Who Said It?
It Has 360°
Where and Why?
Welcome to the Ninth Circle
This IS Hell, After All
100
“Oh you at whom I am my voice, and who were speaking Lombard, saying: ‘Go now, I ask no more’, just as I came—though I may come a bit late to my turn, may it not annoy you to pause and speak a while: you see it does not annoy me—and I burn. If you have fallen only recently to this blind world from that sweet Italy where I acquired my guilt, I pray you, tell me: is there peace or war in Romagna? For on earth I too was of those hills between Urbino and the fold from which the Tiber springs to birth.”
Who is Count Guido da Montefeltro.
100
Its the Circle that holds the Evil counselors and those who give false counsel
What is Circle Eight, Bolgia Eight?
100
I have denied God's love and all Human warmth.
What is Cocytus?
100
Hell is so cold because of this.
What is Satan's wings creating an icy wind?
100
Myrrha is in Hell because of this.
What is an affair with her father, the King of Cyprus?
200
O living soul in this abyss, see what a sentence has been passed upon me, and search all Hell for one to equal this! When you return to the world, remember me: I am _____ de _____, and it was I who set the young king on to mutiny, on against father, father against son as Achitophel set Absalom and David; and since I parted those who should be one in duty and in love, I ear my brain divided from its source within this trunk; and walk here where my evil turns to pain, and eye for an eye to all eternity: thus is the law of Hell observed in me.”
Who is Bertrand de Born?
200
Its the Circle that contains the Sowers of Discord
What is Circle Eight, Bolgia Nine?
200
I'm in Cocytus with my head above the ice, but I cannot move my head.
What is Treachery to Country?
200
My name is Satan, and I have this many faces.
What is three?
200
These 20 words on page 1799 begin with the letter "S".
What are speaking, stood, sweet, strange, Sicilian, such, seemed, sealed, same, sad, spirit, say, saying, sweet, springs, still, staring, spike, soul, and sad?
300
“ What are you waiting for? Why do you stare as if you could not tear your eyes away from the mutilated shadows passing there? You did not act so in the other pits. Consider if you mean perhaps to count them this valley and its train of dismal spirits. Winds twenty-two miles round. The moon already is under our feet; the time we have is short, and there is much that you have yet to see.”
Who is Virgil?
300
You can find Griffolino D'Arezzo and Capcchio in this Circle.
What is Circle Eight, Bolgia Ten?
300
I'm in the Ninth Circle, eating on my buddy Archbishop Ruggieri's delicious skull.
What is Treason?
300
Lucifer's meal for all of eternity consists of these three sinners.
Who is Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius?
300
Recite your favorite passage from the Inferno. Now!
What is “Who could describe, even in words set free of metric and thyme and a thousand times retold, the blood and wounds that now were shown to me! At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lack the vocabulary of such pain. If one could gather all those who have stood through all of time on Puglia’s fateful soil and wept for the red running of their blood in the war of the Trojans; and in that log war which left so vast a spoil of golden rings, as we find written in Livy, who does not err along with those whose bodies felt the wet and gaping wounds of Robert Guiscard’s lances, with all rest whose bones are gathered yet at Ceperano where ever last Pugliese turned traitor’ and with those from Tagliacozzo where Alardo won without weapons—if all these were gathered, and one showed his limbs run through, another his lopped off, that could not equal the mutilations of the ninth pit’s crew" ?
400
“Oh you exempt from every punishment, I know not why, look well upon the misery and debasement of him who was _____ _____. In my first life’s tie, I had enough to please me, here, I lack a drop of water for my thirst. the rivulets that run from the green flanks of Casentine to the Armo;s flood, spreading their cool sweet moisture through their bans, run constantly before me, and their plash and ripple in imagination dries me more than the disease that eats my flesh. In flexible Justice that has forked and spread my soul like hay, to search it the more closely, finds in the country where my guilt was bred this increase of my grief: for there I learned there in Romana to stamp the Baptist’s image on alloyed gold—til I was bound and burned. …
Who is Master Adam?
400
You can hang out with Giana Schicchi and Myrrha in this Circle of Hell.
What is Circle Eight, Bolgia Ten?
400
In the eighth circle, he is “split from his chin to the mouth with which man farts. Between his legs all of his red guts hung with the heart, the lungs, the liver, the gall bladder”
What is a Sower of Religious Discord?
400
The coldest level in Hell has this many rings.
What is four rings?
400
From Circle Eight, Bolgia Eight to the end of Hell, there are this many footnotes.
What is 118?
500
"When I heard my Master raise his voice to me, I wheeled about with such a start of same that I grow pale yet at the memory. As one trapped in a nightmare that has caught his sleeping mind, wishes within the dream that it were all a dream, as if it were not—such I became: my voice could not win through my shame to ask his pardon; while my shame already won more pardon than I knew.”
Who is Dante?
500
This sinner, sometimes nicknamed "Beelzebub", resides in the center of the Ninth Circle.
Who is Satan?
500
Master Adam was punished by a loathsome disease and he cannot move from where he lies, and he has unbearable thirst.
What is a Falsifier of Money?
500
Virgil and Dante escape Hell by doing this.
What is climbing over Satan's back, and proceeding on to Purgatory?
500
These people reside in Hell from Circle Eight, Bolgia Eight to the end of Hell.
Who are Dante, Virgil, Count Guido da Montefeltro, Pope Boniface VIII, Mahomet, Ali, Pier da Medicina, Mosca dei Lamberti, Bertrand de Born, Geri del Bello,Griffolino D’Arezzo, Capocchio, Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha,Mater Adam, Potipahr’s Wife, Sinon the Greek, Nimrod, Ephialtes, Briareus, Tityos, Typhon, Antaeus, Alessandro, Napoleone degli Alberti, Camicion, Bocca Degli Abbati,Count Ugolino, Archbishop Ruggieri, Friar Alberigo, Branca D’Oria, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, Cassius, and Satan?
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