It Takes Character!

Can you identify these characters from literature? Shirley Korinchak and Sandra Hartley could. They are today's winners!


1. This Snooper from St. Mary Mead made her debut in Agatha Christie’s Murder at the Vicarage.
a. Nancy Drew
b. Miss Marple
c. Kinsey Milhone
d. Stephanie Plum



2. This precocious supernatural arts apprentice’s parents were killed by Lord Voldemort. He’s usually seen wearing a rugby shirt and glasses.
a. Dick Grayson
b. Clark Kent
c. Harry Potter
d. Bruce Wayne

3. She must survive must survive murder, mystery, storms, and smugglers before she can build a life with Jem Merlyn in Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn .
a. Mary Yellan
b. Lady Dona St. Columb
c. Rebecca de Winter
d. Contessa Rachel Sangalletti


4. This crocodile fearing pirate captain shouldn’t scratch his nose.
a. Captain Crook
b. Captain Bligh
c. Captain Hook
d. Captain D.


5. His full name was Philip Pirrip but Magwitch and Miss Havisham, in the Dickens' novel in which he appeared, called him by what nickname?
a. Pup
b. Tiny Tim
c. Pip
d. Little John


6. His parents own the Benbow Inn and he finds "the map" in Stevenson's Treasure Island.
a. Jim Hawkins
b. Long John Silver
c. Captain D.
d. Billy Bones

7. This rascal said, "Like it? Well I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day”?
a. Huck Finn
b. Dennis the Menace
c. Tom Sawyer
d. Puddinhead Johnson

8. Although she imagines that arsenic will supply a romantic death, Flaubert shows it to be a grotesque and painful end.
a. Juliet Capulet
b. Lady Chatterly
c. Emma Bovary
d. Edna Pontellier

9. Phoebe’s older brother, he is a sixteen-year-old junior who has just been expelled from Pencey Prep for academic failure.
a. Gene Forrester
b. Holden Caufield
c. Jerry Renault
d. Jeremy “Jem” Finch

10. A loyal pet until cruel men make him a pawn in their search for Klondike gold.
a. White Fang
b. Balto
c. Buck
d. Savage Sam



The answers are b,c,a,c,c,a,c,c,b, and c.