Angels and Oxford quiz

To promote Lexicon we ran a quiz at 2Kon, the 2000 Eastercon in Glasgow. If you missed the con or wanted to check the answers, here they are!

1. Where is an angel the vampire?

A. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Sunnydale, Angle)

2. Name the angel in The Vintners Luck

A. Xas

3. Who wrote The Calculus of Angels?

A. J Gregory Keyes

5. What is the literal meaning of the Latin angelus and Greek aggelos?

A Messenger

6. Who sang about “angels in the architecture spinning in infinity?

A. Paul Simon

7. In H G Wells’ The Wonderful Visit, what happens to the angel who visits Earth?

A. Shot

8. What happens to Mr Pye in the book by Mervyn Peake?

A. Becomes an angel

9. In the Damiano books by R A Macavoy, which archangel falls to earth?

A. Raphael

10. Which Steven Brust book details the angels’ war in heaven?

A. To Reign In Hell

11. Christmas movie in which an angel proves to James Stewart that his life has made a difference

A  It’s A Wonderful Life

13. Name that angel!

A. Clarence

13. Australian star of Almost An Angel

A. Paul Hogan

14. Wim Wenders movie remade as City of Angels with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan

A. Wings of desire (Der Himmel über berlin)

15. Michael film with David Niven as a fighter pilot arguing with an angel for his life

A. A Matter Of Life And Death

16. John Travolta film in which he plays an angel travelling with tabloid journalists

A. Michael

17. First World War legend of phantom archers joining battle

A. The Angel of Mons

18. She may be an angel: the old lady in Stephen King’s The Stand

A. Mother Abigail

19. Name the two angels in Sandman, Seasons of Mists, who take over hell

A. Remiel and Duma

20. North London Angel in Neverwhere

A. The Angel Islington

21. Part–time antiquarian book dealer and angel in Good Omens

A. Aziraphale

22. Timothy had a daughter called Angel in which Philip K. Dick novel?

A. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

23. In Storm Constantine’s Burying the Shadows, what have the fallen Elohim become?

A. Vampires

24. Proginoskes the cherubim visits Charles and Meg Wallace in which book by Madeleine L’Engle

A. A Wind in the Door

25. In which college story by Elizabeth Hand do Sweeney, Angelica and Oliver meet at the University of Archangels and St John the Divine?

A. Waking The Moon

26. What does Moorcock’s Lucifer offer to exchange von Bek’s soul for?

A. The Holy Grail

27. First book by Meredith Ann Pierce

A. The Darkangel

28. Who are Larry Niven’s fallen angels?

A. Astronauts from the abandoned space station

29. Which angel is the voice of God

A. Metatron

30. Name all five of Captain Scarlet’s Angels

A. Rhapsody, Harmony, Melody, Symphony and Destiny

Oxford

1. What is the real name of Michael Innes, under which he wrote A Staircase in Surrey and other Oxford books.

J I M Stewart

2. The real name of Lewis Carroll

A. Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson

3. How many in Jerome K Jerome’s boat on the Thames?

A. Four: three men – to say nothing of the dog

4.Connie Willis’ tale of time travel from a future Oxford back to plague–torn xxx century

A. Doomsday Book

5. Oxford: light blue or dark?

A. dark

6. Which was Peter Wimsey’s college?

A. Balliol

7. Which college has no undergraduates?

A. All Soul’s College (we also accepted other graduate colleges)

8. What is the Oxford University motto?

A. Dominus Illuminatio Mea (against the background of a book)

9. Max Beerbohm’s Oxford heroine, for love of whom the entire undergraduate population died

A. Zuleika Dobson

10. What is the Thames called in Oxford

A. Isis and Cherwell (1 point for either)

11. Which award–winning author from Oxford will be at Lexicon

A. Philip Pullman

12. Name Oxford’s copyright library

A. The Bodleian Library

13: Who coined the term The Dreaming Spires?

A. Matthew Arnold

14. On May Morning where do the choristers sing?

A. Top of Magdalen Tower

15. Which poet electrified his doorknob when an undergraduate at Oxford?

A. Shelley

Our winners at 2Kon were: