Tag: Quiz: Narnia

Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 28th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (11/28) in 1941 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:]
“He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXXI
(First published in The Guardian on 11/28/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was the First Joke (cause of the first laughter) after Narnia was created?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 25th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Pictures of Lewis was taken on this day (11/25) in 1950 by John Chillingsworth for Radio Times.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on to its young.”

Preface to B. G. Sandhurst’s How Heathen is Britain? (Collins Publishers, 1946) that was reprinted in God in the Dock under the title of “On the Transmission of Christianity”

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is Coriakin and in which Narnia book is he mentioned?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 21st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Screwtape Letters – XXX was released today (11/21) in 1941 in The Guardian. It was the next to last one.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[A Warning to Wormwood]: “You will soon find that the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring us back food, or be food yourself.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXX
(First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What essay was published this month in what year (and what was the title) that talked about some of how Lewis came to write the Narnia stories?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 18th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” was first published today (11/18) in 1956 in The New York Times Book Review.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”

Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said
(First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is the other animal that helps Shift in The Last Battle and what does he do?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 14th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released today (11/14) in 1941 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtue.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXIX
(First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What Narnia book was published for the first time in the US this month?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 7th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The last month of weekly letters from Screwtape began today (11/7) in 1941 when the 28th letter was published in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[Humans] do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them to do so. Do not let us be infected by our own propaganda.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII
(First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What four children’s names did Lewis FIRST consider for the Pevensie children?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 4th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Weight of Glory” was published in the November, 1941 issues of Theology.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken.”

The Weight of Glory
(Published in November, 1941 issue of Theology)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Once Lewis began to seriously write the Narnia books, which one took the longest for him to write?