Friday, October 15, 2010

QUESTION 363 b: Nope. I'm not Rattled!

IF YOU CRACK THE THEME NOW, 30 POINTS.
wrong guess = -5


ID THE LEGEND.
In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lied and said that his daughter could spin straw into gold. The King heard of this and called for the girl, shut her in a tower room with straw and a wheel, and demanded that she spin the straw into gold by morning, for three nights, or be executed. She had given up all hope, when a -------------------------------------------------------------------- in return for her necklace, then again the following night for her ring. On the third night, when she had nothing with which to reward him, the --------------------------------------------- for a promise that the girl's first-born child----.





To-day do I bake, to-morrow I brew,
The day after that the queen's child comes in;
And oh! I am glad that nobody knew
That the name I am called is -------




14 comments:

churott said...

rumpelstiltskin !

Anonymous said...

rumple-slit-skin?

Ameya said...

Rumpelstiltskin........

Ameya said...

THEME:
Grimm's Fairy Tales or Children's and Household Tales

Shashwat Goel said...

Rumpelstiltskin...

KAMANASISH,AEC said...

Rumpelstiltskin

Nanda said...

Rumpelstiltskin

Anonymous said...

rumpelstiltskin

-Norbert Jaworski

Ameya said...

There is possibly one more connect like till now....
All these characters appear in the shrek

Ameya said...

all brother grimm stories adapted into movies.....

Ameya said...

operas or movies actually....

Nagaratna said...

Rumpelstiltskin.

cupidcobra1 said...

The legend of Rumpelstiltskin.

Shravan said...

Rumpelstiltskin