Wednesday: Before and After Trivia

Below are the clues and answers for Wednesday's trivia which was based on combining the titles of two literary works to form a new title.......for example, Gone with the Wind in the Willows.


This one must have really been a stumper because only four of you took a shot at it. Teresa Jackson worked hard and ame out the winner with all ten answered correctly!

1. Mary, Colin, and Dickon lock the door and throw away the key to their floral wonderland when they stumble upon Hieronymus Bosch’s most famous and unconventional painting.

The Secret Garden of Earthly Delights


2. Umberto Eco’s medieval whodunit finds a lonely southern spinster searching for love in a monastic library in rural Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

The Name of the Rose for Emily


3. While on holiday in Italy, Miss Lucy Honeychurch can’t choose between two suitors, so she shuts herself in her hotel room to watch her favorite James Bond movie about a mad industrialist who plans to destroy Silicon Valley.

A Room with a View to a Kill


4. Builders of a 12th-century cathedral must be forward-looking as they attempt to adhere to the ecological constraints set out by Al Gore.

Pillars of the Earth in the Balance


5. Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin timetravels to North Carolina to wait for Inman, a Confederate army deserter to return home.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Mountain


6. Two children who are born at the stroke of midnight at the moment India becomes an independent nation, are switched in the hospital and grow up to perform in a Tony-award winning play about a speech therapist who falls in love with one of his deaf students.

Midnight’s Children of a Lesser God

7. For a year, Bridget, confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage to Bettina Balser who is secret chronicling her own fears.

Bridget Jones Diary of a Mad Housewife


8. The Youngers, an African-American family living in Chicago, argue over how to spend a $10,000 insurance check while beautiful sexually-needy socialite Lady Brett Ashley falls hopelessly in love with newspaperman Jake Harris whom she cannot marry because he is impotent due to his war wounds.

A Raisin in the Sun Also Rises

9. Fitzgerald’s tragic romance about Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress, and a stylish American couple - Dick, a psychiatrist, and his wealthy wife, Nicole Diver who meet Tennessee Williams’ ex-Episcopal minister, T. Lawrence Shannon as serves as a tourist guide to a group of middle-aged Texas spinsters in Mexico.

Tender is the Night of the Iguana


10. Tom Sawyer’s good friend, a boy with a drunk for a father, who rises from his coffin when whiskey splashes on his corpse during a fight at the viewing.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnegan’s Wake