Period Drama Week - Monday: Period Drama Trivia Challenge

Our next event for Period Drama Week will be the Period Drama Trivia Challenge! Here I have fifty questions about different period dramas. See how many you can answer!

Rules:

• You get one chance to submit your answers.
• Go through as many questions as you can. If you don't know an answer, try to guess. You will not be deducted for wrong answers. You can leave the question blank if you do not know.
• Comment your questions in this post. I will not publish the comments, but I will record your answers. I will post a comment with how many everyone got right/wrong. It may help to subscribe to this post in the comments so you can see how many you've gotten right/wrong.
• The winners will be the top five people with the most correct. If there are more people who are in the top five than five, the rule of first-come-first-served will apply. For the five winners, I will make a special button for each one so they can post it on their sidebars. I will post those buttons in the concluding post for Period Drama Week, so you can pick it up then! The size will be 200 pixels by 200 pixels and will include your name/username/or blog name even and "Winner of Period Drama Trivia Challenge. If you want it to be bigger or smaller, let me know: I won't go smaller than 150 px by 150 pixels or bigger than 300 pixels by 300 pixels.
• Submit your answers by Friday at 11:55.

1. Which two period dramas were Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in together?
2. Name the three Jane Austen adaptations that were released in 1995.
3. What author wrote the novels The Way We Live Now, He Knew He Was Right, and the books that became The Barchester Chronicles?
4. Who wrote the screenplay for Emma (2009)?
5. What three Pride and Prejudice (1995) actors/actresses were in The King's Speech?
6. How many adaptations of Sense and Sensibility (not spin-offs or modern retellings) were there from 1970 to the present?
7. How many versions were there of North and South (by Elizabeth Gaskell)?
8. Name three period dramas that Michael Gambon was in.
9. Name three period dramas that Colin Firth was in.
10. Who wrote the screenplay to North and South?
11. Who wrote the screenplay to Wives and Daughters?
12. In Little Dorrit, what was Pet's real name?
13. What was at stake in Cranford? In Cranford (2007), finish the quote: "There is ____ at stake!"
14. In North and South (2004), what did John Thornton mention before first proposing to Margaret Hale?
15. What did Roger Hamley send to Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters?
16. What was the name of Osborne Hamley's wife in Wives and Daughters?
17. What was the name of the county that the Bennets lived in in Pride and Prejudice?
18. Who were Lady Bertram's sisters in Mansfield Park?
19. What were the maiden names of the sisters in Question 18?
20. What was Mrs. Bennet's maiden name in Pride and Prejudice?
21. In He Knew He Was Right, what was Emily Trevelyan's maiden name?
22. What were the names of the sisters fighting over Mr. Gibson in He Knew He Was Right?
23. Who were the four living members of the Carbury family in The Way We Live Now?
24. Where was Mrs. Elton originally from in Emma?
25. What was Mrs. Elton's maiden name?
26. Name three period dramas that Romola Garai was in.
27. True or False? The name of the Dashwood's original home in Sense and Sensibility was Morland.
28. Who was Isabella Thorpe engaged to in Northanger Abbey?
29. What is the name of the family that owns Downton Abbey?
30. Who were the three women that were trying for Doctor Harrison's affections in Cranford?
31. Who was Doctor Harrison actually in love with?
32. What was the name of Lady Catherine de Bourgh's husband in Pride and Prejudice?
33. How old was Margaret Dashwood in the 1995 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility?
34. How old was Margaret Dashwood in the book Sense and Sensibility?
35. What was Mrs. Weston's first name in Emma?
36. Who is the heir of Kellynch Hall (full name, please)?
37. Who is the butler at Downton Abbey (full name again)?
38. Who is the house keeper at Downton Abbey (again, full name)?
39. Who are Mr. Darcy's cousins that are present in Pride and Prejudice?
40. What was the name of the woman that Paul Montague was engaged to in The Way We Live Now?
41. What was the name of the new bishop in The Barchester Chronicles (or Barchester Towers for the book)?
42. What was the name of the chaplain for the bishop in #41?
43. What was Henry Tilney's occupation in Northanger Abbey?
44. How many children were in Catherine Morland's family in Northanger Abbey?
45. How old were Elizabeth Elliot and Anne Elliot at the beginning of Persuasion (not counting the flashbacks)?
46. What was the "North" town in North and South? What was the "South" town?
47. What was the name of Charles, Henrietta, and Louisa Musgrove's brother who served in the navy?
48. What was the name of the boy that Mr. Carter was teaching how to read in Cranford (2007)?
49. How many children do Isabella and John Knightley have in Emma?
50. Why is Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters called Molly instead of her Christian name? What was her Christian name?
51. Not a Trivia Question - If you are in the top five, which character from a period drama would you like to have for your button? Would you prefer your name/username or blog name in the button?

Comment your answers below. Good luck everyone!




God Bless,
 

Period Drama Week Tag: Part 1

Like last time, I also want to participate in the tag. Here is the first part in what I plan to be four parts of my answers. Enjoy!

1. How did you get into period dramas?

It all started when I watched Pride and Prejudice (1995) with my mom. I really enjoyed watching it with her. After that, my mom would start to buy period dramas for us to watch that she would find browsing through Amazon, and she's continued to do so ever since... Either that or we go to Barnes and Noble and find period dramas to watch :-D

2. What is it that you like about period dramas?
A couple of things:
  1. Unlike most movies/TV shows today, the best period dramas offer good moral lessons. It seems like a lot of the recent movies/TV shows of today show us windows into the worst aspects of human nature. With period dramas, there is usually at least one (if not more) characters that you can relate to and see more of the positives in human nature. Granted that there are some characters in period dramas that do not exhibit good morals, but they do not outshine the good characters.
  2. The costuming is amazing! I spend quite a bit of time while I'm watching a period drama simply looking at the dresses.
  3. For the most part, period dramas don't get as graphic as most movies/TV shows today do. I know, there are a couple that do have one or two scenes that are inappropriate, but from what I've noticed there's a lot less of it in period dramas than in a lot of modern movies. Plus in period dramas, you can usually skip those one or two scenes easily and not miss out on anything important.

3. Do you usually read a book and then watch the adaptation or do you watch the adaptation and then read the book?

 I usually end up watching the adaptation before reading the book. If I see a period drama that I really like, I usually plan on reading the book so I can get the little details that I missed. I know you're supposed to read the book then watch the movie, but that rarely happens with me ;-)

4. What are your top three period dramas and why?
I'm going to have to exclude Jane Austen period dramas for this question, since my top three period dramas are Jane Austen period dramas, which you would have already seen for Jane Austen Week. In which case, it would have been Pride and Prejudice (1995), Sense and Sensibility (1995), and Emma (2009), but you can read about them at my tag for Jane Austen Week here... Anyways, for non-Jane Austen period dramas...

Downton Abbey

I really love this series, but it does have it's issues (namely two scenes that are inappropriate and unnecessary). Excepting those scenes (which are found in episodes 1 and 3 if you want to avoid them), the rest of the show is very good. The costuming is spectacular and great to look at (especially the hats), the acting is very well done, and if you've seen a lot of period dramas, you may recognize a good deal of the cast. Why did season 1 have to end with so many cliffhangers? Can't wait for season 2 to come out on DVD! So I highly recommend this series, but with an asterisk (maybe not a literal asterisk, but you get my point).

Little Dorrit

Again, another very interesting period drama and I recommend it, but when I do recommend it, I warn that there are two major scenes that you may want to skip (Episodes 2 and the end of 13 and beginning of 14). But besides those two scenes, the acting is very good and very enjoyable to watch. The entire miniseries is 6-7 hours long, so be prepared to sit down and watch it for a while over a couple of nights.

Lark Rise to Candleford: Season 1 and 2
I say Seasons 1 and 2 since I didn't think 3 and 4 were as good (in fact, they probably didn't help the series very much), but still, I love Lark Rise to Candleford! It's something that you can sit down and watch and not have to really worry too much about.

Some runner ups (no particular order) - Cranford, House of Eliott, The King's Speech, He Knew He Was Right (for the subplots), The Barchester Chronicles

5. From those three period dramas that you picked, who are your favorite characters in each one?
From Downton Abbey

Ahh! There are so many characters that I like in Downton Abbey, but just one favorite? Hmm... How do I pick between Robert, Cora, Lady Violet, Anna, and Bates? Hmmm... I think my absolute favorite character in Downton Abbey is probably Cora. She cares for her daughters: she tries to get her daughters married so they can be settled and taken care of since Downton Abbey is entailed away. Tough choice, though!


From Little Dorrit

Amy, of course! She's such a sweet character. She does so much for her family and she continues to help them even though they don't appreciate her. She doesn't complain, she simply does what needs to get done.

From Lark Rise to Candleford

Hmmm... Another tough one. Probably Dorcas Lane. Yeah, she does get too much involved in other people's business, but she means well. She also keeps up a professional appearance at the post office even though a lot could be going on in an episode.

 Keep an eye out for Part 2!

God Bless,