Fictional Characters Study Guide

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59 answers | 141 clues

Should-Know (4)

Anna Karenina 6x 16.7% stumper $683 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1999 Count Vronsky & the husband of this title character have the same first name: Alexey

J $500 DD 1990 Believing Alexei Vronsky has tired of her, she throws herself under a train

DJ $1,600 2004 Sister of Stepan Oblonsky, she's a Tolstoy title lady

Gulliver 5x $433 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $100 1990 The Lilliputians called him Quinbus Flestrin or great man-mountain

DJ $800 1991 His adventures began after booking passage as a ship's doctor aboard the Antelope

FJ 1992 He was listed as the author of 1726's "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World"

Jane Eyre 4x $800 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $600 1988 In a classic Gothic novel, she accepts Mr. Rochester's proposal, not knowing he has a wife

DJ $1,000 1993 At 18 she leaves the Lowood School to become a governess at Thornfield Manor

FJ 2026 Literary theories say the first name of this 1847 title character is meant to evoke plainness while the last name hints at a bequest

Don Quixote 4x 25.0% stumper $450 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1996 Some say his original surname was Quixada or Quesada, "before he lost his senses"

DJ $1,200 DD 1986 His adventures take him to the plains of Montiel, cave of Montesinos, & village of El Toboso

J $100 1988 Puerto Rico's Don Q rum is named for him

Worth Knowing (55)

The Red Badge of Courage 3 Tarzan 3 Scarlett O'Hara 3 Robinson Crusoe 3 Robin Hood 3 Phileas Fogg 3 Perry Mason 3 Mr. Chips 3 Lolita 3 Esmeralda 3 Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame) 3 Bridget Jones 3 Willie Stark 2 Walter Mitty 2 the Three Musketeers 2 The Artful Dodger 2 Sophie's Choice 2 Sir Walter Scott 2 Sinbad 2 Simon Legree 2 Rooster Cogburn 2 Richard the Lionhearted 2 Rebecca 2 Raskolnikov 2 Pippi Longstocking 2 Oedipus 2 Odysseus 2 Miss Havisham 2 Ma Joad 2 Little Big Man 2 Lestat 2 Lara 2 Lady Chatterley 2 Jane 2 James Fenimore Cooper 2 Ichabod Crane 2 Heidi 2 Heart of Darkness 2 Hans Brinker 2 Green Mansions 2 Figaro 2 Fagin 2 Dulcinea 2 Bambi 2 Ali Baba 2 a country 2 the Lord of the Flies 2 Peter Rabbit 2 Martin Cruz Smith 2 Major Major 2 King Arthur 2 Ebenezer Scrooge 2 Doctor Dolittle 2 Bob Cratchit 2 Becky Sharp 2

American Literature

10 answers | 32 clues

Should-Know (3)

Huckleberry Finn 6x 16.7% stumper $567 avg DJ:6

DJ $200 1997 His father, Pap Finn, is the town drunk

DJ $600 1997 This Twain hero's feminine disguise fails after he can't remember if his name is Mary or Sarah

DJ $2,000 DD 1987 Mark Twain based this title character on his pal Tom Blankenship, son of the town drunkard

Jay Gatsby 5x $480 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1986 "Great" inhabitant of West Egg, Long Island

DJ $600 1991 Nick Carraway's mysterious neighbor, he was a bootlegger & gambler

DJ $400 1984 In Long Island's West Egg the great neighbor of Nick Carraway

the Great Gatsby 4x $425 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1990 This F. Scott Fitzgerald character was born James Gatz

DJ $800 1987 Born James Gatz, he was at one time engaged to Dasy Buchanan

DJ $400 1995 George Wilson kills this Fitzgerald title character after Daisy runs over Wilson's wife

Worth Knowing (7)

The Prince and the Pauper 3 Becky Thatcher 3 Heathcliff 3 The Sun Also Rises 2 Billy Budd 2 Willa Cather 2 The Grapes of Wrath 2

Mystery / Thriller

7 answers | 24 clues

Should-Know (2)

Sherlock Holmes 7x $150 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:5

J $100 1991 Dr. James Mortimer seeks his help in solving the death of his friend Sir Charles Baskerville

FJ 2011 The first words he ever spoke to his assistant were "How are you?... You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive"

FJ 1995 He said "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains...must be the truth"

Hercule Poirot 4x $200 avg DJ:2 FJ:2

DJ $200 1998 Agatha Christie's mysteries solved by this detective were often chronicled by his sidekick Arthur Hastings

FJ 2019 In a 1947 collection he solved 12 mysteries, including "The Cretan Bull" & "The Girdle of Hyppolita"

FJ 2018 He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity"

Worth Knowing (5)

Charlie Chan 3 Professor Moriarty 3 Miss Marple 3 Dr. Watson 2 Dashiell Hammett 2

British Literature

8 answers | 17 clues

Worth Knowing (8)

Moll Flanders 3 Tess of the d'Urbervilles 2 Pip 2 Nicholas Nickleby 2 David Balfour 2 Alice 2 Emma 2 Charles Dickens 2

Poetry

6 answers | 12 clues

Worth Knowing (6)

Scheherazade 2 Orlando 2 Dr. Frankenstein 2 Don Juan 2 Cyrano de Bergerac 2 Sir Gawain 2

Children's Literature

3 answers | 6 clues

Worth Knowing (3)

The Color Purple 2 Peter Pan 2 Atticus Finch 2

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