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Quiz How Many Fictional Riddles Can You Answer?

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Sara.deeter
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Question 1 / 10
Hamlet : "What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?"

Hamlet :

"What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?"

 
Question 2 / 10

Harry Potter :

"First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?"

 
Question 3 / 10
The Hobbit : "What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?"

The Hobbit :

"What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees Up, up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?"

 
Question 4 / 10

Brisingr :

"I am colored red, blue, and yellow and every other hue of the rainbow. I am thick and thin, short and tall, I can eat a hundred sheep in a row and still be hungry. What am I?"

 
Question 5 / 10

Which casket in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" is the one that will allow the suitor to win Portia's hand?

 
Question 6 / 10

Jane Austen's Emma :

"My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings,
Lords of the earth! their luxury and ease.
Another view of man, my second brings,
Behold him there, the monarch of the seas"

 
Question 7 / 10

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex :

"What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?"

 
Question 8 / 10

The Exeter Book :

"I have heard of a something-or-other, growing in its nook, swelling and rising, pushing up its covering. Upon that boneless thing a cocky-minded young woman took a grip with her hands; with her apron a lord's daughter covered the tumescent thing"

 
Question 9 / 10
J.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit : This thing all things devours : "Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down"

J.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit : This thing all things devours :

"Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down"

 
Question 10 / 10

Lewis Carroll's famous riddle--"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"--is :

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