Dracula Quiz!

[650lb Sumo]

(1) What year was Dracula published?
(2) Who wrote it?
(3) What are the names and nationalities of the main protagonists?
(4) Why is one of them dealing with Dracula at the beginning of the novel?
(5) Where was Dracula's castle?

(6) Dracula arrives in the UK by ship. What are the names of the ship, its home port, and the port it arrives at? (Three Marks)
(7) The protagonists stay at one of them's workplace. What is it, and which one of them works there? (Two Marks)
(8) What forms does Dracula take?
(9) Who kills him?
(10) Which of the protagonists die during the novel, and how?

Spoiler

(1) 1897
(2) Abraham 'Bram' Stoker
(3) Jonathan Harker
Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Dutch)
Arthur 'Art' Holmwood
Quincey P. Morris (USA)
Wilhelmina 'Mina' Murray (Harker after marriage)
Dr. John 'Jack' Seward
Lucy Westenra.

Obviously where nationality is not specified they are British - you only get marks for specifying Morris and Van Helsing's nationalities. So there are nine marks available.
(4) Harker is a solicitor, whom Dracula is instructing to help him buy a house in London.
(5) Transylvania - either Romania or Austro-Hungary at the time

(6) The Demeter - Varna (Bulgaria) - Whitby
(7) An unnamed lunatic asylum near Purfleet-on-Thames and the abandoned Carfax Abbey - Seward's workplace.
(8) Man, bat, dog and mist (Four Marks)
(9) Jonathan Harker beheads him, and Morris drives a stake through his heart. (Two Marks)
(10) Lucy dies of blood loss (Dracula drank it), then becomes a vampire. Vampire Lucy has a stake driven through her heart by Holmwood, and is beheaded by Van Helsing and Seward. Morris dies of injuries sustained during the fight with the Gypsies, who were conveying Dracula's coffin back to his castle. (Five Marks)

The pass mark is

Spoiler

15/29!

How did you do?

 

[Sweater of AV]

5/29



In my defense, it's probably been at least 30 years since I even thought about Dracula.

 

[Spam On Rye]

Perfect score but only because I just revisited it earlier this year. Also, since the new film is out, gotta say that Murnau's Nosferatu is the best Dracula film by far then Coppola coming in at a not so close 2nd, but still a solid film. Shadow of the Vampire is an overlooked one as well.

 

[syct23]

As a kid I was told that Dracula uses girls tampons to flavor his water…

Is there any truth to that?

 

[SwaggyT]

I would whip Dracula’s ass

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[Osculater]

Dracula is a quarter Turkish

 

[Nathan LaMontagne]

You guys want some gnarly, insane facts?

John Polidori was Lord Byron's Doctor (Drug Dealer)
He secretly very much disliked Lord Byron. As he would seduce all the local young women, sleep with them and let them walk off to invariably be eventually killed with STDs as Lord Byron was riddled.
They just really couldn't help it as he was rich, powerful, charming and suave.

In folklore , Vampires at this point we're blood thirsty animalistic beasts.

It wasn't til the early 1800s (1820s?) That Lord Byron had some guests over to his castle, while consuming copies amounts of opium. In which they along with Polidori were challenged to write the scariest stories they could.

They reconvene and Polidori brought in his "submission"

"The Vampyre" of a Uniquely, seductive, suave, rich Vampire that prays on young women.

Our modern concept of Vampire IS Lord Byron

Oh and the guests I mentioned above were
A 17 year old Mary Shelley and her Husband.

Frankenstein and the proto Dracula were written in the same place at the same time in arguably the exact same night.