Answers to Period Drama Couples Quiz + Bonus Questions

These are the answers to the Period Drama Couples Quiz + Bonus Questions game from last week. Thanks to everyone who played!

Answer: Mr. Rushworth & Maria Bertram from Mansfield Park (2007)

Answer: Kate Nickleby & Frank Cheeryble from The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001)

Answers:

#1. 
Handsome, clever and rich matchmaker / Gentlemanly and kind neighbor.

Answer: Emma Woodhouuse & Mr. Knightley from Emma

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#2. 
Heroine's spinsterish best friend / Odious "humble" clergyman.

Answer: Charlotte Lucas & Mr. Collins from Pride and Prejudice

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#3. 
Student turned revolutionary / Adopted daughter of ex-con.

Answer: Marius Pontmercy & Cosette Fauchelevent from Les Miserables

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#4. 
Free thinking nobleman's youngest daughter / Chauffeur with strong political views.

Answer: Lady Sybil Crawley & Branson from Downton Abbey

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#5. 
Prairie trekker and teacher / Farmer boy.

Answer: Laura Ingalls & Almanzo Wilder from Little House on the Prairie series

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#6. 
Opinionated post mistress / Kind blacksmith.

Answer: Dorcas Lane & Gabriel Cochrane from Lark Rise to Candleford

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#7. 
Charming aunt's heir / Orphan trained for a governess.

Answer: Frank Churchill & Jane Fairfax from Emma

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#8. 
Stepsister with lots of secrets / Rich gentleman she ends up with.

Answer: Cynthia Kirkpatrick & Mr. Henderson from Wives and Daughters 

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#9. 
Sweet young ward / Indecisive young man with great expectations.

Answer: Ada Clare & Richard Carstone from Bleak House

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#10. 
Spirited and fine-eyed / Proud, disagreeable fellow with a kind heart.

Answer: Elizabeth Bennet & Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice

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#11. 
Runaway school teacher / Made to marry to clear her father's debts.

Answer: Nicholas Nickleby & Madeleine Bray from Nicholas Nickleby

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#12. 
Vain youngest sister / Brotherly neighbor.

Answer: Amy March & Theodore "Laurie" Laurence 

Blunder: I had already used them in a Couples game before and completely forgot!

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#13. 
Sensible clergyman's daughter / Handsome northern master.

Answer: Margaret Hale & John Thornton from North and South

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#14. 
Hardworking and supports his siblings / Imaginative and clumsy housemaid.

Answer: Alf Arless & Winifred "Minnie" Mude from Lark Rise to Candleford

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#15. 
Spirited actress / Titled fop with a double life.
Answer: Marguerite St. Just & Sir Percy Blakeney from The Scarlet Pimpernel

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#16. 
Sweet and dedicated daughter / Kind gentleman who uncovers secrets of their past.
Answer: Amy Dorrit & Arthur Clennam from Little Dorrit

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#17. 
Heroine's raven haired best friend / Roley, poley and sturdy but the "right" guy.
Answer: Diana Barry & Fred Wright from Anne of Green Gables series

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#18. 
Comical soldier with no thoughts of matrimony / Mirthful lady who loves to tease him.
Answer: Benedick & Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing

"What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?"

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#19. 
Heroine's older dancing sister / Idle only son who finds it hard to keep quiet.
Answer: Fanny Dorrit & Edmund Sparkler from Little Dorrit

"Sparkler, be quiet!"

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#20. 
Kind but easily persuaded / Brave and hardy but weak and resentful.
Answer: Anne Elliot & Captain Wentworth from Persuasion

"...Weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant." - Wentworth

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#21. 
Idle young man longing to be independent of his father / Sweet young lady whose family is a bit embarrassing.
Answer: William Buxton & Peggy Bell from Return to Cranford

Hiddles!

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#22. 
Country school teacher and organist / Hardworking determined young man with a nice voice and eyes only for the heroine.
Answer: Fancy Day & Dick Dewey from Under The Greenwood Tree

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#23. 
Title hero who goes from pauper to wealthy author / Long-suffering lady who has always loved him.
Answer: David Copperfield & Agnes Wick from David Copperfield

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#24. 
Clergyman intent on pleasing the ladies / Vain and pretentious woman.
Answer: Mr. Elton & Augusta Hawkins from Emma

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#25. 
Pretty and good-humored but sly and jealous / Silly and a great coxcomb.
Answer: Lucy Steele & Robert Ferrars from Sense and Sensibility

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Players Scores:
birdienl - 146 points
Petie - 146 points
Melody - 145 points
Miss Dashwood - 143 points
Kiri Liz - 141 points
Hayden - 135 points
S and family - 128 points
Stephanie - 117 points
Livia Rachelle - 114 points
Gracie - 107 points
Robyn Hoode - 77 points
Emily Ruth - 70 points
Julia - 48 points
Vicki - 48 points
Hamlette - 42 points
Melissa - 36 points
Kimberly - 6 points