I snap my fingers and, foof-la!, inaugurate the Hooting Yard Friday Quiz. (It is likely, not to say inevitable, that tomorrow I shall snap my fingers again and, foof-la!, abolish the Hooting Yard Friday Quiz, so make the most of it while you have the chance.)
This week’s challenge is to identify correctly the forty-seven fictional characters listed yesterday in the piece Unhinged By Cream Crackers. You need to provide the title of the work, be it a novel or a play or a film or what have you, where the character first appeared.
The first person to post a full and correct list in the Comments will win a modest prize. I do not yet know what it will be, but I will think of something, and it will not be a world cruise aboard the HMS Corrugated Cardboard.
Emma Bovary
Martin Chuzzlewit
Tyrone Slothrop
Peason
Josef Bong
Raskolnikov
Winnie Verloc
Lupin Pooter
Dolores Haze
Ravelstein
Arturo Ui
Winston Smith
Grimes
Pinkie Brown
Geoffrey Firmin
Steerpike
Pointsman
Grabber
Myra Breckinridge
Molloy
Pangloss
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Roger Thornhill
Guy Secretan
Ilya Kuryakin
Clare Quilty
Lemuel Gulliver
Doctor Slop
Sara Lund
Inspector Truscott
Ned Stark
Cissie Colpitts
Sebastian Dangerfield
Giles De’Ath
Ronnie Bostock
Ebin Willoweed
Hans Gruber
Wendy Hale
Chance Hale
Watt
Prince Zaleski
Roger Ackroyd
Evadne Mount
Arthur Gordon Pym
De Selby
Mike Hammer
and the man with the twisted lip.
– All characters from William Shattner’s Tek Lords series but since appropriated by some notable (and sickening) types such as Thomas Pynchon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sam Rolfe, The Channel Four News Team and Jonathan Swift.
Good try, but not 100% accurate, I’m afraid,
Can you tell me what the prize is? I don’t want to do a whole lot of research just to win yet another copy of Donnie Darko.
Don’t be afraid Frank.
I had to rescue the question about the nature of the prize from the bulging bag o’ spam. This has discombobulated me to such an extent that I have clean forgotten what the prize is, if I ever knew. I can, however, assure you that it is *not* a copy of “Donnie Darko”, whatever that might be.