A Very Simple Fantasy Quiz covering the following 5 universes - Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Thrones (Game of Thrones), The Hunger Games, and the Chronicles of Narnia. Three Questions per Universe 3X5. Hosted at IIM Ahmedabad

1. The Very Simple Fantasy
Quiz
LITERARY SYMPOSIUM DESK
IIM AHMEDABAD

2. Instructions
 This is a simple quiz and the answers are all known to all of you
 For the sake of convenience, we are focussing on only five universes
 Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Song of Ice and Fire
(Game of Thrones), and The Hunger Games
 15 questions, 3 per universe, in random order
 Movies and Books have been given equal weight
 Simple questions, simple answers – Enjoy!!!

4. Why the date?
 Harry Potter was born on 31 July, 1980. There’s a special reason why J K Rowling
chose this date. Give me the reason?

6. Answer
 J K Rowling was herself born on 31 July, 1965.

8. Whose guest appearances?
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
 Portrayed as Albert Dreary, a man eating a carrot at the village of Bree
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
 portrayed as a Rohan Soldier throwing a spear towards the Uruk-hai who were
assaulting the Fortress at Helm's Deep
 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 portrayed as one of the Corsairs of Umbar briefly seen walking on deck. In the
extended edition, the character gets accidentally shot by Legolas as a "warning" shot.
He also played as the arm of Sam when facing Shelob.

10. Answer
 Peter Jackson

14. Which lovable character?
 “The Adventures of X” is a collection of poetry by JRR Tolkien published in 1962
that have some of the poems featured in the Middle Earth universe.
 The book contains three poems from LOTR: The Man in the Moon stayed up too
late, The Stone Troll, and Oliphaunt.
 The first poem of the book is the same as the title of the book, The Adventures of
X, and tells about this much loved character from the LOTR series who
incidentally has been left out of the movies.

16. Answer
 Tom Bombadil

18. Which very popular series?
 The book series has seven books, three of which have been made into a highly
successful movie series. The four remaining books are:
 The Silver Chair (1953)
 The Horse and His Boy (1954)
 The Magician's Nephew (1955)
 The Last Battle (1956)

20. Answer
 The Chronicles of Narnia

22. Why did this place become famous?
 Cairncastle is small village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland near
the town of Larne and inland from the village of Ballygally. It had a population of
66 people in the 2001 Census.
 This place (picture next slide) became famous after a famous scene was shot here.
Put funda.

25. Answer
 In Game of Thrones season 1 episode 1, Ned Stark beheads the Night's Watch
deserter in front of Bran and Robb Stark, Theon Greyjoy and Jon Snow.
 This scene became the famous “Brace Yourselves, Winter in Coming” meme.

27. Which bird?
 In its universe, XY was a bird created by the mating of two other birds.
 The male is fictional and belongs to the universe and is mutated, created in labs
to spy on enemies and rebels.
 The female is real and is famous for mimicking the songs and sound of other
birds, insects, and amphibians, often in rapid succession.
 The names of both parents are portmanteaus (e.g. coffee-table) as is XY.
 The male name is AY and the female name is XB, giving us XY.
 Convoluted? Give me XY only.

29. Answer
 Mockingjay

33. What is the gesture?
 Thailand witnessed strong anti-government protests in 2014 that saw crackdown
by the government and many arrests.
 A gesture was used by some of the protesters, a tribute to “The Hunger Games”
series where it is used to express unity with people striving to survive.
 What is the gesture?

35. Answer
 The three finger salute

37. Identify the Missing One.
 Quodpot
 Creaothceann
 Stitchstock
 Aingingein
 ___ Racing
 Swivenhodge
 Shuntbumps

39. Answer
 Quidditch. They are all broom games in the Harry Potter Universe.

41. How are they “related”?
 In December 2012, Michael Gambon received the Richard Harris Award for his
long and distinguished career. He said it was a poignant moment for him.
 Go ahead, put funda. Why is this question in a fantasy fiction quiz?

43. Answer
 Richard Harris played Dumbledore in the first two movies before his death and
was replaced by Michael Gambon

45. The demand
 In the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, King Minos of Crete had a son named
Androgeus who had participated in the Pan-Athenian Games ans was
assassinated because he became a crowd-favourite.
 King Minos waged war on the Athenians and won. He demanded something from
the Athenians for Minotaur that was to become one of the inspirations for “The
Hunger Games.”
 What did he demand?

47. Answer
 Seven of the most courageous youths and seven of the most beautiful maidens to
be devoured by Minotaur
 Theseus volunteered to go and killed the Minotaur

49. Kol-style Question
 What is the Turkish word for Lion?

51. Answer
 Aslan

53. A battle between which heroes?
 George R R Martin states that he did not wish to make “A song of Ice and Fire”
into a typical good versus fight.
 He cites the example of a famous battle between two legendary heroes as an
inspiration where no one comes out as either the hero or the villain.
 What is he referring to?

55. Answer
 Achilles and Hector

57. Why the strange name?
 There are many wars that are said to be the inspirations behind “A song of Ice
and Fire” – the Hundred Years War, the Crusades, and the most often cited one
being the Wars of Roses.
 The Wars of the Roses were dynastic wars between the House of Lancaster and
the House of York, which finally ended with Lancastrian Henry Tudor, or Henry VII
defeating Yorkist Richard III and marrying Yorkist Elizabeth. This united the two
clans and established the House of Tudor.
 Simpler question – Why was it called the Wars of the Roses?

59. Answer
 The House of York had the White Rose as its badge
 The House of Lancaster had the Red Rose as its badge

61. Name of the kind of Swords
 X is a kind of sword popular in America. It is considered 16th century cut and
thrust sword probably named after a Spanish city where such swords were
manufactured in large numbers and exported to Americas.
 X is the name of a character in one popular fantasy fiction universe who happens
to own a sword at a point in time which is very sharp and has the exceptional
capability of indicating the presence of a certain type of creature from the
universe. However, the sword is not of the X variety.

64. Answer
 Bilbo

66. The city
 X is a city in Italy, very close to its geographical centre. It is an ancient hill-town in
Umbria and overhangs the gorge of Nera River.
 It has historical importance playing a key role in the Punic Wars and became a
Roman municipality around 200 BC when it took a name very close to its modern
name.
 Our concern is the name it took during 200 BC.
 Name the city or the variant of the name that we are interested in.

68. Answer
 Narni
 Narnia