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Xanadu Quiz
8 years ago
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Okay. I'll start with this.
1.) All Xanadu stories began with a snippet of poetry. This was based on a classic poem. What was the poem and who was the poet?
2.) What was Alicia's mothers name and who was she named after?
3) Xanadu was divided into three social classes based on species. There were the Nobles, the Freeborn and the Domestique. Nobles were the easiest to define because they were "magical" animals. However, the line between Freeborn and Domestique was often blurred. Can you tell into which social category the following animals fall:
Chicken. Goose. Horse. Donkey. Goat. Llama. Digger.
4) Kinomon Firestarr is a Warrior Dragon. His betrothed, Firepetal, was of the Bureaucrat class. Although these two genuinely loved each other, their engagement was arranged. This is because in the society of Golden Dragons a Warrior always marries a Bureaucrat. Can you tell me why?
5) The fire breathed by Golden Dragons has its origins in a magical artifact. What artifact is this and where did it come from?
6) Captain Jawbreaker's visit to Edoko was accompanied by a number of minor mishaps. He was always tripping over things and breaking stuff. This was done as a homage to a famous character. What character would that be?
7) There are a number of physical difference between Black Dragons and Golden Dragons although they are basically the same species. One of these differences is a bifurcation of the spade-shaped tip of their tail. This "split-tail" is not natural. It is something that is done to infant Black Dragons shortly after they are hatched. And the reason is strategic rather than cosmetic. What reason is this?
8) Who is Kajishiro? And what has he got to do with anything?
9) The trio of Tabbe le Fauve, Jonathan and Kinomon Firestarr are a homage to two separate famous trios. One is a comic trio; the other is a much older classic group. What trios are these?
10) Alicia and Fatima are the same age, yet Fatima is considered a mature vixen while Alicia is thought of as "young and irresponsible". Why?
1.) All Xanadu stories began with a snippet of poetry. This was based on a classic poem. What was the poem and who was the poet?
2.) What was Alicia's mothers name and who was she named after?
3) Xanadu was divided into three social classes based on species. There were the Nobles, the Freeborn and the Domestique. Nobles were the easiest to define because they were "magical" animals. However, the line between Freeborn and Domestique was often blurred. Can you tell into which social category the following animals fall:
Chicken. Goose. Horse. Donkey. Goat. Llama. Digger.
4) Kinomon Firestarr is a Warrior Dragon. His betrothed, Firepetal, was of the Bureaucrat class. Although these two genuinely loved each other, their engagement was arranged. This is because in the society of Golden Dragons a Warrior always marries a Bureaucrat. Can you tell me why?
5) The fire breathed by Golden Dragons has its origins in a magical artifact. What artifact is this and where did it come from?
6) Captain Jawbreaker's visit to Edoko was accompanied by a number of minor mishaps. He was always tripping over things and breaking stuff. This was done as a homage to a famous character. What character would that be?
7) There are a number of physical difference between Black Dragons and Golden Dragons although they are basically the same species. One of these differences is a bifurcation of the spade-shaped tip of their tail. This "split-tail" is not natural. It is something that is done to infant Black Dragons shortly after they are hatched. And the reason is strategic rather than cosmetic. What reason is this?
8) Who is Kajishiro? And what has he got to do with anything?
9) The trio of Tabbe le Fauve, Jonathan and Kinomon Firestarr are a homage to two separate famous trios. One is a comic trio; the other is a much older classic group. What trios are these?
10) Alicia and Fatima are the same age, yet Fatima is considered a mature vixen while Alicia is thought of as "young and irresponsible". Why?
Lupin III, Jigen Daisuke, and Goemon
1) Guessing the titular piece, In Xanadu, by William Dalrymple
2) Don't know
3) Freeborn: Goose, Goat, Llama, Digger; Domestique: Chicken, Horse, Donkey
4) I can't imagine why, other than always having a pen attached to a sword, and vice-versa to create a mighty team for all threats, physical and papyrus based.
5) No idea
6) Peter Seller's Inspector Clueseau?
7) Don't know
8) Don't know
9) Don't know
10) Fatima is married?
1) Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2) Alice's mother's name is Amalthea, after the name assumed by the humanized The Last Unicorn in Peter S. Beagle's book.
4) Someone has to do the paperwork?
9) The Musicians of Bremen.
10) Unicorns are longer lived, so Alicia is a teenager by their standards.
4. Because warriors are expected to die in battle, and having both parents as warriors would likely leave orphans. Also to prevent both classes from becoming too inbred.
5. I believe it's called the Golden Essence, and it's part of the magical elements the Phoenix lefts when she died. (Elements of earth, fire, water and I forget what else.)
8. I believe Kajishiro is the dragon who insulted/attacked Allynrude's group in the Queen's court, precipitating the duel between the queen and Allynrude.
Vicky, we are still your fans, and still want the story to continue.
2. Amalthea. I think that was the name of a semi-divine she-goat who fed the infant god Zeus.
3. Domestique, domestique, domestique, domestique, freeborn, and freeborn.
4. No clue.
5. The Golden Essence.
6. Jar-Jar Binks?
7. No idea.
8. Wasn't he a courtier in a text version of Allynrud's conquest of the Golden Realm? As I recall, he gave Toddrick Plume (Reginald Plume's father) a good roasting.
9. The Three Stooges and the Three Musketeers.
10. The species age at different rates. Fatima has aged to "adulthood" while Alicia is still an "adolescent".
But I'm pretty sure Vicky got it from Beagle.
2. Amalthea, and from Peter Beagle's "Last Unicorn".
3. I'm pretty sure horses are freeborn; as for the rest, I have no idea what a 'digger' is, but I suspect the Llama is freeborn, and the rest are domestique.
4. So when/if the warrior dies young someone's still there to manage the household and the hatchlings.
5. The Golden Fire kept by Joo-Sama, and it came from the same place as the waters of the Unicorn Pool, from the scattered magic of the Phoenix when she died.
6. Got no idea here. I can think of a ton of clumsy comedians, and heck Gerald Ford was always supposed to be tripping over his own two feet, but I doubt it was him!
7. To make them better able to pull off sharp turns in mid-air?
8. Kajishiro the "White Fire", a lecherous and arrogant Gold Dragon warrior who unintentionally helped make the duel between Joo-Sama and Allynrud happen.
9. The Three Musketeers (minus D'Artagnan) and Lupin the III and his two pals.
10. Because unicorns have a lifespan measured in centuries. Well that and no single male is safe around Alicia...
6. Chevy Chase?
9. Charlie's Angels...gender switched.
The character mentioned is a movie star whose face wood be recognized anywhere movies are shown.