Bram Stoker by MichaelT

Champion(s):

LaudermithM


Runner(s)-Up:

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Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?


Quiz Description

Questions about the life, works, and legacy of an under-appreciated author who was much more than a one-hit wonder.

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Questions:

In addition to Dracula, what other classic Universal Studios film monster was a Stoker creation? The first film in the series, based on Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars, starred Boris Karloff.

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The Mummy

Stoker served as the manager for 27 years, and eventual biographer, of what English thespian; the first professional actor to be knighted?

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Sir Henry Irving

Awarded since 1987 for superior achievement in horror or dark fantasy, one of the first Bram Stoker awards went to Stephen King for what novel about a writer with one very obsessed fan?

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Misery

Stoker appears as a character in The West End Horror, a sequel to Nicholas Meyer's novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Both novels are non-canonical further adventures of what fictional British detective?

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Sherlock Holmes

Though Dracula is presented in the form of journal entries, newspaper clippings, and letters, it is usually described with what literary term for a novel presented as a series of letters? The root word of the term also appears in the titles of several Books of the Bible. (Literary term must be exact.)

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Epistolary

In his nonfiction work Famous Impostors, Stoker makes the claim that what English monarch actually died in childhood, and was secretly replaced with a boy forced to live the rest of his life pretending to be a woman?

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Elizabeth I

An annual festival in Bram Stoker's honor is held in what major Irish city that is near his birthplace, and is where he attended college? He once served as unpaid drama critic for the city's Evening Mail newspaper, which was partially owned by horror writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

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Dublin

Stoker was a friend and ardent supporter of what four-time British Prime Minister, who repeatedly tried but failed to get an Irish Home Rule bill through Parliament?

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William Gladstone

What heroine of Dracula is also a protagonist in Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Peta Wilson played her in the 2003 film of the graphic novel. (First name only is acceptable)

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Mina (Murray or Harker)

One modern branch of Stoker scholarship is highly focused on Stoker's lifelong friendship with what notorious Irish poet, playwright, novelist, and wit? They were once in a love triangle with the woman Stoker married. This writer's last words are often inaccurately reported as "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."

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Oscar Wilde

Also based on a Stoker novel is what 1988 Ken Russell film that starred Hugh Grant, Amanda Donahoe, Catherine Oxenberg, and Peter Capaldi?

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The Lair of the White Worm

An ardent student of America, and a frequent lecturer throughout the British Isles on the topic of the United States, Stoker once gave a sold-out lecture in New York City on the topic of which U.S. President? Stoker shared his real first name with that President.

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Abraham Lincoln