Getting Into (Fictional) Character

Question: What king does Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Idylls concern?

Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is an epic poem devoted to King Arthur.

Question: Where did the Minotaur live?

Answer: The Minotaur was a monster, half-man and half-bull. It lived under the palace of King Minos on the island of Crete.

Question: What is the name of the schoolteacher in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?

Answer: The tall, skinny schoolteacher in Washington Irving’s story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is named Ichabod Crane.

Question: On which real London street does the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes live?

Answer: Sherlock Holmes lives at 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle’s popular stories and novels about the detective.

Question: Where is Hercule Poirot from?

Answer: Agatha Christie’s renowned detective hero, Hercule Poirot, is a native of Belgium.

Question: What is the name of Captain Nemo’s submarine?

Answer: In Jules Verne’s 1870s novels 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island, the Nautilus is Captain Nemo’s luxurious high-tech submarine.

Question: What were the mountains where Rip Van Winkle lived called?

Answer: The Catskills, in New York, take their name from a Dutch phrase meaning "mountain lion stream."