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The Literary Spiders quiz
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Progress: 1 of 10 questions
A quizz about spiders in literature, rather than about spiders who write books.
In
J.R.R. Tolkien
's
The Lord of the Rings
, Shelob is a giant, evil spider. Her mother, more evil still and the progenitor of the race of giant spiders, was called...?
Sauron
Melkoth
Ungoliant
Saruman
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In the Harry Potter stories, Aragog is Hagrid's pet giant spider. What is Aragog's wife called?
Harry Potter Boxed Set
by
J.K. Rowling
Mosag
Kreacher
Griphook
Tenebrus
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In which of
Robert E. Howard
's stories does Conan the Barbarian fight a giant spider?
Conan
The Slithering Shadow
The Vale of Lost Women
The Tower of the Elephant
Rogues in the House
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Progress: 4 of 10 questions
The 29th chapter of which holy text is known as The Spider?
The Qur'an
The Dhammapada
The Bible
The Upanishads
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Manuel Puig
's novel set in a Buenos Aires jail: "... of the Spider Woman".
Bite
Web
Poison
Kiss
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What apparently insulting name does Bilbo call the spiders which capture the dwarves when they get lost in Mirkwood Forest?
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
by
J.R.R. Tolkien
Old Spinner
Attercop
Fly Sucker
Aragog
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What is the name of the pig who befriends Charlotte the spider in
E.B. White
's children's book
Charlotte's Web
?
Wilbur
Ed
Babe
Snowball
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Progress: 8 of 10 questions
In
Stan Lee
and
Steve Ditko
's original story, how did Peter Parker get the powers that made him Spider-Man?
Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1
Bitten by a genetically enhanced super-spider
Possessed by the spirit of the Spider Totem
Bitten by an accidentally irradiated spider
An illegal miltary experiment to create a Super-Soldier
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Progress: 9 of 10 questions
In the folktales of West Africa and the Caribbean, the trickster spirit is a spider called...
Anansi
Huehuecoyotl
Amaguq
Kokopelli
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Progress: 10 of 10 questions
In
Ovid
's
Metamorphoses
, Arachne is transformed into a spider as punishment for daring to challenge which Olympian goddess to a weaving contest?
Hera
Aphrodite
Hecate
Athena
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