Q 01/05

In what year was Bram Stoker's novel Dracula first published?

A) 1907

B) 1887

C) 1897

D) 1917

Answer · why

C) 1897

It has never been out of print, though Stoker's incorrect US copyright filing later put the story in the American public domain.

Q 02/05

Bram Stoker was born in which country?

A) Ireland

B) Scotland

C) England

D) Wales

Answer · why

A) Ireland

He was bedridden for the first seven years of his life with an undiagnosed illness before going on to Trinity College Dublin.

Q 03/05

What was the novel's title on the printer's typescript before a last-minute change?

A) The Castle in the Carpathians

B) The Vampire Count

C) Powers of Darkness

D) The Un-Dead

Answer · why

D) The Un-Dead

Biographer Barbara Belford thought the finished book looked 'shabby' as a result of the late switch.

Q 04/05

Stoker took the name 'Dracula' from William Wilkinson's 1820 history of which two principalities?

A) Serbia and Bosnia

B) Bohemia and Moravia

C) Bavaria and Saxony

D) Wallachia and Moldavia

Answer · why

D) Wallachia and Moldavia

He wrote most of the manuscript on summer holidays in Cruden Bay, Scotland, between 1893 and 1896.

Q 05/05

In the novel, what is the name of the ship that carries Dracula and his boxes of earth to England?

A) The Czarina Catherine

B) The Hesperus

C) The Persephone

D) The Demeter

Answer · why

D) The Demeter

When it runs aground at Whitby the captain's corpse is found lashed to the helm and a large dog leaps ashore.