Yep, today is Daniel Bennett’s birthday!  Sexy vampire Daniel is one of my main character’s in The Purity of Blood novel series, and to celebrate his 128th birthday, I’m posting a quiz on my Facebook page for my fans, directing them him for the answers to the questions.

Here are the questions and answers below:

The Purity of Blood Trivia Questions

1. What’s the name of the Inn Sara worked at in Port Jefferson?
2. What town is Lauri’s family from in Pennsylvania?
3. What word does Sara use to describe Ben’s eyes?
4. What are the proper names of Roger’s children?
5. How many humans die at the hands of vampires in all five books? (Not counting those that became vampires once dead)
6. What’s the name of the vampire trying to kill Sara in Book One?
7. Do the Donnelly’s have any pets?
8. Where (town and state) is Ben from?
9. What’s the name of the dorm Sara and Darcy live in at NPU?
10. What are the names of the two girls that live in the room across from Sara and Darcy?
11. What’s Ben’s middle name?
12. How is it that Randall ends up walking Sara down the aisle?
13. In what city did Thomas live as a human?
14. Of all the friendly vampires, who was turned the youngest?
15. What was Lily’s occupation as a human?
16. Name three members of Daniel’s human family.
17. Who was the first person in Sara’s immediate human family to find out about vampires?
18. How is it that Randall ‘died’ before Lois, but Lois was buried before Randall?
19. How many years did it take the author to start writing Book One to publish Book Five?
20. Who designed the covers of each book?
21. Are there any towns mentioned in the books that are not real places?
22. Name the five characters that make up Sara’s core group of friends at New Paltz.
23. New Paltz University is a real school with a fake name. What is the real name of the college that New Paltz University stands in place of?
24. What is the age difference between Sara and Roger?
25. What procedure is Dr. Pearce hesitant to perform on Sara in Book Five?
26. Name all five books in order.
27. What are Tabitha, Mike and Ryan’s last names?
28. What important date (Day/Month) on the calendar is continually counted down to the last few books?
29. In what town does Ben and Daniel find Sara in Book Four when she runs away?
30. How are Randall and Lois related to Tori and Toby?
31. How did Roger get his name?
32. On what street is Roger’s house located?
33. Name four characters in the novels that are based on real people?
34. Which book is the longest and which is the shortest?
35. What is the name of Randall and Lois’ granddaughter that they befriended in Ohio?
36. What does Sara finally have with a beer in Book Five?
37. Why does Sara go to Montana with Ben in Book Two?
38. What’s the name of the dinner Sara and Ben get chased to in Book Two?
39. What’s under Randall and Daniel’s house in New Paltz?
40. Where is Sara when she sees Demetrius for the first time?
41. How does Demetrius die?
42. What’s the name of the other girl in the dorm that spreads stories about Sara?
43. How far along was Sara when she found out she was pregnant?
44. When did Randall and Carl Sr. first meet?
45. How long was Sophia buried alive by the Brotherhood?
46. Where are Daniel and Sam when Sam convinces him he’s an idiot to leave Sara?
47. What does Lois give Sara as a Christmas present?
48. What kind of car does Sara drive in Books One through Four?
49. What is the name of Sam’s lost love?
50. What does Sara get her degree in?
51. Name six towns, cities or countries visited in Book Five?

Answers

1. Clipper’s Inn
2. East Petersburg
3. Chocolate
4. Tobias and Victoria
5. Eleven (Book 1: Unnamed Pure by Demetrius, Book 2: Sharon, the waitress in Big Timber. 6 Men killed by Daniel. Couple Lucy Kills in Savannah. Book 3: Sam kills Mason’s henchman, Chuck, who attacked them at house)
6. Demetrius
7. A cat (Mentioned in Book 1)
8. Big Timber, Montana
9. Capen Hall
10. Laura and Keri
11. Theophilus
12. Carl had to work
13. St. Louis, Missouri
14. Lily
15. Paralegal
16. Sophia, Phineas, John, Sophronia
17. Vivy, her mother
18. Randall bit Lois than ran away
19. Two years
20. Jennifer Geoghan
21. No
22. Ryan, Mike, Tabitha, Darcy, Ben
23. The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz)
24. Ten Years
25. Hysterectomy
26. The Purity of Blood, Purity Lost, The Blood that Binds, Purity’s Progeny, Blood’s Solemn Vow
27. O’Toole, Wayne and Starling
28. May 17^th (Graduation and Wedding Day)
29. Elizabethtown, New York
30. Fifth Great Grandparents
31. Named after the Rogers family
32. Omega Street
33. Randall Wells, Lois (Maxson) Wells, Jonathan Wells, Martha Ann (Rogers) Wells, Russell Wells, Williams Rogers Wells, Elliott Wells, Florence Wells, and many more.
34. Shortest book is Purity Lost at 170,812 words. Longest book is Purity’s Progeny at 225,480 words
35. Electa (Wells) Maxson, daughter of their daughter Sylvia
36. Fish and Chips
37. To avoid going home to face her parents/to avoid explaining about Daniel
38. Frosty Freez
39. A cave with a canoe, under a series of chambers.
40. Standing on the street in New Paltz
41. Sara injects him with her blood
42. Heather
43. Nearly six months
44. University of Rhode Island
45. Nearly 50 years
46. Savannah
47. A locket
48. Chevy Aveo
49. Mariah
50. Art History
51. New Paltz, Hopkinton, France, Egypt, England, London, Paris, Mendlesham, Italy, Greece

Hope you enjoyed this walk down memory lane!

-Jennifer

Jennifer Geoghan, author of The Purity of Blood Novels and If Love is a Lie: Finding and Losing Love Online.