A short quiz about hobbits
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dreamflowerRemember this quiz that was going around a few days ago?
I took it the other day, and got 16 out of 20 (two answers I dispute!) and then I noticed something: This test was biased! Questions about every race of beings except for the most important one: Hobbits! Why no hobbit questions?
So, I put my own little hobbit quiz in the comments. Apparently people who are knowledgeable about all those other things don't know much about hobbits, because no one tried to answer them. I am quite sure that my flist is a lot more hobbit savvy! (Actually, I thought this one was fairly easy.)
Here you are:
1. Which hobbit family was rumored to have a “fairy wife” as an ancestress?
A. Brandybucks
B. Bagginses
C. Tooks
D. Gamgees
2. Gandalf first encountered the hobbits of the Shire when?
A. During the Long Winter
B. During the Fell Winter
C. After the Battle of Greenfields
D. When Gerontius became Thain
3. What was Bandobras Took famous for?
A. Inventing the game of golf
B. Killing the chieftain of the goblins
C. Riding a horse
D. All of the above
4. Lalia Clayhanger Took, widow of Thain Fortinbras II, created a scandal by:
A. Leaving her husband
B. Going on an adventure
C. The manner of her death
D. Smoking a pipe
Put your answers in the comments (screened) and I'll reveal the answers in a few days and unscreen the answers!
Edit: 2/1/15 the answers are behind the cut now.
1. C--"It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife." (TH, "An Unexpected Party"
2. A--"And then there was the Shire-folk. I began to have a warm place in my heart for them in the Long Winter, which none of you can remember. They were very hard put to it then: one of the worst pinches they have been in, dying of cold, and starving in the dreadful dearth that followed. But that was the time to see their courage, and their pity for one another. It was by their pity as much as by their tough uncomplaining courage that they survived." (UT, Part III, The Third Age, Chapter III, "The Quest of Erebor")
3. D--“If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took’s great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.” (TH, "An Unexpected Party")
4.C--"A well-known case, also, was that of Lalia the Great (or less courteously the Fat).Fortinbras II, one time head of the Tooks and Thain, married Lalia of the Clayhangers in 1314, when he was 36 and she was 31. He died in 1380 at the age of 102, but she long outlived him, coming to an unfortunate end in 1402 at the age of 119. So she ruled the Tooks and the Great Smials for 22 years, a great and memorable, if not universally beloved, ‘matriarch’. She was not at the famous Party (SY 1401), but was prevented from attending rather by her great size and immobility than by her age. Her son, Ferumbras, had no wife, being unable (it was alleged) to find anyone willing to occupy apartments in the Great Smials, under the rule of Lalia. Lalia, in her last and fattest years, had the custom of being wheeled to the great Door, to take the air on a fine morning. In the spring of SY 1402 her clumsy attendant let the heavy chair run over the threshold and tipped Lalia down the flight of steps into the garden. So ended a reign and life that might well have rivalled that of the Great Took." (Letters, #214)
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Date: 2015-01-26 02:53 am (UTC)1. C
2. D
3. D
4. C
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-26 03:25 am (UTC)1. C
2. B [tricksy, tricksy!]
3. D
4. C
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-26 03:34 am (UTC)C,C,D, and D
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:36 pm (UTC)answers:
Date: 2015-01-26 05:27 am (UTC)2) A (guess)
3) D
4) C
This was fun! WIsh there were more questions!
I agree that the other quiz wasn't hobbity enough and also had some inaccuracies...
Re: answers:
Date: 2015-02-01 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-26 05:32 am (UTC)I think I got them right, but it wasn't easy! I'm sure other more hobbit-centric fans may know them without so much head-scratching.
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-26 05:38 am (UTC)C
D
D
B
I may be a bit off, so I think I have to go read the Hobbit again. What a horrible thing, lol. :)
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-26 11:58 am (UTC)1. C
2. D
3. C
4. B
Okay, I didn't cheat and look any of this up, lol, so if I got some wrong, they are honest mistakes, :D :D
This was fun!
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-26 02:37 pm (UTC)2 (d)
3 (d)
4 (d)
I'm really not sure about much of this, I'm much more up on elves than hobbits - LOL.
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-26 03:17 pm (UTC)2. D
3. D
4. C
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:54 pm (UTC)I edited the post above to give the quotes with the context of the answers.
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Date: 2015-01-26 03:29 pm (UTC)1C
2B
3A
4C
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:55 pm (UTC)You got half of them: C, A, D, C. I put the quotes above into the post with the context of the answers.
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Date: 2015-01-26 07:45 pm (UTC)1. C
2. B
3. D
4. C
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-30 02:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-01 10:57 pm (UTC)C, A, D, C!