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GREATEST
LITERATURE CONTEST #17
Answer these questions about sequels. Winners and answers below. |
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| 1 | After Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Shakespeare was pressured to bring back a certain fat, old knave — which he did in what play? (No, there was no Henry IV, Part 3.) | ||||||||||
| 2 | The hero of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Kidnapped, returns in what lesser-known romantic work? (No, it's not Kidnapped II.) | ||||||||||
| 3 | Sherlock Holmes's "Final Problem" turned out not to be so final. Popular demand forced Arthur Conan Doyle to revive the sleuth's career in which story? | ||||||||||
| 4 | Stephen Dedalus of Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man grows up—a little—to feature in what novel? (No, don't be influenced by that graphic above. It's not a real book.) | ||||||||||
| 5 | After The Thin Man Nick and Nora Charles never returned in another novel, but Dashiell Hammett did feature them in a story written for which movie sequel? | ||||||||||
| 6 | What's Robert Graves's second historical novel in the short series started by I, Claudius? (No, it's not II, Claudius.) | ||||||||||
| 7 | A Wizard of Earthsea was followed by which Ursula Le Guin fantasy novel set in the same world? | ||||||||||
| 8 | Richard Hannay, the classic wrong man in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps, becomes a knowing agent in the novels to follow—beginning with which 1916 sequel? (No, it's not The Forty Steps.) | ||||||||||
| 9 | Orson Scott Card reprised the titular character of Ender's Game in what second novel (before continuing the Ender universe in a longer series yet)? | ||||||||||
| 10 | And just to show that sequels have been around for a long, long time: what was Homer's big follow-up to his blockbusting, war thriller Iliad? | ||||||||||
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The winners include Andrew Albert J. Ty of Glendale, California. Remaining winners have been notified and will be posted here as soon as they are confirmed. Answers: 1. The Merry Wives of Windsor (with
Falstaff, of course) |
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