Welcome to the Classical, Romantic, and Renaissance Literature round of the Noblesse Oblige Triviathon!

Please answer the following questions and submit your answers by email.

01. Instead of money, he demands a pound of this.

02. He decides all of his misfortunes stem from the failure to have a proper hat. What did the headpiece turn out to be?

03. Who wrote about the impossibility of more than one person receiving pleasure at once and developed a world view around this idea?

04. Noman escaped from the giant under the belly of what animal?

05. In what deceptively titled book does the protagonist tell the Athenians to fuck off?

06. Who correctly figures out that the answer is "man"?

07. Who regales his company with the tale where a woodworker gets branded in the ass?

08. Who offs a pawnbroker with an ax but gets caught in the end?

09. Achilleus' true love was the only thing worth fighting for; who was it?

10. Don Quixote is the classic example of this type of novel. Other examples include Huckleberry Finn, Candide, and On the Road.

11. If I were looking to create a kenning which means "Bear", which epic hero would I find the name for?

12. Whose life was spared in the Temple of Vesta?

13. What task was Passepartout performing for his master when he realized that he had won the wager after all?

14. Which poem depicting the incidents of a burning vessel in the Battle of Nile immortalised a phrase meaning "a final stand" ?

15. Who is the Long Rifle's brother?

16. To prove his prowess with the pistol, what does Edmond do before the duel?

17. Who wrote about the final equestrian adventure of 600 men?

18. Which seaman shot a good luck bird and becomes very thirsty?

19. His sage advice to his brother: "Do not piss while you walk. Find a tree. Also, do not sit by the hearth with you genitals exposed, bespattered with semen, for the night belongs to the gods." Who was he?

20. In non-Soviet Russia, exactly how much land does a man need?

21. What book opens with a string of completely contradictory superlative metaphors?

22. What story is told with hundreds of cliffhangers?

23. What's the name of the abortive collected by the love of the prince of Denmark?

24. Who plays the beheading game with a viridian warrior?

25. Who married the man who attempted to break up her older sister and her love?