Knightley, of this Jane Austen heroine
Emma (Wodehouse)
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Grapes of Wrath”, this matriarch says, “All we got is the family unbroke”
Ma Joad
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Sherlock Holmes described this foe as the “Napoleon of Crime”
Professor Moriarty
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He told Brigid O’Shaughnessy, “I’m going to send you over.” The chances are you’ll get off with life”
Sam Spade (in “The Maltese Falcon”)
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley plays around with a playwright as well as this gamekeeper
Oliver Mellors
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Thackeray character is the orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera girl
Becky Sharp (in “Vaniity Fair”)
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| As this Stephen Crane novel opens, Henry Fleming looks forward to proving himself in battle
The Red Badge Of Courage
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Alice Walker novel tells Celie’s story through letters she writes to God & her sister
The Color Purple
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A literary critic & a poet are rescued at sea by ruthless Capt. Larsen in this Jack London classic
The Sea Wolf
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In this novel, Carson McCullers’ first, townspeople confide in John Singer, a deaf-mute
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Harvey Birch runs sneaky errands for George Washington in this James Fenimore Cooper novel
The Spy
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mickey Spillane’s 1996 novel “Black Alley” is the first to feature this detective in 7 years
Mike Hammer
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Della & Jim Young are the impoverished couple of his 1906 short story “The Gift Of The Magi”
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Jake Barnes & Robert Cohn vie for the affection of Lady Brett Ashley in this Hemingway novel
The Sun Also Rises
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This shy officer in “Catch-22” was “promoted by an I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor”
Major Major
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This protagonist of a Virginia Woolf novel changes from man to woman through 4 centuries
Orlando
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The World According To” this character, he’s killed by Pooh Percy
Garp
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Stingo narrates this 1979 William Styron book
“Sophie’s Choice”
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Twain hero’s feminine disguise fails after he can’t remember if his name is Mary or Sarah
Huckleberry Finn
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Thomas Berger book is the reminiscences of Jack Crabb, a survivor of Little Big Horn
“Little Big Man”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Ulysses” Marion Tweedy Bloom is better known by this nickname
Molly
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The title character in this classic came into the world as James Gatz
“The Great Gatsby”
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She started sleuthing in 1930 & in 1991 solved her 100th mystery
Nancy Drew
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Arkady Renko, a Moscow investigator in this author’s “Gorky Park”, becomes a seaman in “Polar Star”
Martin Cruz Smith
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “Treasure” & “Raise The Titanic” by this author feature salvage expert Dirk Pitt
Clive Cussler
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She had “Great Expectations” until she was jilted on her wedding day
Miss Havisham
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”, he & the Mad Hatter host the Mad Tea Party
The March Hare
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| It’s the nickname of Jack Dawkins, the young pickpocket in “Oliver Twist”
The Artful Dodger
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She married Christian de Neuvillette but it was Cyrano de Bergerac’s poetry that she really loved
Roxanne
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In plot “The Deerslayer” is chronologically the first of 5 tales about this frontiersman
Natty Bumppo
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “The Great Gatsby”, this bonds salesman lives next door to Jay Gatsby
Nick Carraway
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| His father, Pap Finn, is the town drunk
Huckleberry Finn
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Dickens orphan Philip Pirrip is better known by this nickname
Pip
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Lassiter is the gun-slinging hero of this Zane Grey novel & appears in its sequel “The Rainbow Trail”
“Riders of the Purple Sage”
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Kidnapped as a child, this R.D. Blackmore title heroine grew up to be quite a cookie
Lorna Doone
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This orchid-loving detective made his first appearance in Rex Stout’s “Fer-De-Lance”
Nero Wolfe
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The Morlocks in this H.G. Wells novel may be named for Moloch, a heathen god in the Bible
“The Time Machine”
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Arabella Dean, the conniving daughter of a pig breeder, marries this “obscure” hero & then deserts him
Jude The Obscure
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Defoe heroine is known by an alias; her real name is never revealed in the novel
Moll Flanders
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Madge Wildfire is the mad daughter of a midwife in this Scotsman’s 1818 novel “The Heart of Midlothian”
Sir Walter Scott
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Paul Hover is a bee hunter who ends up as a congressman in his 1820s novel “The Prairie”
James Fenimore Cooper
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Frederic Henry is wounded by a shell while eating cheese & macaroni in his “A Farewell to Arms”
Ernest Hemingway
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Dr. Pangloss teaches this Voltaire title character metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology
Candide
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This R.L. Stevenson story follows Mr. Utterson as he discovers these 2 characters are the same man
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The title of this 1987 Toni Morrison novel is what the ghost of Sethe’s daughter calls herself
Beloved
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Rabo Karabekian, a minor character in “Breakfast of Champions”, is the focus of his 1987 novel “Bluebeard”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In the James Hilton novel, it’s the profession of Mr. Chips
Schoolteacher
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She’s the red-headed heroine of several books by Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Travel writer Macon Leary is the central character of this Anne Tyler novel
“The Accidental Tourist”
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The name of this James Thurber character has become synonymous with a daydreamer
Walter Mitty
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos, Cesar & Nestor Castillo lead this dance band
The Mambo Kings
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “Little Women” Jo & Meg March also appear in this author’s “Little Men”
Louisa May Alcott
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Of William Golding’s Piggy, George Orwell’s Napoleon or E.B. White’s Wilbur, the one that’s not a pig
Piggy
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In books by C.S. Lewis, Aslan, one of these animals, created the world of Narnia
Lion
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “A fella ain’t no good alone”, says Tom Joad in this Steinbeck novel
“The Grapes of Wrath”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Family marooned by author Johann Wyss
Swiss Family Robinson
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Belgian created by Agatha Christie became a sleuth after retiring from the police force
Hercule Poirot
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The high spirited Alexandra Bergson is the heroine of this author’s “O Pioneers!”
Willa Cather
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a novel by this man, Annie Wilkes punishes Paul Sheldon for killing literary heroine Misery Chastain
Stephen King
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Tessie Hutchinson draws the unlucky ticket in this enigmatic Shirley Jackson story
“The Lottery”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “To Kill A Mockingbird”, his defense of Tom Robinson causes his children to be harassed by classmates
Atticus Finch
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Lewis Carroll based this title girl on a daughter of the dean of Oxford’s Christ Church College
Alice
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Fortunato is the unfortunate victim in this author’s famous horror story “The Cask Of Amontillado”
Edgar Allan Poe
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Anne Rice vampire has very white skin “that has to be powdered down for cameras of any kind”
Lestat
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Montague Tigg uses the rather obvious alias Tigg Montague in his novel “Martin Chuzzlewit”
Charles Dickens
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 1766 novel Squire Thornhill abducts Sophia Primrose, whose father is “The Vicar Of” this
Wakefield
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s often considered Boris Pasternak’s alter ego
Doctor Zhivago
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Darby Shaw investigates the murder of 2 Supreme Court justices in this John Grisham book
“The Pelican Brief”
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This 1992 Terry McMillan novel focuses on 4 friends: Robin, Bernadine, Gloria & Savannah
“Waiting To Exhale”
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Evelyn Waugh novel is narrated by Charles Ryder
“Brideshead Revisited”
$3500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She was the first Mrs. De Winter
Rebecca
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Tom Sawyer takes the blame when this girl, his sweetheart, tears the schoolmaster’s book
Becky Thatcher
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Wuthering Heights”, Catherine Earnshaw spurns this man & marries Edgar Linton instead
Heathcliff
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Melville title character’s last words are “God Bless Captain Vere!”
Billy Budd
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| When Count Vronsky’s love for her seems to fade, she throws herself under a train
Anna Karenina
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Joan Durbeyfield is the mother of this Thomas Hardy title character
Tess (of the d’Urbervilles)
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This precocious pickpocket introduces Oliver Twist to Fagin
The Artful Dodger
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Agatha Christie wrote, “I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound”
Hercule Poirot
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Prophetically, she first meets Count Vronsky at a train station shortly before a man is run down by a train
Anna Karenina
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The Empress of Blandings is a prize-winning pig who appears in stories by this creator of Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
$1400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| John Oakhurst is a professional gambler who’s cast out of Poker Flat in a famous story by this author
Bret Harte
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Senator & Mrs. Bird aid Eliza as she flees the Shelby estate in this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Gore Vidal transsexual protagonist’s original first name was Myron
Myra Breckenridge
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In her “The Bell Jar”, Doreen is picked up by Lenny Shepherd, a New York disk jockey
Sylvia Plath
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Blackmailer Arthur Geiger is murdered in this author’s “The Big Sleep”
Raymond Chandler
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Clif Clawson is the medical school roommate of this Sinclair Lewis title character
“Arrowsmith”
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The name of this Mary Shelley scientist is often confused with his ghastly creation
Dr. Frankenstein
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Like Quincy on TV, Kay Scarpetta in novels by Patricia Cornwell has this profession
Medical Examiner
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a Judith Krantz bestseller, Billy Ikehorn Orsini owns this title boutique
Scruples
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Howard Roark, the central architect in this novel, was supposedly modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright
“The Fountainhead”
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She’s the matriarch in “The Grapes of Wrath”
Ma Joad
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Tom Sawyer & this girl write their names with candle smoke on a wall of McDougal’s cave
Becky Thatcher
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This juvenile pickpocket is “as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six”
Oliver Twist
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Sumuru is mystery writer Sax Rohmer’s female version of this long-mustached Chinese archfiend
Fu Manchu
$1500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Some spectators denied seeing this stigma on the chest of the reverend Mr. Dimmesdale
“The Scarlett Letter”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Boris Pasternak heroine is the daughter of a Russianized Frenchwoman, Amalia Karlovna Guishar
Lara
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This boy was “lawless, and vulgar and bad” & Tom Sawyer “was under strict orders not to play with him”
Huckleberry Finn
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Charles Dickens considered calling this title character Spankle or Copperboy
David Copperfield
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This Bronte heroine uses the pseudonym Jane Elliott after she flees from Mr. Rochester
Jane Eyre
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This detective was modeled in part on Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s teachers
Sherlock Holmes
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This D.H. Lawrence “lady” plays around with a playwright before she gambols with a gamekeeper
Lady Chatterley
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Ivanhoe” Wilfred has been disinherited for following this crusading king
Richard the Lionhearted
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| George Wilson kills this Fitzgerald title character after Daisy runs over Wilson’s wife
the Great Gatsby
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| At the start of “The Grapes of Wrath”, this character, just released from prison, meets Jim Casy
Tom Joad
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mrs. Berry & Egg die in a plane crash on their way to Vienna in his 1981 novel “The Hotel New Hampshire”
(John) Irving
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In this 1957 Kerouac novel, Old Bull Lee is based on author William S. Burroughs
On the Road
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The form of this Philip Roth novel is a monologue by Alexander Portnoy to his psychiatrist
“Portnoy’s complaint”
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| On his deathbed this slave forgives his sadistic master Simon Legree
Uncle Tom
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Kay Strong Petersen & Dottie Renfrew are 2 of the Vassar grads in her novel “The Group”
Mary McCarthy
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Gibreel Farishta & Saladin Chamcha fall from an exploded jet at the start of this Salman Rushdie novel
“The Satanic Verses”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Ricky Roma is the top real estate salesman in his novel “Glengarry Glen Ross”
(David) Mamet
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This hard-hitting defense lawyer appears in about 80 of Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels
Perry Mason
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Irwin Shaw introduced brothers Thomas & Rudolph Jordache in this 1970 bestseller
Rich Man, Poor Man
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| “Keeper of the Keys” was Earl Derr Biggers’ final adventure about this Chinese-American sleuth
Charlie Chan
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a George Eliot novel, this miserly weaver becomes stepfather to Eppie Cass
Silas Marner
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| After giving up his wealth, this Dumas character sails away with Haydee, never to be seen again
the Count of Monte Cristo
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Chile’s Juan Fernandez islands include a pair named for Alexander Selkirk & this fictional character
Robinson Crusoe
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| He’s the title character in “Death of a Salesman”
Willy Loman
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Bromden, a half-Indian who has shut out society by pretending to be deaf & mute, narrates this Ken Kesey novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a novel by Muriel Spark, she devotes her “prime” years to teaching at a girls’ school
Miss Jean Brodie
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This eccentric old lady in “Great Expectations” dies after her wedding gown catches fire
Miss Havisham
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This 1906 Upton Sinclair novel centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a worker in the Chicago stockyards
The Jungle
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| At the end of Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island”, this captain dies & his ship the Nautilus is sunk
Nemo
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In Erle Stanley Gardner’s “The Case of the Terrified Typist”, this attorney lost the case
Perry Mason
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Longfellow took the name of this fictional Indian from a 15th century Iroquois chief
Hiawatha
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Beaumarchais’ third play about this barber was called “La Mere Coupable”
Figaro
$2000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the incarcerated king of Ruritania in this English romance by Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Her married name was Hedda Tesman
Hedda Gabler
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| A 1962 Solzhenitsyn work describes one day in the life of this prisoner
Ivan Denisovich
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| According to the title of a D.H. Lawrence novel, it’s who Mellors is
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In this Ray Bradbury novel, fireman Guy Montague has the job of burning books
“Fahrenheit 451”
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The murder of this perfumery girl occured about 2 years after the atrocity in the Rue Morgue
Marie Roget
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This captain of the Nautilus, whose name means “no one”, disappears at the end of the novel
Captain Nemo
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| John is a Shakespeare-quoting “savage” found on a N.M. reservation in this Huxley novel
“Brave New World”
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In wooing her, Siegfried was standing in for someone else, & when she found out, she killed him
Brunhilde
$1200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The silly Mrs. Bennet is the mother of Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty & Mary in this classic
“Pride And Prejudice”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Cecilia Brady is out to kill her father in this last F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
“The Last Tycoon”
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This F. Scott Fitzgerald character was born James Gatz
The Great Gatsby
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “Ivanhoe” the black knight who rescues Wilfred & Rowena is really this king in disguise
Richard the Lionhearted
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| For saving this little girl from the waters of the Mississippi, Uncle Tom was bought by her father
Little Eva
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| John D. MacDonald used colors in the titles of all the adventures of this private investigator
Travis McGee
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Grip, Barnaby Rudge’s pet, was this type of bird; Poe would have approved
Raven
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a 19th century novel, this stranded family built a house in a tree
Swiss Family Robinson
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This “Wuthering Heights” character forces Catherine’s daughter to marry his son
Heathcliff
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The pilgrims in this poetic work include a knight, a cook, a squire, a miller & a merchant
“The Canterbury Tales”
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| This fictional animal, who was found in a London station, celebrated his 30th anniversary in 1988
Paddington Bear
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Hired as a ship’s cook, he led the mutiny aboard the Hispaniola
Long John Silver (in Treasure Island)
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Byron wrote an epic poem about this Latin lover whose mother sent him abroad at age 16 after an “intrigue”
Don Juan
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| According to the Browning poem, he could also get rid of “The mole and toad and newt and viper”
the Pied Piper of Hamelin
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Ebenezer Scrooge very reluctantly gave him Christmas Day off
Cratchit
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Caroline Meeber is better known as this, the title of a Theodore Dreiser novel
Sister Carrie
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In a famous epic poem, this Arthurian hero accepts the challenge of the Green Knight
(Sir) Gawain
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Valet who helped Phileas Fogg go “Around the World in 80 Days”
Passepartout
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mr. Murdstone is the stepfather of this Dickensian hero
David Copperfield
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Among this author’s title characters are Dombey & Son, Barnaby Rudge, & Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The band of outlaws in Glen Doone adopted a girl they captured & named her this
Lorna
$600 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| First name of the girl jockey Elizabeth Taylor played in 1944 film
Velvet
$800 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Egbert, a cowpuncher from Red Gap, Washington won this valet in a poker game
Ruggles
$1000 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Paul Baumer is the German narrator of this Remarqueable tale
All Quiet on the Western Front (All’s Quiet on the Western Front accepted)
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Novel which features the Joad family, Dust Bowl farmers who move to California
Grapes of Wrath
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| During his 7 voyages, he was sold into slavery, met the cyclops, & got stuck on 2 desert islands
Sinbad
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Wilfred, son of Cedric the Saxon, is the title character of this Sir Walter Scott novel
Ivanhoe
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In 1925 Anita Loos novel, hair color of Lorelei Lee
blonde
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| She helped grandfather to tend goats & Klara, an invalid child, to walk
Heidi
$100 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Longfellow’s Indian heroine whose name means “laughing water”
Minnehaha
$200 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Margaret Mitchell originally called this character “Pansy”
Scarlett O’Hara
$300 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| The grandmother of this Hans Christian Andersen heroine wore a dozen oysters on her tail
The Little Mermaid
$400 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Rebecca Randall is better known by the title of this Kate Douglas Wiggin children’s book
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
$500 ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, this was Tom Snout’s occupation tho you may not give a “dam”
tinker
$None ||| Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ||| Mother of Bonnie Blue, she ran a sawmill after the Civil War
Scarlett O’Hara
