Classic Classic Quiz How Many Fictional Riddles Can You Answer? by Sara.deeter Sara.deeter 9 played - 7 yrs ago QUIZ 10 QUESTIONS medium 1 Hamlet : "What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?" A princeA gravediggerAn alchemistA playwright 2 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?" A basiliskA snakeA skrewtA spider 3 The Hobbit : "What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up, up it goes, And yet never grows?" A mountainThe windTimeA fossilized tree 4 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?" A mngwaA dragonA woolen rugA hydra 5 Which casket in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" is the one that will allow the suitor to win Portia's hand? The silver casketThe gold casketThe bronze casketThe lead casket 6 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" CourtshipMarriageKingdomsPirate 7 Sophocles' Oedipus Rex : "What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?" The tideBeastsManThe sun 8 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" A swollen jointDoughA balloonA bubbling cauldron 9 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" EvilStarvationIllnessTime 10 Lewis Carroll's famous riddle--"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"--is : A trick. A raven isn't at all like a writing desk.Easy : Because there's a 'b' in both and an 'n' in neitherTo this day unanswered. Carroll himself admitted that he didn't know.Answered : Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front! A mistake in this Quiz ? Contact the author Commentaires This private Quiz has been created by Sara.deeter who is fully responsible of its content !