Mystery Authors - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) E.M. Forster. Edward Morgan Forster's novels were originally published in 1924, 1908, 1971 (posthumously completed), 1905, and 1910.
• A2) G.K. Chesterton. Gilbert Keith Chesterton eventually featured the priestly prober in 52 short stories, eventually compiled into five books over two and half decades.
• A3) P.J. O'Rourke. Patrick Jake O'Rourke has used humor to great effect in fifteen books and countless articles. In 1994, he claimed in All the Trouble in the World, "Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave."
• A4) P.L. Travers. Pamela Lyndon Travers created Mary Poppins in 1934 and penned seven sequels over the next 54 years.
• A5) H.G. Wells. Herbert George Wells had diabetes and may have died from it (or maybe from liver cancer).
• A6) A.A. Milne. Although Alan Alexander Milne was more famous for his children's stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, he was a more prolific playwright, authoring 25 plays between 1917 and 1951.
• A7) T.H. White. The books, collectively known as The Once and Future King, were published from 1938 to 1958, with the second installment originally titled The Witch in the Wood.
• A8) J.M. Barrie. James Matthew Barrie introduced Peter Pan in the play Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up in 1904, seven years before he turned it into the novel Peter and Wendy.
• A9) C.S. Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis also penned numerous essays and letters about Christianity, to which he converted midway through his life.
• A10) P.G. Wodehouse. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse introduced Jeeves the valet (responsible for taking care of a person, not a house like a butler) in the 1916 short story "Jeeves Takes Charge". The search engine can now be found at the web site ask.com.
• A11) W.H. Auden. Wystan Hugh Auden also elegized another thematic author in "In Memory of W.B. Yeats".
• A12) T.S. Eliot. Thomas Stearns Eliot studied philosophy at Harvard University in the U.S., the University of Paris in France, and Oxford University in England, where he settled down and got married before returning to Harvard in his 40s.

As you have no doubt realized by now, all of this week's answers are best known by their first and middle initials.

Mystery Authors - Random Trivia Questions

Although at initial glance this quiz seems to be misnamed, as most of the questions aren't about mystery writers, you will soon realize that the mystery at hand is, "What's the connection?" It won't take much sleuthing to figure the answer out.

Mystery Authors Questions

• Q1) What author's novels were turned into the movies A Passage to India (1984), A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), and Howards End (1992)?
• Q2) What author's fictional detective Father Brown debuted in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911?
• Q3) According to the television show 60 Minutes what living person has the most entries in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations?
• Q4) What novelist appeared as Titania in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and wrote I Go By Sea, I Go By Land, Gingerbread Shop, Mr. Wigg's Birthday Party, The Magic Compass, and Friend Monkey in addition to her most famous stories?
• Q5) What English author cofounded The Diabetic Association charity, now known as Diabetes UK, in 1934?
• Q6) What author adapted Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows into the play Toad of Toad Hall in 1929 and turned Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice into the play Miss Elizabeth Bennet in 1936?
• Q7) What author's most famous work was the tetralogy consisting of The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle in the Wind?
• Q8) What Scottish novelist began his career with Auld Licht Idylls in 1888, and wrote Quality Street, The Admirable Crichton, and The Little White Bird in the years leading up to his most famous play?
• Q9) What novelist and essayist published poetry using the last name Hamilton, was known to his friends as Jack, and passed away on the same day as John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley?
• Q10) For what author's character was the Internet search engine Ask Jeeves named?
• Q11) What author's 400 poems include "Stop all the clocks" (a.k.a., "Funeral Blues"), "In Memory of Sigmund Freud", "The Fall of Rome", and "The Shield of Achilles"?
• Q12) What writer was more famous for his poetry but also created the plays The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk, and The Elder Statesman from 1926 to 1958?