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| Photo Bonus Question: Which period drama do these dashing soldiers appear in? |
Many of our favorite period dramas feature adventurous gentlemen that serve in the Navy or Army of their day or are even swashbuckling pirates! This game features scrambled names of adventurous gentlemen from various stories by Classic Literature authors. There are also four Trivia Questions and a Photo Bonus Question to answer for extra points!
To Play: Unscramble the characters' names below and leave a comment telling your guesses and which period drama / story each character is from. You can earn extra points by answering the four Trivia Questions below to the best of your ability - no looking up answers - and the Bonus Question above. I'll respond with your score. Guess as many times as you wish on the characters. The answers will be posted next Saturday.
Scoring: One point each for each correctly unscrambled word/name. One point for each correctly guessed period drama / story. Four points for correctly answering the Bonus Question above. Five points for each correctly answered Trivia Question. A total of 90 points can be earned!
Scoring: One point each for each correctly unscrambled word/name. One point for each correctly guessed period drama / story. Four points for correctly answering the Bonus Question above. Five points for each correctly answered Trivia Question. A total of 90 points can be earned!
#1. CAIARVN HLEAPTIL (2 words)
#2. CTEROEL FOSLON (2 words)
#3. AARTLOF CDMIR (2 words)
#4. GLNALER TEYIEN (2 words)
#5. WLICERI PAMLI (2 words)
#6. CNEYAIN FTCREDAPK TILERI (3 words)
#7. SDI JLOR MNETIDHON (3 words)
#8. CRTEAIN CRAPTA (2 words)
Charles Dickens Characters
#9. CAWPTDA JAINA HMESON (3 words)
#10. JADN BOHARS (2 words)
#11. CAUTTIN CPTALE (2 words)
#12. GGUNCE RELOEOREWL (2 words)
#13. DORRTO ALOCT WLANCOUOD (3 words)
Robert Louis Stevenson Characters
#14. IANLDE HSSRA (2 words)
#15. JKI HNSAWMI (2 words)
#16. CAMOLLN SPTTAIET (2 words)
#17. BONIL BSLYE (2 words)
Elizabeth Gaskell Characters
#18. CROWAPT BAINN (2 words)
#19. CTAINON LXAPEN (2 words)
#20. MDOAR GONORJ (2 words)
#21. FERICALEK HRED (2 words)
Trivia Questions:
#22. Which character in Emma served in the army before settling down in Highbury?
#23. What war is the Horatio Hornblower series set during?
#24. Which two characters in Little Women serve in the Army during the American Civil War?
#25. What war do the gentlemen in the Downton Abbey TV series serve in?
Don't forget the Photo Bonus Question and to list the Period Drama / story each character come from!
Have fun!
#22. Which character in Emma served in the army before settling down in Highbury?
#23. What war is the Horatio Hornblower series set during?
#24. Which two characters in Little Women serve in the Army during the American Civil War?
#25. What war do the gentlemen in the Downton Abbey TV series serve in?
Don't forget the Photo Bonus Question and to list the Period Drama / story each character come from!
Have fun!
Photo Bonus Question: Pride and Prejudice (1995)
ReplyDelete1. Captain Harville/ Persuasion
2. Captain Forster/ Pride and Prejudice
3. Admiral Croft/ Persuasion
4. General Tilney/ Northanger Abbey
5.
6. Captain Frederick Tilney/ Northanger Abbey
7. Sir John Middleton/ Sense and Sensibility
8. Captain Carter/ Pride and Prejudice
13. Doctor Allan Woodcourt/ Bleak House
14.
18.
19. Captain Lennox?/ North and South?
20. Major Gordon/ Cranford
21.
Trivia-
22. I believe Mr. Weston
23. I've never seen any Horatio Hornblower movie, but I'm going to guess the War of 1812.
24. I know Mr. March was one
25. World War I
This was challenging! I should become more familiar with Robert Louis Stevenson stories.
Photo: P&P 1995
ReplyDelete1. Captain Harville (Persuasion)
2. Colonel Foster (P&P)
3 Admiral Croft (Persuasion)
4. General Tilney (Northanger Abbey)
5. William Price (Mansfield Park)
6. Captain Frederick Tilney (NA)
7. Sir John Middleton (Persuasion)
8. Captain Carter (P&P)
9. Captain James Hardon (Bleak House)
15. Jim Hawkins (Treasure Island)
16. Captain Smollett (Treasure Island)
17. Billy Bones (Treasure Island)
18. Captain Brown (Cranford)
20. Major Gordon (Cranford)
21. Frederick Hale (North and South)
24. Mr. March and John Brooke
#7 is John Middleton from Sense and Sensibility
ReplyDelete#15 is Jim Hawkins from Treasure Island
#17 is Billy Bones from Treasure Island
#24 is Mr. March and John Brooke
1. Captain Harville
ReplyDelete2. Colonel Forster
3. Admiral Croft
4. General Tilney
5. William Price
6. Captain Frederick Tilney
7. Sir John Middleton
8. Captain Carter
9-12 no clue
13. Doctor Allan Woodcourt
14-17 no clue
18. Captain Brown
19. Captain Lennox
20. Major Gordon
21. Frederick Hale
22. I think it is Mr Weston
23. -
24. Rev. Mr March and John Brooke
25. First World War
I think I need to read a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, and brush up on Dickens!! :)
Forgot to answer the bonus question!! Pride and Prejudice 95. :)
ReplyDelete#2 = Colonel Foster
ReplyDelete#3 = Admiral Croft
#4 = General Tilney
#5 = William Price
#6 = Captain Frederick Tilney
#7 = Sir John Middleton
#8 = Captain Carter?
#15 = Jim Hawkins
#16 = Captain Smollett
#17 = Billy Bones
#23 = the Napoleonic War
Thank you for including a picture of Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower! Isn't he delightful?
Bonus-Pride and Prejudice 1995. That is Denny in the front, but I don't know the other-Carter maybe?
ReplyDelete1.Captain Harville, Persuasion
2. Colonel Forster, Pride and Prejudice
3.Admiral Croft, Persuasion
4.General Tilney, Northanger Abbey
5. Willian Price, Mansfield Park
6. Captain Frederick Tilney, Northanger Abbey
7.Sir John Middleton, Sense and Sensibility
8.Captain Carter, Pride and Prejudice
9. Captain James
10.John. I give up on Dickens-I don't know Dickens-yet
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13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.Captain Brown, Cranford-there is only one novel so I am going with that
19.Captain Lennox, North and South
20.Major Gordon, Cranford
21.Frederick Hale, North and South
22. Mr. Westen. Incidentally, Jane Fairfax's father also served in the military...hence her connection with Colonel Campbell.
23. Napoleonic?
24. Mr. March, as chaplain in the book anyway, and Mr. Brooke, as a soldier. He is discharged much earlier than Mr. March because of a wound.
25. World War One
#7 is Sir John Middleton from Sense and Sensibility
ReplyDelete#15 is Jim Hawkins from Treasure Island
#17 is Billy Bones from Treasure Island
#24 is Mr. March and John Brooks
Miss Elizabeth Bennet,
ReplyDeleteYour guess on the Photo Bonus Question was correct! You guessed the characters & their novels on #1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, #13, #19 and #20 correctly. Your guesses on Trivia Questions #22, #24 (partial points for naming one) and #25 were correct.
Your guess on #23 was incorrect.
Your score is 49 points. Good work!
Robert Louis Stevenson stories are very good and not just for boys (I'm working on a film review for this week so be on the lookout!), my mom read two or three of his books to us when we were kids and I'm listening to an audiobook of one right now. :)
Kiri Liz,
ReplyDeleteYou guessed the Photo Bonus Question correctly. Your guesses on the characters & their stories for #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 (but wrong story), #8, #9 (two points, last name misspelled), #15, #16, #17, #18, #20 and #21 were correct.
Your guess on Trivia Question #24 was correct.
Your score is 54 points! Good work! :)
Marissa Stangl,
ReplyDeleteYour guesses on characters and stories for #7, #15 and #17 were correct. Also your guess on Trivia Question #24 was correct. Your score is 15 points! Thanks for playing! :)
Issy,
ReplyDeleteYour guesses on character names 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 18, 19, 20 and 21 were correct. Care to guess their period dramas?
Your guesses for Trivia Questions #22, #24 and #25 were correct. Also your guess on the Bonus Photo Question was correct.
Your score is 48 points. Good work!
Robert Louis Stevenson books are really good, I'm listening to one on audiobook right now! :)
Hamlette,
ReplyDeleteYour guesses on characters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 17 were correct. Your guess on Trivia Question #23 was also correct. Your score is 25 points.
I quite enjoyed the Horation Hornblower series when I watched it a few years ago and Ioan Gruffudd is always delightful but especially in that uniform! ;)
Okay, here goes. :)
ReplyDelete1- Captain Harville, Persuasion
2- Colonel Forster, P&P
3- Admiral Croft, Pers.
4- General Tilney, NA
5- William Price, MP
6- Captain Frederick Tilney, NA
7- Sir John Middleton, S&S
8- Captain Carter, P&P
9-Captain James Hawdon, Bleak House
10- John Barsad, A Tale of Two Cities
(11- Do you think I would know this one?)
12- George Runcewell, Bleak House
13- Doctor Allan Woodcourt, Bleak House
(And Richard Carstone might have been on the list if it had been the boy for him! :P)
Oh dear, I don't know any of the Robert Louis Stevenson ones, as I am not at all acquainted with his stories. But I'm going to take a random number and guess that it's from Treasure Island. Let's say... 15. ;)
18- Captain Brown, and the movie was Cranford but I'm not sure about the books!
19- Captain Lennox, North and South
20- Major Gordon, and ditto what I said on 18
21- Frederick Hale, N&S
22- Oh, um... I don't know this. Heh. Mr. Weston, maybe?
23- I don't know. Iwillnotgiveintotemptationandlookitupeither. Random guess... the War of 1812? :P
24- Two? Two. Um, well, the obvious one is their father, but I can't remember who else! Oh dear!
25- I'm going to say World War I. ;)
Thanks for the game! This must have taken a lot of work!
Oh, sorry, bonus question. ;) P&P 1995. Heehee.
ReplyDeleteLivia Rachelle,
ReplyDeleteYour guess on the Bonus Photo Question was correct. Your guesses on characters and stories for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20 and 21 were correct. You also partially guessed #9 and #10 correctly. Your guesses on Trivia Questions #22 (yeah, I remember that connection and had to phrase my question with that in mind), #23, #24 and #25 were correct.
Your score is 77 points!! Good work! :)
Melody,
ReplyDeleteYour guess on the Photo Bonus Question was correct. ;)
Your guesses on characters and books for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 and 21 were correct. You random guess on #15 was actually correct, care to guess the others? ;)
Your guesses on Trivia Questions #22, #24 (two points for naming one) and #25 were correct. Your guess on #23 was incorrect.
Your might not know #11, a bit obscure I think but the name is neat.
So your score is...69 points! Good work!
It actually didn't seem to take very much work to put the game together, maybe because I'd already been thinking of some characters before I wrote it up Friday night. The biggest thing comes now, adding up all the different parts of the scores! :) You commend about Richard Carstone MMG! :)
Oops I forgot about the period drama names!!!
ReplyDelete1. Persuasion
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Persuasion
4. Northanger Abbey
5. Mansfield Park
6. Northanger Abbey
7. Sense and Sensibility
8. Pride and Prejudice
13. Bleak House
18. Cranford
19. My mind has gone completely blank! :)
20. Cranford
21. North and South
Photo bonus question: Pride and Prejudice 1995
ReplyDelete1.Captain Harville (Persusion)
2.Colonel Foster (Pride and Prejudice)
3.Admiral Croft (Persuasion)
4.General Tilney (Northanger Abbey)
5. William Price (Mansfield Park)
6. Captain Frederick Tilney (Northanger Abbey)
7.Sir?
8. Captain Carter (Pride and Prejudice)
9. How bad of me, I don't know any of these....
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11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.Colonel Brown (Cranford)
19.Captain Lennox (North and South)
20. Major Gordon (Cranford)
21. Frederick Hale (North and South)
22. Mr. Weston
23. Napoleontic War(s)
24. Mr. March (March sisters father) and John Brooke
25. World War I
Issy,
ReplyDeleteAll of your guesses on the novels were correct and your updated score is 60 points.
birdienl,
Your guess on the Photo Bonus Question was correct. Your guesses on characters and stories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (one word correct), 18, 19, 20 and 21 were correct. Your answers for Trivia Questions 22, 23, 24 and 25 were correct.
Your score is 59 points. Good job!
Oops! #7 - Sir James Middleton - is from Sense and Sensibility. For one odd moment, my brain made him Anne Elliot's father.... weird. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Miss Laurie,
ReplyDeleteHere are some of my guesses for this game:
The Photo Bonus Question was from Pride and Prejudice 1995.
#1: Captain Harville - Persuasion
#2: Colonel Foster - Pride and Prejudice
#3: Admiral Croft - Persuasion
#4: General Tilney - Northanger Abbey
#5
#6: Captain Frederick Tilney - Northanger Abbey
#7: Sir John Middleton - Sense and Sensibility
#8: Captain Carter - Pride and Prejudice
#18: Captain Brown - Cranford
#21: Frederick Hale - North and South
#23: The Napoleonic Wars
#24: One is Mr. March, the other is John Brooke
#25: First World War
Here are a few more guesses:
ReplyDelete#15: Jim Hawkins
#16: Captain Smollett
#17: Billy Bones
and all are from Treasure Island! :)
Just a random question: Would you consider the Love Comes Softly series period dramas? If not, why?
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you ladies!
ReplyDeleteKiri Liz,
Your guess on the story for #7 was correct. Your updated score is 55 points.
BatZion,
Your guess on the Bonus Photo Questions was correct. Your guesses on characters and books 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 were correct. Also your answers for Trivia Questions 23, 24 and 25 were correct. Your score is 57 points. Good work!
Yes, I do consider Love Comes Softly as period dramas (or period films rather). I enjoy the series of films and have reviewed a few of them here. :)