TRIVIA-FICTIONAL SIBLINGS

1. Sisters Elizabeth and Jane Bennet are the main characters in this Jane Austen novel, which despite the alliterative name, is more romantic than it is sinful and hateful.

2. The previous year, in a likewise alliterative and almost repetitively-titled book, the same author wrote about the Dashwood sisters’ feeling and practicality.

3. When this animated patriarch simpleton was introduced to his captain of industry brother, Herb, he ruined Herb’s car company after he designed a model with “rack-and-peanut steering.”

4. In this story, the title character was at first trampled underfoot by her ugly sisters via matrimony. But it ended well enough that the character’s name is now synonymous with underdog.

5. There were eight books in this Beverly Cleary series about the Quimby sisters. The story began in 1955 with this eponymous book when the sisters were 9and

4, and ended in 1999when they were 15and 9.

6. There are four children in this novel - three boys and a girl. The eldest brother is a hothead who was killed at a toll booth, the middle is a dumdum heartbreaker, and the youngest is a calculating character who rejects Satan and all his empty promises.

7. The family name of these three animated brothers is scuiridae. They were created in 1958by Ross Bagdasarian, who also voiced them with manipulated treble for high-pitch effect.