Trivia time is up!

Ok folks, we had a staggering 6 people send in their character identity guesses vying for the 25$ gift card! Too bad for all of the rest of you who missed out. Are you thinking: "maybe next time"? Sorry, no next time for me. Too much brainpower required for this kind of thing, right?

**** See below for the winner of the gift card ****

Anyway, here are the answers if you are curious. I have provided a short explanation on some of them:
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Name the TV show, book, or movie the character comes from:

1. Thomas Edward Lawrence................................ also known as T.E. Lawrence, or Lawrence of Arabia
2. Dylan McKay........................................... Dylan was Luke Perry's character on the TV show: Beverly Hills 90210
3. Maria Rodriguez....................................... Sesame Street's Maria. She is married to Luis Rodriguez; was Maria Figueroa before she married.
4. Elendil .............................................. High King of Gondor and Father of Isildur in J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings
5. Joanna Stayton........................................ AKA "Annie Goulahee Proifitt" in the movie Overboard (played by Goldie Hawn)
6. Cliegg Lars........................................... Anakin Skywalker's Stepdad; married to Shmi Skywalker and father to Owen Lars (who raised Luke Skywalker) in Star Wars
7. Catherine Earnshaw.................................... Also referred to as "Cathy;" the main female protagonist of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights
8. John Trelawney........................................ Also known as "the squire," or "squire Trelawney" in Robert Louis Stevenson's book Treasure Island
9. James Howlett......................................... James "Logan" Howlett is Wolverine from X-Men. Logan was not his middle name, and no one seems to know where the name "Logan" came from. He was called "Jimmy" by his half-brother Victor.
10. Annabelle Bransford.................................. Southern belle played by Jodie Foster in the movie Maverick
11. Fin Raziel........................................... Good sorceress in Willow who helps the unlikely crew save the baby Elora Dannen from the evil queen/sorceress Bavmorda.
12. Francis John Patrick Mulcahy......................... AKA "Father Mulcahy" priest from the TV show M*A*S*H*
13. Starbuck............................................. Chief mate to Captain Ahab in Melville's Moby Dick
14. Arthur Dimmesdale.................................... Hypocrytical/self-condemned priest in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. Lucy Steele.......................................... Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility- was secretly engaged to Edward Ferrars before he met the much less annoying Elanor Dashwood
16. Nicholas de Mimsy.................................... "Sir Nicholas de Mimsy," Sir Nicholas," or more commonly to the students at Hogwarts: "Nearly Headless Nick," in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
17. Almira Gulch......................................... The embodiment of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz
18. Tyrone Rugen......................................... Count Rugen, or "The six-fingered man" in the neo-classic film: The Princess Bride. Remember Prince Humperdinck's quote: "Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped."
19. Marain Paroo......................................... "Madam Librarian" from Meredith Wilson's The Music Man
20. Ralph Parker......................................... or "Ralphie" Parker from the classic movie: A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out!)
21. Isaiah Edwards....................................... Little House on the Prairie; AKA Mr. Edwards
22. Grendel.............................................. demon defeated by the great Beowulf in the old English heroic epic poem also entitled Beowulf (author unknown).
23. John H. Watson....................................... Most often referred to simply as "Watson" by his friend and colleage, Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings
24. Angela Bower......................................... Main character and suspect love intrest of Tony Danza's Character Tony Micelli on the 1984 TV show Who's the Boss?
25. Sandy Olsson......................................... simply "Sandy," the main female character in the musical Grease (played by Olivia Newton-John)
26. Evangeline St. Claire................................ "Eva," in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (or "Little Eva" for those only familiar with the siamese play-portrayal of the book in the classic Musical: The King and I)
27. Didymus.............................................. Also referred to as the galliant "Sir Didymus." The guard of the bridge and rider of the faithful steed Ambrosius in the cult-classic film Labyrinth
28. Blanche Devereaux.................................... The "dirty old woman" of the Golden Girls (TV 1985-1992)
29. Balthasar............................................ Romeo Montague's servant and friend in Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet
30. Bill the Lizard...................................... apparently a servant of the White Rabbit in the short book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll)
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**** and the winner of the gift card... Kiersten Isom with 12 correct! (Did anyone ever doubt that she would win? She ALWAYS wins at games) Good job, sis! However, I think Jonas Bush needs to recieve honorable mention because though he did not get the most correct, he got all of the 6 ones he guessed, so percentage-wise he would win.

Thanks for playing!