Here we are! The April quiz is here for you! I tried making it a bit harder, by asking more questions like "who said...", because those are the hardest to look up.
Oh yeah, it has 60 questions for a change, but you'll soon find that out yourself.
Anyway, you got until the end of this month, that is
30 April to be precise to send in your answers. I would prefer you to
private postBody me your answers because my computer is not always very willing to open my mail and it can take rather long that way.
Some instructions:
1) read the questions carefully
2) print the quiz
3) DO NOT, I repeat
do not post your answers below please
4) start looking for the answers
5) if you have any questions, post them below or pm me
6) send in your answers
Easy, what? lol
Enough talking, here's the quiz:
Who got caught in a spray of some liquid fire?
1)
What dwarf was once transported in a cask that had previously been filled with apples?
2)
Who said: ’Harrowdale at last! Our journey is almost at an end.’?
3)
What did the air near Rivendell smell like, according to Bilbo?
4)
In what chapter does Sam recite the poem ’Oliphaunt’?
5)
What were Smaug’s first words in "The Hobbit"?
6)
Who said to Gandalf: ’Die now and curse in vain!’?
7)
In English, the only correct plural of ’dwarf’ is ’dwarfs’ and the adjective is ’dwarfish’. You may have noticed though, that professor Tolkien sometimes uses the (incorrect) ’dwarves’ and ’dwarvish’. In what case
only does he use these incorrect forms?
8)
What was the name of the Elvenking of Mirkwood’s butler?
9)
Who said: ’Now we had better have it again.’?
10)
What was the colour of Dwalin’s beard?
11)
Who said: ’Yes, whichever side wins, his outlook is poor.’?
12)
Who was the last king at Fornost?
13)
How were the soldiers in the army of Dain clad?
14)
What did Gandalf answer to the question: ’What did the Men of old use them for?’ and who asked this question?
15)
16)
Who murmured: ’Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone.’?
17)
Who was Ro’c’s father?
18)
What chapter begins with the words: ’They rode on through sunset, and slow dusk, and gathering night.’?
19)
In what year did Sam Gamgee marry Rosie Cotton?
20)
Of what was Bilbo so terrified when he managed to get outside the Elvenking’s palace?
21)
Who said: ’Wizards are always troubled about the future.’?
22)
What was Gollum talking about when he ’sang’: ’Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsting, ever drinking; clad in mail, never clinking.’?
23)
Who said: ’I drew it forth, and staunched the wound.’?
24)
Name one of the three trolls Bilbo and the dwarves encountered.
25)
Of whom did Frodo speak when he said: ’Miserable fool, but I am sorry for him.’?
26)
What was it that Bilbo couldn’t find when he wanted to smoke a pipe down under the Misty Mountains?
27)
Who said: ’A pawn did Gandalf say? Perhaps, but on the wrong chessboard.’, and to whom do these lines refer?
28)
29)
Who said: ’I count many things: stars in sky, leaves on trees, men in the dark.’?
30)
Who sang he/she was in a hurry?
31)
Balin expected the halls within the Lonely Mountain to be filled with what?
32)
Who was Beregond’s father?
33)
What was the first name of the Appledore Butterbur spoke of?
34)
Of whom do harpers sadly sing?
35)
What is it that no dragon can resist?
(part from a mountain of gold and all the other obvious things, the answer I’m looking for is clearly mentioned in these words somewhere) 36)
What were Faramir’s first words in The Lord of the Rings?
37)
How was the game of golf invented according to a tale by Tolkien?
38)
Who stammered: ’Well, er, yes, I suppose so’?
39)
Who was the leader of the D’nadan that came riding south in search of Aragorn?
40)
Gandalf said to Bilbo on their first meeting: ’To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took’s son as if he was what?’
41)
What was the Hobbits’ name for the Plough or Great Bear?
42)
Who said: ’Not well. That would be the study of many lives. But I come here now and again.’?
43)
What was Gollum’s answer to the riddle: ’A box without hinges, key, or lid; yet golden treasure inside is hid.’? (I want you to put down Gollum’s
exact words here!)
44)
Who died in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and would therefore never return to Pinnath Gelin?
45)
Who laughed amid his tears at the Grey Havens?
46)
What was the colour of the handkerchief Bilbo borrowed from Elrond?
47)
Who said: ’Nay, time does not tarry ever, but change and growth is not in all places alike.’?
48)
Who was Bombur’s cousin?
49)
Before they had supper, Beorn clapped in his hands and in trotted what?
50)
How many times does Tolkien mention in The Hobbit that Bilbo wished he was back home in his own Hobbit-hole?
(Only count the ones where he literally says he WISHES or WANTS to be back home, in his own Hobbit-hole, or in some part of it!) 51)
In what year did Tolkien get married and what was the name of his wife?
52)
53)
Who chanted: ’O’er stony mountains cold and grey; trough halls of iron and darkling door.’?
54)
With who did Tolkien write the book "The road goes ever on and on"?
55)
How many bearers has the One Ring had (
including its Master, counting only the ones who had it for a longer period)?
56)
In what year was Priscilla Tolkien born?
57)
When did Tolkien retire? (the year will do)
58)
When was professor Tolkien born and when did he die?
59)
60)
Good luck to all of you and I hope you enjoy solving this one because I certainly enjoyed making it up.
School's going just fine, thanks Mellie! Could be better of course, but hey, what can't?
[Edited on 4/4/2003 by TomBombadillo]
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Can I post it sometime? Sometime after this one's over, of course. But Mellie's just said she's making one as well, so... I don't know. Let me know. 
BILBO BAGGANS...