The Luminaries Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Luminaries? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who says that "a person's fortune always changes in the telling of it"?


Anna Wetherell
Lydia Wells
Walter Moody
Emery Staines
Q. Who was "declared the luckiest man in Hokitika" when he cashed in a gold nugget at the Reserve Bank?


Lydia Wells
Crosbie Wells
Alistair Lauderback
Emery Staines
Q. Name the speaker: 'I suppose that to know a thing is to see it from all sides.'


Lydia Wells
Emery Staines
Walter Moody
Alistair Lauderback
Q. Name the speaker: "What's the opposite of a homeward-bounder? [ …] A never-going-homer? A stick-it-to-Mr.-Carver?"


Dick Mannering
Walter Moody
Emery Staines
Alistair Lauderback
Q. Name the speaker: "You have always been the scholar of the family…I am ashamed of a great many aspects of my life; but I have never been ashamed of you. In taking my oath of temperance I have confronted my true soul."


Frederick Moody
Adrian Moody
Alistair Lauderback
Crosbie Wells